Hi, I'm James Mangold. I am the co-writer, director and one of the producers of “A Complete Unknown.” “Mr. Pete Seeger. This is Gerde's People's Town, one of the first scenes in the movie. Joan Baez has just made a spectacular tune, and Pete Seeger comes on stage, played by the brilliant Edward Norton, and introduces his protégé, a very young 19-year-old Bob Dylan, who we have only heard sing once more in the film so far, and will take the stage for his debut, Timothée Chalamet, of course, plays Bob Dylan, and will perform live. in this scene, as he always does. We also introduce Dan Fogler playing Albert Grossman in the audience. He will become a companion and a permanent presence in this period of Bob's life. Thank you, friends. Pete That's… Wow, there's a lot to live up to. Monica Barbaro is Joan Baez, kind of a very fierce presence in the folk scene and a big star at that time in folk music “How about Joan Baez, folks. ?It's pretty good. And she's pretty. “Nice. Maybe too pretty.” I love this moment where Timothy portrays Bob's provocative, inappropriate, and slightly inappropriate nature. “I was young when I left home. I had been rambling. And I never wrote a letter home. “To my house.” This is one of Dylan's early songs called “I Was Young When I Left Home” that I felt was appropriate, mainly because it is deeply autobiographical in the sense that Dylan was young when he left home and restarted his life in New York. “I took home my pay. And I ran into an old friend I knew…” It is interesting to tell the story of this period. I felt that a lot of Dylan's filmography, although primarily documentary, is very manual, very vibrant, electric in the sense of pursuing the actors in a documentary style. I felt that Bob's style itself was so profound that I wanted to sit back and just observe and allow the power of the music, which we performed live throughout the film. Let that music communicate. “It's very good, isn't it?” “Yeah.” “He is my client.” Folk music is, of course, at its core, simple, unadorned, a human voice and a guitar. And for that reason I felt that we couldn't really risk producing these pieces with too much technological intervention. I wanted to just let the actors go from talking to singing and back to talking in a way that felt completely natural and like they were there.
