Ballad of a thin man - I'm Not There

[damiantiderecha]

AWESOME!

love it!

[viggy5545]

algo esta pasando aqui, pero no sabes que es

[Luanav1988]

Stephen Malkmus + Cate Blanchett: first human clone of the world. The clone of Bob Dylan, of course.

[Ayrtonjulian094]

Do you Mr. Jones? hahah awesomee

[Overlorddz]

very good movie

[Ayrtonjulian094]

es tan abstracta la letra, tan tan... impresionante! Grande Bob!

[MrSMG143]

Irascible so tippy...I thought it was a dude singing

[22cookiegirl]

My dad loves bob dylan he has every single one of bob dylans albums

[daltonj2317]

Is that Cate Blanchett singing too?

[LaughingatpainUSAway]

@daltonj2317 i'ts stephen malkmus singing

[fryzas1]

same i dont have these feelings

[kaanixir]

great

[AlBerNachos]

Damn that s so good! shes incredible

[brazwen]

Hmm...Bob Dylan would be an hard character to portray, since Bob is know to be an socially awkward kind of person.

[KzafHD]

6 people give a crumpet for what other people say 

[AaronBuzzer]

for a while i thought this was 'bout Brian Jones

[shuddupeyaface]

@AaronBuzzer. Brian Jones is said to have thought it was about him. He was close with Dylan. So much ambiguity with these stream of consciousness tunes. Lot's of people got hurt - some fatally. It turned me against Bob for a while. Seemed very cruel. Still bothers me and I'm sure Dylan too. Drugs can open all kinds of cans of worms I guess.

[AaronBuzzer]

@shuddupeyaface that's right and Lennon was quite cruel too, with songs like "Steel and Glass" or "Crippled Inside" i heard Dylan went in charge of Brian. J. funeral expense

[TheVinesjet]

Ahora tengo claro porque Bunbury Idolatra y busca parecerce en muchos aspectos a Dylan . Highway 61 Revisited es maravilloso.

[doobdeeb2]

No, don't stop the song, loop it forever

[axdrra]

such a sensational song !!!!! i just love this song !!!! great interpretation

[TomPhilip92]

Love the film

[billiwing95]

Creat film and grat interpretation of the song!

[sartorato]

The CGI to make his glasses completely black kinda annoy me.

[ka8isterimeno]

i cant understand why dont you like her performance here...i find it just awesome...:D

[antisanity1]

what feelings preciesley am i suposed to refer to? ; Love Pain remorse....."\" yeah i got none of those feelings...."

fuckin best....

[Jitpring]

Who plays Dylan here? Really bad acting.

[kingwoodmetalist]

@Jitpring cate blanchett

[Jitpring]

@kingwoodmetalist I see. Not her best performance.

[kingwoodmetalist]

@Jitpring perhaps but that side of bob dylan is hard to portray

[Jitpring]

@kingwoodmetalist True.

[TheDudeman619]

@Jitpring it was nice

[Zumilala]

@Jitpring Still pretty difficult for a woman to play a man...

[ka8isterimeno]

@3:42 JACK BLACK !!the guy who is drinking something ..:P

[nsr4interpol]

Wonderful rendition by SM :)

[PunktuPEi]

he would probably hate it today and love it tomorrow...;))

great song and great movie!!!

[ZaireBetter]

Bob Dylan could hate this movie and I would agree with him. Bob Dylan could like this movie and I would agree with him.

[carlosfelipe5150]

pretty cool how he mentions F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[nirvana77792]

and says, how does it feel to be such a freak?! fuckin great song!!! xD

[ProducShuns]

You think I give a CRUMPET what you write in your lousy PAPER?!

LOL CRUMPET!!!!!!!!!! so awesome :D

[CamusCris]

Great movie!

[nanfolio]

cate blanchet is amazing bob dylan lol

[MiizzaJimMustaine666]

i love this amazing song!

[2005airplane]

Liberation is not a state of extinction of the soul, nor of nonexistence, nor of nonconsciousness. It is perfect freedom, an indescribable state of nondifferentiation.

[fukhouson]

its kinda hard to take this movie seriuosly because dylans played by a women in not sexist its just kind of odd

[holm81]

@fukhouson He's also played by an 11 year old black kid.... The movie is fucking original. 

