Yes No Maybe So: "House of Gucci"
Friday, July 30, 2021 at 12:38AM by Nathaniel R
"Father... Son.... and House of Gucci" If the trailer is any indication, people are going to be obsessing on or quoting House of Gucci frequently in the coming months. So let's go immediately to our Yes No Maybe So™ routine, but in the more expansive second-by-second way we do occassionally when we're really excited...
Maybe So. Blondie's "Heart of Glass" is a perfect song but seems so overused as time-signifier so we hope the movie has inspired needle drops instead.
It was a name that sounded so sweet, so seductive...
Synonymous with wealth, style, power.
But that name was a curse too.
maybe so...okay yes. This movie is going to have really thick accents but... oh, okay I'm into this speech/montage.
Yes/Yum. Adam Driver looks surprisingly hot with highlighted big 80s hair. Who'da thunk it?
Yes. That image of a (presumably) an assassin looking at Gucci's photo is chilling and a smart trailer segueway from the Gaga intro to the whole cast/story.
NOOOO. Jared Leto. Make it stop. Obviously this film will be up for Best Makeup and Hair but also there's a very real question to be asked: If you have a heavier older bald character for someone to play ... maybe hire a heavier, older, bald actor? At one point is this not just vanity for a film production to do this with stars?
-You're a Gucci. You need to dress the part.
-It's chic.
No but also yes? maybe here me out. A groan worthy laugh line there but this project does have the potential to veer into CAMP in a major way. Will it? And maybe that wouldn't be so bad if it did. It looks enjoyable either way.
YASGAWD, QUEEN. SLAY. OTHER QUEER NOISES. Lady Gaga with tacky bangs at a nightclub. Duh, we're in.
Maybe So... here comes the parade of "Academy Award Nominees/Winners" title cards. Thankfully no one here comes up blank after it begins. Don't you feel bad when that happens to actors in a long trailer kudos fest. This prompts whiplash because each card forces so many recollections or tragedies....
- Oh, right Lady Gaga has a songwriting Oscar -- damn, I love A Star is Born
- Adam Driver was so perfect in Marriage Story. Adam Driver is so perfect in... general.
- Oh, right Jared Leto WON.
- It's been way too long since Jeremy Irons had a Reversal of Fortune level role.
- Salma Hayek is such a good celebrity but I have to admit I didn't care for her Frida performace all that much. She has a potentially interesting role here as a Gaga accomplice in the murder.
- That Ridley Scott doesn't have a competitive Oscar or an Honorary when he's 83 years old and has at three masterpieces under his belt (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise) plus lots of other popular films is really unfortunate.
Yes. This is pure vanity since we didn't predict him and enjoy being correct but it looks like our hunch that Pacino's role would be smaller than Leto's was a good one. He's not in that much of the trailer where Leto is showcased frequently. (That could just be trailer choices but for now we'll pretend trailers are accurate screentime calculators)
Yes Oooh, a masquerade ball scene? Perfect.
No. A CGI skyline. With this budget? Ugh.
I don't consider myself to be a particularly ethical person. But I am fair.
YES. Is this maybe ACTED with capital letters throughout? Possibly. But it looks fun, too. We love a quotable queen... even a self-conscious one.
YES--haha--butalsoohgodthinkofthefuture the trailer has a delicious quippy stinger "Can you keep a secret?" "Father. Son. and House of Gucci" as Gaga crosses herself. It's perfect but can you imagine how over gif'ed this movie is going to be. Gaga as a walking gif generator. Maybe we'll all be sick of House of Gucci by the time the Oscars arrive?
No do not like that shot of the gun towards the end. Too lurid. Will the movie have any subtlety? Not that we don't like the sledgehammer approach on occassion.
Maybe so We missed some good images and great Gaga shots since the trailer is very montage heavy and edited with rapid-fire chaos. Are they hiding a great movie in here or a messy movie with several bits that "pop"? We'll see on November 24th.
Suddenly all those Oscar predictions we were throwing at don't look so risky, do they? An emphatic YES from TFE. How about from you?
Reader Comments (65)
When this comes out, can we skip over the "this is awful" phase of reception and go to the "this is an AWFULly wonderful camp epic" phase straight away? I don't think that's happened since Mommie Dearest. And we need to love this in the theaters, not just at home.
I have always regarded Gaga as more of a Cher 2.0 myself.
Oh my God cannot wait!!! Finally a movie-movie!
If not Lady Gaga, who would they cast, I wonder ?
Giovanni, this story has been in development in various iterations for about 20 years. Angelina Jolie and Dicaprio were approached to star, then Penelope Cruz. Wong Kar-Wi also attempted to develop it with another writer and approached Margot Robbie for the lead. That would have been a vastly different take on the material, certainly.
I'm - again - really impressed by Gaga! She owns this trailer in every second she's in.
When A Star Is Born premiered with all the hype I didn't expect at all how much beautiful, raw truth she unfolded on screen - her nod was well deserved (... yes I know it was a super strong year leaving Toni, Carey & 'Tully' behind). Everyone who hasn't seen this fabulous remake shouldn't judge her acting chops - and I really don't care so much about her music or persona per se... but with Gucci she looks like a strong and fun contender.
All this nitpicking about accents - have u ever lived in Italy ? You hear a million of different versions - the Italian soul & heart pumps through these little snippets of Gaga beautifully - chapeau !!
And yes to Paul Giamatti as Paolo @Erick O !! I'm excited - thanks Nathaniel.
A trailer made by a studio's marketing team can sell audiences any damn thing. I'll believe it when I see it that an 83-year-old straight dude gave us the camp classic that the gheys deserve in 2021! However, Gaga does look fantastic! So for that reason ALONE, I'm in. YES!
Thanks, Kate. This is what they call a "juicy role" for any actress.
NO because is has Adam Driver.
Literally there are 100s of other men that suit the role better than him. Also Leto.ll
I love Gaga and will watch a Scott movie. But this male casting is atrocious! Definitely NO!
Ok, I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed the CGI skyline. Eek.
This looks fun. Def gives me Ryan Murphy vibes at times but it’ll be entertaining no matter what. Gaga is really giving 100% and having fun, which, as someone else said, is most important. Jury’s still out on actual acting chops, but no one can deny the commanding screen presence. I was quoting her immediately after watching the trailer once.
I was shocked when the trailer said that was Jared Leto … which is annoying. With that said though, I honestly am not distracted by the makeup the way I usually am. I thought it was a real person, which is saying a lot. Even in the trailer for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, the prosthetics looked so fake and distracting.
I have always regarded Gaga as more of a Cher 2.0 myself.
Cher never camped it up for her serious film roles.
Jared Leto old and bald yet more attractive than Adam Driver.
I enjoyed the trailer because it goes really big in a campy way ... But i can't help feeling the movie as a whole will be savaged by critics and won't work at all ...
The color palette seems boring, the accents are very distracting, and i fear Leto will be the only one getting an Oscar nomination in the end....
I really hope i'm wrong, and it is still a big YES for me, just because i will definitely see it !!
Big The Counselor vibes from this.
I'm hoping this isn't another boring biopic. LOVE the trailer. Gaga is everything in this, and I thought parts of her performance in "A Star is Born" didn't ring true. She totally owns this. This could be the movie of the year.