destruction and birth

Keyshawn 2022-02-02 08:08:15

I remember that I watched this movie on my mobile phone when I was playing outside, but the appeal was not weak at all. I fell asleep after thinking about it for a long time at night, and when the sun sets on the beach, a man listens to his beloved. I fell asleep in the resonance of the song going to death, and that kind of emotion makes people hang their hearts for a long time and cry for it. Tears (to be honest, my English is very poor, and the subtitle version doesn't translate the song and dance parts, but it doesn't seem to weaken the emotion at all), I want to say that the movie seems to shape the characters and the situation too well, Judy Garland's performance It is so sincere and moving, which is not only the talent of director George Cook, but also Mason's acting skills. These two roles jointly shaped the birth and destruction of this heartbreaking star. After watching it many times, every time Once at the beginning, when Mason woke up in the bedroom, the melody of "Gotta Have Me Go With You" sounded softly, and the visual sense shook him extremely strongly, as did the destruction in the sunset song at the end.

I don't like the way the ending is handled, I've watched it multiple times and always choose to end where Mason goes to ruin, which is the emotional climax of the movie, and it's not very good to extend it. The singing and dancing part is wonderful, but not how well planned or how new (the bedroom part is exquisitely planned and full of new ideas, but other than that, it is only traditionally used to narrate and express characters). The first "Gotta Have Me Go With You" opened, funny, but it created a strong sense of sight somewhere; the subsequent "The Man That Got Away" was amazing and extremely romantic; and then "Here's WhatI'm Here For" "Lose That Long Face", "Born In A Trunk", and "Someone At Last" all express things in Garland's voice and eyes, and the beauty of the last song "It's A New World" is already unbearable. said.

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  • Kieran 2022-04-21 09:03:45

    It's been a long time since I saw a long movie with an intermission. A very typical Classical Hollywood Cinema, the gorgeous costumes and props and the tone of singing and dancing pursued by musical films are all there, and then it is a sad love tragedy, an ordinary girl becomes a star but loses the person she loves, and finally 's lines are heartbreaking.

  • Violette 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    The best version of the legend is the birth of a star, but overall it feels similar to the 18 version, but it is indeed better than the 37 version. The whole story is more logical than the 37 version because of the longer time, but the problem of this film is just the opposite of the 18 version. The 18 version is too focused on the fall of stars, this version is too focused on the birth of stars, for Zhu Digalang added a lot of meaningless singing and dancing, making the film too long and making the whole film's singing and dancing part too long. The script of this film is actually not bad, but the story has been read too much, and the ending is handled very well. It can be seen that the 18th version borrowed many scenes and shots from this version. Judy Garland is the core of the film, and it is definitely a performance worthy of a posthumous title. Unfortunately, she failed to win the Oscar like the film in reality. Gaga is much luckier than her. James Mason's performance is also not lacking in bright spots, but the whole movie has too few scenes for him, and the shots are basically concentrated on Garland's side, which makes his performance not particularly great.

A Star Is Born quotes

  • Norman Maine: Of course you're scared! We all are! What makes you think you wouldn't be?

  • Vicki Lester: He's in a sanitarium. He really wants to stop drinking, Oliver. He's trying very hard. I know he is. What is it? What is it that makes him want to destroy himself? You've known him longer than anyone else. Tell me what it is. Please. I don't care but just tell me.

    Oliver Niles: Don't you think I've tried through the years to know why, to help him? I don't know, Esther. I don't know what the answer is.

    Vicki Lester: Well, I've got to find the answer. You don't know what it's like to watch somebody you love just crumble away bit by bit and day by day in front of your eyes and stand there helpless. Love isn't enough. I thought it was. I thought I was the answer for Norman. But love isn't enough for him. And I'm afraid of what's beginning to happen within me... because... sometimes I hate him. I hate his promises to stop and then the watching and waiting to see it begin again. I hate to go home to him at night and listen to his lies. My heart goes out to him because he tries - he does try. But I hate him for failing. I hate me, too. I hate me cause I've failed, too. I have. I don't know what's going to happen to us, Oliver. No matter how much you love somebody... how do you live out the days?