A Complete Unknown
Writers: James Mangold, Jay Cocks, Elijah Wald
Director: James Mangold
Release: December 25, 2024
Tagline(s): The ballad of a true original.
He defied everyone to change everything.
Producer(s): Fred Berger, Bob Bookman, Timothée Chalamet, Alan Gasmer, Alex Heineman, Peter Jaysen, James Mangold, Jeff Rosen
Executive Producer(s): Michael Bederman, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Andrew Rona
Stars/Actors: Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Scoot McNairy, Monica Barbaro, Dan Fogler, Boyd Holbrook, Elle Fanning
Music by: Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez
Production Company: Searchlight Pictures
Genre(s): Biography, Music, History
ID: tt11563598
Rating: R
Runtime: 141 minutes
Based On: Dylan Goes Electric by Elijah Wald
Synopsis: In 1961, an unknown 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York City with his guitar and forges relationships with musical icons on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking performance that reverberates around the world.
Declassified by Agent Palmer: A Complete Unknown does justice to Dylan’s electrified 1965 revolution
Quotes and Lines
Bob Dylan: I don’t think they want to hear what I want to play.
Johnny Cash: Who’s they?
Bob Dylan: You know, the people who decide what folk music is or isn’t.
Johnny Cash: Fuck them, I wanna hear you. Go track some mud on somebody’s carpet. Make some noise, B.D.
Joan Baez: You know, you’re kind of an asshole, Bob.
Bob Dylan: Everyone asks where these songs come from, Sylvie. But then you watch their faces, and they’re not asking where the songs come from. They’re asking why the songs didn’t come to them.
Sylvie Russo: It was fun to be on the carnival train with you, Bobby, but I think I gotta step off. I feel like one of those plates, you know, that the French guy spins on those sticks on the Sullivan show.
Bob Dylan: Oh, I like that guy.
Sylvie Russo: I’m sure it’s fun to *be* the guy, Bob. But I was a plate.
Orderly: There’s another gentleman in this room and he’s trying to rest.
Bob Dylan: Yeah, he’s been resting for six months. I don’t think it’s working.
Sylvie Russo: I mean, there’s a civil war going on down south. The biggest military buildup in history. Nuclear bombs hanging over us. It’s not all about the Dust Bowl and Johnny Appleseed anymore.