Reference:
Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
I'm Not There This movie uses 6 actors to interpret this multi-faceted Bob Dylan. There are countless actors to interpret the people who appear in his life. I personally prefer to think about the connections behind it from the surface, so Casting (actor) is the gossip-loving person I pay most attention to in this film, and the characters are the characteristics of this film.
First of all, this is a group play, with many clues to the characters and a lot of names, but it is obvious that the characters are all pseudonyms or other real characters' names. Although the characters are vivid, it hurts the audience. If it is not for Bob Dylan's diehard fan (a diehard fan), it is difficult to understand the names of the characters and their correspondence with real characters. Secondly, the six main characters are not arranged according to time, event, or one person, but interspersed with each other. It seems that they have nothing in common and have no clue. Faced with these two problems, if we analyze the actors-characters-real characters layer by layer, the context will be much clearer. Besides, I am more interested in the film and the filmmakers themselves, rather than the old man Dylan.
Todd Haynes, Juliann Moore
Said that the actor must first explain the director Todd Haynes (Todd Haynes), he used a lot of actors and staff who have worked with him in this film. The best rated film he directed, Far From Heaven, was filmed by Edward Lachman and starred Juliann Moore. The film won four Oscar nominations-including his own best original screenplay, JM's best actress and EL's best photography-and Juliann Moore this year (2003) was also due to The Hours ) Won a double nomination for Best Supporting Actress, but lost to Nicole Kidman (Moment, the protagonist) and Catherine Zeta Jones (Chicago, supporting role). Although far away from heaven, no one won the award. But I believe this film has a great influence on the director's film career. So it’s not surprising that I’m Not There will collaborate with JM and photographer Edward Lachman again. Alice Fabian played by Juliann Moore is an allusion to the American folk song Joan Baez in the 1960s and 1970s (she has a quarter of Mexican descent, has a great voice, and Dylan also praised her guitar performance). It is said that Joan Baez became famous earlier than Dylan. When Dylan saw her on TV, he was shocked and wanted to perform with her. And very popular, she insisted on inviting him as a guest to perform at the folk festival. From then on, two young and unlimited baby fat began to sing together. Dylan's song She Belong to Me is written by her. After watching the documentary No Direction Home, you will find that she imitated Dylan's sandy voice and the tone of speech that is simply vivid. I even suspect that the two CBs (Kate and Bell) in I'm Not There were inspired by her. In my opinion, she is the woman who loves Dylan the most and sees him the most (of course, the documentary does not mention Dylan’s ex-wife, I don’t know what she is like)-because she knows that Dylan can’t even see her. Through: "I now see it, that it's very unique...and it's admirable,
When Cate Blanchett
talked about double nomination, I have to say another woman, Cate Blanchett. This year she also won a double Oscar nomination for the Elizabethan Golden Age (the protagonist) and the film we are going to discuss (classified as a supporting role by the role). In 2005, she played Catherine Hepburn in the biographical film The Aviator [Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Gwen Stefani, Jude Law], which is full of great people. An Oscar award. Such an actor who plays who is like who, in the film reverses a man, and looks the closest to Dylan at the time, it is conceivable that it definitely stands out and is well received by the audience and critics. Cate's role is called Jude Quinn, and it must be because of her role as Dylan during this period of time that was most questioned. During this period, Dylan reached the peak of prestige and began to turn to electronic music, which was strongly resisted by countless old fans.
The movie reproduced the scene where Dylan was called Judas by fans on stage. Using the name Jude probably represents the so-called betrayal. The paragraph in I'm Not There should be strongly influenced by No Direction Home.
Christian Bale
Hayes used an actor as a clue character in the Velvet Gold Mine. It is also in I'm Not There that I think the most imitated actor in each Dylan-Christian Bale (Christian Bale). Today, 10 years later, the cast of Velvet Gold Mine is truly invincible. Bell once again dedicated himself in such a literary film, his voice, words, deeds, and manners were all in place, and Dylan was completely reborn. But in my opinion, he is the most contrived one, completely imitated, without any self-characteristic performance-perhaps because his character Jack Rollins is the character closest to the real Dylan's singer status. He played Dylan as a prophet, that is, a protest singer (an anti-war and anti-inequality singer who is keen on politics). I almost ignored his dual role, Pastor John (Father John) who sang gospel songs in the auditorium. This role represents the born-again Christian who Dylan lived in seclusion for many years after a motorcycle accident in the late 1970s. "Christian, Dylan was originally a Jew).
Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams
Biao acting skills are one of the highlights of this film. Heath Ledger and his ex-fiancée and child’s mother Michelle Williams, the two of them got better at Brokeback, until they got engaged and separated afterwards. They were always the media. The object of gossip. Heath Ledger's performance in this film is the most "unlike", but I personally think that his performance is very personal, because the character Robbie Clark is an actor, itself can be said to be the furthest away from Dylan and his music. He is Dylan who is not the most like a god. This actor role played a movie about Jack Rollins (the singer played by Bell) in this film. Michelle Williams-because the role Coco Rivington alludes to Edie Sedgwick, a very tonal it girl, of course, it is the easiest to play among many characters, and the performance is naturally not bad. Jude Law's former fiancee, Sienna Miller, also played Edie Sedgwick in Facotry Girl (studio girl). Although many people think she is not brilliant, but I think It can be said that Sienna Miller's personal breakthrough. (She and Factory Girl also had twists and turns: originally selected her to play, but the producer thought she was not well-known. Later, because of Jude Law's cheating, the engagement was cancelled and then they broke up. The media was overwhelmed with publicity, and the producer decided to play her. Although It’s not by herself, but it can be said that her value has risen sharply after the wonderful performance of this movie.) As for Heath Ledger’s wife Claire in the movie, it is played by French actor Charlotte Gainsbourg. She is soft and weak. Feeling to protect. After 21 grams and scientific sleep, haha, I like her more and more. Claire alludes to Sara Dylan, Dylan's former wife.
Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere
Then there is Ben Whishaw, the male protagonist of the film perfume, who plays the rebel Dylan named after the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. If you say Dylan, you have to say his lyrics. The lyrics are better than poetry (poems are not distinguished in English), so you have to talk about his name and his connection with many American poets. Bob Dylan was originally named Robert Zimmerman. Bob is Robert's nickname, which is easy to understand, but the surname Zimmerman is of Jewish descent (Turkish ancestry). Why does he want to change his name? The current popular saying is that I read the poems of American poet Dylan Thomas, but in fact, in the documentary No Direction Home, there is another unknown explanation-Minneapolis, the capital of Dylan's hometown of Minnesota ( Minneapolis has a long history of anti-Semitism, presumably the original surname is not good for his development of Lotto. Although Dylan himself was never sure of any speculation about him from the outside world, he also hinted in the documentary that "It didn't really happen any of the ways that I've read about it. I mean, I just don't feel like I had had a past..." [None of what I have read is the true origin of (my name). I don’t like people looking at me from my past background]. Wiki also said that when he chose the name "Dylan", he actually replaced his original pseudonym "Allyn" with a more powerful consonant. When writing the script, Todd Hayes obviously watched the documentary and knew that Dylan Thomas was no longer involved, so he used the French poet Rimbaud who had a real influence on Dylan's poetic spirit. I haven't found any substantial connection between Dylan and Rimbaud. However, Rimbaud probably influenced a generation of rockers, from Dylan to Patti Smith, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain.
So far, none of the four Dylan actors are American (two Australians and two British); the fifth, black child Marcus Carl Franklin, plays Dylan under the alias of Woody Guthrie (folk singer Woody Guthrie is the idol of early Dylan , Imitation object and song source). The black music blues and the folk songs of Woody Guthrie are the origins of Dylan's music. Together with the children, it is the first segment of the movie. The early image of Dylan couldn't be more obvious. But he is also a fugitive (in the movie he escaped from the youth correctional center). This is also a dual role, to be broken down in the next paragraph.
The oldest Richard Gere plays the recluse named after the legendary fugitive Billy the Kid of the American West. This surreal, dreamlike interpretation is the part of the whole movie nearing the end. What is the connection between Bob Dylan and Billy Boy? Actually, it doesn't matter. But Dylan has been heavily involved in the Westerns Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid about Billy the Kid. Pat Garrett used to be friends with Billy Boy. Later, after a bad luck, Pat became a sheriff while hunting down a fugitive in Belgium and shot Billy in the heart with a shot in the heart. Bob Dylan originally wrote the theme song for this movie, and later developed into a composition and soundtrack, and later he also went in to play a cool little role. The original soundtrack of the movie's OST is entirely a record made by Dylan alone, including a song that has been enduring in rock history and has been sung many times-Knockin' on Heaven's Door, which is the theme song of this movie. Speaking of this, I have to go back and interpret how this paragraph in I'm Not There is surreal. In fact, Hayes himself said that this paragraph was a temporary dream that he added to the script, so I also saw it in the cloud, and the actor Richard Gere was not easy to play. However, this paragraph still has a very clear idea. First of all, the reclusive fugitive corresponds to Dylan, who has retired after a motorcycle accident. In the Jude segment played by Cate, there is a journalist Keenan Jones who questioned Dylan until he became angry. His dual role in this surreal segment is Pat Garrett, who is Billy's mortal enemy. However, in this period, Billy the Kid and his opponents are either openly or secretly fighting. The religious significance is really strong, and I don't really understand it. It probably means that Dylan is undergoing the test of public attention and inner suffering. Later, Billy and Dylan ran away, and on the way he met the kid Woody Guthrie mentioned in the previous paragraph (they met and overlapped here). The end of the movie is the same as the beginning. The fugitive Dylan climbs onto the train, but he is in middle age. Billy again picked up the guitar that Woody Guthrie had just debuted at the beginning of the movie ("This Machine Kills Fascists" is Woody in the real world. Guthrie’s guitar), showing that Dylan returned to the music scene after struggling and struggling after the accident. As a result, the movie was finished in a few breaths, and finally it was connected from end to end, and the context was a bit clear.
Well, let’s summarize again,
# Christian Bale plays Jack Rollins and Pastor John, two versions of Dylan.
# Cate Blanchett as Jude Quinn, a version of Dylan
# Marcus Carl Franklin as "Woody Guthrie", an early version of Dylan.
# Richard Gere plays "Billy the Kid", an outlaw version of Dylan.
# Heath Ledger plays the actor Robbie Clark, the actor plays Jack Rollins, a singer who has a lot in common with Dylan throughout his life.
# Ben Whishaw plays "Arthur Rimbaud", the poet version of Dylan.
# Charlotte Gainsbourg as Claire, the wife of actor Robbie Clark, a role based on Dylan’s ex-wife Sara Dylan
# Bruce Greenwood as Keenan Jones, a reporter who interrogates Jude Quinn; the next two roles are "Pat Garrett", that is, "Billy the Kid" The enemy (in history, the Billy was finally shot and killed, which is more difficult to understand in the movie)
# Julianne Moore as Alice Fabian, the incarnation of Joan Baez.
# Michelle Williams plays Coco Rivington, the incarnation of Edie Sedgwick.
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