Bob Dylan’s wealthy legacy of greater than 50 albums is a counterpoint to “narcissistic” trendy music centered on “me, me, me”, the director of the not too long ago launched biopic concerning the singer informed AFP.
James Mangold, in Paris forward of the discharge of “A Complete Unknown” in French cinemas, mentioned that delving into Dylan’s early profession within the Sixties concerned immersing himself in a special, less complicated world.
“It was really clear making the movie, that not just Bob’s music, but that time in music was different,” the director of “Indiana Jones 5” and “Le Mans ’66” mentioned. “And I really feel like most music now’s so narcissistically about me, me, me.
“‘You hurt me’. ‘I feel blah, blah, blah’. ‘You betrayed me’. ‘That’s not nice what you did to me’,” he mentioned, reeling off the acquainted trendy themes of pop music from Taylor Swift to Beyonce.
“Music was about more than just me, me, me (in Dylan’s era). It was about the world. It was about the mysteries of the world. And I miss that.”
“A Complete Unknown”, starring Timothee Chalamet, has been effectively obtained by critics and obtained eight Oscar nominations, together with for finest image and finest director.
Mangold mentioned it was supposed as a examine in “the loneliness of genius” and the difficulties of movie star for Dylan. “A great artist, but maybe not great at being famous”, he advised.
“He described the feeling of being Bob Dylan in 1962 or 1963 as being a lonely feeling, in very specific ways: the loneliness of riding to your concert in a car, the loneliness of being on stage alone with your guitar,” mentioned Mangold.
Where many individuals seen Dylan’s behaviour as conceited and concluded he was an “asshole”, “what if he isn’t an asshole? What if it’s loneliness?” Mangold requested.
Dylan recorded a exceptional 300 songs in simply his first three years within the music enterprise.
The author of “Mr. Tambourine Man,” “Like a Rolling Stone” and “Desolation Row” is adored by followers for his music and literary fashion.
He obtained the 2016 Nobel literature prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”, based on the committee.
“I don’t know how I got to write those songs. Those early songs were almost magically written,” he informed the CBS channel in 2004.
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