Brownstein reviews the new Bob Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown'

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You have to kind of be a freak. You can be beautiful or you can be ugly, but you can't be plain. Once a new album out. Soon 200 people in that room, each one wants me to be somebody else. They should just let me be. Let you be what? Whatever it is, they don't want me to be.

Bill Brown seems in for John Warville to borrow a line. How did it feel to see the movie? I was blown away. I mean, I went in there with a lot of concerns like a Willy Wonka doing Bob Dylan. I'm in Timothy Chalamet, a very pretty boy and all the rest. But anyway, the fact of the matter is Timothy Chalamet thinks Dylan better than Dylan does.

Uh, his voice is unbelievable, but it is the whole energy that he brought to it, the angry young man. I mean, don't forget, he was like 19 years old when he came to New York City. I mean, he just wanted to, you know, kind of make it. But the whole issue here, of course, in the film, as you pointed out, is this is Bob Dylan, like, I mean, they wanted him to be just a folk singer, essentially. And then, you know, then he went to electric and some fans turned on him. Other fans did not.

but it's the relationships he had that that really brings this all to light uh... you know it very interesting it was uh... uh... pete segar who kind of introduced him to woody guy nailing woody cut three who kind of brought him in and made the right connections for him and then was with pete segar that he ultimately had like a bit of a showdown because that the new port uh... uh... folk festivals uh... you know he would the banjo totem uh... pete played

brilliantly, by the way, by Ed Norton, I was really surprised. Almost like a, you know, vanilla version, well, certainly compared to Bob Dylan and the two of them, like were buddies, and they had issues. But the very fractious relationships, interestingly enough, with Joan Baez, who was like, you know, they were paired together, they had an affair.

And then they would go up and down like in terms of like who is becoming more popular and then when Bob decided to go more electric. It's just Al Fanning by the way plays his lady love Sylvia who like pops in and out of as well. It's just that he was his own person and he didn't play well with the other children. Interesting relationships also with

Johnny Cash, I had no idea that the two of them, like each other, way back when, who kind of supported the angry young Bob. And, you know, the various players that come in and out of this, I mean, this goes back to the, you know, from like covers a period of like 1961 to 1965, where the ultimate culmination. But what a time in America, too. Bill, Bill, Bill, what a time in America is almost like a history lesson. Those first five years of the 60s.

absolutely and i guess that's the whole thing in terms of in terms of like why the folk people wanted him to stay folk to call out you know justice racial injustice or and so on so on and uh... this is where he kind of decided what he wanted to be so in person didn't see himself as a folk singer yourself as a singer i mean embracing all kinds of music be it that pop folk rock whatever and i think that's what

people thought he was going to be their profit uh... the focusing in community and he said well i want to be my own person and uh... this is what happened but the the basic thing is shallow me kind of brings it all off like the angry young man and uh... the just the you we would have thought it possible specially willy won't go it's interesting that you uh... you reference to johnnie cash because uh... the uh... the director james mangal did walk the line yet he did yeah

Which, yeah, James Mangold wouldn't have seen it, yeah. That was his big Johnny Cash movie. This is his big music movie, but I mean James Mangold saw a bunch of other stuff. I mean, I think he did an epic joke in there to the last one. But somehow it all kind of comes together. It's not at the eighth, about two and a half hours or two hours and 20 minutes.

and that the audience that you know one of those movies are you here for four people in the audience don't know if they should be clapping at her that's something that's hard to remember the musical like where people are you know so unwrapped in the music and you know it's on screen but they would like people were clapping at times. It's called a complete unknown it's now playing in theaters we have one more music no go ahead Jimmy

I didn't want to leave you, but had to. I didn't want to fight, but we did. Started to cry, then remembered.

What a performance bill. That was one of the highlights of last year's Grammy awards are set for February 2nd this year. That's a tough, that's going to be a tough act to follow last year. Remember, they had that to do it with Luke Combs and Tracy Chapman doing fast car. And then then every, there wasn't a dry eye in the house last year when joining Mitchell came out and saying also, uh, I gotta say, so it would be like a Monica Barbero, who plays a Joan Baez here. Like they all have amazing voice that they bring all of that energy, but the voice is

You, like, I mean, who thought that Ed Norton could do big Pete Seeger and start singing, you know, this land is my, your land and so on and so forth. And just surprising performances all around. But the reason I bring up the Grammy's, Bill, because tonight's and Sunday night, the CBS has two Grammy specials. If you're a music fan tonight at nine o'clock to our special, they're calling it Grammy greats, the stories behind the songs.

So they're going to have interviews of people who wrote and performed the winners of a song, a Grammy song of the year. And then on Sunday night, they're going to have Grammy most memorable moments. So they're going to show a lot of the performances and what happened backstage and some of the mishaps and what have you. So if you're a music fan tonight and on Sunday night on CBS, a couple of two other specials on the track. Check it out. Yeah, absolutely. Bill, we're going to check you out. Come Monday morning. Have a good weekend. You too, my friend.