A Star Is Born (Blu-ray Book)
A Star Is Born (Blu-ray Book) Review
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1937 version of "A Star Is Born" was a glossy Hollywood melodrama. The gloss is gone in the remake of 1954. The opera remains, but the tone of Moss Hart's writing is much more dark, sour and cynical. George Cukor, a respectable, but not a repressed homosexual, the director knew exactly what you had to hide himself – and the matches had to play – in order to survive in Hollywood. It stars Judy Garland is the final incarnation of the "Battle-scarred veteran was Hollywood."The film, Cukor, Hart and Taylor has created, together with James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, and Tom Noonan is a hell of an emotional roller coaster ride and the ride is a bit 'bumpy. There is no way to be passive about this version of "A Star Is Born." To fully appreciate the movie, you have all your emotions in this way – in the same way, Cukor, Garland, and the rest of the cast.
Off-camera, Judy Garland was pretty self-destructive, burningNorman Maine (James Mason), when she had risen, surviving star Esther Blogett. Uncerimoniously MGM four years ago dismissed and written off as has-been, "Judy's career was in line with" A Star Is Born. "The feeling of" everything to gain, everything to lose "is, in large part to the 'intensity of the performance of Judy.
Cukor film is about to reveal to hide, instead, everything. Cukor left unexplored (and in some scenes exploits), darker, sharperAspects of the complex personality of Judy Garland. strong power performance of Judy was often held in his light MGM musicals. Here, in full force Cukor drama explode their talent in an unbridled way convinced. In brilliant musical numbers (mostly by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin), Judy is mesmerizing. All you can do, especially after viewing many, have not used that Cukor from "The Man That Got Away" (Judy printed in a brown suit, more nuancedtake and intensively in all) is to stand aside in awe. The 15 minutes Medley Music "Born in a Suitcase" (as afterthough recorded and, incidentally, not filmed by Cukor) ends the first half of the film with a thrilling high note, but we really need to know that Judy Garland was the most great entertainer of the 20th Century. Reaffirms their status as "The Man That Got Away" enchanted "and later, again on" finally someone. " When Judy goes down, it breaks my heart. After an excitingDivision in his dressing room, Judy / Esther returns a complete "Lose face take so long." The immediate step is to smile joyful tears of despair, is particularly arrest. Judy had to do the same move that many times at MGM. In the meantime, was the most convincing frigteningly.
James Mason is right Judy in the Department of heart pain. We all remember the scene where a drunk and staggering Norman has asked for a job in the middle of the Academy Awards. Then moveerratic and gesticulating wildly, he slaps on the face of Esther. The final humiliation comes after. Norman, already weakened by the success Esther hear her say, study leader Oliver Niles (Charles Bickford), she quit her career to save it. Oliver said that there is nothing to save Norman more. Knowing that Oliver, who he considers as friends and supporters, has already died, Norman decides to drown at sea. James, Norman Mason anquishwith a strangled cry and scream into a pillow. And 'the most beautiful scene of Mason in the film.
Jack Carson (as a devious, diabolical press agent Libby Matt) and Tom Noonan (as courageous Esther – gay? – Best friend Danny McQuire) is also excellent. After Norman's suicide, Danny provides an important speech, seem to Esther by her despair, shock. Danny says Esther, in fact, that when you go home and cry to stay, she must go into the ocean with Norman. Areto believe that Esther will survive. But the end of the film, Esther, Judy Garland, and the public are all the nervous wrecks! Cukor biographer Patrick McGilligan describes "A Star Is Born", as fans and accomphlished Cukor film, but also recognize that there is a "good Chuck nerves and poverty – is a musical noir." There was a musical history in Hollywood, before the diversion since 1960, with all Shock Value? The film definitely delivers that 'all the timeThrill ", by Judy Garland in his professional peak. It shows a lot from her, and Cukor, the private grief. McGillian also correctly describes the film as a" brutal about happiness through blood, sweat is entered, and tears of personal ambition . "On Cukor Garland A Star Is Born" is one of the most important and seminal films of 1950.
A Star Is Born (Blu-ray Book) Overview
As a band singer guided to heights of show-business success by an alcoholic ex-matinee idol, Judy Garland performs one superb song after another (most by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin) in a production – also starring James Mason and directed by George Cukor – that exhilarates with its craft and style even as it moves toward a heartbreaking finale. Shortened after its 1954 premiere and reconstructed to near its original length in 1983, A Star Is Born endures as one of Hollywood’s supreme triumphs.
A Star Is Born (Blu-ray Book) Specifications
“This is Mrs. Norman Maine”: Could these be the most heartbreaking words Judy Garland ever uttered? George Cukor directed and Moss Hart wrote this film, a musical remake of the 1937 original. The story is a show-biz classic: He (James Mason) is a major movie star who is past his prime and on the way down; she (Garland) is an aspiring singer who, with his help, becomes a bigger star than he was. Their marriage becomes a seesaw of success and failure, as he slowly drinks himself to death out of bitterness at the fickleness of fame, until his bad behavior begins to threaten the career of his long-suffering and loving wife. Mason and Garland are both terrific, with her singing “The Man That Got Away” among others. Remade in a 1976 Barbra Streisand vanity production. –Marshall Fine