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
  • Elouise 2022-04-14 09:01:07

    Scorsese pays more attention to the formation and transformation of Dylan's music, while the others are lazy and less emotional. He was regarded by his fans as a political leader expected by the people, and he almost embarked on the path of a Celestial artist. He moved upwards and sang wildly, as if facing a stone wall coming up. I am grateful for the car accident, for saving him, and for waking up to the hideous and cute naive look of the people.

  • Lurline 2022-04-16 09:01:09

    Bob Dylan is a guy who doesn't like being labeled, just making music he likes. Martin restores Dylan from childhood to 1967 in the form of interviews with several music scenes.

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan quotes

  • Bob Dylan: We all like motorcycles to some degree.

  • Bob Dylan: [after just being told there was a man outside of the building declaring he was going to shoot him] Hey man... I don't mind being shot, I just don't dig being told about it.