This news article reviews James Mangold's upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, 'A Complete Unknown,' focusing on a pivotal scene where a drunken Johnny Cash encourages a hesitant Dylan to electrify his performance at the Newport Folk Festival. The article highlights Timothée Chalamet's performance as Dylan and the film's exploration of Dylan's rebellious spirit and artistic evolution.
Our pop music critic writes about James Mangold's Dylan biopic filmed in Cape May and elsewhere in New Jersey. Edward Norton (left) and Timothée Chalamet in a scene from 'A Complete Unknown.' The movie opens in theaters on Christmas day. (Macall Polay/Searchlight Pictures via AP), the Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet, Dylan and Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook) smoke and talk on the eve of the most consequential performance of Dylan’s career, in 1965.
The conversation takes place in a parking lot outside Newport, R.I.’s Viking Motel — a motor lodge that’s portrayed, so to speak, by the Victorian Motel in Cape May, where parts ofDylan is trying to get up the gumption to plug in and go electric at the Newport Folk Festival, giving voice to his surrealist, subversive muse, and thumbing his nose at the hidebound rule makers warning him to keep it politely acoustic on the hallowed grounds of Newport. Doubting himself, Dylan needs a pep talk from Cash, a fan and friend who the younger songwriter trusts as an authoritative father figure, even though Cash is so wrecked he can’t drive his Cadillac out of the parking lot without smashing into two cars. Cash is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of writer-director James Mangold’s much-hyped movie, which opens on Christmas Day. “Make some noise, B.D.,” he urges Dylan. “Track some mud on the floor.” Dylan, of course, does just that. Defying purists, he makes clear he has no intention of playing by anyone’s rules, flouting convention with a chutzpah still apparent today. AtThe Cash-Dylan convo is pivotal in a movie that anybody who’s interested in Dylan should see. Or you could watch it for Chalamet, for whom a deserved Oscar nomination awaits. Or for Joan Baez, who’s portrayed convincingly by Monica Barbaro. The regard Cash and Dylan hold each other in is true to life, and they both played Newport in 1964. There’s just one catch.— renamed Silvie Russo and played by Elle Fanning — wasn’t ther
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