October 10, 2024Does the name Dewey Cox ring a bell? If not, it should. Dewey Cox is the principal character in 2007’s Walk Hard, a spoof of the biopic genre that became something of a benchmark for what not to do with these kinds of movies. Walk Hard should have had a lasting effect on how Hollywood bigwigs bring the lives of real people to the big screen. Unfortunately, the release of the newest trailer for A Complete Unknown suggests that didn’t happen.
There’s been buzz around A Complete Unknown for a while — ever since Chalamet took to the streets of New York in Bob Dylan garbs back in March, the internet has been ablaze with equal parts excitement and concern for the project. Would director James Mangold (Logan; Ford v Ferrari) be presenting a fresh take on the genre? Or would he succumb to the usual trappings of biopics? That of being incredibly formulaic, acting that veers on comedic impressions, and repeated (rather crude) references to why whatever era the movie…
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