[NoFearNoFlame]

@fukhouson Well the character doesn't even share his name, it's supposed to be different characters for the different stages of his life

[indibindi97]

Cool

YouTube 'lucy singing a thousand miles'

She is brilliant!

[mariansobituary]

' you think i give a crumpet?' haha

[davidbaldo]

Bob dylan is so much cooler than that

[legobattlesjoja]

It's about this certain reporter outlined in this part of Dylan's life, which he is the man in the car whom Dylan walks out on upset after being disrespected. So he , the reporter is " Mr. Jones.....he's the thin man. "you (mr. jones) see somebody naked and you say who is that man? ...something is still happening here and you don't know what it is do you Mr. Jones.

[The99Johny]

bob dylan - girl

[tasfa10]

i love this movie and i loooove this song. but wtf does this lyrics mean?! please..

[lhcarter]

@tasfa10 It's talking about all the "straights", the intellectuals, the reporters, the establishment society, that don't recognize what is happening in the new '60's generation... they don't get Dylan, they don't get what is 'blowing in the wind' -

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[DavelovesRealMusic]

Sorry can someone please EXPLAIN the "isolation years" segment to me near the end of the film..it seemed as if it had no real purpose or ryhme...was THAT the mesage? Bob was not sure of himself at the time or are we meant to Wonder what he was truly thinking or doing in Upstate NY...I still say it was not a riveting ending and fell flat compared to the first hour which was amazing.

[MrAlphafox]

@DavelovesRealMusic I think it's just a metaphor. There is no isolation. Eventually wild west was settled and tamed. Dylan tried to hide from the world, but the world eventually caught up to him. I do agree with you that it's very vague. In the movie he runs away and gets on the train where he finds his old guitar, which if you remember had killer of fascists written on it. When he finds it, it has faded and it just says fascist. I'm not sure what to make of that..

[DavelovesRealMusic]

@MrAlphafox Hi. Well I disagree the WORLD catches up to BOB. THAT was Bob's strange message on the TIME OUT OF MIND title of his CD. His out of time, steps in and out as he pleases. Few have that priveledge.

I do recall the guitar. The word Fascist--is that how Bob feels abou the world, his art, women, etc or does it mean BOB is the facist. If it is left up to the viewer...I say that's lazy film making. Give us your view and we can caall yell "JUDAS" LOL

[wundenkind]

she did it so well,so well.

[rakiboy]

love the film. i saw it in the cinemas and it was soooooo awesome <3

[Oblivitus]

I just made the picture at 2:38 my desktop background.

[0live0wire0]

well Cate should have done better. I liked the movie, but watch Don't look back and tell me this is how Dylan reacted on the reporter. And overall his gestures are different plus he never got that angry at all.

[lerocleroc]

the shot at 2:36 is pure genius

[luragaten12]

Amazing Song !!!! :)

[axelhendersonn]

god dylan i mean bob dylan is very good

[WELLROSE1]

"Cause something is happening here and you don't know what it is"

[MsChiroptera]

"Do you, mr jones?"

[FilmFreakable]

Jude Quinn is awesome!

[VirusX]

Stephen Malkmus did a really good job with this cover.

[CR4GETH]

@VirusX I'm glad someone acknowledged this!

[dude1305]

You're a cow! Give me some milk or else go home!

[sunriseRISE]

this movie is sad as fuck BOB Dylan WAS In ON THE MAKING OF THIS MOVIE.. seems LIKE HES TOO SCARED TO GO CATCH THE COFFIN ...With out rewriting his histroy

[LadyTeahrocksyahouse]

I think, this is the best scene of the movie.

It is so psychedelic and full of surrealism.

Genius...

[mrfflinstone]

it seems i can't listen to dylan because all these big nose punk mother fuckers fucked all the music uo with their big fucking mouth.

[zoeruls]

i liked that scene a lot. cate was pretty good. good song too.

[misswoopa]

@Ibakecookies I think they meant female actor. either that or cate really tricked em :P

[sunriseRISE]

This is RIPP OFF of RAy CHarles-TheAnimals=song =' I Belive TO My Soul..''...god WITH OUT THat RIFF DYLAN WOULDNT HAVE A SONG

[dabble778]

@sunriseRISE Man, all music is borrowed, as Ray borrowed from musicians before him too. Nothing is original. Music in the folk sense is passed around and altered with. Just enjoy the music, and if you can, just don't. The bridge of Cheap Trick's If You Want My Love sounds exactly like middle bit of Harrison's While My Guitar, but who cares?

