An in-depth analysis of Babylonian films

The film "Babylon" cuts all the indifference, cruelty and hypocrisy behind the film circle, but it also shows us that its temptation is like Sai Ren the siren, which fascinates countless people.

In the film Babylonia, director Damien Chazelle infinitely magnified jazz and Hollywood history, which are two elements of his obsession. He abandoned the dreamer narrative he had been keen on before and rewrote a flashy epic obsessed with paper. He referred to the characteristics of many early Hollywood stars, and mixed inspiration from Singing in the Rain, life is sweet, The Godfather and Nashville to create a "Hollywood Past" full of different stories.

If Damien Chazelle's previous work "la la land" represents a dreamy style of restoring the golden age, then "Babylon" is Damien Chazelle's self-reflection, which reveals the chaos and fanaticism behind Hollywood, and forms an ironic contrast with the fairy tale of assembly line production under the cover of Puritanism. What Damien Chazelle really wants to pay tribute to is not the ethereal pure screen dream, but the golden age behind the long-gone screen itself.

A brief introduction to the story of Babylon

65438-0926 In Los Angeles, Manny, a Mexican immigrant, worked as a handyman at a wild party held by executives of Kinoscope Studio, where she met Nelly Laroy, a blonde from the bottom of New Jersey. She just arrived in Los Angeles, wild and rude, but ambitious, hoping to become a Hollywood movie star. Manny fell in love with her at first sight.

Also attending the party were Jack Conrad, a famous middle-aged actor at that time, China actress Zhu Fei, and African-American jazz trumpeter Sidney who was still struggling. At the party, Manny also met Jack, who recommended him to work on the shooting scene and was appreciated for his excellent work performance. Meanwhile, on the other side of the set, Nellie was discovered for her amazing dance and performance, and made a silent film, which made her famous.

In the later 1927, the first talking film "Jazz Singer" was released, which changed the pattern of the film industry and Hollywood forever. Manny seized the opportunity of the times and gradually grew up to become a film producer; Nelly, on the other hand, because of her self-indulgence, can no longer keep up with the pace of the audio age, gradually sinking and being forced to reform by the studio.

Because of his acting skills, Jack has not adapted to the era of sound, and has entered a double crisis of middle age and career. Zhu Fei, because of his homosexual tendencies, can no longer be tolerated by increasingly conservative Hollywood. Sidney became an actor in a black jazz film, but was asked to "paint his face darker" to cater to stereotypes.

After that, the fate of the five people turned sharply. James McKay, a gangster with strange voice and abnormal behavior in Los Angeles, suddenly intervened because of the gambling debt owed by Nellie, interrupting Manny's beautiful life, and the film also entered a dark atmosphere at this time. The golden age of Hollywood seems to be disappearing here. Those who once left their names in the history of movies were also abandoned by history in the pain of change and forgotten by the world under the flow of time.