The biopics musicals often suffer from the evil of Your face sounds to me. Or what is the same, its protagonists are so obsessed in nailing each gesture and becoming the stars they interpret that end up confusing the character’s composition with imitation. If we add that in almost all these films it is the actors and actresses who perform the musical performances, what remains is something similar to an action of the Antena 3 program, where celebrities sing and act as known singers.
The paradigmatic case is Rami Malek giving life to Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018). With false teeth that seemed taken from a costume store, the actor pulled tics and gestures to imitate the star. He did not realize that Mercury was inimitable, and that the more he tried, worse would be the result. Instead of giving him humanity, what he did was a karaoke performance that despite this ended up winning the best actor, because Hollywood pirra a good imitation.
It seems that the only place has understood that biopic Musical is better the freer vuele is in Spain, which last year left two films that make everything marked by Hollywood jump through the air. So much Second prize as The blue star They talked about musical groups (the planets and more birras), but they did it from other radically opposite codes. They were clear that through those characters they wanted to tell something, and that gave them what the biopics Hollywood: soul and personality.
I hope James Mangold, one of those artisans who lead a lifetime in Hollywood complying with the orders of the studies, would have seen these two films before making their biopic from Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknownwhich has been presented outside the Berlin Festival, where it arrives as one of the favorites of the Oscar with eight nominations, including the film, director, protagonist actor, cast actor and cast actress. I wish I would also have seen the original approach to Dylan that made the president of the jury of this edition of the Berlinale, Todd Haynes, which he showed in I’M not there that there are so many Dylan (one interpreted Cate Blanchett) to focus only on a facet was impossible.
A Complete Unknown You have a good idea in its nucleus that the distance a bit of others biopics Musical Instead of focusing on counting the entire arch of the musical star is based on a specific moment, the one on which Dylan stopped singing folk. He changed his musical style while changing the country in which he lived. The Times Are A-ChangingDylan sang in 1964. The idea, interesting, soon stays in a mere anecdote to focus more on the portrait of ascent to Dylan’s stardom, in his relationship with his first partner, Sylvie Russo, the activist who taught him to look at the world that surrounds him; and in which he had with Joan Baez.
That ends that A Complete Unknown It ends closer to a film about a love triangle between musical stars than in an radiography of the changing times that the artist who changed to be another. And perhaps, the biggest problem has it that the film fails to avoid falling into the evil of Your face sounds to me. Mangold and his film are fascinated with Timothée Chalamet, and everything revolves around its interpretation/imitation of Dylan.
Chalamet is not as exaggerated as Malek was, and it is more than remarkable as Dylan, but he likes it so much, that he moves all the time. This is a phagocyted film by the power of the interpretation of its star, which is more content when it sings (with its own voice) than when it speaks and tries to mimicize the way of expressing itself and gesturing of the singer. It is curious that the best interpretation of the cast, that of Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, is the only Joan Baez has fallen the candidacy, which says a lot about Hollywood’s fascination for this type of films and interpretations.
Berlin, Chalamet has arrived in the middle The Brutalist. With only 29 years it is the second time he opts for the award, and if he achieves it he would become the youngest actor to win it, overcoming… Adrien Brody, who also succeeded with 29 years, but with some more month.
Chalamet has given everything in his campaign for the award, with his summit in Saturday Night Live, Where he not only presented it, as Hollywood stars usually do, but where he also sang his favorite Bob Dylan themes. His season has also passed without controversies, which, in a year like this, is more important than ever. That has made many see in A Complete Unknown and in his role a consensus option in an edition with many dotted films.
He created that Bob Dylan left a legacy committed in that sense, because somehow he was resentful because he labeled him as the savior of a generation
Timothée Chalamet
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The last stop of that tour was Berlin, where Chalamet appeared more than half an hour late to his press conference. There, the actor has stressed that the questions of European journalists were much better than those of the US … and then avoid answering them. Chalamet has been asked about the activism of the artists, since it is also an important part of the film that stars, and has given several detours to never get wet at all.
“I think Bob Dylan left a legacy committed in that sense, because somehow he was resentful because he was labeled as the Savior of a generation. But when that generation went to the 1969 Woodstock, he did not touch there. My opinion, and I speak for me, is that he composed political songs because it was his way of expressing himself in the mid -80 He also recalled the 1985 Live Aid concert, when Dylan asked that part of the money of the event – which was for the fight against AIDS – dedicated to pay the farmers’ mortgage.
When asked about what he had taught to play Bob Dylan to look at the present with the rise of populism, the moderator even tried to go out to help the questions to be focused on the film, but Chalamet answered and said there was a teaching In Dylan’s songs: “There were warnings against cult figures, and in that I think it was inspired. You have to be careful with any figure that is presented as a saving, and that is something that was also in the novels of Dune, Frank Herbert taught us that you have to be careful with any cult figure. ” Not a false step. The Oscar race is at a peak, in the middle of the final votes, and any out of tune can be worth the prize.
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