[sunriseRISE]

@dabble778 ....DYLAN DIDNT borrow this riff hes fucking stole it......tell yer tale to kd land she didnt think the stones had just borrowed ''has anybody seen my baby.. or harrison'' with his hes so fine- my sweet lord' drama..... YOUR FORKING DREAMING dylan best works WERE NEVER HIS OWN as one can hear right here

[dabble778]

@sunriseRISE HOMAGE

[dabble778]

@sunriseRISE So did Paul Simon steal Dylan's Girl from the North Country with his Scarborough Fair ("she once was a true love of mine")? Or did he steal it from The Elfin Knight (1650)? Or did Dylan steal from The Elfin Knight? (Or is Dylan's 4th Time Around a ripoff of Beatles' Norwegian Wood? or is Beatles Hide Your Love Away (Dylan: “I can’t understand, she let go of my hand, and left me here facing the wall”,Beatles: “Here I stand head in hand, turn my face to the wall”.) a ripoff of Dylan?

[sunriseRISE]

@dabble778 ......dylan never wrote the music for ''girl from the north country'..or master of war.. AND 'DONT THINK TWICE its alright, DYLAN STEALs NOT ONLY THE 'HOOK but the whole catch''...NOBODY ever said paul Simon wrote the music'to Scarborough fair''.....BUT Bob Dylan never said oh ive just put some words to 'scar. blah blah fair'.. oh no bobs like ive writtin a new song.. when infact hes just added new words.as for 'You're gOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY''.. bob could only dream

[dabble778]

@sunriseRISE Wow, you started really lucidly and now YOU'RE JUZT TROLIN' (see I can CAP and spellt badlee too). See, you dropkick, STEALING music viz. writing it is impossible! It's all OWNED by everybody (even you). Hook, Rif, whatever you call it. Chord progression of Don't Think Twice is VERY similar to Streets of London AND Pachelbel Canon. You're just a Dylan HATER. Why even come to this page? Remembr, last response to this thread LOSES, my good gullible friend. I await my victry msge :-)

[sunriseRISE]

@dabble778- hey MR DRIBBLE....for get streets of london..DYLAN stole the whole'dont think twice from PAUL Claytons' song Whos going to buy you ribbins when im gone'.. GO check.. im mean can BOB dylan not come up with his OWN music and lyrics and lets not bring out LORD FRANKLIN AND NOTTAMUN TOWN

[noahcism]

@dabble778 Um Scarborough Fair is an old traditional, Martin Carthy taught Paul Simon the guitar part. I don't wanna start an argument or anything just wanted to say

[warewood]

@sunriseRISE ...And you have no life....why don't you find a worth while cause for spewing you misguide bile on....How sad you are.

[LaLaLaBlee123]

amazing song. amazing scene, amazing actor, amazing movie, this movie was just so different, and weird, hard to understand when i saw it in theaters, i had to watch a few times to kind of understand it but i think the only one who can really truly understand it is bob dylan. love it

[Ibakecookiess]

@LaLaLaBlee123 Amazing actress you mean ;) .. Jude quinn here in Im Not There is played by Cate Blanchett.

[larrythelips]

"I don't give a crumpet what you think"....

[otursdag]

best movie scene ever. AMAZING. gives me the chills. and the song is awesome too.

[yourdogsmusic]

yeah, that's Malkmus singing it. it's easy to tell.

[Flopik4]

I think it's Cate too. She's so intense in all the characters she plays in every movie, I don't think she woulnd't have sang the songs in the movie. That'd have been missing a part of her character, the personnality... And she's not the type to miss that things =)

[sushilll111]

@Flopik4

I'm telling you for a fact it was Malkmus, you can tell 100% when he says Mr. Jones around 2:00

[Ibakecookiess]

@Flopik4 Nah buddy Cate is awesome, but she doesnt sing, atleast not faking a man's voice.

[Mayelacuriosa]

Severa película, muy buena la actriz que hace de Dylan!

[knightLynderic]

One of my fav songs.It's amazing!

