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‘A Complete Unknown’ Director James Mangold, Timothée Chalamet & Cast Reveal How They Recreated The “Fable” & “Mystery” Of Dylan
'A Complete Unknown': How director James Mangold, Timothée Chalamet & cast recreated the "fable" & "mystery" of Dylan
His lyrics are indelible but slippery; arguments still rage about the subject of “Like a Rolling Stone”; some say it’s about Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol’s doomed superstar and allegedly an old flame, but while the actress might seem a perfect fit, the timeframe doesn’t quite match. Some have even said that “Like a Rolling Stone” might even be about Dylan himself, and his uneasy relationship with fame (on “Idiot Wind”, on 1975’s Blood on the Tracks LP, he sings, “You’ll find out when you reach the top, you’re on the bottom.”) It’s this restlessness and endless need for self-deconstruction that led Todd Haynes to cast six actors—including, most famously, Cate Blanchett—in his 2007 biopic I’m Not There. The climax of the movie is what Elijah Wald’s book is all about: Bob Dylan’s decision to play an electric set at the 1965 Newport Jazz Festival, a move that horrified the folk purists who’d welcomed him just a few years before.
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