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uh Alan hey tell me about a complete
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unknown okay so complete unknown is
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based on a book that I wish I had the
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title to about uh about Bob Dylan
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Timothy shalamay is Bob Dylan and it
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covers his career uh just a small
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segment of his early career where he uh
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has the courage to uh go to um Pete
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Seager and who Woody Guthrie Woody
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Guthrie uh I believe suffered a stroke
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he is in in the hospital Pete seager's
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there uh uh Bob Dylan's big fan decides
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to visit him and that's kind of where
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this Rel relationship between um Bob Dy
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be and uh Pete Seager is part of the uh
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Newport uh Newport Folk Festival uh one
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of the most popular folk music festivals
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in the nation and uh Bob Dylan joins the
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crew and becomes a huge success along
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with him and Joan bayz um he meets a
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girl El Fanning Sylvie uh they have a
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little romance there but uh he is
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falling in love with music with creating
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music and becomes This brilliant genius
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and uh and soon Bob Dylan begins to
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migrate from uh basically from folk
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music to rock music and uh it culminates
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in the final his final appearance at the
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Newport Folk Festival where he
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introduces rock music much to the dismay
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organizers um so yeah that's a a
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complete unknown yeah the the other
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thing is it shows his on again off again
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relationship with Joan bz how they kind
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of fed off each other creatively I
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really like this movie I've never been a
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huge Dylan fan I know of course his
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iconic songs but I because I like
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Timothy shalamay I like the way he
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pulled off this performance you see him
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evolve into the rock star that he that
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um Bob Dylan became you see how it
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affected him there's a they go he goes
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to a rock party with this young woman um
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who basically says I love you and he
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says I don't even know you like just met
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her you know but um I do like rock uh I
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like musician biopics you know we've
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seen Queen we've seen a lot of uh
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musician biopics and I love this genre
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and Timothy shalam did an amazing job
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transforming himself into Dylan from all
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his different looks to the way he stands
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to um everything about the rise and fall
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of a rock icon uh and mostly we see him
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what I liked about the the third act how
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it really shows his battle with
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basically the powers that be the
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mainstream as it were of Folk Music how
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his own rebellion was saying hey my
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music is going to evolve and I really
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love that aspect of it so and you get
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performances and just sham channeled Bob
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Dylan in this I I really loved it I I
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probably I'll probably go see it again
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on the big screen because I know I just
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I just and I'm to be clear not a Dylan
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fan love this movie what does that say
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so strong recommend for me eight out of
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10 at least mostly for uh Timothy sham
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Allan what did you think yeah I loved it
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as well I I didn't think I was gonna
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love it as much as I did uh let's let's
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point out that I believe half the movie
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is Dylan music is Timothy shalam uh
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there's a lot of music there's a lot of
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singing in this and it's pretty
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incredible and uh you know Timothy
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shamme does a really good job becom B
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Bob because I think the fear is is that
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he's going to get annoying about it he's
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G it's going to become a caricature and
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I think um I think he pulled it off even
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even the guitar playing uh is is
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incredible whether he's faking it or not
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it looks really good um if you go to our
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uh our if you're a member there's a Q&A
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with James mangled and Lanning and the
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uh the lady played uh Joan bayas and he
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talks about hey Timothy sh this was a
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this was scheduled to be shot before the
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pandemic and uh so at that point Timothy
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shalam was already cast and preparing uh
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preparing to become Bob Dylan and when
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the when the uh pandemic happened uh he
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was able to practice more and more and I
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believe it was five years later Timothy
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chelay had had practice and the ability
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to create the character and and what a
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great performance uh that five years
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made in this uh the other thing people
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are asking what does Bob Dylan think Bob
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from what he said Bob Dylan hadn't seen
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the film uh but he tweeted saying that
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uh he thinks Cham May's a great actor
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will do him justice but Bob Dylan uh
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this is based on a uh the book uh that
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Bob Dylan is a fan of um Bob Dylan was
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heavily uh involved in the script
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development process and ultimately gave
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his approval of the script so that's
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kind of where Bob Dylan stands on the
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movie um but uh yeah fantastic movie go
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see it yeah yeah and we I do want to
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point out that there are other really
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great performances in here uh Dan fogler
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is Bob Dylan's manager yeah he's kind of
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a a dirt bag but likable dirt bag um
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Boyd Holbrook plays Johnny Cash yeah
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that was awesome he's so such a badass
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as Johnny Cash and then Ed Norton as
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Pete Seager is very likable um and how
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it shows him juggling the women in his
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uh I don't know it's kind of a shocker
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maybe a cliche musicians uh they they
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they like to cheat they're they they uh
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they they're uh they like to be with
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many women so there you go so it shows
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him balancing that the relationship with
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Joan bayz it's Monica Barbaro played
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Joan bayz she fantastic fantastic she
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did great her voice her singing voice
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and her her acting as Joan B is just the
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character that that stands against uh
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Dylan is those scenes are just
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electric one of the requests that Dylan
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had made was the Sylvie character played
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by elf Anning uh he requested that her
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name be completely changed uh in the
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movies to protect because I think from
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what from what they say is that he still
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has uh solemn feelings for for her and
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the things she went through and wanted
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to honor her by not by not drawing
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attention to her because she is a
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civilian well shows his success mhm um
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came with a cost and the sacrifice was
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the woman he loved and and that plays
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out through over the course of the movie
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and I just that was another great thing
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that was great handled now you could say
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that ah it's you know this is very basic
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as a a a biopic but you know what I've
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never been a huge Dylan fan and this
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movie this movie really changed my mind
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mine so uh I in fact I listen to Dylan
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uh songs like after the movie I want her
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to here you know it so very well done
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and I'll see it again yeah definitely uh
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yeah definitely see it uh on the big
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screen and with a good sound system