[dferris85]

love this song...only someone like Dylan could use homosexuality as a catalyst to provoke existentialist consciousness

[kennyg03]

awesome actor for dylan, and weird scene lol

[iamandrewssoul]

weirdness

[mrgooner491]

i refuse to be hurt

[luxxvincent]

@mrgooner491

i love the way she says that *-* xD

[bladesofglory12]

cate blanchett and heath ledger were the best i think

[sushilll111]

Stephen Malkmus is doing the singing. You may know him from one of the greatest bands (if not the single greatest) of all time - Pavement

[Leopardvixen369]

@sushilll111 actually i think it is cate blanchett...she is credited as singing it herself in the movie...

[sushilll111]

@Leopardvixen369

Nah it's Malkmus. At least that's what I read everywhere. It does sound a bit feminine but that's definitely him.

[knightLynderic]

@sushilll111 I think it's Cate Blanchett too. It sounds so much like her.

[itsaboutsandra]

i LOVE how she acts in 1:53 to 2:00 If you look at her hands she is doing the exact thing dylan does! And at 2:38 and 3:29 she looks like Bob. I love this part of the movie, and she was the best Bob Dylan by far.

[4921nerm]

Never create anything. It will be misinterpreted. It will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life. And it will never change.

[blullock]

just not there...must get with something

[1justinc]

i dont give a crumpet

[rhydiantitch]

i love this song - so dark and twisted yet it isn't metal!

[elaine31347]

It's very sad that you see what I wrote you as a put down...It wasn't meant that way at all. Sorry that your feelings were hurt.

I meant it as something to think about, that's all. Lighten up!

[elaine31347]

Another thought- In "Eat The Document" which Dylan himself edited, he cuts away from a performance of "Ballad of a Thin Man" to an interview with yet another journalist. The scene then cuts back to the same previous scene of the performance. This was also done in this movie as well, except "Ballad of a Thin Man" is performed after a grueling interview in a limonsine with a patronizing British journalist. The piece is beyond the homosexual imagry. Dylan hated interpretation of his songs anyway!

[elaine31347]

You may be right! However my comment was meant for you to look past the obvious and into deeper interpretation of verbal imagry. As Freud once said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

[000Jerusalem]

So when a cigar is a cigar it's deep, but when it's a dick it's obvious & shallow (which is what Freud was)?

Hypocritical of Freud, cos we all knew that already; only he didn't get it.

[elaine31347]

You make no sense at all.

The student writing the essay saw all kinds of sexual imagry in the words to "Ballad of a Thin Man"....There are no words like "dick" in that song. But if you look into Dylans life more deeply, many of his images are from experiences he had visiting travelling carnivals with their sideshows, [the sword swallower, the geek, etc.] Seeing sexuality in everything and everywhere is what Freud was known for. That's why he said "Sometimes a cigar is jusr a cigar."

[000Jerusalem]

You run around with the goalposts in your hand arriving nowhere but pretending to cover everything. On the level where the imagery would be deemed to be phallic, obviously 'pencil' would be a dick, sword swallower/bone would 'allude' to oral sex between gays (cf 'high heels'), etc. Dylan is a master of dual- and multi-level meaning. Many ppl will pay lip svc to this yet squeal at a new idea as if the new idea were mutually exclusive to the others; I have found this with Dylan fans repeatedly.

[elaine31347]

You really don't get it at all. Just because the word naked is in the song doesn't mean it's about sex...Just think about it for a bit.

[lotusss80]

love this music version!

[Kbaca]

garbage!

[arijatimoshenko]

@Kbaca die

[MacRaisen]

Actually, there's a part missing after the two negros talked.

[jasonm911]

Dude don't be so disrespectful. I don't care if your black either, I just want to get rid of that word forever.

[MacRaisen]

Eh, sorry if I offended you. I'm from Austria. I thought "negro" is the common word. Not like "nigga" or whatever. I didn't want to use the word "black" 'cause I feel two-faced by it. I don't care about the skin colour. But there are different skin colours. Well, I forgot what I wanted to say. However, sorry if I offended somebody.

[jasonm911]

@MacRaisen Haha it's alright, it's just a horrible word to use in our country, whether we use "nigga" or other pronunciations. Just remember, what's used in music these days obviously changes what other countries think about another country.

[johntaylor611]

favorite scene.

[Kupferdrahtful]

after this movie i watched every move cate blanchett made she really ruled

[pluppenswe]

love the midget...

[Dave897456]

MR. JONES!

