CinemaBob Dylan insisted that A Complete Stranger had a ‘totally inaccurate’ scene Biopic about the life and career of Bob Dylan, A Complete Stranger is scheduled for release on February 27, 2025 in Brazilian cinemasBy Editorial Staff

Iconic singer of hits like “Blowin’ In The Wind,” “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door,” “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and “Like A Rolling Stone,” Bob Dylan is yet another artist to win a biopic, titled A Complete Stranger (2024), in which he insisted to the director, James Mangoldadd scene “totally inaccurate.”

With a cast made up of Timothée Chalamet (Bob Dylan), Monica Barbaro (Joan Baez), Edward Norton (Pete Seeger), Elle Fanning (Sylvie Russo), Boyd Holbrook (Johnny Cash), WillHarrison (Bob Neuwirth) and Charlie Tahan (Al Kooper), the film is scheduled to premiere on February 27, 2025 in Brazilian cinemas. Read the synopsis below:

In the early 1960s, folk singer Bob Dylan rises to the top of the music charts as his songs and mystique become a worldwide sensation.

Despite telling a true story of someone who is currently alive, A Complete Stranger There are some changes to the narrative (something that happens in every biopic). Including, Barbarian admitted that he was initially irritated because he wanted to show the story of Joan Baez as accurately as possible.

For example, she didn’t like that Dylan and Baez sing”Girl From the North Country” together when there is no evidence that this happened in reality. In addition, the actress also resisted the scenes in which Baez and Dylan they play guitar together, because he was usually the one who handled the instrument. Second Mangoldthese adjustments resulted in a better film, with greater dramatic charge.

“[James Mangold] said, ‘I love this image so much,’” the artist told Rolling Stone USA. The filmmaker further explained that it was a film, not a completely accurate representation of the life of Bob Dylan. “You can’t do this as a page of Wikipedia.”

Himself Dylan allegedly insisted on even greater changes to the truth. According to Edward Nortonthe artist told Mangold to include at least one “totally inaccurate” scene in the script, but the director was afraid this choice would anger the audience: “Why do you care what other people think?”

It is worth highlighting how this request from the singer may not come as a surprise to his fans. Throughout his career, he told several versions of stories that contradict each other. Some experts even believe that he invented entire sections of the biography.

“Jesus Christfrom what I can tell, almost everything in the section [sobre o disco] Oh Mercy from the book Chronicles is a work of fiction. I like Chronicles as a work of literature, but it has a lot of basis in reality as [o filme de 2003] The Mask of Anonymityand why shouldn’t it? He’s not the first guy to write a biography that has a bunch of lies,” he said. Clinton Heylinbiographer of Dylanto Rolling Stone.