No big fan of Chalamet but I'm curious to see this.
Pete Seeger? Unrepentant communist.
Posted on 01/04/2025 10:42:13 AM PST by Rummyfan
Watch in wonder as Bob Dylan slays Communists!
Can you dislike Bob Dylan and like the new biopic about him? The answer is yes, because I did. The question is why. I will attempt to answer this question now, so pull up a chair, because this could take a while.
Now, I should explain that I’ve had it in for Bob Dylan for about 56 of my 63 years on this earth; my older sisters had Dylan records when I was a little kid, and I just couldn’t stand his voice. In those days, especially if you were a kid, there was no escaping the deliberately rustic sound of a single voice accompanied by guitar or banjo or harmonica or all three; if it wasn’t Dylan, it was Phil Ochs or Burl Ives or the Weavers or Theodore Bikel on the phonograph with Americana like "Big Rock Candy Mountain" being poured into your ears like a bottle of Geritol into an iron-poor woman’s mouth.
A few years later, in my early teens, when I was made to understand that record albums were to the baby boomers what volumes of romantic poetry were to the Victorians, I did my best to accept that Dylan’s lyrics were akin to biblical prophecy—only to decide after much effort to brainwash myself that they were overwhelmingly pretentious gobbledygook. I am not so contrarian that I cannot acknowledge a person who can write "Blowin’ in the Wind"—a song so immortal from the moment it emerged from Dylan’s guitar that it sounds as though it has existed since the beginning of time—is a once-in-a-generation talent. The same can be said of the man who wrote the indelible music to "Tangled Up in Blue," ...
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No big fan of Chalamet but I'm curious to see this.
Pete Seeger? Unrepentant communist.
I went to see the movie last week with my wife. I was absolutely blown away by it. It is definitely the best new movie I’ve seen in at least a decade. In fact, the only once I can think of that comes close was “Inside Llewyn Davis”, which was also about a folk singer in NYC in the early 60s. Anyway, the movie had great acting and a very compelling story. I left the theater feeling sad and could not immediately put my finger on why. After a while, it dawned on me that it was because we no longer have giants of the caliber of Dylan making music anymore. I may sound like a cranky old man, but contemporary “music” is just gutless noise.
I too was not always a Dylan fan. As a teen, I mostly ignored his work and would often switch stations whenever his songs were played. But his music started to grown on me as I matured. His lyrics are simply amazing, especially when you consider how old he was when he wrote those songs. The Girl from the North Country and The Times they are a Changing are probably my two favorite Dylan songs.
Casting was spot on, acting was great, dialogue was good.
And the music was pretty damned good - when they recreated Dylan's Newport Folk Festival set with Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield - WOW!
We don't go to a lot of movies - we saw Reagan last year and I think that was it. This movie was a great way to kick off a new year - 16 more days to a(nother) Trump Presidency!
Seeger was a useful idiot for Stalin
,,,an honest appreciation of Pete Seeger cannot be left at what most accolades have done. Indeed, since his political vision, his service over the decades to the brutality of Soviet-era Stalinism and to all of the post-Cold War leftist tyrannies, was inseparable from the music he made, it simply cannot be overlooked. For Seeger’s voice was heard in defense of causes in which only fools could still believe. As Paul Berman put it, “Let us sing ‘If I Had a Hammer,’ then, and, at every third verse, let our hammers bop Pete Seeger on the head for having been a fool and an idiot.”
I heard one of Bob Dylan’s musicians say that Bob had thousands of songs memorized in his head, but all from the 1920’s
I liked the film a lot. I liked the performances, especially liked the fact that Chalamet (Dylan) and Barbaro (Baez) sang and played the songs themselves. I liked the fact the old line lefties, like Seeger especially, couldn’t control Dylan.
Good film and nice to see a film aimed at adults. I will also add that a group of about 10 or 12 of what looked liked high school kids filed in, sat quietly and watched the entire film, no phones, no chatter. That alone was worth seeing.
I really liked the movie and the only Dylan song I cared for was the Hendrix version of ‘Like a Rolling Stone.’
I was extremely skeptical about the actor as well, but the clips I’ve seen he’s fantastic as Dylan.
I just saw it. I was impressed. Chalamet always looked like Bob, sounded like Bob. As far as I could see, it seemed about as accurate as anyone can expect a Hollywood movie to be. Dylan was a hugely creative artist who always wanted to be on the outside and seemed to keep finding himself on the inside. So he kept putting himself on the outside again. I thought the movie captured that well.
One last thought my wife and I talked about after the movie:
Dylan referred to himself as a "musician", THEY'RE the ones that called him a "folk singer".
He wasn't going to let them put him in a box. Good for him.
I love GE Smith
Accurate.
He would even sabotage live performances because he could.
He did it on letterman once when he wasn’t happy with the backup band.
You’ll probably find the clip amusing then. Ran across it last week.
Thanks!
Bob Dylan is a poet. People get hung up on his voice and completely miss the point. This is pure poignant hilarity-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Nx7ojiZv0&pp=ygUSYm9iIGR5bGFuIHBvb3IgYm95
Not ‘All Along the Watchtower’?
This one threw me for a loop. He was an actor and I wouldn't have included singing on Broadway in a screed like this. Too funny!
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