![]() ![]() Margot Robbie’s character is based on Clara Bow. Who Was Margot Robbie’s Character, Nellie LaRoy, Based On? Still, anyone eager to check out the ethnically diverse, often gender-bending band of misfits who actually powered early Hollywood’s rise will revel in this film that drips with the period’s feel and look (even when nary a bobbed head is in sight). Babylon also raises important questions-like, what happened to all the people it depicts working behind the camera on the sets it lovingly creates? -that receive only the vaguest of answers. But the film feels at times too burdened by its commitment to showing us this new picture of early moviemaking, forgetting the necessity of imposing a strong narrative on the inevitably overwhelming messiness of the past. Oddly, for a film historian, my biggest complaint about Babylon is not the places where it diverges from the historical record-plausible creative license must have its due. Many of the freshest insights from historical research about Los Angeles’ bohemian roots and the relative prevalence of women and racial minorities working in the industry made their way onto the screen. But Babylon’s spectacular presentation is miles better than any other picture before it on the subject of Hollywood’s birth during the Roaring Twenties and the industry’s transition from the silents to the talkies after The Jazz Singer’s success in 1927. Critics have already questioned the accuracy of Chazelle’s extravaganza, calling it a hot mess and bad history. ![]()
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