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Director Talks About Meeting Bob Dylan
WASHINGTON - Writer-director Larry Charles learned a little about Bob Dylan's memory while working with him on the movie "Masked and Anonymous."
Charles said he met Dylan years ago and was asking about his life, but the singer kept responding, "I don't remember. I don't remember." Charles wrote down the word "amnesiac" on a piece of paper and accidentally left it in Dylan's office.
Three years later, they met up again and talked for three hours. Dylan pulled the piece of paper out his pocket and asked Charles, "What does this mean, 'amnesiac'?" Charles told him that was Dylan's answer to everything because he didn't like to talk about things. They had a nice laugh. "Masked and Anonymous" opens in more theaters Friday.
The film centers around Dylan, a forgotten folk singer named Jack Fate, who was recently been released from political prison to perform a concert in a Third World dreamscape version of America.
John Goodman , Jeff Bridges , Jessica Lange , Luke Wilson , Penelope Cruz , Ed Harris , Val Kilmer, Angela Bassett and Giovanni Ribisi are just a few of the familiar faces who perform around the singer.
Harris appears in one scene as the ghost of a minstrel who speaks to Dylan and is in blackface, but Charles doesn't think he'll get much flak for that.
"This is a movie that's intended to push some buttons and that's a positive," he said. "I think people are hungering for a movie that makes them think, and makes them uncomfortable at times, makes them question things, and confounds expectations and confuses at times; as long as they walk out with a sense of fulfillment about the whole experience."
Masked and Anonymous opens in more theaters on Friday.
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