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- 1920s Hollywood isn’t really what Babylon is about — it’s the situation, not the story. Babylon is a movie about the movies, and not in the purely celebratory way that many films have been before. The film’s 1920s setting functions like the largest outer ring of a telescope, each successive era nested in and extending from the one before it.
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Dec 16, 2022 · If you’re looking for a precise, historically accurate portrait of the times — forget it. “Babylon” is a fever dream, a filmmaker’s riff that captures the splendor of the period and the...
- Were There Really That Many Drugs?
- The Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle Scandal
- Clara Bow – Vamp Or Victim?
- Anna May Wong – Pioneering Actress
- Was There Really A Party Tunnel with Orgies, Rats and Alligators?
There was definitely a drug scene in Hollywood and drug dealing rings operating at the studios, especially in the early 1920s before William Hays came to town and started cracking down on morals both on and offscreen. While it’s highly unlikely that parties offered mountains of cocaine piled on tables for party guests to freely indulge in, as the f...
Though he’s only onscreen for a minute or two, the character of Orville Pickwick, a wealthy, corpulent man who laughs while a young woman urinates over his body during the film’s first wild party sequence, seems to have been loosely inspired by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. Later on during the party scene, Pickwick finds the woman passed out, presumably...
In “Babylon,” Robbie plays Nellie LeRoy, an aspiring actress whose character is partially inspired by Clara Bow. Like Bow, LeRoy comes from an impoverished background and ends up rocketing to fame. Dubbed “The It Girl,” Bow became a huge star, but her career was nearly finished by the time she was just 25. Like the Robbie character, Bow enjoyed gam...
Li Jun Li plays Lady Fay Zhu in “Babylon,” dressed in a top hat and tails like Marlene Dietrich. Her character is inspired by Anna May Wong, the pioneering Chinese American actress who starred with Dietrich in “Shanghai Express.” Robbie’s character says of Li, “Do you think she swings both ways?” Dietrich claimed to have had a romance with Wong, an...
Absolutely not. But there were bootleg booze tunnels running to speakeasies in downtown L.A. — which could have served as the setting for an illicit encounter or two. “Babylon” captures the massive changes in the business with an admittedly exaggerated view, but there’s no question it was an exciting time. “Many people look back at the silent era a...
- Pat Saperstein
Dec 16, 2022 · Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash and La La Land, returns with Babylon, an audacious, debauched ode to Hollywood’s golden age that is so over-the-top that viewers will likely either...
It's no great surprise that Babylon – the new unhinged period epic set in 1920s silent-era Hollywood from La La Land director Damien Chazelle – seems to be generating mixed reactions from...
- Christina Newland
Jan 12, 2023 · Despite the lurid imagery associated with Babylon, Damien Chazelle’s three-hour bacchanal of a movie about Golden Age Hollywood, it wasn’t wretched excess or decadence which first caught...
Dec 23, 2022 · The dream it casts, the glamor of the illusion it weaves. The way you can’t get the glory without the destruction. So the movie alternates between frantic exhilaration and nearly comical levels...
Dec 23, 2022 · And then there’s Damien Chazelle’s Babylon. Like its counterparts, Chazelle’s Jazz Age fever dream sets its emotional climax in an old-fashioned movie house.
