I didn't have high expectations for this film, as I found previous Mangold work kinda workaday rather than inspiring. So I enjoyed it fine - it would be a solid plane film - then afterwards reread Suze Rotolo's memoir of the period, and watched the Joan Baez doc from 2023, which I really loved. Both of these women were so active in protest and civil disobedience; both were a bit stultified by the music scene. And they both seemed to really love Bob, but knew that to stay with him would be to give up any identity other than Bob's Girl.
This is one of my favorite things you've written lately, "He has this kind of petulance to his presence that is at its most effective with films like Lady Bird and Little Women, where he’s playing men who haven’t quite stopped being boys yet. It makes sense why he’s the new Paul Atreides, the original space white saviour who is both charismatic and utterly out of his depth." I love your understanding of Paul Atreides.
I didn't have high expectations for this film, as I found previous Mangold work kinda workaday rather than inspiring. So I enjoyed it fine - it would be a solid plane film - then afterwards reread Suze Rotolo's memoir of the period, and watched the Joan Baez doc from 2023, which I really loved. Both of these women were so active in protest and civil disobedience; both were a bit stultified by the music scene. And they both seemed to really love Bob, but knew that to stay with him would be to give up any identity other than Bob's Girl.
This is one of my favorite things you've written lately, "He has this kind of petulance to his presence that is at its most effective with films like Lady Bird and Little Women, where he’s playing men who haven’t quite stopped being boys yet. It makes sense why he’s the new Paul Atreides, the original space white saviour who is both charismatic and utterly out of his depth." I love your understanding of Paul Atreides.