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‘A Complete Unknown’: What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in the Bob Dylan Biopic

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56% Informative

A Complete Unknown is a fictionalized version of Bob Dylan's rise to fame.

Director James Mangold 's new film was made with the approval of Dylan .

It's not unreasonable to end the film by hitting the internet to see what's real and what's not real.

The movie, however, shows no substance use besides alcohol, cigarettes, and coffee.

A Complete Unknown is based on Elle Fanning’s character, Suze Rotolo , who really does appear on the album cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan .

Bob Dylan never played “ I’ll Fly Away ” at Newport Folk Festival .

Carolyn Hester had Dylan sit in and blow harmonica on a version of "I'll Fly Away".

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez were at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 .

Bob Dylan was touring Great Britain with The Hawks with The Band when an angry audience member shouted “ Judas !” at Dylan the following year .

Johnny Cash didn’t actually perform at that festival, but was there in 1964 .

VR Score

45

Informative language

37

Neutral language

13

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

35

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

Source diversity

1

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