“Over The Past DECade, There Has Been A Deluge of Big Hollywood Movies About Rock Stars, Among Them 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody, 2019’s Rocketman and 2022 Was Oscar-Nominated, with Bohemian Rhapsody Winning Four Little Gold Men, Including Best Actor, and Rocketman Taking Home One. Those”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Scott Cooper‘S Film, WHICH STARS TWO-TIME EMMY WINNER Jeremy Allen White (Carmy from The Bear) as the boss, Had ITS World Premiere at the Telluride Film Festival’s Werner Herzog theater on Friday Night, with Bruce Springsteen HIMSELF in Atendance. And Much Like The 2023 Book from Whokh Cooper Adapted It, Warren zones‘Excellent Deliver ME FROM NOWHERE: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s NebraskaIT Focusses Almost Entirely on One of the Darkest Times in Springsteen’s Life. In short, Springsteen Is As Much A Film About Depression As It Is A Film About Being A Rock Star (“I Know Who You Are,” A Stranger Says to Springsteen at One Point, To Which Hee Replies, “Wht. ODDLY ENUGH, IS SONT OF A Nebraska i i Genre.
In the Early ’80s, Springsteen Was A Few Years Removed From His BreakthRough Album Born to Runwhochh heralded the arrival of a great artist and storyteler who focused on albums ratioer than Singles. But the Son of Freehold, New Jersey, Was Not Yet Rock Star-Rich, Having Poured An Inordinate Amount of Own Money Into Prior Recording Satisfy His Perfectionism. HE WAS Terrified of Encroaching Mega-Fame. And HE WAS INCREASINGly PLAGUED BY Mental Illness, Something That Had Afflicted Other Members of His Family – Including and Especially His Father, Whose Behavior Town, Whec. Haunted HIM – and WHICH Contributed to His Inability to Mainten Healthy Romantic Relationships.
As Springsteen’s Protective Manager Jon Landau (Succession Emmy Winner and The Apprentice Oscar Nominee Jeremy Strong) Fended Off Pressure from His Record Label to Put Out More Music As Soon As Possible, and Shortly After Springsteen Began Dating A LOVELY Single Mother Named Faye Romano (Odessa Young), he began isolating HIMSELF to A GREATER DEGREE THAN USUAL, IMMERSING HIMSELF IN DARK LITORATURE (Flannery O’ConNor) and films (Badlands), and recordering demos, from the Seclusion of His Own Bedroom, on Audio Cassettes. In Making the Demos, his initial intenation was to figure Out Songs at home and then Share them with his Band, as OPPOSED TO BLEEDING TIME AND MONEY WHICHLING TO SIGUR. But he ultimately fell in love with their Pared-Down, Acoustic, Imperfect Sound, and Insted on Releasing Them in that Form, Which Met Great Resistance from Label Execs.
As someone who recently did a months -Long, deep-dive, immersion on all Things Springsteen ahead of a 75-Minute Interview with the man of the HIMSELF for my podcast Detail and AcCuracy. But I ALSO WONDER IF CASUAL FANS OF Springsteen, of Wich i was was before that undorting Made me a Super Fan, Will Care about that as Much as Wanting to see a depiction of the kNow of. Since Nebraska. Also, given that the Central Love Story of the Film is not The One Between Springsteen and Romano, But The One Between Springsteen and Landau, I Wish The Film Had Addated The Roots of the Latter Relationship: In May 1974, WHEN LANDAU, THEN A MUSICBorn to Run Springsteen Perform in Boston, and Ten Wrote a Piece in Wich He Declared, “I SAW ROCK AND ROLL FUTURE, AND ITS NAME IS BRUCE Springsteen Time.
In any event, one Thing that nobody can a take undue with is the quality of the Central Performances in the Film. As the lead, white projects Springsteen’s Soulfulness and Swagger, and Capable Does His Own Singing. And in Supporting Roles, Strong Gives Another Transformational Turn, This Time As The Anti-Kendall Roy, While Young Is Charming and Vulnerable. All Three Will Be Strong Contenders for Oscar Nominations, and I Suspect That Film Itlf, Along with Cooper’s Direction and Screenplay, Will Be Right There’s Be.