New Bob Dylan movie - A Complete Unknown

Hey there,

just randomly hit this trailer on YouTubeā€¦ it looks like it does not have release date yet, but I feel really excited for this movie. That atmosphere feels awesome to me. Anyone else plan to go to cinema to watch A Complete Unknown? It should be about Bob Dylans beginning.
Guy on YouTube said its from director who made Walk the line - about Johny Cash. Gonna watch it this weekend maybe, did not know about it.
Check trailer below and let me know what do you think. I did not explore Bob Dylan yet, but this is making me to do it. :slight_smile:

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I think the movie will hit the cinemas around Christmas only :gift: Could surely be worth seeing.

The time Dylan went electric. It must have been an interesting time and quite a milestone in modern music history. I would be surprised if the soundtrack of the movie wouldnā€™t include a selection of songs from ā€œHighway 61 revisitedā€. Itā€™s a great album and maybe also a good starting point for your Dylan exploration.

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This looks like fun! There are few movies that will get me out to a cinema these days, but I might head out for this one. Especially if our local ā€œartā€ cinema shows it. I loved Walk The Line.

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Hmm, now they have to churn out a half-baked biopic of some famous musician/band every year, donā€™t they? :face_with_peeking_eye:

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@Jozsef, maybe, but for me even the bad ones are more entertaining than all the MU stuff! And I personally donā€™t like violent moviesā€¦ At the end of the day, thereā€™s a big group of people of a certain age who have resources, just want to have fun, and are the target demographic for these movies. Iā€™m guilty as charged!

For a non-music-related, but similarly demographic-targeted movie that I found especially charming, thereā€™s Jules. :flying_saucer:

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James Mangold calls it an ā€œensemble pieceā€ rather than a biopic, Joszef. Iā€™m sure Dylanologists everywhere are already sharpening their pencils to take note of each and every little historical inaccuracy :slightly_smiling_face:

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I want to se it. Hoping it shows the farm worker movement days an Guthries influence on his playing. One the most important and influential times in American history.

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The reason Iā€™m skeptical is that Dylan, Queen, Elton John, Amy Winehouse, Miles Davis, etc. who have recently received the biopic treatment have so much written resources and documentary footage available on them. Not that each and every one of them are flawless, but I think in general they serve the purpose of depicting/analyzing their subjects pretty well. The Hollywood reenactments of ā€œsaintsā€™ livesā€ just seem redundant to me.

But Iā€™ll be the last one to advise someone against seeing any film (maybe with the exception of Ed Woodā€™s ā€œfilmsā€). As for more fictionalized accounts of Dylan, I think Iā€™m Not There by Todd Haynes wasnā€™t bad. As for films on partly fictitious folk singers, I warmly recommend Inside Llewyn Davis by the Coen brothers.

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DO IT

DO IT

DO IT

Your life is missing something essential if you have not partaken of Bob Dylan.

Mid 60s is where to start - The Times They Are Aā€™ Changinā€™, Another Side Of, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61, Blonde On Blonde.
Jump to mid 70s Blood On The Tracks.
Jump to early 80s Infidels.
Jump to late 90s / early 00s Time Out Of Mind, Lover & Theft, Modern Times.
Enjoy.
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Richard

Iā€™d also recommend ā€œDesireā€: great songs; terrific arrangements.

Brian

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This is a good starter pack, but I would definitely start at Freewheelinā€™, the album before Times they are aā€™changing. Freewheelinā€™ is his first album of original songs (there were only 2 originals on his debut, which is essentially an acoustic blues album).

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@Richard_close2u thanks for recommendations, gonna jump into it next week. :slight_smile:

Thanks all for active commenting, I am really happy lot of people are excited for this. Few great recommendations for movies like this are here and I am gonna check them too. :slight_smile:

I think that TimothĆ©e Chalamet is someone who will we hear a lot in close and far future. I saw few movies with himā€¦ for example Wonka and he got talent, also looking really good. :slight_smile:

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It is a great album indeed. :slight_smile:

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Iā€™ve been trying to lean ā€˜Donā€™t Think Twiceā€™ from Freewheelinā€™ for years. The picking pattern is just so fast. :smiley:

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Donā€™t miss out on John Wesley Harding, itā€™s just as good as his 1965-66 albums. Itā€™s comparatively bare bones (acoustic guitar, bass and drums; only 3 songs have keyboards or pedal steel on them), there are no superfluous words or musical bits.

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Hey there, it has been some timeā€¦

I can see it was in cinemas in the USA. I am waiting in the middle of Europe it will be announced in the end of this month.

Anyone saw the movie and what are your thoughts? Without spoilers. :slight_smile:

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You mean you donā€™t want to know that he goes electric?

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@Richard_close2u So he plays a guitar!? I said no spoilers! I was wondering if he pick harp or kazoo! :smiley:
Are you going to watch it? :slight_smile:

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Yes, probably.
I have read reviews and I know not to expect a historically or biographically accurate portrayal. I think it will be more a flavour of the time with his songs being performed throughout.

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Likely it would have been more interesting and informative, but thinking most of it might have been left on the ā€œcutting roomā€ floor ā€¦ :thinking:

Hoping BA have it on their movie list next month ā€¦ :pray:

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