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Speaker 1: Great per flick with Fillow Shad Well that's Bob se movie,

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Speaker 1: Timothey Shallo May does a bit of his own work

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Speaker 1: band good Morning, Good Morning. He does indeed, look Timothy

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Speaker 1: Shalo May. I don't know if he can dance, so

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's a triple threat, but he's

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Speaker 1: definitely a double threat. He's a double threat. And it's

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Speaker 1: really no surprise because you know, it wasn't that long

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Speaker 1: ago that he was, you know, sawing up the box

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Speaker 1: office charts in Wonka and sort of as the you know,

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Speaker 1: sort of all singing we did dance, maybe as Willie Wonka.

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Speaker 1: So we know that he's got a set of pipes.

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Speaker 1: But fans of Bob Dylan will be happy to know

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Speaker 1: that he does an amazing job of bringing to life

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Speaker 1: a young Bob Dylan. So we're talking, he's kind of

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Speaker 1: arrived on the scene. No one knows who he is.

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Speaker 1: The title of the film, A Complete Unknown also describes

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Speaker 1: Bob Dylan at this point in his career. He's just

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Speaker 1: this young kid with the guitar and big dreams, shy,

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Speaker 1: and in the film, it depicts him sort of having

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Speaker 1: this early kind of mental relationship with the great Pete

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Speaker 1: Seeger who's played by Ed Norton. Ed Norton is just

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Speaker 1: perfect folksy, kind of really sweet dude who takes a

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Speaker 1: young Bob Dylan under his wing, introduces him to all

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Speaker 1: of his mates, helps him, you know, get some gigs

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Speaker 1: in the city, and really sets him up for success

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Speaker 1: in the folk scene, where almost straight away Bob Dylan

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Speaker 1: is a revelation and he rises up through the ranks.

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Speaker 1: And now this book, this movie has been based on a

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Speaker 1: book called Dylan Goes Electric, which chronicles this period in

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Speaker 1: music history that is kind of infamous. Where as fans

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Speaker 1: of Bob no he went from being a folks singer

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Speaker 1: to very very contra versually at I think the nineteen

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Speaker 1: sixty five Newport Folk Festival, plugging in an electric guitar

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Speaker 1: instead of his acoustic guitar, which you know, angered the

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Speaker 1: folk establishment. Lost in my mind, yeah, because this was

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Speaker 1: an iconic folk festival was all about, you know, sort

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Speaker 1: of flower power, all of these you know, sort of

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Speaker 1: lovees getting together, sitting on the grass and and listening

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Speaker 1: to some lovely folk music. And then along comes this

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Speaker 1: wild head Bob Dylan with his Ray band, sunglasses, plugs

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Speaker 1: in his stratocaster and just starts bashing out some rock

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Speaker 1: and roll. And the controversy was they kind of suspected

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Speaker 1: involved in the festival, including his mate and mentor Pete Seeger,

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Speaker 1: was saying, what are you going to do, Bob? You

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Speaker 1: can't play You can't play electric guitar, mate, Like, you

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Speaker 1: can't do it, mate, And he's refusing to say whether

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Speaker 1: he will or he won't. Right up until the moment

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Speaker 1: going to do. They realized pretty quickly when they're where

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Speaker 1: it was going. And so this film chronicles that period

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Speaker 1: in his life, and it really highlights how Bob Dylan had,

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Speaker 1: you know, like he probably did feel that he was

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Speaker 1: a bit superior. Some of these musical biopicks that we've

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Speaker 1: seen in recent years are fairly sanitized. They paint a

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Speaker 1: very rosy picture of the artist. This one doesn't so much.

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Speaker 1: It kind of reveals Bob Dylan to be a bit

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Speaker 1: of an ahole. He could be a bit of a which,

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Speaker 1: which I think anybody who's been around the music industry

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Speaker 1: long enough knows kind of who he is, you know,

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Speaker 1: like he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, didn't show

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Speaker 1: up to collect the award. He does kind of feel

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Speaker 1: he is based on some of the music that he's produced.

