Vulture article on ASIB

[giskardsb 12,565]

This article is old but I just found it and didn't see that it has been posted before.  This is a really good article about "A Star is born" in general, it's history, and what they hope might happen with the new version.

It’s hard not to mourn all the Star Is Borns that could have been (Tom Cruise playing a Tom Cruise who’s desperately trying to stay Tom Cruise while Beyoncé rockets past him is a movie I would have eagerly lined up to see). But Cooper and Gaga taking on a modern adaptation of this story is, on paper, a great idea. A Star Is Born only becomes more relevant in a social-media era in which celebrities commodify their lives one minute, tweet, and Instagram at a time and in which the public combination of prurience and judgment that is aimed at them is exponentially more intense than it was when the story originated. This will also be the first version in which both leads are, in a sense, the film’s auteurs; Cooper will direct the movie and Gaga will write songs for it. That feels potentially more appealing and less imbalanced than the masochistic Garland or self-absorbed Streisand versions. If Cooper digs deep — warning flag: that can be hard to do for a star directing himself — this could be his defining role; outward charm combined with inward self-disgust feel like qualities that are absolutely in his arsenal. As for Gaga, an artist who fights to be recognized and famed for her talent even as she plays with the whole notion that she has an identity to begin with could be a superb fit for a 21st-century Esther.

 

http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/lady-gaga-might-be-perfect-for-a-star-is-born.html

 

[Alfonso 1,550]

That's an interesting point of view and it makes sense, I hope we get something great