I'm
Not There is a 2007 biographical musical film directed
by Todd Haynes, inspired by iconic
American singer-songwriter
Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's
life and public persona: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett,
Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben
Whishaw. At the start of the film, a caption reads: "Inspired
by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan".Besides
song credits, this is the only time Dylan's name appears
in the film.
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The film tells its story using
non-traditional narrative techniques, intercutting the
storylines of the six different
Dylan-inspired characters. The title of the film is taken
from the 1967 Dylan Basement Tape recording, "I'm
Not There", a song that had not been officially released
until it appeared on the film's soundtrack album. The film
received a generally favorable response, and appeared on
several top ten film lists for 2007, topping the lists
for The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Salon and
The Boston Globe. Particular praise went to Cate Blanchett
for her performance, culminating in a Volpi Cup from the
Venice Film Festival, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting
Actress, along with an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress nomination.
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The film was released two months prior to the death of
the actor Heath Ledger, and was one of his last films.
Conception
Todd Haynes and his producer, Christine
Vachon, approached Bob Dylan's manager, Jeff Rosen, to
obtain permission to
use Dylan's music and to fictionalize elements of Dylan's
life. Rosen suggested that Haynes should send a one page
synopsis of his film for submission to Dylan. Rosen advised
Haynes not to use the word 'genius'.[7] The page Haynes
submitted began with a quote from Arthur Rimbaud: "I
is someone else", and then continued"
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If a film were to exist in which the breadth
and flux of a creative life could be experienced, a film
that could
open up as oppose to consolidating what we think we already
know walking in, it could never be within the tidy arc
of a master narrative. The structure of such a film would
have to be a fractured one, with numerous openings and
a multitude of voices, with its prime strategy being one
of refraction, not condensation. Imagine a film splintered
between seven separate faces — old men, young men,
women, children — each standing in for spaces in
a single life.
Richard Gere, Todd Haynes, Charlotte
Gainsbourg et Heath Ledger.
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Dylan gave Haynes permission to proceed
with his project. Haynes developed his screenplay with
writer Oren Moverman.
In the course of writing, Haynes has acknowledged that
he became uncertain whether he could successfully carry
off a film which deliberately confused biography with fantasy
in such an extreme way. According to the account of the
film that Robert Sullivan published in the New York Times: "Haynes
called Jeff Rosen, Dylan’s right hand, who was watching
the deal-making but staying out of the scriptwriting. Rosen,
he said, told him not to worry, that it was just his own
crazy version of what Dylan is."
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In a comment on why six actors were employed to portray
different facets of Dylan's personality, Haynes wrote:
The minute you try to grab hold of Dylan, he's no longer
where he was. He's like a flame: If you try to hold him
in your hand you'll surely get burned. Dylan's life of
change and constant disappearances and constant transformations
makes you yearn to hold him, and to nail him down. And
that's why his fan base is so obsessive, so desirous of
finding the truth and the absolutes and the answers to
him - things that Dylan will never provide and will only
frustrate.... Dylan is difficult and mysterious and evasive
and frustrating, and it only makes you identify with him
all the more as he skirts identity.
A seventh character, a Charlie Chaplin-like incarnation
of Dylan, was present in the script but was dropped before
filming began.
Discografia
Bob Dylan
Fontes:http://peganomeu.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/eu-nao-estou-la/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Not_There;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Not_There_%28soundtrack%29
Ballad
of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan
