No Direction Home

Andrew 2022-04-12 08:01:01

For a documentary about someone like Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese would be a good if not the best choice. No Direction Home, a documentary filmed by Comrade Lao Ma for Bob Dylan, I spent three days watching it. No Direction Home is the story of Dylan's debut, about his childhood, his love for poetry, the source of his music, his love for Woody Guthrie, about Blowing in the wind, A hard rain a-gona, Like a rolling stone. The old horse used a lot of video materials at that time, including Dylan's and other singers at the time, as well as clips from three Newport Music Festivals. I own one of the Newports, and the old horses use a classic. Dylan was cool when he was young, but he also had a lot of problems. Judging by the amount of detail that comes out of the mouths of many people, including Joan Baez, Dylan is far from being a close friend. But what a genius he was, he wrote the song "Like a Rolling Stone" at the age of 24. This song is more than 6 minutes long, twice as long as the average song at that time. The orchestration looks weird even today, and Dylan's babbling singing is also very distinctive. In Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the 500 best songs of all time, Like a Rolling Stone ranked first. Rolling Stone's reason is that the song is subversive, he is beyond the production, performance, and singing of all the songs of his time, and more importantly, his thinking is ahead of its time. The title of Lao Ma's documentary - No Direction Home - comes from this song. At the end of the documentary, Dylan once played the song on stage, in a rock 'n' roll style, heralding the beginning of a huge shift in Dylan's musical style.

How does it feel

To be on your own

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone

Like a complete unknown, how well written.

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Extended Reading

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan quotes

  • Mickey Jones: People have said to me the word that, uh, he was a traitor to folk music, the *pure* music.

    Bob Dylan: I'd just about had it, though, I'd had it with the whole scene. And, uh, whether I knew it or didn't know it, I was, uh, lookin' to quit for a while.

    unknown: Well, what about the scene? What had you "had it with"? What about the scene were you sick of?

    Bob Dylan: Uh, well, ya know, people like *you*, people like, uh, ya know, just, ya know, like bein' pressed and hammered and, uh, bein' expected to answer questions. It's enough to make anybody sick, really.

  • Bob Dylan: [while reading a store sign] I'm looking for a place that will collect, clip, bath and return my dog. Kn1 7727, cigarettes and tobacco. Animals and birds bought or sold on commission. animals and birds bought or sold on commission. I want a dog that's gonna collect and clean my bath, return my cigarette, and, and give tobacco to my animals, and give my birds a commission. I want- I'm looking for somebody to sell my dog, collect my clip, buy my animal and straighten out my bird. I'm looking for a place to bathe my bird, buy my dog, collect my clip, sell me cigarrets and comission my bath. I'm looking for a place that's gonna collect my commission, sell my dog, burn my bird, and sell me to the cigarette. Going to bird my buy, collect my will, and bathe my comission. I'm looking for a place that's going to animal my soul, knit my return, bathe my foot and collect my dog. Comission me to sell my animals to the bird to clip and buy my bath and return me back to the cigarettes.