Meryl Streep calls out Marvel Movies

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1 hour ago, bxr said:

That the scene from Network literally closes with “I have seen the face of god…;” and that Gaga’s face-the-network-exec scene segues into “Shape of a Woman” … Oh, Gaga, make that face …

Oh, Godga... everytime you inspire bxr it's a blessing for gagacabana. It's your world and we're living/dreaming in it 

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probably cuz its a trend to hate on marvel movies lately... most the movie youtubers i watch are anti marvel. them going to disney plus kinda killed their brand lowkey. meryl spilled but if disney gave her a huge check im sure shed appear in one.

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That’s kind of the same logic Trump supporters use to overlook all of the “flaws.”   LOL

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1 hour ago, Controversiaga said:

Marvel movies are trash , fast food of movies imo 

Insult to fast food, tbh 

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5 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

TDWP2 aside, Gaga always felt like something of a cultural villain/anti-hero to me, especially from TFM-BTW 

This … so, much, thus.

The progessive / graduating fourth-wall-dissolve between the celebrity and humanity of entertainment artistry (in a Benjamin-adjacent age of Silicon-social mechanical reproduction) is one of the most significant undercurrents throughout her career repertoire … she keeps using the artist as a living discursive canvas to actively operate within the apparatus she expressed her intention to invert, if not outright usurp, from the outset

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That Miranda had to walk all the way backstage to approach Gaga … echoes this in pure “show, don’t tell” amplification:

Now, Gaga thought of herself not only as a superstar—she channeled Andy himself. She adopted his round black glasses and his wigs and spouted his wisdom. “It’s as if I’ve been shouting at everyone, and now I’m whispering and everybody’s leaning in to hear me,” she says. “I’ve had to shout for so long because I was only given five minutes, but now I’ve got fifteen. Andy said you only needed fifteen minutes.” She even started her own Factory, or the “Haus of Gaga,” as she likes to call her entourage.

The scene integrates so much show, don’t tell … in under 60 seconds, the everything around the encounter itself does operate around that nexus point … the red carpet IRL even reads like it exists in the shared frame of reference (the optics alone on cast interaction, especially Meryl‘s talking points, and quite literally the styling on the carpet, and the styling in the scene) … that she plays herself in the role (after ASIB, HoG, Folie), and how she plays herself, in context of effectual creative non-fiction … regardless of how / if Gaga participates with the Met Gala, for instance … sometimes scenes speak volumes from fictional whispers … additionally (also, in context of Ally, Patrizia, and Lee)—vocally, Gaga’s tone on the line delivery in TDWP2 low-key file under: “‘cause I start believin‘, and my voice gets tough”

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Additionally, add Irv to the list of Gaga’s In memoriam: male protagonists mantlepiece … ft. Alexander Skarsgaard (Paparazzi), Bad Romance bedside suitor, Tyrese (Telephone), Prophet Moses (AHS: Hotel), Jackson, Maurizio, Arthur … the dancefloor shadows, whew

And wow, in immediate retrospect, the TFM-BTW story world building within the fourth wall was on another level

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As for the brouhaha at the Mets game, all she wants to say about that is she went with a group of friends for someone’s birthday, wanted to sit in the nosebleed seats and not cause a commotion, but cameras were planted everywhere. She had too many shots of whiskey, and as for giving the finger(s) to photographers, she says, “Well, I guess I was my true New York 24-year-old Italian girl who grew up here and how dare you set me up? I want to go to things like ball games, but when I go to the ball game, they’re going to write the story that will sell papers. Look, I’m not an idiot—I recognize that I’m a public figure and I’m going to be recognized if I’m wearing a bikini or a potato sack. The trade-off is I get to see the Yankees, and what the Yankees mean to me in my soul as a young person from New York is more important to me than my reputation in terms of the tabloids. My real fans know who I truly am, and they know what I represent and what I mean, and my music and my performance is what really speaks.”

The biggest change in her life, despite her earlier remarks to me about loving sunlight and sitting on her porch and driving around L.A., is that Gaga now hates Hollywood. “I hate Hollywood,” she says. “I got rid of my place, and I’m coming back to spend more time in New York. Everyone in Hollywood is so awful, and awful to me; everyone just wants you to fail. There’s no fervor for the fantasy of music anymore. It’s all about No. 1s and who’s on iTunes, and [while] I’m on iTunes and I’m No. 1, I still care about the fervor of show business and music and womanhood.”

Next to the Rilke quote?
Yeah. [Joanne] was a poet and a writer, and I guess I truly believe that she had unfinished work to do and she works through me. She was like, a total saint. So maybe she’s living vicariously through a sinner [laughs].

I’ll let you get to Manchester. Thanks for the time.
Use the stuff that’s going to make me a legend. I want to be a legend. Is that wrong?

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4 hours ago, MACATL said:

That’s kind of the same logic Trump supporters use to overlook all of the “flaws.”   LOL

What logic are you referring to?

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5 hours ago, gagacabana said:

It's your world and we're living/dreaming in it 

Gaga was very taken with her new “bubble dress” at this point, and we talked about its unreality, the beauty of the imaginary. Everyone wanted that dress, but it wasn’t a dress at all—it was a bunch of plastic balls. “On my tour,” she declared, “I’m going to be in my bubble dress on a piano made of bubbles, singing about love and art and the future. I should like to make one person believe in that moment, and it would be worth every salt of a No. 1 record.” She dropped the accent for a moment now—the real girl, unartificed, was right underneath—and leaned in. “I can have hit records all day, but who f—ing cares?” she explained. “A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, ‘Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?’ But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, ‘Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?’ Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they’ll just live in my bubble world.”

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11 minutes ago, bxr said:

“I can have hit records all day, but who f—ing cares?” she explained. “A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, ‘Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?’ But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, ‘Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?’ Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they’ll just live in my bubble world.”

A true student of theatre. Transcendence thru the ephemeral and the immediacy of sincerity + whimsy. And how right she was 

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22 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

What logic are you referring to?

That Trump only appears to be villainous and and the anti-Christ.  The lord is using an “unlikely” and “imperfect” vessel to carry out his will in this country.  

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2 minutes ago, MACATL said:

That Trump only appears to be villainous and and the anti-Christ.  The lord is using an “unlikely” and “imperfect” vessel to carry out his will in this country.  

She…didn’t say anything remotely like that, tho? She’s talking about how characters operate in fiction, not about what types of behavior we should endorse irl.