“Complete unknown”: Timothée Chalamet plays Bob Dylan – A warning

2024-07-30 12:52:37

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Timothée Chalamet plays Bob Dylan – A Warning

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The film biography “Complete Unknown” tells about the beginning of the career of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in the 1960s and his transition from folk to rock singer.

In a tragic way, the actor of the time turned into the most influential singer of all time: Timothée Chalamet not only looks like Bob Dylan, he also sings like him – and that’s exactly the problem with the biopic.

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Bmaybe Dylan comes to the movies. The film will be called “Complete Unknown”. Dylanologists will already raise their fingers and declare: It’s a quote from “As a Rolling Stone.” The release of the film is still in the air, but there is already a trailer or teaser – here the cineastes do not agree – with Timothée Chalamet as Dylan. Accordingly. Men like Chalamet, who are small and cute, are now called “Hot Rodent Men,” which is meant to be flattering. Dylan was such a hot little rodent 60 years ago.

Im Trailer oder Teaser Chalamet makes him walk through New York again with his shoulders stretched as he walks on old record sleeves. With disheveled curls, she sings “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” in a crowded bar. He saw Dylan electrifying his guitar and Dylan’s motorcycle nearly breaking his neck at Woodstock.

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Chalamet not only looks like Dylan, he sings like him too. Well done. It’s a biopic. Director James Mangold already shot “Walk the Line” 20 years ago, a kind of postmodern biopic archetype. Joaquin Phoenix didn’t portray Johnny Cash, he became Johnny Cash. Then, actors turned into stars like Freddie Mercury with epic prostheses and actors into tragic heroes like Amy Winehouse under a bee wig. Until no one can tell where truth ends and satire begins. Looking at the trailer or teaser, “Complete Unknown” will not show Bob Dylan as a man-made legend, but as a cliché in the kitsch of the most well-decorated historical ham.

But Dylan has also been in the cinema, as an enigma and as unknown. The movie is called “I’m not there” and it’s 17 years old. Dylan is played by Richard Gere and Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and Cate Blanchett, who are six Dylans in total. You can’t get close to him.