A Star Is Born (2018)

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Wikidata Q3286391, film, IMDb tt1517451, TMDB 332562: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Bradley Cooper as actor (‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt!); 6 more episodes agree.

The shows' “A Star Is Born” is more than one work, told apart episode by episode: this one in 24 episodes; A Star Is Born (1937) in 1 episode.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Fighting with My Family: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): A Star Is Born ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side.
    “I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Connected to

Bradley Cooper: 4 lines career ×2 craft ×1 verdict ×1

  1. career (career): A Star Is Born → Bradley Cooper. Actors, the largest Academy voting bloc, love the film and what Cooper becoming a director means for their futures.
    “actors are far and away the largest subcategory of voters.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:27:01 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Bohemian Rhapsody: 2 lines contrast ×1 theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): A Star Is Born → Bohemian Rhapsody. Star's schmaltz and old-fashionedness were expected to lift it, but that is what the night rewarded in Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book.
    “it's the schmaltiness and old-fashionedness of Bohemian Rhapsody and Green book that we're really discussing tonight.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:30:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Lady Gaga: 2 lines contrast ×1 people ×1

  1. people (people): A Star Is Born → Lady Gaga. The Star Is Born campaign looks shaky after neither Gaga nor Cooper won and Mark Ronson accepted the song award.
    “for neither Gaga nor Cooper to win actor, and of course not to win best drama”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:28:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Roma: 2 lines verdict ×2

  1. verdict (verdict): Roma → A Star Is Born. The Roma versus A Star Is Born matchup felt natural and easy, and far from the Green Book conversation.
    “there's so many, the Roma versus Starborn thing felt so natural and easy to me, and that feels like a 1000000 miles away right now.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:11:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Adolphe Menjou: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Adolphe Menjou → A Star Is Born. Menjou's career credits include A Star Is Born and an Oscar nomination for The Front Page.
    “He's nominated for an Oscar for the front page.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Cary Grant: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (first choice): Cary Grant → A Star Is Born. Cary Grant was supposedly first choice for the A Star Is Born lead that Mason got.
    “Like Carrie Grant was the 1st choice or whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:14:08 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Creed II: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): A Star Is Born → Creed II. Star took a body blow, like Creed 2 shot to the chops while on one knee.
    “I think a Star is Born took a real body blow tonight.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:55:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Dave Chappelle: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Dave Chappelle → A Star Is Born. Watching Chappelle here made the speaker think of his good work in A Star Is Born.
    “Dave Chappelle, like so good in a Star is Born, just incredible.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:50:03 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Fighting with My Family: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Fighting with My Family → A Star Is Born. Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side.
    “I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

First Man: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): First Man → A Star Is Born. Should have been First Man for sound editing and A Star Is Born for sound mixing, not Bohemian Rhapsody for both.
    “it should be 1st man for, uh, sound editing and a star is born for sound mixing”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:50:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Full Metal Jacket: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): A Star Is Born → Full Metal Jacket. Offered as a second answer to best half-movie: everything up to the first time she sings Shallow is dynamite.
    “everything leading up to the 1st time she sings shallow on stage, which is like, I think an hour, maybe a little bit less.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:47:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

Green Book: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): A Star Is Born → Green Book. All three films share a polished, studio, historically Hollywood approach; Star has more grit and anxiety.
    “There's something like very polished and studio and historically Hollywood in the approach of all 3 of those movies.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:30:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)

Matthew Libatique: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Matthew Libatique → A Star Is Born. Argues Libatique's cinematography on A Star Is Born deserved more conversation.
    “I really think it's weird how little conversation there was from Matthew Liboutique for a Star is Born.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:53:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Maya Rudolph: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Maya Rudolph → A Star Is Born. Imagines Maya Rudolph in a satirical or dramatic version of A Star Is Born.
    “She could make a satire of a star is born.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:35:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Mean Girls: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (generational remake): Mean Girls → A Star Is Born. The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls.
    “every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Sam Elliott: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Sam Elliott → A Star Is Born. After watching his interviews a speaker would be happy to see Elliott win the Oscar for A Star Is Born.
    “I'm totally happy if you win the Oscar just because I want Sam Elliot to have an awesome one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:30:46 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)

