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The crucial Bob Dylan question that 'A Complete Unknown' fails to answer

JL;DR SUMMARY The article by Seth Rogovoy critiques the biopic "A Complete Unknown," which focuses on four pivotal years in Bob Dylan's early career. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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BiopicBob DylanFolk MusicJames MangoldFilm CriticismMusic HistoryTimothe ChalametRock N RollA Complete UnknownDylan's Persona

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New York City, New York, United States
"Why make a conventional Hollywood biopic of the four years of Dylans life from the time he arrived in New York City as a 20-year-old college dropout in 1961 through his rapid rise to fame in the folk music world, before (mostly) forsaking acoustic music for the electric sounds of rock n roll?"
Hibbing, Minnesota, United States
"Dylan himself had led several rock bands back in his hometown of Hibbing, Minn., and worshipped at the altar of Little Richard and Buddy Holly (just like the Beatles did)."
Rhode Island, United States
"the folk-music establishment figures at the annual Newport Folk Festivals who proved as censorious as the gatekeepers of the mainstream media against whom they often struggled"

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