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Walter says
Dec. 26th, 2024 08:09It's boxer day!!!
Dec. 26th, 2024
Headed to the movie
Dec. 26th, 2024 11:20I've been waiting for the early Dylan biopic 'A complete unknown' since I first heard of it. Out yesterday and I want to see it before seeing anything else about it. Dana did not want to go. She can not get past Dylan's voice which seems to me like saying I don't like Alexander Pope because he's short.
Ok, I'm a nerd.
Dylan has not effected my life as much as the Beatles or the entire rest of the progressive rock pantheon but I've kind of been around for all of it and have really done a deep dive on a bunch.
The cast of this movie is pretty amazing and apparently Chalamet has channeled the early Dylan completely. He does all the music himself, some of which I've heard.
So I checked online and there's a seat all by itself near the middle and where I like it. So I'm off in a few mins for the show. And popcorn, of course.
Later.
Ok, I'm a nerd.
Dylan has not effected my life as much as the Beatles or the entire rest of the progressive rock pantheon but I've kind of been around for all of it and have really done a deep dive on a bunch.
The cast of this movie is pretty amazing and apparently Chalamet has channeled the early Dylan completely. He does all the music himself, some of which I've heard.
So I checked online and there's a seat all by itself near the middle and where I like it. So I'm off in a few mins for the show. And popcorn, of course.
Later.
In my experience, the more a movie is advertised the worse it is. A Complete Unknown has been all over my feed for a couple of months now and I've seen the TV commercials recently. Maybe it is just because I'm a music person and love Timothy Chalamet from his tour in Dune but the movie has outstripped its fanfare.
If Chalamet does not get an Oscar this year there is no justice and he'll end up winning in a couple of years for something idiotic just to make up for it. Seldom have I seen anyone so completely become a character, all the more difficult as I've seen enough of Dylan to get a pretty good feel for what he's like and I saw him on the screen and heard him talking and singing and playing guitar (all of which Chalamet did almost entirely on his own).
And Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, the same. It was really like listening to Seeger. And Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez. Same.
The movie is wonderful. I've been to most of the locations in the movie although it was a few years after the time period covered. Still, the grit of the Village in NYC was there in all its pre crack glory.
I also loved seeing the characters of Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, Mavis Staples and Maria Muldaur and how they fit in the story.
It was a fun movie for me and really did give me more insight into Dylan's character. One of the things he said was that he could tell when people asked him how he wrote his songs they were really asking why they couldn't write them. And at one point Joan Baez accused him of being an asshole for coming to her apartment and writing songs. Songs, presumably, she could not keep up with, music that was so good and so prolific.
Funny side note. About 23 years after the time in which the movie is set I went to the Newport Folk Festival and saw, among others, Arlo Guthrie play.
If Chalamet does not get an Oscar this year there is no justice and he'll end up winning in a couple of years for something idiotic just to make up for it. Seldom have I seen anyone so completely become a character, all the more difficult as I've seen enough of Dylan to get a pretty good feel for what he's like and I saw him on the screen and heard him talking and singing and playing guitar (all of which Chalamet did almost entirely on his own).
And Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, the same. It was really like listening to Seeger. And Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez. Same.
The movie is wonderful. I've been to most of the locations in the movie although it was a few years after the time period covered. Still, the grit of the Village in NYC was there in all its pre crack glory.
I also loved seeing the characters of Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, Mavis Staples and Maria Muldaur and how they fit in the story.
It was a fun movie for me and really did give me more insight into Dylan's character. One of the things he said was that he could tell when people asked him how he wrote his songs they were really asking why they couldn't write them. And at one point Joan Baez accused him of being an asshole for coming to her apartment and writing songs. Songs, presumably, she could not keep up with, music that was so good and so prolific.
Funny side note. About 23 years after the time in which the movie is set I went to the Newport Folk Festival and saw, among others, Arlo Guthrie play.