A Complete Unknown
WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for A Complete Unknown.
Directed by James Mangold,A Complete Unknownis one of several biopics chronicling the life of Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan is portrayed riding a motorcycle during several scenes inA Complete Unknownwithout a helmet.
Thereal-life Dylanrode the exact same motorcycle down to the model.
According toMotorcyclist, “Of course Bob Dylan rode a Triumph.
Dylan was still in his young 20s by theend ofA Complete Unknown.
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Dylan’s motorcycle riding was much more than a fad.
His father, Abram Zimmerman, also rode a motorcycle and bought Dylan his first motorbike.
Dylan’s motorcycle riding was much more than a fad.
Like nearly everything about Dylan’s persona and music, his love for motorcycles was pure and authentic.
“I had been in a motorcycle accident and I’d been hurt, but I recovered.
Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race.”
Dylan also revealed thatthe motorcycle crash altered his perspective on life.
“I woke up and caught my senses.
I realized that I was just workin for all these leeches.
And I didnt want to do that.
Plus I had a family and I just wanted to see my kids.”
Dylan wrote the 1971 song, “You Ain’t Goin' Nowhere” in response to the incident.
Source: Motorcyclist, American Songwriter
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