James Mangold’s biopic follows the rise of the era-defining star with Chalamet brilliantly embodying his shapeshifting allure
Not Judas – Jesus. Timothée Chalamet’s hilarious and seductive portrayal of Bob Dylan makes him the smirking, scowling and unwilling leader of his generation, whose refusal to submit to the crucifixion of folk-acoustic purity is his own crucifixion. Chalamet gives us a semi-serious ordeal of someone who is part Steinbeck hero, part boyband star, part sacrificial deity. On being derisively asked if he is God, Chalamet’s Dylan replies: “How many more times?.
Elijah Wald’s 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the Sixties ; it’s the story of Dylan’s musical and personal adventures in the first half of the decade as he electrified the world of folk in every sense. He was carried onwards and upwards by the folk movement appreciative of his poetic talent, but dissatisfied with what he saw as folk’s regressive, museum-oriented placidity ; he is yearning for the new modern energy of rock’n’roll as the musical form which he has to master if it is not to surpass him.
Elle Fanning is gentle and sensible as Dylan’s first girlfriend in New York; she is called Sylvie Russo, but based on, who appeared with him walking arm-in-arm through New York’s Greenwich Village on the cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.
Chalamet is also good at Dylan’s insolent comedy in art as in life: puckish, witty, insufferable and yet wounded, someone whose habit of wearing dark glasses indoors gets him beaten up. How did he get to sing and talk like that? How did Robert Zimmerman from Minnesota get to sound more raw and less intelligible than either Seeger or Guthrie? His claim to have learned guitar chords from cowboys at carnivals deeply irritates Baez who says he’s full of shit.
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