> Do any of you know movies that criticize Hollywood that genuinely portrays the life of an actor or director as terrible? Like, not an actor that is tortured and abused but end up being this totally awesome musician or actors. It always seems to end up this way and I don't know why.

Leaving Las Vegas was the first thing that came to mind.

It felt a lot like Birdman's "star struggles to accept his waning star power" thing to me, just in a different period. Robbie and Pitt both end up >!killing themselves because they can't make the transition away from silent pictures!<