Martin Scorsese's new Netflix film 'Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story' blends fact with fiction. Here's our guide to what's made up
“If he’s not wearing a mask, it’s highly unlikely.” As he says these words, Bob Dylan is most definitelywearing a mask. He’s also in a documentary that occasionally takes wild deviations from the truth by utilizing actors to tell tale tales about the tour. The tactic is sure to confuse a great many people, so here’s a guide to the several fictionalized elements of the movie.
In the movie, Dylan says he got the idea to wear white face makeup on the Rolling Thunder Revue after Scarlet Rivera took him to a Kiss concert in Queens. But Kiss haven’t played a show in Queens since February 1973 when they were first starting out and long before Dylan met Rivera. These were tiny club shows by a totally unknown band. No way Dylan was at one of them and he also didn’t get the makeup idea from them. By most accounts, the makeup was inspired by the 1945 French film3.
with nearly every member of the performance troupe. The raw footage from the film is the seed of this new documentary, but Scorsese’s film never once mentions. Instead, it has talking-head interviews with a supposed filmmaker from the tour named Stefan van Dorp that shot the entire thing and never got enough credit for his work. Such a person does not exist. It’s actually Martin von Haselberg from 1970s performance art duo the Kipper Kids playing a role.
None of this stuff takes away from the power of the documentary. After all, this is a story that’s been told many times in many mediums. Throwing in a few fictional elements with this incredible, never-before-seen footage just makes the whole thing more fun and interesting. “We hope that people will watch it several times to unlock its various Easter eggs,”
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