I can't believe this isn't already being discussed. Is the film board just dead or what? Nobody seeing any new films?
from Wikipedia:
"The film intercuts stories featuring different actors playing characters based on the life or the legend of Bob Dylan. Marcus Carl Franklin, a young black actor, plays a version of the 11-year old Dylan, who calls himself "Woody Guthrie" and escapes from a juvenile correction centre by hitching a ride on a train, carrying a guitar labelled "This Machine Kills Fascists." Christian Bale plays Jack Rollins, a version of Dylan as a young folk singer with a political conscience, and who later becomes "Pastor John," a version of Dylan the born again Christian, here singing gospel songs in a small town church. Cate Blanchett plays Jude Quinn, a version of Dylan at the height of his fame in the 1960s, when his original fan base was rejecting him as a sell-out. Ben Whishaw plays a version of Dylan as a young rebel who calls himself after the poet Arthur Rimbaud. Heath Ledger plays Robbie Clark, a Hollywood actor best known for his performance in a film about Jack Rollins; he represents Dylan the divorcee, estranged from his wife Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Richard Gere plays the elderly Dylan as an aging Billy the Kid in a surreal Wild West town, who defeats an even more elderly Pat Garrett (played by Bruce Greenwood)."
I was amazed at how much a movie so intensely focused on another person could seem to have so much to say about myself. Really, it's only about Dylan superficially. What it's really about is change, and personality, and identity, and maturity, and fame, and belief. |
