![]() ![]() As though the point of view of the movie is with the audience, being like, ‘Look at this horrible place, and what it does to humanity.’ But really that movie is obviously also a product of Hollywood. Hollywood makes these movies, like A Star Is Born, that are supposedly self-critical, as though they’re being made by somebody outside of Hollywood. "It’s Hollywood’s favorite structured myth about itself. ![]() ![]() Why keep reprising the same narrative? "Hollywood people buy into this mythology that there’s only so much space in the universe of stars, and for one to ascend, one has to fall," Karina Longworth, author of the forthcoming Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, told Vanity Fair. A successful man discovers and uplifts a young ingenue, only to be eclipsed by her success and fall prey to his own demons: that is the central, immutable story of all four iterations of A Star Is Born, though details shift, adapting to each distinct era.
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