History Film / ImNotThere

** The Robbie Clark segment was inspired by the films of Jean-Luc Godard (particularly ''Masculin Féminin'').

* GainaxEnding

* MindScrew

''I'm Not There'' is a 2007 biopic--[[MindScrew sort of]]--based on the life and different personae of Music/BobDylan. Directed by Creator/ToddHaynes, the film uses six different actors ([[Creator/CateBlanchett one of whom is a woman]]) to portray him, all playing Dylan at different roles in his life.

--> -- '''UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid''' (Closing Narration)

''I'm Not There'' is a 2007 biopic--[[MindScrew sort of]]--based on the life and different personae of Music/BobDylan. Directed by Creator/ToddHaynes, the film uses six different actors ([[Creator/CateBlanchett one of whom is a woman]]) to portray him; all playing Dylan at different roles in his life.

* Woody Guthrie (Marcus Carl Franklin) is a black 11-year old boy traveling across America trying to find his place. He represents Dylan's MysteriousPast and lies. His name comes from Dylan's idol, Music/WoodyGuthrie.
* Jack Rollins (Creator/ChristianBale) represents Dylan's folk era. Done in the style of a documentary looking back, it chronicles Rollins' rise to fame and his ultimate disillusion with it. Jack later becomes Pastor John, showing Dylan's exploration into Christianity.

* Robbie Clark (Creator/HeathLedger) is a [[MindScrew film star that plays Jack Rollins in the film Grain of Sand]]. However, this section focuses mainly on his relationship with Claire (Creator/CharlotteGainsbourg). He displays Dylan's attitude in relationships and his misogyny.

* Arthur Rimbaud (Creator/BenWhishaw) seems to be in a court scene. Not really having a storyline of his own, he pops in and out throughout the film with small sections of script - mostly actual Dylan quotes. Named for the poet.

* CaptainErsatz / NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Dylans obviously, but other characters count too, such as Alice Fabian (Joan Baez), Coco Rivington (Edie Sedgwick), and Claire (who is a CompositeCharacter of Dylan's wives/girlfriends). Interestingly enough, the one celebrity who ''isn't'' disguised in some way is Allen Ginsberg, played by David Cross.

* {{Bishonen}}: Creator/BenWhishaw as Arthur Rimbaud certainly qualifies, and if I'm not mistaken, [[BiFauxnen Jude Quinn]] does too.

''I'm Not There'' is a 2007 biopic--[[MindScrew sort of]]--based on the life and different personae of Music/BobDylan. Directed by Creator/ToddHaynes, the film uses 5 different actors ([[Creator/CateBlanchett one of whom is a woman]]) to portray him; all playing Dylan at different roles in his life.

''I'm Not There'' is a 2007 biopic--[[MindScrew sort of]]--based on the life and different personae of Music/BobDylan. Directed by Creator/ToddHaynes, the film uses 5 different actors (and [[Creator/CateBlanchett one actress]]) to portray him; all playing Dylan at different roles in his life.

* {{Dedication}}: To director Todd Haynes' late editor Jim Lyons.

* CaptainErsatz / NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Dylans obviously, but other characters count too, such as Alice Fabian (Joan Baez), Coco Rivington (Edie Sedgwick), and Claire (who is a CompositeCharacter of Dylan's wives/girlfriends). Interestingly enough, the one celebrity who ''isn't'' disguised in some way is Allen Ginsberg, [[WTHCasting played by David Cross]].

* SweetOnPollyOliver: Cate Blanchett. Period.

** The Jack Rollins segment is in the style of various Dylan documentaries, such as ''No Direction Home'' by Creatorr/MartinScorsese.

* InTheStyleOf: The Jude Quinn segment is directed in the style of [[Creator/FedericoFellini Fellini's]] ''Film/EightAndAHalf''.

'''''I'm Not There''''' is a 2007 biopic--[[MindScrew sort of]]--based on the life and different personae of Music/BobDylan. Directed by Creator/ToddHaynes, the film uses 5 different actors (and [[Creator/CateBlanchett one actress]]) to portray him; all playing Dylan at different roles in his life.

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** Richard Gere's was shot in the style of SamPeckinpah's "hippie westerns" of the 1960s. Don't forget that Dylan appeared in Peckinpah's ''Film/PatGarrettAndBillyTheKid'', besides composing "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".

* FilmWithinAFilm: The in-universe {{Biopic}} ''Grain of Sand'' stars [[HeathLedger Robbie Clark]] as [[Creator/ChristianBale Jack Rollins]].

* Robbie Clark (Creator/HeathLedger) is a [[MindScrew film star that plays Jack Rollins in the film Grain of Sand]]. However, this section focuses mainly on his relationship with Claire. He displays Dylan's attitude in relationships and his misogyny.

* Billy the Kid (Richard Gere) is an outlaw in the bush - the little town of Riddle. He represents Dylan in our times.

'''''I'm Not There''''' is a 2007 biopic--[[MindScrew sort of]]--based on the life of Music/BobDylan. Directed by Creator/ToddHaynes, the film uses 5 different actors (and [[Creator/CateBlanchett one actress]]) to portray him; all playing Dylan at different roles in his life.

* WhatMightHaveBeen: Colin Farrell was originally cast as Robbie Clark, but had to be replaced by HeathLedger after the former checked himself into rehab.
** Originally it was pitched with a seventh Dylan, to be told as a silent movie.