The Historical Hollywood Hysteria in "Babylon"
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Damien Chazelle's big budget Hollywood dramedy "Babylon" unveils the showmanship and strangeness of 1920s-1930s moviemaking. Its eccentricities and excesses aside, the movie provides a lively glimpse into a bygone era of film history. Be mindful of spoilers if you have not yet seen the movie!
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I remember seeing a comment around the time the film came out that Babylon is either a love letter to cinema, or a suicide note.
That is very profound
32:00. I do think that what Chazelle is doing here is paying homage to Paul Thomas Anderson's wonderful film "Boogie Nights," about the Golden Age of Porn in the '70s and '80s. There is an iconic scene set in a mansion where a drug deal goes wrong, which was of course based on the Wonderland Murders. I would love to see you tackle "Boogie Nights" to give a bit of background on John Holmes and his story, which is extremely wild.
The Fatty Arbuckle story is such a tragedy and I always thought it would make for a fantastic, albeit harrowing, film. I believe Chris Farley had intended to make it as something of a passion project, but of course that never came to fruition.
29:04. Thank you so much for shouting out "The Artist." One of my favourite films about Old Hollywood, and one of my favourite Best Picture winners of the new millennium. Jean Dujardin's performance is sensational, really evoking the classic era of movie-making with buckets of charm and suaveness, but to see him crumble under the weight of his waning stardom is mesmerizing and heartbreaking. A very deserved Best Actor win.
Have you done the Revolutionary War series Turn?
The Sound of Freedom would probably be a controversial review, but would love to get your analysis on it.
Arbuckle didn't rape or kill her.
1920s ? Head -banging rock music in the night clubs ! Just annoying bull shit. Over played lack of subltety .This could have done with a study of the French movie "The Artist" as a guideline to quality!
I do understand the complaints about there being too much excess in the film -- but that was entirely by design. "Babylon" was not an accidental title; it truly was an era where there were no inhibitions. (See "Hollywood Babylon" by Kenneth Anger, a largely debunked screed but one that nevertheless has some kernel of truth to it.) There is this modern sense that depravity and indecency could not possibly have existed in that era, which I think was the fallout of the Hays Code being so restrictive of films and film history for over a quarter of a century.
I do think that where "Babylon" fails is the Jovan Adepo storyline. That character is given such short shrift in comparison to the other arcs in the story, which is a shame because it is arguably the story least depicted in Hollywood up to that time. We've seen rise-and-fall stories of actors who couldn't transition to the talkies (the aforementioned "The Artist") and young upstarts falling into the industry behind the scenes, but the story of a black man being able to enact change of his own in such a monumental way, only to then be lumped into a category based purely on a PR image of what blackness should/could be . . . that's a fascinating story that we've not seen play out before. But Chazelle barely sketches that storyline out for us. It's a good draft of what could've been a solo movie on its own, but for me, "Babylon" is 9/10 of a masterpiece and 1/10 of a missed opportunity.
The Fatty Arbuckle incident happened at the Saint Francis Hotel in San Francisco, not Los Angeles.
Awesome. No plans today until now. I have not seen this movie! Going to check it out.
Lol I notice odd details but no women wore a hairstyle like the girl in the red dress in the 20’s!!!!!
Where did your Indiana Jones review go?
We have only done the trailer as of now
Huh. I could have sworn I saw that you posted a video on the real history behind it.
Re; Arbuckle. I would hope that a Film buff would know the famous St. Francis Hotel is in San Francisco not L.A.
Are you possibly suffering from Vertigo?
BTW; to say Brad Pitt as a possessive, as in the phrase, Brad Pitt's terrible movie...do not say "Pit-eez" just say "Pitts" ....the same way you would say it singular. A lot of words are like that. No need to add an extra syllable.
Nice "Vertigo" drop... Another SF classic.
I'm still rather inclined to believe the simpler Virginia Rappe scenario that she died of a botched abortion--perhaps during an encounter with Fatty, but not because he abused her as claimed.
I appreciate you reference to the suffragettes and prohibition. Post WW I anti-German sentiment was worth a mention as a reason for prohibition and who can forget the anti vivisection league. And as I always point out -- Steven Spielberg is overrated. I am still working on "Hang Tough." Good book but Dick Winters is kind of straight laced and direct.
Anything with Margot Robbie is worth watching except for Barbie.
What wrong with Barbie?
@@Mars2i0it's just not for me
It's garbage for mindless people.@@Mars2i0
OK, speak for yourself
Get a Clue; That is what people are doing here.....ere you thinking of speaking for someone else? @@MrsTuppence
Got 27 minutes into this and couldn't take any more of Hollywood eating itself. I see from the Wiki page on this film that Time critic Stephanie Zacharek wrote: "Babylon is a manic sprawl that only pretends to celebrate cinema. It’s really about prurience, dumb sensation, self-congratulation and willful ignorance of history." I couldn't agree more. Gave the video a like to help the algorithm and support the channel, but I hope you get on with Generation Kill and consider doing A Bridge Too Far while I still have the will to live...