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Bob Dylan has inspired dozens of books about his life and music over the years. Which title was the basis for “A Complete Unknown,” the new film starring Timothée Chalamet as Dylan?
- A “The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966,” by Clinton Heylin
- B “Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown,” by David Yaffe
- C “Bob Dylan in America,” by Sean Wilentz
- D “Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties,” by Elijah Wald
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From the Times review of the film by Manohla Dargis:
“A Complete Unknown” is based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 nonfiction page-turner “Dylan Goes Electric!,” which is helpfully subtitled “Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties.” The movie, written by Mangold and Jay Cocks, touches on these biographical fundamentals, shaping them into a smoothly streamlined and familiar heroic journey of towering ambition and predictably bittersweet success.
