https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-tcHHyy1Rw
Ads there, but the full trailer, which does look good.
Of course good trailers don't mean good movies. And what are the odds that this will be good, considering that one star is directing and the other is very inexperienced! Why should director-star Cooper waste time on coaching a good performance out of his co-star, when he can just keep the camera on himself? And the whole trailer is from his character's POV...
You're reviewing a film you haven't seen. Not ALL directors (who also star) favor themselves, for heaven's sake (ever
see a Woody Allen film? Probably not). And Lady Gaga may be new, but she is NOT a totally "inexperienced actor."
Only a no-talent, idiotic director would rob their film of a truly gifted co-star, only favoring themselves. Don't see
Cooper in this vein. And he is no more a superstar than Gaga, who is extremely gifted.
My only problem with the trailer is it just focuses on their romance and their music, without really suggesting that
it's the story of one star-on-the-rise, falling in love with a star-on-the-skids. The trailer seems to sell the stars and
songs, but not the essence of the story.
If it's a hit (and it reeks of being one, as well as one going for Oscar Gold), it now has to be the most successfully
duplicated movie of all time to date. The first version, 1932's "What Price Hollywood" (Lional Barrymore and
Constance Bennett) still packs a wallop. The 1937 version, "A Star is Born" (Janet Gaynor and Fredrick March)
is one of the very first Technicolor features, and it remains a classic. The Judy Garland version from '54 is
undoubtedly (and deservedly) the most famous, and while the Streisand one is the weakest to be sure, it was a
monster hit. Now this version, which looks pretty powerful.
The most interesting aspect is that the last three (Garland, Streisand and Gaga) are musicals, and showcase the
greatest singers of their generations. That says a lot about the power of this plot.
They live in a nice trailer park?
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