{"id":135629,"date":"2024-12-11T01:18:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135629"},"modified":"2024-12-11T01:18:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:18:05","slug":"timothee-chalamet-is-uncanny-as-bob-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135629","title":{"rendered":"Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet Is Uncanny as Bob Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn one of the many incandescent, finely layered scenes that make up \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/a-complete-unknown\/\" id=\"auto-tag_a-complete-unknown\" data-tag=\"a-complete-unknown\">A Complete Unknown<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/james-mangold\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-mangold\" data-tag=\"james-mangold\">James Mangold<\/a>\u2019s entrancingly offbeat drama about the early years of Bob Dylan, we watch Dylan (<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/timothee-chalamet-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_timothee-chalamet-2\" data-tag=\"timothee-chalamet-2\">Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a>) and Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro), who\u2019ve been involved musically and romantically, perform a duet at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964. They\u2019re singing Dylan\u2019s \u201cIt Ain\u2019t Me Babe,\u201d and the way their voices blend (their smiles too) creates a sound so pure it feels sunlit. Mangold lets the song roll on in its entirety, as he does with many of the songs in \u201cA Complete Unknown,\u201d so that they literally become the story the movie is telling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis number is like a shimmering dream, but part of it is the drama that\u2019s unfolding beneath. Baez, at this point, has had it with Dylan. He\u2019s a moody, self-absorbed folk celebrity hipster poet, always placing himself at the center of things (yet somehow always looking like he\u2019s too cool to be there). And since Joan herself, with that quavering soprano, is a fierce customer, famous in her own right, she\u2019s done with being treated like Dylan\u2019s accessory. The song they\u2019re singing expresses how they feel about each other (\u201cIt ain\u2019t me, babe,\/It ain\u2019t me you\u2019re looking for, babe\u201d). Yet they invest it with so much passion that it <em>sounds<\/em> like a romance. (Bob\u2019s other girlfriend, played by Elle Fanning, gets so caught up in the singers\u2019 connection that she turns away from the stage in tears.) Folk music is rooted in a devotion to the world, but at that moment what Dylan and Baez are singing about is devotion to the self: the new world that\u2019s coming. That\u2019s why the scene makes your heart burst and your head spin at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cA Complete Unknown\u201d is a drama of scruffy naturalism, with a plot that doesn\u2019t so much unfold as lope right along with its legendary, curly-haired, sunglass-wearing coffee-house troubadour hero. Yet the feel \u2014 the effect \u2014 is that of a musical. You\u2019d assume that might be true of any classic rock biopic, but in this case the film, with its beautifully haphazard song-cycle structure, truly is about Dylan <em>and<\/em> his music, and how the music changed everything. Each new song is a dramatic episode, whether it\u2019s Dylan performing \u201cMasters of War\u201d in the Gaslight Cafe just after the Cuban Missile Crisis or trying out \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind\u201d with Baez in his living room or singing \u201cThe Times They Are A-Changin&#8217;\u201d at Newport, where the audience, by the end, sings along as if it was a song they always knew. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDylan, played by Chalamet with a frog in his throat and an ornery sly quietude that\u2019s so authentic it disarms and then floors you, wanders from cramped bohemian apartments to recording studios to concert stages to chic parties, always returning to the colorful squalor of Greenwich Village (played by a not-very-convincing Jersey City), connecting with whoever\u2019s convenient to him. He slides into liaisons and then, just as quickly, slides out of them. But that\u2019s because the music is his only real lover. The songs Dylan composes, scrawling the lyrics on notepads, often in the wee hours, consume and define him. And \u201cA Complete Unknown\u201d digs into the elemental power of what Dylan created during this period, tossing off songs for the ages as if he\u2019d pulled them <em>out<\/em> of the ages. That the Dylan we see is kind of a cad becomes part of the film\u2019s power. It\u2019s ruthlessly honest about what an obsessive artist is really like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWe meet him in 1961, when he\u2019s a 19-year-old kid hitchhiking from Minnesota. He gets dropped off in New York City on a cold winter