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Post by Simone on Jul 24, 2024 6:46:25 GMT -8
A Complete Unknown is now coming out in December!!! James and Searchlight must really LOVE what they have to push it up a full year!
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Post by Simone on Jul 24, 2024 7:49:52 GMT -8
That’s also high-stakes. How did you get to a place where that was comfortable?Every one of these things comes with the fact that you can always fix it. You want everyone putting everything on the line every moment. But it’s not [like] if one of our actors hit a bad note, I don’t have an alternative take or the ability to replace that one beat. If Timmy’s brave enough to stand out there and make himself vulnerable, throwing himself at this, I should be brave enough to stand behind the camera and shoot. And Timmy was a partner in this. He very much wanted to. And the multiple years of preparation that we had on this movie because of false starts with Covid and stuff meant that Timmy really had a kind of incubation as a musician that was years in happening. And Monica Barbaro as well. She was cast when we were gonna make the movie before Indy. So a lot of these people have been in place for an incredible amount of time, and used that time incredibly successfully in their own musical journey. What makes Timothée’s performance work in your eyes? What did he crack open?I think what’s so wonderful about what Timmy is doing is that, while not answering questions about Bob, at the same time I think he does in a very poetic way, which is to suggest really empathically through his performance how one might want to make music, but one might not want to have people in your face all the time. And I think in a way, Bob answers that… Timmy, who I’m used to calling Bob sometimes, answers that question. I think he walks a really beautiful line of allowing an audience to see what a joy it is for this character to make music and what pure joy he experiences in his camaraderie with other musicians and his exploration of ideas and words and music, both making it and listening to others. Where Timmy also does something really quite profound is to show you his almost genetically predisposed discomfort with what his own great achievements then bring upon him and that, in terms of people wanting things, transactional relationships, or relationships that are tainted by the immense power and talent. And I think he does an incredible job of growing the character up, because one of the things I think that will be startling is, most Dylan fans don’t focus on the boy in the newsboy cap who’s arriving in town. And Timmy really carries this character from a 19-year-old boy telling tales of working on the carnival into this person that we recognize as an icon. Timmy finds the path to carry us there. It’s going to be impossible for people in trailers or teasers or photos to see, but the way he grows this character is a real act of acting brilliance in my opinion. As you said, precise replication is neither the goal nor possible. But this is one of the most imitated voices, both singing and speaking, for 50 years. Everyone has a Dylan imitation. Tell me about Timothée’s unveiling of the way he’s doing it and how you both handled that.It’s so funny. You make me think about it. I’d never thought about it. I was probably the one who was talking like Bob soonest because I was spending time with him and trying to remember — because the syntax of the way Bob says things even now is so particularly Bob, and I was really trying to capture that in what we were writing. I think Timmy also grows that. Meaning that he’s a little less affectedly Bob as we know him at the beginning than he is by the end, which I think is a complete closure of the circle. You’re trying to find something that feels like him, but also feels like Timmy, meaning that if I were trying to describe the directorial goal, you want your actor to play the part, of course, but you don’t want them to lose what’s special about themselves. Almost what you want is for the actor to find the parallel aspects in them and the person they’re playing. And to get those in harmony and then apply the outward affectations that do not disturb that initial kind of groove that they found with the character from their gut, if that makes sense. Were there moments when it was eerie to witness?Yes, there are. Eerie is a bad word. Miraculous. And there were also moments where it felt like something was getting channeled. I don’t mean in mimicry. I mean in feeling. But there were also moments where Timmy would come up to me and go, “I think I lost Bob a little,” or I’d say, when that happens, “You’re losing him a little bit.” And that was our code for drifting too much into yourself and not carrying some of those affectations and mannerisms that are part and parcel of being him. Judging from the teaser and the set photos, it does seem like Timothée and Elle light up the screen together.As those two did [in real life]. There must have been a reason they put them on the cover of Freewheelin‘ together. Is the goal to get this movie out before the end of the year now, and is that an accelerated schedule? And is that hard?It’s fun. “Yes” is the answer, and it certainly is fun. It can be just as scary to work slowly as it is to work fast. So I embrace it. And like I said, the movie is really taking form and teaching us what it wants to be. I think we have enough time to bring that to a landing in a lovely way. Brian Hiatt - www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/bob-dylan-biopic-james-mangold-exclusive-trailer-1235065964/
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Post by Teenca on Jul 26, 2024 6:13:27 GMT -8
I love the teaser, this movie will be great!
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Post by Simone on Jul 29, 2024 6:32:48 GMT -8
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Post by Simone on Jul 30, 2024 8:10:39 GMT -8
This is a fantastic article by Variety featuring comments from diehard Dylanologists who have critiqued the 2 min trailer for A Complete Unknown. Most of the comments are very positive, and that impresses me from this very hard to please crowd of hard core old-guard Dylan fans.
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Post by Simone on Jul 30, 2024 10:27:11 GMT -8
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Post by Simone on Aug 6, 2024 8:17:13 GMT -8
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Post by Teenca on Aug 7, 2024 9:09:46 GMT -8
I think the lucky ones will be able to watch the movie at festivals sooner than December.
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Post by Simone on Aug 7, 2024 9:48:37 GMT -8
I think the lucky ones will be able to watch the movie at festivals sooner than December. No, the movie won't be completed in time for festivals.
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Post by Simone on Aug 14, 2024 7:35:06 GMT -8
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Post by Simone on Aug 30, 2024 6:17:09 GMT -8
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Post by Simone on Aug 30, 2024 13:56:10 GMT -8
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Post by Teenca on Aug 30, 2024 23:26:51 GMT -8
Wow, thanks! Nice poster. Classic, but nice. I need it!
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Post by Simone on Sept 1, 2024 14:03:49 GMT -8
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