[Oscar301]

fuckin weird... in a good way

[sayid11111]

This is done by the one and only Stephen Malkmus from Portland's great band Pavement.

[kiddan86]

His imitation is very good.

[FourhDwarf]

one of my favorite episode. to be clear, every episode with Cate Blanchett here are my favorite. she is so fine as a man )) feelings just couldn't be more mixed in a good way when i had seen i'm not there first time.

[ajtrl29]

sometimes i wonder about our minds and how much influence dylan has had on a total scale. If it could be calculated and seen what would it look like?

[whathuhwhere]

interesting thought...

[insaneforstuff254]

LOVE the trippy imagery in this!

All the characters and symbolism in Bob Dylans songs almost make it feel like you're reading a novel.

[liktenrullandesten]

When I saw this movie and they sang this song I really discovered how great it is for the first time (and I've been a fan of Dylan for years). I really love Cate Blanchett here and this whole sequence, it's great!

[mewmew513]

cate blanchett did so good. i think she was the best.

[Paxta666]

@mewmew513 For some reason she really did. Guess this keeps the seach for truth interesting :)

[TheLenation]

@mewmew513 they all did good. I think heath ledger being in this movie makes it endlessly legit, because as an actor he is as good as Dylan is as a musician. You know, you can't change people with acting in movies. Movies are just something to help people trough lonely, boring nights. Music changes your mind, movies can too, if they speak the truth.

[DavelovesRealMusic]

@TheLenation Please name 5 movies released in the past TWO years by major studios that SPEAK TRUTH? I I can';t name more than ONE,...Truth is as Bob said murky, muddled waters these days. truth is scary to those living in Disney World.

[caveman2015]

@mewmew513 ugh i didnt enjoy the movie very much because it was her in it and made him sound like a chick

[Johnny94Depp]

Is this a cover of Bob Dylan, or is it really him singing ? :L

[zimmawoman]

this is someone elses cover of it. its not cate blanchett either, she's lipsyncing in this.

[Nerbit]

Damn right.

[IKNOWYOUGOTSOUL123]

Love this sequence, favouraite bit of the film. That shot at 2.37 is just genius.

[DrowningArt94]

in my opinion Cate Blanchett and christian bale was the best.

[aypee16]

@DrowningArt94 i thought bale was terrible but cate blanchett was definitely amazing

[Johnny94Depp]

I think Heath Ledger own they all !

But Cate blanchett is awsome!

[ChocolateFreak94]

I heard that he's actually pretty pleased by the movie and that its the only kind of documentary or movie made about him, that he aproves of.

[Jam5bam]

I think she did the best job too.

[luligeia]

of all the things you can comment on, you picked taht one... fool!

[SirPsychosexY5150]

to me its simple People look at you like your a freak and judge you when they are really the freaks and they cant see that!

[JMR3productions]

Judas: I just need to clean up a little...

Coco: Here's a hint: USE YOUR FISTS.

[arrudakid05]

FAVOURITE MOVIE. This is one of my favourite parts too. Kate Blanchett is amazing.

[MarxBakuninMe]

"Do you think I give a crumpet?"

Best line of the movie.

[rokin128]

*Cate Blanchett*

[longliverock1973]

this is easily one of my favorite movies, if not my favorite! Cate Blanchett is absolutely AMAZING!!!

[coisamorta]

pavement dude

[scarecrow312]

fucking yeah brother!

[daruchxd]

my favourite song.. I love that film.. and Heat Ledger:*:*:.. wonderfull:*:*

[riz44]

btw love that rolls royce, and the inconspicuous jaguar s type in the allen ginsberg scene

[riz44]

cate blanchetts the best 'bob dylan' in the movie. she plays this side of bob better than any of the other ones. delivers all the lines perfectly. before i realised it was a woman playing it i thought it was some dude acting really well

[joshk123]

technically none of them are bob dylan

[cassispie]

Cate is so powerful

[shivaboyd]

Cate Blanchett was phenomenal. She looked and epitomized Bob Dylan remarkably. What's so amazing is, of course, the obvious fact being that she was female, but also the fact that she owned every single scene she was a part of. Phenomenal, but AGAIN robbed for the second time (first, after being nominated for 1998's "Elizabeth").

[shivaboyd]

Nominated for an Academy Award, I mean. I forgot to mention that.