‘A Complete Unknown’ Director James Mangold on the Mystery of Bob Dylan
“I think it is interesting, and somewhat surprising, to some people to walk into a movie that they think is going to be a regular biographical film, and walk out feeling as if they still don’t understand this man, that they are used to having the psychology of famous people explained to them through movies. Maybe because it’s not possible with this particular person.” “Or is it even desirable? Well, one of the biggest tropes is just reducing the person to a kind of simplistic trauma or event in their life that changed everything, when, of course, we’re all so much more complicated than that, and our psychologies are such a stew of so many things. But like I’m saying, what if the secret, what if the thing we don’t understand, we just don’t want to understand, which is that he’s actually different.” “You’re blowing my mind, James.” “It’s not from trauma.
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