day, wearing his cap and coat and scarf and backpack, carrying the guitar case that feels like it\u2019s part of him, and he immediately heads for the hospital in New Jersey where Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) is lying in bed, unable to speak due to the ravages of Huntington\u2019s disease. Guthrie\u2019s buddy Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) in visiting him, and Bob walks into the room looking quizzical. But he\u2019s in awe. It\u2019s Guthrie\u2019s lilting everyman-drawl music that forged the template for what he does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs Dylan takes out his guitar and plays \u201cSong to Woody,\u201d something happens that I won\u2019t hesitate to call magical. Chalamet, singing in a nasal and slightly clenched voice, his tone as rock-steady as his gaze, sings out the lyrics as if they were an incantation\u2026and at that moment, he <em>becomes<\/em> Bob Dylan. The voice, the hardscrabble directness, the spiritual harshness that melts into something lyrical \u2014 it\u2019s all there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tChalamet\u2019s Bob doesn\u2019t say much; he tends to speak in gnomic five-word sentences. But that\u2019s because, in his mind, he has already cut through the malarkey that is human communication. He doesn\u2019t have much use for it. He\u2019s plugged into something more timeless. And Chalamet rises to the challenge of capturing the prickly charisma of Dylan\u2019s inchoate, anti-matter, read-between-the-lines personality. It\u2019s a transfixing performance that\u2019s true to Dylan and, just as important, true to the logic of movies. We stare at this young mystery man, who lights up a room when he sings, and like everyone around him we want to know what makes him tick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe script, by Mangold and Jay Cocks, is delicately engineered so that all the points a conventional biopic would cover are there: the way Dylan, at Folk City, captivated early-\u201960s Village audiences as well as the New York Times; his push-pull bond with Baez and the gentler connection he forms with Fanning\u2019s political-minded Sylvie (the film\u2019s the-same-in-everything-but-name version of Suze Rotolo); the deal he strikes with the cunning manager Albert Grossman (Dan Fogler); and the camaraderie he forges with Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook), a country upstart who fuels Dylan\u2019s bad-boy impulses, and with the banjo-wielding Seeger, played with spot-on whimsicality by Norton as a twinkly-eyed, truly <em>folksy<\/em> activist utopian saint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDylan himself is steeped in folk music, but he\u2019s no folkie purist. He sees what\u2019s coming that Seeger can\u2019t: the swooning self-infatuation of the new pop audience. (Seeger doesn\u2019t realize that that narcissism will kill his proletarian dream.) The story \u201cA Complete Unknown\u201d tells is how Dylan moves away from the \u201cpurity\u201d of folk music because his music begins to open up to a richer, bolder, more majestic purity: the need to reflect back the world he sees around him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat\u2019s why he goes electric. It\u2019s going to upset the true believers, like the Newport Folk Festival organizer-guru Alan Lomax (Norbert Leo Butz), but it\u2019s Dylan\u2019s fate as an artist to move into uncharted terrain, and to do it by writing some of the most thrillingly propulsive rock \u2018n\u2019 roll ever recorded (\u201cSubterranean Homesick Blues\u201d) and some of the most sublime (\u201cLike a Rolling Stone\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis transformation was covered brilliantly in Martin Scorsese\u2019s great 2005 documentary \u201cNo Direction Home.\u201d But \u201cA Complete Unknown,\u201d tethered to Chalamet\u2019s haunting performance \u2014\u00a0now hooded, now open, now despairing, now powered by rebel vibes \u2014 captures something the documentary didn\u2019t: the anguish in Dylan\u2019s heart, and the toll it took on him personally. To make this change in his music, and in the world, he needed to do more than confront an audience of screaming betrayed fans at Newport. He had to stare down the cosmic forces that were telling him no and replace doubt with faith. That\u2019s what Dylan\u2019s music always was: the sound of belief lighting up the darkness. Watching \u201cA Complete Unknown,\u201d his journey into the light becomes ours. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/reviews\/a-complete-unknown-review-timothee-chalamet-1236234833\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the many incandescent, finely layered scenes that make up \u201cA Complete Unknown,\u201d James Mangold\u2019s entrancingly offbeat drama about the early years of Bob Dylan, we watch Dylan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135629\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}