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- While the latest Coen brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis, isn't a biopic, it is inspired by the life of a real person: the late Dave Van Ronk. He was a folk and blues singer and a central figure in the folk revival of the early 1960s.
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Inside Llewyn Davis (/ ˈ l uː ɪ n /) is a 2013 period black comedy drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1961, the film follows one week in the life of Llewyn Davis , played by Oscar Isaac in his breakthrough role, a folk singer struggling to achieve musical success while keeping his life in order.
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Dec 12, 2013 · How the Coen Brothers, in Inside Llewyn Davis, took the idea of the musician biopic and made it something real.
Jan 10, 2014 · Inside Llewyn Davis: Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, Ethan Phillips. A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.
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- Drama, Music
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- 2014-01-10
Dec 5, 2013 · But in any case, this is not a biopic, it’s a Coen brothers movie, which is to say a brilliant magpie’s nest of surrealism, period detail and pop-culture scholarship. To put it another way,...
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- 1 min
Nov 3, 2016 · Of course, Llewyn Davis was not a real guy, so the film isn’t actually a biopic. However, the Coen Brothers acknowledged repeatedly before it came out that he was inspired by Dave Van Ronk, a zelig of the early ‘60s folk and blues revivals, a guy who knew Bob Dylan before he was that Bob Dylan, a guy who was pegged as
- Andrew Winistorfer
Dec 11, 2013 · This story isn’t a biopic, but you did take inspiration from Dave Van Ronk. What was it that inspired you to tell this story?
May 23, 2020 · The Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis ends with a mysterious musician taking the stage, in what is actually a cameo by the great Bob Dylan.
