The truth in I'm Not There is only according to the previously existing biographies, accounts and perceptions. The boy is Bob's own original CV/lie that was reprinted by early biographers without question. Richard Gere represents both his disappearance to Woodstock (where we know virtually nothing of how he was as a person and what he was thinking or doing)as well as the current Bob on the Never-ending Tour, leaving loved ones for a version of the life on the road he'd pretended he'd had as a youth (the dog is metaphorical and literal - one fanzine made a list of all the dogs he's known to have owned that were then never mentioned or seen again!)
My favourite cinematic joke is the scenes between the Edie Sedgwick character, which consciously repeats the complete fiction of the Sienna Miller Factory Girl movie which conveniently ignored the fact that the folk singer she was in a relationship with was not Dylan but his sidekick Bobby Neuwirth. Because that is now as much of the story of Bob Dylan as anything that actually happened. *Head explodes with delight*
I always took the title to mean that the one person who is missing from a biography is the person it's about. But on a secondary level, we're not there either. And so all biographies are therefore fictions based on fantasies based on revisions based projections based on etc etc.
Like you I can't imagine how Imaginarium would've worked without the alternate-Heaths. It makes such sense. And does everyone else find their feelings about Colin Farrell have changed completely since In Bruges?
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Date: 2009-10-29 09:40 pm (UTC)My favourite cinematic joke is the scenes between the Edie Sedgwick character, which consciously repeats the complete fiction of the Sienna Miller Factory Girl movie which conveniently ignored the fact that the folk singer she was in a relationship with was not Dylan but his sidekick Bobby Neuwirth. Because that is now as much of the story of Bob Dylan as anything that actually happened. *Head explodes with delight*
I always took the title to mean that the one person who is missing from a biography is the person it's about. But on a secondary level, we're not there either. And so all biographies are therefore fictions based on fantasies based on revisions based projections based on etc etc.
Like you I can't imagine how Imaginarium would've worked without the alternate-Heaths. It makes such sense. And does everyone else find their feelings about Colin Farrell have changed completely since In Bruges?