Althouse: In the new trailer for "A Complete Unknown," we hear Timothée Chalamet, as Bob Dylan, sing "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall."

July 24, 2024

In the new trailer for "A Complete Unknown," we hear Timothée Chalamet, as Bob Dylan, sing "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall."

23 comments:

Matt said...: Pleasantly surprised. He’s becoming one of my favorite actors.; 7/24/24, 11:47 AM
john said...: Wow. This might be the one movie I'll go out to see this year.; 7/24/24, 11:52 AM
BarrySanders20 said...: Both Walk the Line and Ford v Ferrari were good movies. I'm in the not-a-BobDylanfan club, but this has promise.; 7/24/24, 11:53 AM
traditionalguy said...: He’s mastered it. The voice of Bobby D. Our generation’s Hebrew Prophet.; 7/24/24, 11:55 AM
RMc said...: That's a pretty good Dewey Cox impersonation!; 7/24/24, 12:18 PM
narciso said...: I liked the edie brickell cover; 7/24/24, 12:19 PM
Old and slow said...: I got roped into seeing this guy in Wonka and it was possibly the worst movie I have ever sat all the way through. Painful it was.; 7/24/24, 12:19 PM
SoLastMillennium said...: Voice is to good to be Dylan...; 7/24/24, 12:21 PM
narciso said...: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GFaHVqKgG-U; 7/24/24, 12:26 PM
PM said...: "Muad'Dib, you can sing."; 7/24/24, 12:57 PM
Hassayamper said...: Talented kid, and certainly his sweet, low-T, androgynous mien is right on point for today's youth, but if we want civilization to survive we need somehow to raise up a lot of men of a very different nature.; 7/24/24, 1:02 PM
Lyle Sanford, RMT said...: Amazing how he gets all the inflections - would never have thought it could be done so so well.; 7/24/24, 1:28 PM
Anthony said...: Is it even possible to make a movie nowadays without Chalamet or Anna-Taylor Joy?; 7/24/24, 1:34 PM
RBE said...: Looks promising. Dylan deserves a good movie made about him.; 7/24/24, 1:45 PM
mccullough said...: Chalamet is too tall to play Dylan.; 7/24/24, 1:48 PM
tcrosse said...: Not to doxx myself, but my given name is Timothy. In France I found that it hands French women a laugh that an older adult should have that name. I wonder if Timothée Chalamet found that.; 7/24/24, 2:22 PM
Patrick Henry was right! said...: Not nasally enough. But ok. Not Gary Busey level, though.; 7/24/24, 2:34 PM
Ted said...: I think it's a good vocal impression, but he's way overdoing the lisp.

It's interesting that this film focuses on the "Dylan goes electric" firestorm of 1965 -- which was apparently a big deal among the era's strident folkies, but seems like a ridiculous controversy half a century later.; 7/24/24, 3:43 PM
Aggie said...: For a minute there, I saw 'Dan Fogler' but read 'Dan Fogelburg' - and thought, man, that's gonna be weird.; 7/24/24, 7:28 PM
Lance said...: Why is he singing slowly? Dramatic effect? It's annoying.; 7/24/24, 8:51 PM
Patrick said...: I like that he didn't try to do a Dylan impossible but that he did try to sign like Dylan. That doesn't make much sense I know but he had to know he can't copy Dylan but he can act like it. I will see this movie, which frankly is very high praise.; 7/24/24, 9:32 PM
GRW3 said...: So, I see above that the "electric guitar" incident is a major focus, as well it should be. It was a huge deal. Folk music then, as now, tends to be pretty insular from a larger audience and single acoustic only is kind of their sweet spot. Dylan had bigger fish to fry and he needed more power that only an electric guitar would provide. I hope it at least gits to the nascent formation of The Band.; 7/25/24, 10:25 AM
ALP said...: Wait - what??? An actor with a God-like level of male beauty is playing Dylan? Not that Dylan is that ugly, but wow. I never would have guessed.; 7/25/24, 11:48 AM