When the Deal Goes Down

Each invisible prayer is like a cloud in the air
Tomorrow keeps turning around
We live and we die, we know not why
But I’ll be with you when the deal goes down

- Bob Dylan

If ever there was a paean to the handheld camera in a music video, this is it. Bob Dylan’s “When the Deal Goes Down,” a philosophical countrified waltz from his 2006 hit album Modern Times, and then released as a music video, was shot like a home movie on 8mm film by the celebrated director of “Capote,” Bennett Miller. Featuring starlet turned star Scarlett Johansson (you remember, Barack Obama’s erstwhile pen pal) in a series of nostalgic vignettes, this one is unlikely to interest hip hop fans. Baby Boomers will dig it, though, and fans of Bob and Scarlett.

As someone commented, “That song would bring a tear to a glass eye.”

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