Dylan is returning to his home state of Minnesota for a show in April. It’s not in his native Duluth, not in the Minneapolis St Paul Twin Cities area, but here in little old Mankato.
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Michal @Carreta, thank you for sharing your experience with the movie!
I don’t see anything hateful in your comment, in fact I’ve wondered about this as well! While the stories may be generally true (we’ve all experienced romance issues, some that had significant impact on our lives) I suspect the movie makers sometimes exaggerate reality because, well, romance sells. That and artists often do express personal emotions and experience in their art…making those events somehow more permanent. Of course, I could be wrong - I’m not an art critic!
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Ya think? Yes, Bob Dylan is a pretty unusual character, I think most people would say. That might be putting it kindly 
After the movie my kids (in their early 20’s) asked me: Jeez, was Dylan really such an a$$hole? (sorry mods). I had to confess to them, that, yeah, he pretty much was.
Anyway, if you are interested in learning about Dylan, many, many books have been written about him. One I really liked and deals with the same time period as the movie is “Positively 4th Street” by David Hajdu.
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I haven’t seen 'A Complete Unknown" yet - waiting to stream it instead of going to a theatre…
This is relevant -----
I was reading about the Travelling Wilburys - the article quoted several of the artists in the group & while none of them out & out stated that Dylan was extremely difficult to work with - they all hinted that he was ‘stubborn’ or ‘heavy-handed’ or ‘superior’… I mean, what an ego! You’ve got George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison & Jeff Lynne - how could one guy feel better or superior to the rest of these musical superstars? When asked who the best one in the group was, Dylan should have gone off by himself & played ‘It Ain’t Me Babe’!!!
On a separate note - as a car guy I find it amusing to see a movie set in, say, 1963 & see a '65 Vette rolling down a street! Or maybe a Camaro - they weren’t introduced till '67! The cars are always fun to see though… one of my buddies tells a story about how his Dad owned a '56 Thunderbird. He’d taken it to Southern California for a car show & ended up getting it repainted for free + $$$ because it was spotted by a movie producer & they wanted a Racing Green '56 T-Bird in a movie! He’d been saving for a repaint anyway!
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@Richard_close2u Thank you very much for writing that their names. I am gonna dig more about them and their music. Maybe… you wont believe… but few months ago I did not know who is Tommy Emmanuel. 
Now he is really my favourite musician, love watching him play and teaching anything.
@markr31 Honestly… I think he was in Czech Republic last year in 2024 and there are many people saying he is not who he used to be. Even in his electric era and many people are disgusted by wasting time like this… I cant give my own opinion, this is just what I saw in many comments. Do you plan to go on his concert or have you been in recent time?
@judi I think you are right… in the end it is the movie and some romance parts are adding more “beef” to the atmosphere even when in reality it should not be like that.
@jjw Man… this is really sharp word that I did not want to use here, but this is exactly how he looked in many ways to me. I just did not want to “touch” anyone here, because he is still music legend. I am gonna check first some YouTube tutorials and I will see…
There is so much I would love to learn play. Much more than my life length is.
I am still advanced beginner, but some songs seemed “pretty easy” to me, because he was just alternating in one position with hammer ons, I guess it will be much harder if I will start learn it, but right now it seems it is pretty “reachable” to learn something.
@CATMAN62 Yeah… in the movie he is pretty good portrayed like that. You wont be disappointed,
it is a good movie, with great music.
That car fact is interesting, thanks for share. Thanks god I dont have in my head so much car history, so it dont “trigger me”.
By the way… before movie I had really great idea, to take by myself extra thigth version of BM thumbpick and trying to get used to it while watching movie. That thumb did not like that I can see. Today it is okay, now I just know this is not the way.
No, I was never a huge Dylan fan, and I know he has pretty much no voice left. And while the tickets aren’t as expensive as I expected they’d be, they’re still more than I’m willing to pay. I just thought it was interesting that he’s going to smaller towns instead of big arenas.
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Cool info about the cars …
The film takes ‘artistic licence’ with several crucial and well-documented ‘facts’.
Suze Rotolo was not at Newport 1965.
Nor was Johnny Cash.
The Newport 1965 crowd were not as universally hostile as shown, though there was booing and unhappiness among them.
Pete Seeger did not go to find an axe - he spoke about one in an abstract sense when asked about the volume of the sound system.
Nobody at Newport 1965 shouted Judas - that happened at a concert in Manchester, England.
There are others.
But what the heck - it is a film and filmic story-telling casts its sweep in different ways to historical accuracy.
If it had adopted 100% true events it would still have been a good narrative.
No doubt many of the romantic scenes with various women were fictionalised too. But relationships can be intense and not always smooth, especially at a young, coming-of-age moment in life. So I don’t allow those scenes too much credence as truth bombs about the nature of Bob’s romantic relationships nor his character.
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