The Guardian: Why ASIB should win the best picture

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The path of ASIB has been striking for the consistency of its gradient: downhill all the way. After premiering to swoons at Venice last August, it’s gone from bet-your-granny lock to total no-hoper, without so much of a cameo as underdog.

How? There have been no blips along the way. None of Bradley Cooper or Lady Gaga’s feet have gone amiss. Rather, both stars have spent six months love-bombing each other with on-brand precision. Cooper still seems shocked by the quality of Gaga’s pipes, just like his character in the film. Gaga – 27m albums sold, and 146m singles – remains so in thrall to her grizzly movie mentor that she sat at his feet in supplication when he joined her for a singsong at her sellout Vegas residency.

ASIB’s undoing is what would, until recently, have been its deal-sealer: its main subject is showbiz. Hollywood used to like nothing better than a film that prizes entertainment industry talent above all else (plus, as a third remake, its very existence is part of folklore).

But today, disengagement with the world around is fatal. Awards voters are under pressure to prove their cultural sensitivity - and ASIB is the only movie on the list which cannot easily tether itself to a social bandwagon.

Conceived pre-Trump, shot two years ago, ASIB exists in a political vacuum and fills it with feels. It stands as a relic to an age when a soapy wallow was sufficient. But these are tougher times, and you can’t bring a box of tissues to a knife fight.

Which is a shame, because A Star is Born – for all its whopping budget and superstar newbies – does capture something fresh about falling in love. That initial hit of connection when Jackson meets Ally’s gaze in the drag bar is a great, popping moment; their first date, stumbling around a car park and a supermarket, seems authentically sweaty and nauseous.

Likewise, Ally’s first appearance on stage is such a rush it would bring goosebumps out on a corpse. The entire first half of the film, in fact, has all the giddy sickness – and flashes of genius – of Shallow.

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6 minutes ago, Varo Yan said:

Rather, both stars have spent six months love-bombing each other

No wonder she broke up with Christian

[Miel 15,009]

Good read. I never really saw ASIB as a front-and-center front runner, so this was definitely insightful.

I definitely agree that a lot of the movie encapsulates an almost-old-school tragedy and romance at peak maximum- which is both its grace and its doom (as in, people feel it is simply a good romance movie with no political identity behind it).

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Wbk but voters will chose a mediocre troubled movie because they feel attacthed to past events, rather than a good movie 

It is what it is, at least Shallow has a great chance

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1 hour ago, Varo Yan said:

 

But today, disengagement with the world around is fatal. Awards voters are under pressure to prove their cultural sensitivity - and ASIB is the only movie on the list which cannot easily tether itself to a social bandwagon.

 

 

 

 

This

 

also, this is a bad thing because upcoming films will focus on that bandwagon and we will have many more films just trying to be ,,woke,, so they can get oscar... meh