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Speaker 1: But the film also shows what impact that attitude his

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Speaker 1: hubris has on those around him, so we see it

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Speaker 1: really impacts that relationship with Pete Seeger, but also his

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Speaker 1: personal relationships he gets into a relationship with in real

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Speaker 1: life as Susie Rottolo in the film it's it's Sylvie

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Speaker 1: Russo no relation at all that they say, oh no, no,

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Speaker 1: no connection to any person living or dead, exactly Susie

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Speaker 1: Rittolo but anyway, played by el Fanning, who does an

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Speaker 1: amazing job as sort of this this long suffering girlfriend,

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Speaker 1: Wonderful Wonderful Folks singer played by Monica Barbara, who is

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Speaker 1: Joan says to Bob, you know, like, do you only

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Speaker 1: good you are compared to me. He is a bit

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Speaker 1: of a yeah, you know, he's hard to love. I

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Speaker 1: want you so man. Yeah. But some of the songs

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Speaker 1: like a rolling Stone Highway sixty one revisited, mister tambourine man,

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Speaker 1: A hard rains are going to fall. How you've also

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Speaker 1: got don't think twice? It's all right, Masters of War,

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Speaker 1: Slute Classic, Blowing in the Wind of course, you babe

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Speaker 1: that he sings with Monica Barbaro. So it is all

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Speaker 1: of the hits and he's singing every single one of them.

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Speaker 1: And what the film does well is even when it's

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Speaker 1: just you know, you're hearing the music of Bob Dylan

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Speaker 1: over a montage or something that's also Timidates singing, the

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Speaker 1: only time you hear actual Bob Dylan is right in

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Speaker 1: the closing credits, and so that really adds to the

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Speaker 1: authenticity of this portrayal. Very very impressive, and he looks

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Speaker 1: exactly like him as well. Yeah, but a talk on

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Speaker 1: came from you, Ben, But Bob wasn't that impressed to Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: the early stage was this film has been directed by

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Speaker 1: James I think in the end, I think in the

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Speaker 1: End of War. It was an early one where yeah, yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: a bit questioning. But now he's seen the film, and

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Speaker 1: certainly everybody who's still alive from Bob Dylan's life in

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Speaker 1: that period say that the director, James Mangold, has absolutely

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Speaker 1: nailed the vibe, even though maybe some of the facts

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Speaker 1: twisted a little bit, like a few Liberty's taken. Maybe

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Speaker 1: with the reality of the story, the timelines kind of

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Speaker 1: squished a little bit to make it more dramatic. But

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Speaker 1: James Mangold, of course gave us Walk the Line a

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Speaker 1: few years ago, which is a great film as well,

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Speaker 1: so you can kind of tell that this is in

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Speaker 1: good hands. He cast a different Johnny Cash for this movie.

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Speaker 1: In then he got a boyd Holbrook from Narco's who steals,

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Speaker 1: almost steals the movie. He only has a couple of scenes,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't he in real life doesn't look anything

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Speaker 1: like Johnny Cash, so they dye his hair, give him

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Speaker 1: a prosthetic nose. He is an absolute scene ste Phoenix.

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Speaker 1: Do you think he's so? Boyd Helk appears Johnny Cash

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Speaker 1: right at the end, and a lot of people will

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Speaker 1: be talking about that particular character afterwards. So that's one

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Speaker 1: to look out for. Yes. So overall, this is this

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Speaker 1: is a really great example of a musical biopic that

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Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't, you know, sanitize everything. Gives you a pretty

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Speaker 1: realistic portrait of, you know, what I guess genius can

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Speaker 1: music and amazing kind of I guess snapshot of a

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Speaker 1: time in musical history. Beautiful. All right, Well, how many

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Speaker 1: mumble waterings four stars? Give a four stars that we

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Speaker 1: can now understand? There we go, very good, Thank you man,

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys,