The film Nasce Uma Estrela has its roots in the world of music: dream musicians who take their first steps in the night bars with the sharp claws of the powerful music industry.
It is a scenario that Lady Gaga knows first hand and that allows her to shine with her own light, giving us spectacular and terrifying musical moments.
- When someone decides to make a remake.
- If the original work is well known and respected.
- The new version will receive negative reviews even before its debut.
In this case, the shadow of the past was enormous, because not only was there one version, two previous versions had already been made, in total three films that tell the same story weighed in A Star Is Born
Since the original of 1937, the story told has changed somewhat; The protagonists of this film were not dedicated to music, but to film. However, the love story and poignant drama are present in all its versions. The change of industry was not an invention of Bradley Cooper; In 1976, Frank Pierson told us this story with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.
Uma Estrela was born from the expectations generated because, in addition to being a remake, it was Cooper’s debut in the direction and Gaga on the big screen, two familiar faces who decided to explore new media, new artistic forms.
Lady Gaga had already made her stage debut with a small role and as the protagonist of the fifth season of the American Horror Story series, however, a feature film is somewhat more complicated, so doubts have arisen.
Against all odds, the film received a lot of critical acclaim. Cooper and Gaga did an outstanding job, and she was able to alleviate, with her voice, the drama and darkness of the film.
We often idealize artists so much that we forget that behind the mask there is a real person who feels and lives like us, industry and the media contribute in part to this idealization, so artists cease to be people to become products, consumer objects.
Overcoming the stress of touring, sleeping every night in a different place and having to be 100% in front of a large audience waiting to see the best is not an easy task, that is why many artists are involved in problems such as alcoholism, drugs, depression, etc.
All this has to do with an unimaginable exhibition: everything you do and say can be questioned, including your physical appearance, the world of images seems to go hand in hand with music and cinema, we turn artists into role models, when that shouldn’t be His role All this is shown in detail in A Star Is Born.
Jackson was a famous musician, but with a serious problem of alcoholism and drugs. Ally, on the other hand, is a young waitress passionate about music, but who has to be content to play in a night bar where she shares stage with drag queens.
In this nocturnal environment, your paths will cross. Jackson falls in love with Ally’s voice and also with her naturalness and innocence.
Thanks to Jackson, Ally will become famous, but will she have to lose her essence, change her words, her hair?We usually judge the artists who sell themselves, who set aside their identity to succeed. What we don’t usually think is that sometimes, as difficult as it may seem, many have no choice.
Then, once they have achieved their goal, they show their natural talent and true facet. Jackson Judge Ally; it didn’t sell like that, but fell into another of the monsters of fame: addictions.
It’s hard to imagine what it means to be a celebrity, the birth of a star brings us closer to this reality, destroys the idyllic paradise they want to sell us and engages us in a very human story in a totally dehumanized world.
Jackson’s situation is the most tragic: he has everything to be happy and yet he is involved in a hell from which it is very difficult to escape, Ally will support you to the end, forgiving what seemed unforgivable, but love and understanding are above all else. .
Ally understands that Jackson is ill, that despite his public shame, he does not deserve to be tried or convicted of it.
However, Ally’s producer can’t think of anything but his business and tells Jackson that he must stay away from Ally, because all he can do is ruin his life and career.
These words, addressed to a person with no dependency or self-esteem issues, may not cause such a dramatic result, however Jackson, as Ally said, was ill, and those words were a stab to the remnants of his self-esteem. That’s why he decided to end his life.
In the final scene, we see that Ally is already a well-established artist, no longer needs artifice to prove her talent and pays a fantastic tribute to her late husband, so we see two sides of a cruel industry: cosification, but the later one. Ally’s rise and jackson’s descent into the underworld.
presents a story in which Lady Gaga shows all her talent, she, like Ally, began singing in bars until she took the stage as an eccentric artist we know today.
However, if we review her musical career we will notice the great evolution she has presented, in her early songs her voice was not the most important, but in recent years Gaga has become a respected artist and no one doubts her quality as an artist. Singer.
Artists grow, reinvent themselves and evolve. Gaga did not part with her flamboyant character, but showed us that there was something else. It’s not just a pretty face or the strange girl who wanted to sell us; Gaga has a great talent for singing and we were pleasantly surprised in her role as an actress.
A Star is Born tells a story full of feelings, love and understanding, a beautiful story updated and adapted to the new times, appealing to the humanity that led us.
“How do you support people who speak to you as if you were not flesh and blood?”- a star was born-