A Journal Concerning Todd Haynes' Dylan Film (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} im_not_there) wrote,@ 2007-11-30 19:01:00 |
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Dylan on Song Writing
Haynes has been criticized for his unconventional approach to the film, as if it was somehow unfaithful to the work of Dylan, but this excerpt from the previously mentioned interview gives us insight to how Dylan himself tries to avoid the limits of a genre when writing. His description of writing the song Tangled up in Blue sounds both experimental and cinematic:
See, what I was trying to do had nothing to do with the characters or what was going on. I was trying to do something that I don’t know if I was prepared to do. I wanted to defy time, so that the story took place in the present and past at the same time. When you look at a painting, you can see any part of it or see all of it together. I wanted that song to be like a painting.
Haynes has been criticized for his unconventional approach to the film, as if it was somehow unfaithful to the work of Dylan, but this excerpt from the previously mentioned interview gives us insight to how Dylan himself tries to avoid the limits of a genre when writing. His description of writing the song Tangled up in Blue sounds both experimental and cinematic:
See, what I was trying to do had nothing to do with the characters or what was going on. I was trying to do something that I don’t know if I was prepared to do. I wanted to defy time, so that the story took place in the present and past at the same time. When you look at a painting, you can see any part of it or see all of it together. I wanted that song to be like a painting.
