Dont Look Back - Influences On Popular Culture

Influences On Popular Culture

• The band Belle & Sebastian reference the movie in their 1996 album If You're Feeling Sinister during the song "Like Dylan in the Movies" (refrain: "And if they follow you/don't look back/like Dylan in the movies/on your own").
• Jill Sobule references the movie in her 2000 album Pink Pearl during the song "Heroes" (lyric: "Dylan was so mean to Donovan in that movie").
• INXS pay tribute to the opening sequence in their video for "Mediate" from their 1987 album, Kick.
• The 1992 satire film Bob Roberts includes several scenes that are influenced by the movie, including a clear parody of the opening scene, complete with misspelled words ("Dange", for example).
• The opening sequence with Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video is alluded to in a 2008 ESPN commercial with Kenny Mayne.
• The same sequence was also parodied in the video for Weird Al Yankovic's song "Bob"; that video also includes specific allusions to the INXS video.
• The video was also parodied several times on Royal Canadian Air Farce, where his mumbling would be exaggerated.
• The vinyl version of the Waterboys' bootleg of their performance at the Glastonbury Festival is entitled "Don't Look Back."
• In the movie Patti Smith: Dream of Life, Patti Smith references Dont Look Back, discussing the scene where Dylan hails a taxi.
• In the 2007 mockumentary Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the main character (Dewey Cox) goes through a transitional period in 1966 that heavily resembles Dylan, and Dont Look Back in particular. Most notably during a press conference scene in which a reporter compares Dewey to Dylan. Dewey replies, "Why doesn't anyone ask Bob Dylan why he sounds so much like Dewey Cox?", parodying a press conference in Dont Look Back where Dylan provides a similar response when a reporter compares Dylan to fellow singer-songwriter Donovan.
• "Don't Look Back" (1999) is an artwork by the British sculptor and conceptual artist Fiona Banner. Her recollection of the documentary is transcribed into first person to give the impression of a witness account of the events captured in the film. The piece takes the form of a screenprint triptych.