The Irishman: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): The Irishman → A Star Is Born. Producer Bobby suggests The Irishman is this year's A Star Is Born for the hosts' Oscar obsession.
    “perhaps the Irishman is this year's a star is born for us.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): A Star Is Born → Bradley Cooper. Actors, the largest Academy voting bloc, love the film and what Cooper becoming a director means for their futures.
    “actors are far and away the largest subcategory of voters.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:27:01 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): A Star Is Born → Bradley Cooper. The film is described as Cooper's play to become a respected auteur director.
    “So this was very clearly his play to become an auteur, a respected director.”
    The Big Picture · The Big Picture: A Ringer Movies Podcast · 0:00:43 · unknown (clip speaker) (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Adolphe Menjou → A Star Is Born. Menjou's career credits include A Star Is Born and an Oscar nomination for The Front Page.
    “He's nominated for an Oscar for the front page.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Dave Chappelle → A Star Is Born. Watching Chappelle here made the speaker think of his good work in A Star Is Born.
    “Dave Chappelle, like so good in a Star is Born, just incredible.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:50:03 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Sam Elliott → A Star Is Born. After watching his interviews a speaker would be happy to see Elliott win the Oscar for A Star Is Born.
    “I'm totally happy if you win the Oscar just because I want Sam Elliot to have an awesome one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:30:46 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): A Star Is Born → Lady Gaga. The movie created whole other characters, but the real-life Gaga/Cooper performance of Shallow did not work as well.
    “And in the movie, they managed to create whole other characters.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:29:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): A Star Is Born → Bohemian Rhapsody. A Star Is Born came out in October and Bohemian Rhapsody in November and stayed in theaters, so civilians saw one and not the other.
    “And Bohemian Rhapsody came out in November and has just been in theaters.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:29:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Bradley Cooper → A Star Is Born. Says Cooper performed as himself rather than as Jackson Maine, which is a mistake because the character's voice is indelible.
    “Bradley Cooper, very notably, did not perform as Jackson Maine.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:28:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Matthew Libatique → A Star Is Born. Argues Libatique's cinematography on A Star Is Born deserved more conversation.
    “I really think it's weird how little conversation there was from Matthew Liboutique for a Star is Born.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:53:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): A Star Is Born → Creed II. Star took a body blow, like Creed 2 shot to the chops while on one knee.
    “I think a Star is Born took a real body blow tonight.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:55:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (generational remake): Mean Girls → A Star Is Born. The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls.
    “every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Fighting with My Family → A Star Is Born. Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side.
    “I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): A Star Is Born → Lady Gaga. The Star Is Born campaign looks shaky after neither Gaga nor Cooper won and Mark Ronson accepted the song award.
    “for neither Gaga nor Cooper to win actor, and of course not to win best drama”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:28:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): The Irishman → A Star Is Born. Producer Bobby suggests The Irishman is this year's A Star Is Born for the hosts' Oscar obsession.
    “perhaps the Irishman is this year's a star is born for us.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

theme (3)

  1. theme (theme): A Star Is Born → Full Metal Jacket. Offered as a second answer to best half-movie: everything up to the first time she sings Shallow is dynamite.
    “everything leading up to the 1st time she sings shallow on stage, which is like, I think an hour, maybe a little bit less.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:47:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): A Star Is Born → Bohemian Rhapsody. Star's schmaltz and old-fashionedness were expected to lift it, but that is what the night rewarded in Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book.
    “it's the schmaltiness and old-fashionedness of Bohemian Rhapsody and Green book that we're really discussing tonight.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:30:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): A Star Is Born → Green Book. All three films share a polished, studio, historically Hollywood approach; Star has more grit and anxiety.
    “There's something like very polished and studio and historically Hollywood in the approach of all 3 of those movies.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:30:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (first choice): Cary Grant → A Star Is Born. Cary Grant was supposedly first choice for the A Star Is Born lead that Mason got.
    “Like Carrie Grant was the 1st choice or whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:14:08 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

verdict (5)

  1. verdict (verdict): First Man → A Star Is Born. Should have been First Man for sound editing and A Star Is Born for sound mixing, not Bohemian Rhapsody for both.
    “it should be 1st man for, uh, sound editing and a star is born for sound mixing”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:50:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Roma → A Star Is Born. The Roma versus A Star Is Born matchup felt natural and easy, and far from the Green Book conversation.
    “there's so many, the Roma versus Starborn thing felt so natural and easy to me, and that feels like a 1000000 miles away right now.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:11:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Roma → A Star Is Born. Globes moving away from critics' picks is a problem for Roma as well as Star.
    “then I think that's a problem for Roma as well as Star is born.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:56:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. verdict (verdict): A Star Is Born → A Star Is Born. A speaker predicts the film will sweep the Oscars.
    “I think it's going to clean up at the Oscars.”
    The Big Picture · The Big Picture: A Ringer Movies Podcast · 0:00:57 · unknown (clip speaker) (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. verdict (verdict): Bradley Cooper → A Star Is Born. Rocket in Guardians is ranked as one of Cooper's best performances, though A Star Is Born is argued higher for being his own face.
    “God, this is Cooper's 2nd best performance.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:29:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Maya Rudolph → A Star Is Born. Imagines Maya Rudolph in a satirical or dramatic version of A Star Is Born.
    “She could make a satire of a star is born.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:35:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about A Star Is Born: Dave Chappelle suddenly turns up in the film while Bradley Cooper hides in a bush for half the scene.
    “Bradley Cooper's like in a bush for half the seat anyway.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:47:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about A Star Is Born: Hosts covering their faces watching the Shallow performance, feeling like Jackson Maine and Ally's embarrassed parents.
    “Somewhere along the way, I feel like you and I became Jackson, Maine, and Allie's mom and dad.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:27:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about A Star Is Born: A GIF of the Gaga/Cooper final glance looks like a magical movie still when not live.
    “It instantly becomes like magical movie.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:31:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about A Star Is Born: Mason-jar joke about the energy between Gaga and Cooper.
    “inside that jar is the cure to cold fusion.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:31:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about A Star Is Born: A week ago the speaker thought the film was locked; now maybe just the shallow.
    “We're going to Valhalla with this movie.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:17:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about A Star Is Born: Mark Ronson accepted the Best Song award and read a poem about the SS Shallow to Gaga's face.
    “it did basically end with Mark Ronson reading a poem that he composed about the SS Shallow”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:25:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about A Star Is Born: Gaga yelled 'it's true' at the 99-people joke.
    “And they cut to Lady Gaga and she very good naturedly just grabs Bradley Cooper and then just yells, it's true.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:42:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about A Star Is Born: Cooper keeps calling Clint Eastwood just 'Clint', a sign he wants to be on that level; a clip speaker calls the film a gamble but effective and an Oscar sweeper.
    “He keeps calling Clint Eastwood Clint, and he wants to be on that level. And it was a gamble.”
    The Big Picture · The Big Picture: A Ringer Movies Podcast · 0:00:48 · unknown (clip speaker) (0.40 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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