Pretty Good
I liked it.
shareYeah. Chalumet did an excellent job pulling this off - his musical chops, given what he came into the project with, are pretty amazing.
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shareBuy why are the vocals not Dylan?
shareI'd say see the film and make your own assessment. Trying to dub him in either vocally or on the guitar would have been kind of hokey. I understand the concern, but the presentation wasn't dragged down by him being way off base. He actually sang very well, managed the guitar well too.
shareI did see it. But something was missing. I didn’t hear him. And I know dubbing would be worse. But something was off. I just didn’t hear him as if you were listening to Dylan sing. It would have been great if they could have played one of Dylan’s songs done by Dylan.
There were really four women but two are missing: the wife and the muse. Especially, the muse. The title of the movie comes from a song that was written for a woman who they don’t even mention. Edie. And Sylvie (Suze) was long gone before the 1965 Newport Folk Festival where Like a Rolling Stone (about Edie) was introduced. It’s a good movie. Great performances. Certain scenes are fantastic. Ed Norton is very good. But something is missing.
Something is always missing. A lot of the songs were presented out of order, way before their time, liberties were taken, the character of Rotolo wasn't presented either or all, or accurately if Syvie was supposed to be her stand-in. This isn't reality, its a model of it. I generally have the same sort of resistance to the concept of 'the actor playing the music', which always risks marring the performance - but we can just differ about whether Chalumet hit any sort of reasonable mark in representing the character and musician. In my judgment, he did massively well. I'm not easy to impress, either, and have about much regard for Dylan & his work, coming in, as anyone else.
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