Searchlight Pictures has released an interesting behind-the-scenes featurette for the director James Mangold’S Bob Dylan biopic A complete stranger.
The video features interviews with the film’s cast and crew as they talk about Dylan’s story, his music and how to bring that beginning to life for the big screen.
Mangold says, “His genius in song power and personality ends up rising to become bigger than the movement he was brought into.”
Timothée Chalamet takes on the role of Bob Dylan, and the story is set in the influential New York music scene of the early 1960s, and the story follows the 19-year-old Minnesota musician’s rapid rise as a folk singer in concert halls and to the top of the scene musical. climbing the charts – his songs and mystique became a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking performance of electric rock and roll at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
Dylan “shocked the music world in 1965 when he performed with an electric guitar for the first time.” He “embraced rock n’ roll and traded his acoustic guitar for an amplifier and an electric guitar”, which “created a huge buzz”. But “it solidified the status of rock music.”
Chalamet performs the film’s music with singing, guitar and harmonica. The actor says he chose to do it because it was in the “spirit of the film to do it live.”
The film is also the protagonist Edward Norton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz AND Scoot McNairy.
Mangold previously spoke about the film, saying, “It’s a truly extraordinary period in American culture and the story of a young 19-year-old Bob Dylan who arrives in New York with about two dollars in his pocket.”
He added that the musician was “accepted into the New York folk music family and then, of course, at some point surpassed them as his star rises so beyond imagining.”
The film’s screenplay was written by Jay Cocks (New York gangs) with Mangold doing the revisions. Dylan’s longtime manager Jeff Rosen he is a producer of the film.
The film will arrive in theaters on December 25th.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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