Lindsay Zoladz

The movie that spawned a million T-shirts.

A million.

Straight out of blank.

Yeah, I mean, my favorite movie about Bob Dylan is not about Bob Dylan at all.

It's Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen Brothers movie from about a decade ago.

I rewatched that after seeing A Complete Unknown and...

It actually made me appreciate Inside Llewyn Davis that much more.

It's the story essentially of not the winner of music history, Bob Dylan, but a loser.

Someone, you know, this made-up musician who essentially represents the many, many people in the Greenwich Village folk scene who did not become Bob Dylan, who did not, you know...

find the success that he did.

And in telling the story of, you know, the loser, it's a much more compelling and kind of unfamiliar narrative.

It also has a great performance by Oscar Isaac, but you're not, the fact that he's playing a fictional musician, you're not, again, doing that thing where it's like, oh, does he look enough like him?

You're just fully in the story.

And I think it's a really beautiful film, and there is kind of, you know, not to spoil the ending, but Bob Dylan himself, you know,

A fictionalized version of Bob Dylan.

Marvel style.

Outside the window.

But, you know, I think that's one where sometimes telling the story around the more familiar story is a more satisfying film.

And I think another sort of fictionalized one that does that in a more crowd-pleasing way is That Thing You Do, which is a movie, you know, not about the Beatles.

At all.