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Since then, the films have been a huge success and after the Oscars Whiplash To La La Land To The first man Director/writer Damian Chazelle returns to an early dream project first conceived 15 years ago, a no-holds-barred look at early Hollywood, a time when not only films were transitioning from silent to sound. Los Angeles itself was moving from desert to boom. Metropolis people were caught in a tumultuous time of change, and it didn’t always work out for some. As seen in the resulting film and years of painstaking research, Babylon It’s a sight to behold, a decadent, free-wheeling, sometimes dreamer of dreamers, stars, edge players, and all those who wanted a piece of a world that was out of control, uninhibited, and full of promise. Feel full and decadent.

With more than 100 speaking characters and a widescreen cast of extras, Chazelle has created a vision of Hollywood at the moment that seems strikingly original, but oddly fitting for the man who played Holly. Another set of dreamers in Wood looked at it through a more romantic and contemporary lens. La La Land, The film, which would make him the youngest ever Best Director Oscar winner, received 14 nominations, and won 6. He seems drawn to the intrigue of who comes to the city, which is separated by several generations, but still finds LA a magnet. I Babylon It’s wonderful to see the transition from an impenetrable and adventurous new world to something that’s more controlled and business-like once you’re done talking, but the ups and downs are a sight to behold before it arrives. Wild is a ride like no other. Recent cinema.

That seems to be the goal here. Chazelle would host screenings in the projection rooms of some of the most ambitious, risk-taking films of all time to get inspired in the early days of writing this Hollywood epic. He and his colleagues would see everything from the massive likes of DW Griffiths. Intolerance To Wings To La Dolce Vita To Nashville To Citizen Kane To Chinatown, The Godfather Part 2, Apocalypse Now, There Will Be Blood, Cabaret and more. You get the idea. If Babylon, At 3 hours 9 minutes Doesn’t quite reach those heights, it’s guaranteed to be a film that sticks in your head, a swinging-for-the-fence journey that stands alone in 2022 and through an unimaginable rabbit hole of jaw-dropping behavior. . Earns his stripes.

Story-wise it focuses on a few key characters, including wide-eyed Manny Torres (a breakout role for Diego Calva), a young Mexican who hopes to find work in films, and A wild party finds an open door that was thrown by a toad. Executive (Jeff Garlin), where he promises to provide an elephant (!) to keep the proceedings alive (he wasn’t real, Peta, but you could have fooled me). Literally crashing into the gathering is wannabe actress Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie), who drives her car right up to the entrance and then dives into all of the completely unhinged and densely populated crowd, people who use c*caine. They dance like mountains. In the morning, get naked and be naughty, and it seems that there are no limits. Strolling through it all is Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt), a big silent movie star who first breaks up with his ex-wife Anna (Olivia) in the heat of an argument (Pitt uses a hilarious Italian accent for her). Hoye) introduced motoring. Wilde in a fun cameo). Manny befriends Nellie, and witnessing the madness here is Eleanor St. John (a terrific Jane Smart), a top gossip columnist who has seen and written about it all. It’s a colorful thing.

We get to follow these characters as Nelly ascends, Jack descends, Manny finds himself in both right and wrong and their individual destinies take interesting, somewhat unexpected turns. There are many more that we meet. An Anna May Wong as the impressive actor, the wonderful Lady Fei Zhu (Le Jun Li) who does other odd jobs to survive like singing “My Girl’s Piss” (a real song of the era); Black jazz trumpeter Sidney Palmer (a great Jovan Adipo) finds great success when his musical talents meet the needs of an industry moving into the acoustic age. Ruth Adler (Olivia Hamilton, who is also a producer on this one), a rat-a-tit-tit female director with a clear vision for her film; His assistant director Max (a hilarious P,J. Byrne) who is clearly heading for a nervous breakdown; Of Babylon The tumultuous signature scenes where Nellie, in a debut role, can’t quite hit her marks. and the imposing and psychopathic James McKay (Tobey Maguire like you’ve never seen him), a shady criminal who causes trouble for Manny and Nellie.

fleas (yes, That Flea) plays a studio fixer. Max Minghella is legendary studio wonderboy Irving Thalberg. Rory Scovel plays The Count who wants to act but survives by providing the dr*gs everyone needs to function at this level of insanity. Eric Roberts as Nelly’s father; Catherine Waterston as one of Jack’s many wives; And on and on. The extras are too numerous to count, but all seem comfortable in various stages of orgiastic undressing. For a film made during Covid, the scope and sheer scale of the display here is something to behold.

It’s a film that’s full of twists and turns, with Chazelle packing so much, it seems to be exactly what early Hollywood needed. Remarkably, he manages everything you can imagine, from rollicking comedy (in this endless scene for Nellie) to epic location filming, to roaring parties. are When Maguire comes in towards the end (he’s also an executive producer) the tone shifts dramatically and becomes almost too dark to blend in with everything that’s come before, but the film is a theatrical release many years later. I recover brilliantly with the Coda set. movie musical, singing in the rain, The plot is famously set in the 20s when silents gave way to talkies. This is the perfect homage from Chazelle.

In terms of production Babylon It’s topped off with sharp cinematography by Linus Sandgren, stunning costume design by Mary Zofris, stunning production design by Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino, and a great score by Oscar-winning composer Justin Hurwitz. La La Land who has collaborated with Chazelle on all his films.

Ruby is sensational here just to perform sensational. Smart is chilling, especially in her brilliantly played key scene with Pitt where she presents Jack with the sad truth about her fading career. Pitt is superb here, too, and surprisingly natural here in an almost melancholic turn as a star who knows his time is fleeting, a glimpse of him. one more Hollywood. Kalva is an important find.

Babylon May not be for everyone. This isn’t cookie-cutter stuff, and Chazelle doesn’t hold back. It can be tiresome at times, but as something completely original and ready to rock the moviegoers’ passion, it’s refreshing as hell. Producers are Mark Platt, Matthew Plouffe and Hamilton. Paramount opens it wide on December 23.