The new biopic stars Timothée Chalamet as the musical genius, but it’s less about him than about his effect on others.
, which follows Bob Dylan from his arrival on the Greenwich Village folk scene in 1961 to his electrified performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. But there was one moment when I had to stifle a laugh. It’s when we get our first look at the 1965 Dylan, curly hair piled atop his head and a permanent sneer etched beneath his sunglasses, as he strides past his old folkie haunts, hops on his motorcycle, and roars off down MacDougal Street.
After hitching a ride to New York City, the 19-year-old immediately makes a pilgrimage to the bedside of Woody Guthrie , only to find that his musical idol has been rendered mute by illness. After Bob gushes that Woody’s recordings “struck me down to the ground,” Woody points at Bob’s acoustic guitar, and Bob plays him a song: “,” a tribute that both acknowledges Guthrie’s influence and drafts ever so slightly off his name recognition.
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