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Babylon<\/b><\/i> is an American epic<\/a>\u00a0historical<\/a>\u00a0black<\/a>\u00a0comedy-drama<\/a>\u00a0film written and directed by\u00a0Damien Chazelle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It features an\u00a0ensemble cast<\/a>\u00a0that includes\u00a0Brad Pitt<\/a>,\u00a0Margot Robbie<\/a>,\u00a0Diego Calva<\/a>,\u00a0Jean Smart<\/a>,\u00a0Jovan Adepo<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Li Jun Li<\/a>. It chronicles the rise and fall of multiple characters during Hollywood’s transition from\u00a0silent<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0sound films<\/a>\u00a0in the late\u00a01920s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chazelle began developing\u00a0Babylon<\/i>\u00a0in July 2019, with\u00a0Lionsgate Films<\/a>\u00a0as the frontrunner to acquire the project. It was announced that\u00a0Paramount Pictures<\/a>\u00a0had acquired worldwide rights in November 2019. Much of the main cast joined the project between January 2020 and August 2021, and filming took place in Los Angeles from July to October 2021.<\/p>\n

Babylon<\/i>\u00a0premiered at the\u00a0Samuel Goldwyn Theater<\/a>\u00a0in Los Angeles on November 14, 2022, and was released in the United States on December 23, 2022.<\/p>\n

It was met with a polarized response from critics and was a\u00a0box-office bomb<\/a>, grossing $63 million against a production budget of $78\u201380 million and losing Paramount $87 million. It received five nominations at the\u00a080th Golden Globe Awards<\/a>\u00a0(including\u00a0Best Motion Picture \u2013 Musical or Comedy<\/a>, winning\u00a0Best Original Score<\/a>), three nominations at the\u00a076th British Academy Film Awards<\/a>\u00a0(winning\u00a0Best Production Design<\/a>) and three nominations at the\u00a095th Academy Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Bel Air, 1926, Manuel \u00ab\u00a0Manny\u00a0\u00bb Torres organizes the haphazard transport of an elephant to a debauched\u00a0bacchanal<\/a>\u00a0at the mansion of his employer, Kinoscope Studios boss Don Wallach. Witnessing this event rife with sex, jazz, and cocaine, Manny becomes smitten with Nellie LaRoy, a brash, ambitious self-declared \u00ab\u00a0star\u00a0\u00bb from\u00a0New Jersey<\/a>. Himself the son of impoverished Mexican refugees, Manny shares his dream with her\u2014to be part of something \u00ab\u00a0bigger\u00a0\u00bb. He helps carry away young actress Jane Thornton, who overdosed on drugs with actor Orville Pickwick, having the elephant walk through to distract partygoers.<\/p>\n

Also attending are Chinese-American gay\u00a0cabaret<\/a>-singer Lady Fay Zhu and African-American jazz trumpeter Sidney Palmer. The flamboyantly-dancing Nellie is spotted and swiftly recruited to replace Jane in a Kinoscope film. During filming, she crudely upstages\u00a0Constance Moore<\/a>. Manny becomes a personal assistant to the benevolent, oft-married film star Jack Conrad who helps him secure Kinoscope assistant jobs. When a camera is urgently needed for one of Jack’s scenes before nightfall, Manny procures it at the last moment, helping him climb the\u00a0studio system<\/a>‘s ranks.<\/p>\n

Nellie becomes an \u00ab\u00a0it girl<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb covered by gossip columnist Elinor St. John, who also follows Jack’s career. As\u00a0sound film<\/a>\u00a0displaces silents in the late-1920s, Manny skillfully adapts to the changes. At Sidney’s suggestion, he pitches films starring Sidney’s orchestra to\u00a0Irving Thalberg<\/a>\u00a0and becomes a studio executive. Nellie struggles to navigate sound film’s demands (one cameraman dies filming her), and increases her drug use and gambling, tarnishing her reputation, despite Manny’s assistance.<\/p>\n

Nellie, shown to have an\u00a0institutionalized<\/a>\u00a0mother, eggs on her drunken father (and inept business manager) Robert to fight a rattlesnake at a party; he passes out. Nellie fights the snake, which bites her neck; Fay kills it and sucks out the venom. Nellie passionately kisses her.<\/p>\n

By 1932, Jack’s popularity is waning but he still finds work in low-budget\u00a0Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<\/a>\u00a0films. As Hollywood’s audience becomes less tolerant of\u00a0libertine<\/a>\u00a0behavior, executives order Manny to\u00a0fire<\/a>\u00a0Fay, a Kinoscope title-writer, because she is a lesbian. While practicing lines with new wife Estelle, Jack is devastated to learn his longtime friend\/producer, George Munn, has committed suicide.<\/p>\n

Elinor and Manny try to revamp Nellie’s image and get her into\u00a0high society<\/a>, but Nellie lashes out against upper-class snobbery at a party, demonstratively vomiting on\u00a0William Randolph Hearst<\/a>. Jack confronts Elinor over her cover story on his declining popularity; she explains that his star has faded, but he will be immortalized on film.<\/p>\n

Comparatively light-skinned Sidney is offended when studio executives insist he don\u00a0blackface<\/a>\u00a0to assuage\u00a0Southern<\/a>\u00a0audiences’ aversion to interracial orchestras; he leaves Kinoscope to perform live in black establishments. Jack encounters Fay at a hotel party; she reveals her departure for Europe and\u00a0Path\u00e9<\/a>. After returning to his hotel room, a despondent Jack shoots himself dead.<\/p>\n

Eccentric gangster James McKay threatens Nellie’s life over her gambling debts. Manny rejects her pleas for help, but later secures funds from the movie-set drug-pusher\/aspiring actor \u00ab\u00a0The Count\u00a0\u00bb, and visits James with him to pay the debts. Manny panics upon learning the money is\u00a0counterfeit<\/a>, made by his prop-maker. Raving about potential film ideas, the gangster drags them along to a subterranean gathering space for depraved\u00a0zoosadist<\/a>\u00a0parties. When he realizes the cash is counterfeit, the two are about to get shot but escape, killing James’s henchman Wilson.<\/p>\n

Manny asks Nellie to flee with him to Mexico, marry and start a new life; she eventually agrees. James’s associate finds Manny, killing The Count and his roommate. When a terrified Manny loses control of his bladder, the hitman spares him on condition he leaves Los Angeles. While Manny gathers their belongings, Nellie reneges on her decision, dancing away into the night. A\u00a0montage<\/a>\u00a0of newspaper clippings reveals Elinor’s death at 76 and Nellie’s death from a drug overdose at 34.<\/p>\n

In 1952, Manny returns to California with his wife Silvia and young daughter, having fled to New York City and established a radio shop. He shows them the Kinoscope Studios entrance, then visits a nearby cinema alone to see\u00a0Singin’ in the Rain<\/a><\/i>, whose depiction of the industry’s transition from silents to talkies, albeit sanitized, moves him to tears. A century-spanning series of vignettes from various films follows. As the focus returns to\u00a0Singin’<\/i>, Manny tearfully smiles.<\/p>\n

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