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A Star Is Born

2018 film

Bill Simmons · Amanda Dobbins · Sean Fennessey

Aired February 11, 2019

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A Star Is Born The Rewatchables
A Star Is Born

Apex Mountain

This is Bradley Cooper’s career apex; Lady Gaga is debated and receives only a tentative yes unless an acting win follows.

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  • The film is called Cooper’s unquestioned career apex. — Bill Simmons
  • Gaga had already achieved exceptional global pop fame before the film. — Sean Fennessey
  • Her fan base is credited with much of the movie’s worldwide commercial reach. — Sean Fennessey
  • The panel gives Gaga a tentative apex verdict, becoming certain only if she wins Best Actress. — Sean Fennessey
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A Star Is Born

Half-Assed Internet Research

Los Angeles performance locations, Jackson’s house, Cooper’s makeup and voice work, Gaga’s screen makeup, live singing, songwriting, sound, improvisation, and visual foreshadowing

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  • The opening concert footage was shot at Coachella. — Bill Simmons
  • The drag bar is identified as the Virgil and the cop bar as the Short Stop. — Sean Fennessey
  • The supermarket was a Super A in Glassell Park and Gaga’s big debut was filmed at the Greek Theatre. — Bill Simmons
  • Jackson’s Calabasas-area house had sold for about two million dollars after filming.
  • Cooper reportedly used a daily spray tan and menthol to create Jackson’s red, bloodshot appearance. — Bill Simmons
  • The panel disputes the publicity claim that Gaga wore only lip balm and moisturizer, distinguishing “no-makeup makeup.”
  • Jason Isbell wrote “Maybe It’s Time.” — Bill Simmons
  • Cooper trained for a year to lower his speaking voice by an octave. — Bill Simmons
  • The “ugly” line was ad-libbed and Gaga’s shocked reaction was reportedly genuine.
  • Lukas Nelson wrote several songs and Cooper’s own dog Charlie played Jackson’s dog. — Amanda Dobbins
  • Gaga reportedly persuaded Cooper to record the music live rather than lip-sync. — Bill Simmons
  • Sound editing and mixing make unfamiliar live performances feel populated and immediate. — Sean Fennessey
  • Gaga performed the final song soon after learning that a friend had died. — Bill Simmons
  • Much of the drag-bar material was improvised. — Bill Simmons
  • A billboard with four nooses beside Jackson is presented as early death foreshadowing. — Bill Simmons
  • Blue and red lighting join Jackson Maine and Lady Gaga visually and recur in the police lights after his death. — Sean Fennessey
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A Star Is Born

Casting What-Ifs

Earlier versions involved Clint Eastwood, Beyoncé, Christian Bale, Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Ray Liotta, and several alternate Ally-father choices.

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A Star Is Born

What’s Aged the Best?

Sam Elliott’s driveway reaction, Jackson’s speech about truth and having legs, the inherited franchise line, the ending, and the soundtrack

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  • Sam Elliott’s silent tear and the brothers’ inability to speak directly are expected to remain a durable meme and emotional truth.
  • Jackson’s “dig deep in your soul” speech to Lady Gaga about truth and having legs is treated as inspirational. — Bill Simmons
  • The ending improved on rewatch because Gaga’s performance cuts back to Bradley Cooper creating the song.
  • The soundtrack is expected to endure because its two musical personas both have convincing songs. — Sean Fennessey
  • “I just wanted to take another look at you” moved from punchline to sincere and memorable franchise line.
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A Star Is Born

Most Rewatchable Scene

The live performance of “Shallow”

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  • The panel calls the live “Shallow” performance the clear winner and one of the century’s best seven-minute sequences. — Bill Simmons
  • The drag-bar introduction works through Bradley Cooper watching Lady Gaga and then singing “Maybe It’s Time.” — Bill Simmons
  • The grocery-store parking lot is praised as an intimate songwriting and courtship scene.
  • The Bradley Cooper and Sam Elliott fight is praised as an amazing compact scene. — Bill Simmons
  • “Always Remember Us This Way” is treated as Gaga’s last great musical moment before the pop-star turn.
  • The Grammys sequence becomes darkly comic on repeat viewing even though its humiliation remains difficult to watch. — Bill Simmons
  • The final Cooper and Elliott scene became a durable meme and emotional payoff. — Bill Simmons
  • The cop-bar conversation is praised as an unusually specific and believable flirting scene. — Sean Fennessey
  • The supermarket sequence sustains the early romance through mundane details and the leads’ chemistry. — Sean Fennessey
  • Dice and the drivers watching the viral video provide a charming family-comedy interlude. — Amanda Dobbins
  • The parking-lot scene is the preferred runner-up because Bradley Cooper recognizes Gaga writing a song in real time.
  • The opening concert introduces Jackson’s addiction, charisma, and physical mess without dialogue. — Sean Fennessey
  • Ally’s bathroom introduction establishes a separate crisis and character with equal economy. — Amanda Dobbins
  • The “Shallow” scene is praised for every checkpoint Lady Gaga crosses before stepping onto the stage. — Bill Simmons
  • Bradley Cooper’s supportive reactions communicate love, belief, and encouragement, making that support a major part of his performance. — Amanda Dobbins
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Tombstone

Half-Assed Internet Research

All the mustaches were real; Val Kilmer practiced his quick draw and gave Doc a Southern aristocrat accent; 'I'll be damned' really were Doc Holliday's last words; the real Johnny Ringo was not killed by Doc Holliday; Cosmatos claimed Stephen Lang was drunk for most of the filming; the Latin exchange translated

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  • All the mustaches in the movie were real; Val Kilmer practiced his quick-draw speed for a long time and gave the character a Southern aristocrat accent.
  • 'I'll be damned' really were the final words of Doc Holliday, and historians debate to this day why he said it.
  • One theory offered: a gunman who always expected to die with his boots on looked at his feet, saw he had no boots on, and said it because he was dying without them, not just of tuberculosis; we will never know.
  • In real life Johnny Ringo did not die at the hands of Doc Holliday; it was a suicide, which prompts a joke that he started dating Lady Gaga and her career took off, finally cracking a smile from Craig.
  • Cosmatos did claim Stephen Lang was drunk for most of the filming; the Latin exchange is translated line by line, Doc's 'in wine there is truth', Ringo's 'do what you do', Doc's 'let Apelia the Jew believe, not I' (as transcribed), Ringo's 'youth is the teacher of fools' and Doc's 'rest in peace', judged more fun in Latin and a terrible conversation, to be quoted at that night's Ringer holiday party.
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A Star Is Born

2018