I don’t know Rod. Camille Paglia, whom I really enjoy listening to and reading, went after Bradley Cooper’s version with a mallet, re his remake.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/camille-paglia-sexism-star-is-born-films-guest-column-1186741
The fourth version of A Star Is Born, directed by Bradley Cooper and starring himself and Lady Gaga, has been nominated for eight Oscars at this year's Academy Awards. How does this movie treat our red-hot theme of women's aspirations and achievement? Surprisingly, despite its progressive gestures toward masculine sensitivity and transgender inclusiveness, this A Star Is Born is the most sexist film of the entire series.
Sorry pugmama I'm just not buying that take.I think Bradley Cooper is guilty only of following a story-line better than anyone else could or did.The problem for Paglia is that he doesn't insist on inserting the Hollywood version of female good- male bad into the story. >p> He simply tells the story as it is written. And probably better than anyone else could or did.
Just my take and I'm hardly a movie critic.
In the Judy Garland version, at about the 20 minute mark, in an after-hours LA nightclub, Judy performs the great Harold Arlen/Ira Gershwin standard, “The Man That Got Away.”
It is one of the greatest scenes in the history of Hollywood and it’s all you really need to ever know or see of A Star is Born.
“Someday, the rest of us will be forgotten. But never Judy.”
—Frank Sinatra