Film that tells the story of Bob Dylan’s early days also shows health problems of one of the great icons of American folk
Biography that offers a clipping of the career of Bob Dylan, A complete unknown It gives screen time to a largely ignored American folk music icon. Woody Guthrieinterpreted in the work by SCOOT MCNAIRYhe was one of the most influential figures of his segment and was notable for the strong political character, especially left and anti -fascist, in his compositions.
It’s his classic “This land is your land”one of the most popular folk songs in the United States. No wonder, the track is present among the 50 recordings eternalized in the National Record of Recordings from the Library of the American Congress – alongside historical moments starring Thomas Edison, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatraamong many others.
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Woody Guthrie was a great idol of Bob Dylan, played in the movie by Timothée Chalamet. The work shows the then young artist traveling to New York precisely to meet his idol, who was hospitalized at the time Huntington’s disease. The hereditary health problem, which affects three out of every 100,000 people, causes the death of brain cells, leading to a progressive loss of motor coordination, locomotion, movement and speech.
Dylan establishes a strong friendship with Guthrie, often visiting him to talk and sing to him. However, the film does not show what was the end of the musician, even by the cut of the work, completed in 1965.
Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for Woody to leave us. He died on October 3, 1967, at the age of 55, for complications of the disease mentioned.
The musician inherited his mother’s health problem, who died for the same reason in 1930. Gwendolyn and Suethe artist’s older daughters – the result of his first marriage – also received the diagnosis and died in the second half of the 1970s, both at the age of 41.
Huntington’s Disease Society of America
After the loss, Woody’s second wife, Marjoriehe dedicated his life to militancy against Huntington’s disease. She abandoned her dancer career to defend further studies about the health problem.
The same year the musician left us, his widow founded a committee dedicated to combating such a disease, offering support to patients and their families. Later, the institution got the name Huntington’s Disease Society of America – and is still active to this day. Marjorie Guthrie left us on March 13, 1983, at age 65, due to cancer.
Bob Dylan tributes to Woody Guthrie
Throughout his career, Bob Dylan made a series of honors to Woody Guthrie through the song. In 1962, for example, he launched the song “Song to Woody”with an excerpt that says:
“It looks sick and hungry, tired and torn
It looks like it’s dying and barely born
… A toast to the hearts and hands of men
That come with dust and go with the wind. ”
While Guthrie was hospitalized, Dylan made a long poem, “Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie”and introduced him during his first big show, held in New York on April 12, 1963. An excerpt says:
“And you know it’s something special that you need
And you know that there are no medicine that heals
… You need something special, okay
You need something special to give you hope
… You can go to the church of your choice
Or you can go to Brooklyn State Hospital
You will find God in the church of your choice
You will find Woody Guthrie at Brooklyn State Hospital
And although it’s just my opinion
I may be right or wrong
You will find the two
On the grand canyon
At sunset. ”
In 1968, when Guthrie was no longer among us, Bob and the The band made a version of “Ain’t Got on Home”from the late artist, during a show in his memory at Carnegie Hall, also in New York.
A complete unknown Premiere in Brazilian theaters this Thursday, 27.
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