Chapter 11 of 13 · 3'36"
Ally wins her first Grammy and gives a speech about believing in yourself. Meanwhile Jack, drunk and high, is falling apart in his seat. "I'll sing with him for life," she tells the room, not yet knowing what he's doing behind her. Her brightest night is also the beginning of the end.
❝ Monologue · 19 lines Ally Thanks Jack in Her Grammy Speech
At the Grammys, Ally wins and takes the stage to thank her manager Rez, her husband Jack, and everyone who believed in her. She says she'll sing with Jack for life and tells the audience that there is a spot on that stage for them too. Offstage, Jack is drunk and humiliating himself.
This is the moment Ally has chased her whole life, and it's already splitting her from Jack. Onstage she tells the room, "I'll sing with him for life," a promise she means completely. But the camera keeps cutting to Jack, drunk and high, embarrassing himself in front of the same industry that just crowned her. The speech's message — believe in yourself, there's a spot on that stage — is sincere, yet it lands next to the man who gave her that stage and can no longer stand on it himself. Her triumph and his decline happen in the same room, in the same minutes, and neither can stop it.
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“...believe in yourself, and don't give up because there is a spot on that stage for you.”
She turns her own win into a promise for every listener: there is a spot on that stage for you.
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“I always wanted to be a singer on a big stage, and because of him, I am.”
The unfinished I am says everything: she is that singer now, and he is the reason.
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“I started out singing with this beautiful man, and I'll sing with him for life. Right, baby?”
A public vow disguised as a love note, sealed with a tag question aimed only at him.
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“All right, I might've taken too much.”
At the height of a televised triumph, admitting the overdose gives the last of the dignity away.
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Thank you to Rez Gavron, my manager. Thank you for believing in me... ...and telling me to get back from behind the piano and onto the stage. Wait, did you win? Did you just win? Thank you to my... My, uh... To Jack Maine, my husband. - Should I come up there? - I love you so much. I always wanted to be a singer on a big stage, and because of him, I am. We're having a lot of fun tonight. Yeah. - I... - Shit. Look. If I haven't thanked you yet, just... Did you see you're up there? Yeah, I do. I started out singing with this beautiful man, and I'll sing with him for life. Right, baby? Yeah. This is a dream come true, and all I can say is... ...believe in yourself, and don't give up because there is a spot on that stage for you.
Up next · 12do the deedThe scene: Jack Tells the Ceiling Fan StoryHe's been drinking and taking pills all night. By the time Ally wins, he's too far gone to stay on his feet, and he humiliates himself in front of everyone.
She thanks Rez and Jack, says she always wanted to sing on a big stage, and tells the audience to believe in themselves because there's a spot on that stage for them.
His people and Ally's family step in. Someone orders him taken to the shower and tells Ally to go inside, while others try to keep his head up.
A bad comedown is the crash after a high from pills or alcohol. Someone says Jack is having one, meaning he's sinking fast, not just drunk.
Not right away. She's focused on the award and the audience, and only later sees the state he's in when people rush to help him.
