Said Timothée Chalamet, responding to a question about how he ended up holding this one note for a long time when that's nothing Bob Dylan did when he sang that song. Presumably, Chalamet is channeling some deeper knowledge of how Bob might sing on some other occasion, never recorded, which seems like something Bob himself would do, and Timmy's channeling that too.
Here's his full "60 Minutes" interview:
It's within the law... I like that. You know, to live within the law you don't have to be honest.
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Love is the law!
But to live outside the law you must be busy saving the country. I know you sometimes say that you agree.
🎶 Say the word Love...🎶
He trying to do Bob Dylan a favor by making him sound better. What's the problem? Usually Singer/Actor Biopics fail because the actor playing the part cant measure up to the original. Actresses/Actors have played Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable Johnny Cash, Grace Kelly, or Frank Sinatra and but they dont have the charisma or that special something.
But In the case of Bob Dylan, there's nowhere to go but up.
Thanks to CBS for not showing him with his shirt off.
It reminds me of Eric Weinstein's distinction between "legal" and "perfectly legal"; "a case where the letter of the law has been arbitraged against its spirit."
That was pretty good. Damn, I've wanted to dislike him!
After sitting though his performance in Wonka, I don't think I'll ever go to another one of his movies. Might be unfair, but that was a foul movie.
The part that made me smile was him greeting the doorman, who probably watched him grow up. I used to see that all the time in our building.
how he ended up holding this one note for a long time when that's nothing Bob Dylan did when he sang that song.
Dylan couldn't hold a note to save his life.
Wait, you mean time, not pitch?
Or as the punchline on the old SNL skit goes, "ACTING!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVItVwLFzg
“Dylan couldn't hold a note to save his life”
Look at Dylan in whiteface in the Rolling Thunder Revue. Tell me that dude can’t sing
Let’s be clear — this is not “The Bob Dylan Story” — it’s a Hollywood movie. It may be well acted, directed, photographed, sung, but it ‘ain’t the truth man’. It’s a construct. The closest Dylan gets to the true “me” is in his pre recorded Nobel speech. He tells us clearly therein what he’s been doing all these years.
As Althouse has noted in previous pieces — Dylan is a highly creative fabricator of his own life, such that it is truly private and without blame, he is primarily a wordsmith who crafts epigrams and epigraphs with deftness and deception to which tunes and arrangements have been attached to make us believe they are finite. But the tunes are made up on the fly. The waxing is not the end it’s merely a reference point. So he confuses and we have to use our intelligence to understand that the absolute is not to be found in the relative. Except always — and not in plain sight. A creator to the end.
“Timmy's a brilliant actor so I'm sure he's going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me”
"or some other me"
Bob Dylan, heck yeah.
At least Anderson Cooper didn't call him a "dick."
I'm now considering seeing this film - in an actual movie theatre, a place I've been to about 3 times in the last 10 years.
Not because of the interview with Timmy, but because of long interview on Macron's WTF with the James Mangold the director. It was a very good interview, one of the few where the guest talks more than Marc. Mangold talks about how the movie isn't really about Dylan but about dealing with being a genuis, both for the genuis and the people around him. He said that the film Amadues was an inspiration. He also talked a bit about his meetings with Dylan who read the script with him and was more interested in telling a good story than in getting all ther details right. And that the main reason he went electric was that it was lonely playing by himself and he wanted to share what was going on with a band.
"Dylan couldn't hold a note to save his life."
That's as silly as saying Picasso couldn't paint .
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