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The Bob Dylan biopic “A Full Unknown” focuses on only a few essential years in the beginning of the songwriter’s profession, from 1961, when he relocated to New York from Minnesota, up by way of his plugged-in heresy on the 1965 Newport People Pageant. In that brief window of time, he revolutionized the folks motion and have become one thing of a pop phenomenon.
Enjoying him, appropriately, is a modern-day pop phenomenon: Timothée Chalamet. And the eye he brings due to his outsize superstar appears designed to reveal Dylan to a complete new viewers. Dylan is as well-known nowadays for being enigmatic as for his music. So the hullabaloo surrounding Chalamet’s efficiency onscreen is just one a part of the technique, going hand in hand with how he’s navigated the press tour.
On this week’s Popcast, a dialog in regards to the accuracy, and strategic inaccuracy, of Chalamet’s portrayal of Dylan; how the movie outlines the artistic arc of Dylan’s profession; and the way Chalamet is utilizing his press tour to draw and win over an viewers who may by no means go to see “A Full Unknown.”
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