Where can the Bob Dylan of Timothée Chalamet arrive?
In an exact week, next Monday, at this time we will have the complete list of the winners of the 2025 Oscar prizes. The most nominated film is “Emilia Pérez”, with 13 nominations. They follow “The Brutalist” and “Wicked” with 10 nominations each. But The real revelation, on paper, is “A Complete Unkown”, James Mangold’s biopic on Bob Dylan’s rise. The film, which features Timothée Chalamet, in the role of the young Bardo of Duluth, has conquered eight nominations in all, including those as “Best Film”, “Best Director”, “Best leading actor” for the same chalamet, “Best Best Non -protagonist actor “for Edward Norton as Pete Seeger and” Best Supporting Actress “for Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez.
A success. Which is linked to that collected to date at the box office: already, because “. To complete Unknown”, arrived in the US cinemas on 25 December and January in this world, has already collected the beauty of 109 million dollars. For overseas bookmakers the most likely victory for the Oscars for “A Complete Unknown”, in all the categories in which the film is nominated, is that of Chalamet as “Best leading actor”. But the 29 -year -old American actor will have to deal with Adrien Brody, protagonist of “The Brutalist”, for now in the lead in the polls. It will be seen.
Meanwhile, yesterday, seven days after the Oscar ceremony, Chalamet won the interpreter’s union prize. To the SAG Awarda recognition assigned annually by the Screen Actors Guild for the best interpretations of the member actors of the same association, Chalamet imposed himself as “Best Lead Ator” Precisely for his interpretation of Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unkown”, becoming the youngest actor ever to have won the prize (the record was held by Nicolas Cage, who with “Via da Las Vegas” won the statuette at 31 years old ). The news? Lies in the fact that The SAG Award is considered one of the most reliable indicators for the Oscar And among the candidate actors, in addition to Chalamet, there was of course Adrien Brody himself.
Chalamet got on stage to collect the prize and in his thanksgiving speech he said: “.I put all of myself in impersonating this unparalleled artist, Mister Bob Dylan, true American heroand it was the greatest honor of my life and I want to share this prize with Monica (Barbaro), Elle (Fanning), Edward (Norton) and the whole cast that, in a genre like the biopic that may also seem tired, have Given the best for the role and I thank them very much. I cannot minimize the importance of this prize for me because it is true that we are in a subjective business, but the truth is that I am looking for size. I know that people don’t usually speak like this, but I want to be one of the big ones. I am inspired by the great ones. I am inspired by the big ones here tonight. I am inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando and Viola Davis, just as they are by Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, and I want to be up there with them “. Then the 29 -year -old actor added: “This prize does not mean everything I said, but it is more fuel to pursue it“.
While the records continue to analyze
The effects that the biopic is having in the Bob Dylan catalog on streaming platforms
– As reported by the US edition of Rolling Stone, according to Spotify data, Dylan’s figures on Spotify quadrupled after the release of the film: “It’s an opportunity,” said Richard Story, president of the commercial music group of Sony Music Entertainment – The production of “A Complete Unknown” begins lawfully to fantasize on the goals that the “Chalamet Version’s “of the iconic singer -songwriter can still reach.
And overseas voices continue to chase each other on a possible sequel.
Moreover, as also written by Rockol, “A Complete Unknown” is not the classic biographical film that traces the parable of the artist protagonist, but a sort of Training novel, a genealogy of the Dylan phenomenonfrom the artist’s arrival in New York in 1961 to the legendary performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. In the film, which He arrived three years after Bob Dylan from the sale of his catalog to Sony Musicit is mentioned in records such as the eponymous debut with the 1962 Columbia Records, “The Freewheelin ‘Bob Dylan” of 1963, “The Times They Are A-Toangin'” of 1964, “Another Side of Bob Dylan” of 1964 and “Bringing It All Back Home” of 1965, with a hint of “Highway 61 Revisited “.
The.soundtrackwhich has finally come out also in physical format (it is Available on the Sony Music website), contains the interpretations of chalamet of classics such as “Mr. Tambourine Man “,” A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall “,” Masters of War “,” Blowin ‘in the Wind “,” The Times They Are A-Chaning “: “I don’t know what kind of cultural, social and political lesson from the first works of Dylan is to be grasped for young people today, perhaps what remains is the idea of finding one’s creative spirit, one’s name and their art. Dylan had many stories to tell. A lesson that we can learn is that of self -cons: not to be limited by who you are or have been, “said Chalamet. And the actor fueled the voices on the sequel: “The film covers the period from 1961 to 1965, the first part. We could do the second and third. It depends on how people react“. For now, feedbacks are decidedly positive. Maybe.
