Maybe it’s fair to blame Brando’s performance in Apocalypse Now on Coppola, but I don’t think he really makes sense as a character. He doesn’t really seem convincing to me. He’s the badass ex-soldier who convinced all these people to worship him?

I really need to rewatch One-Eyed Jacks, and to see Viva Zapata!

Looking at his filmography, I actually don’t know anything about most of these movies.

The director of The Wild One seems to have done very little else, and ended up being mostly a TV director.

I’m not familiar with George’s later incarnations, but the OG George gave two of the Christian albums good reviews. Slow Train got a 12 and Shot of Love got an 11. He thought Saved was Dylan’s worst album and gave it a 6. I’m in the same neighborhood on all three albums, maybe I’d rate Shot of Love lower but it has good songs on it. Every Grain of Sand is a great song with strong lyrics and Dylan closed with it when I saw him recently, and apparently it’s been his closer throughout the tour. Saved is truly awful though. And it’s boringly awful. I guess, given the context, he must have cared about the album (and he’s played some of the songs again later in his career so he must like them), but it feels like he completely phoned it in.
Slow Train and Saved were supported by the same 6 month tour and he only played those albums, nothing else. The Shot of Love tour was a normal tour though, with a normal mix of more recent songs and classics. Those set lists were probably closer to what most people who expect in a concert than his more recent shows. There’s a bootleg series with shows from both tours. He does still play some Saved songs on the Shot of Love tour. The only good part of that is right before the song The Garden, when he makes the delightfully weird introduction “This song is dedicated to my good friend George Harrison, because I tried to call him on the phone but he was out in his garden.” You wouldn’t think that a Bob Dylan song about The Garden of Gethsemane would be so vacuous.