Review of Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back (1967) by Jack F — 18 Sep 2007
"Do you consider yourself more of a singer, or more of a songwriter?" (idiot British reporter at press conference).
"Frankly, I think of myself as more of song-and-dance man." Dylan, not missing a beat.
"Somebody give the Anti-christ a cigarette?" Dylan (alias the Anti-Christ, alias "Judas" as he'd be called by an audience member in Manchester '66 alias Robert Alan Zimmerman) asks the members of his entourage in the back of the limo, after his manager Allen Klein reads him the latest review in the Brit press referring to him as the Anti-Christ (alias Lucifer).
Freeze-Frame. Bottom of the screen, title card. "Don't Look Back.".
"Kind of like an asshole?" cody? The dude changed music forever. First as a "folkie,"--people accused him of stealing his "breakthrough" hit "Blowin' in the Wind" from some college kid 'cause they didn't believe a nobody could write lines that good. Then he made "Bringing it all Back home," went electric and (probably) some of the same folk "purists" who hated on him for being so good at what they'd been doing not nearly as good (back in '63) turned on him w/ a Biblical fury like he was the Devil...cuz he plugged in a Fender and invented modern rock n' roll. The Beatles and The Stones quickly followed. But no Dylan and who knows what the 60s sound like?
This is a fairly important film and the dude had some guts. He's been hated on by fans, critics and everyone over the years, then "embraced" well after the fact once his innovations were repeated by lesser artists. At this point, he's "establishment" and seen that way. Who gives a fuck?
This review of Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back (1967) was written by Jack F on 18 Sep 2007.
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back has generally received very positive reviews.
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