Hollywood has left behind its old drug-related excesses, say Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, protagonists of the film “Babylon”, about the hedonism of the cinema mecca of the 1920s, a strong contender for the Oscars. Chazelle, who starred in “La La Land,” had its first critical screening Monday night at the Los Angeles Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out the industry’s top awards. enter the film that narrates the transition from silent films to talkies from the point of view of Hollywood filmmakers and actors, mostly fictional, between parties full of cocaine and chaotic filming, all told with explicit images.Questioned in a post-screening debate whether the film made her nostalgic for the so-called “Golden Age” of the film industry, Margot Robbie noted that “there are less drugs now” in Hollywood. “Unfortunately true!” Pitt joked. ” data-title=”Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie reflect on Hollywood’s relationship with drugs in new film “Babylon” – SAPO Mag”>
Chazelle made film history in 2017 when he became the youngest Oscar winner for Best Director at age 32 for “La La Land,” an ode to Hollywood musicals. He had already been nominated for the screenplay for “Whiplash” (2014). “Babylon” is one of the last potential Oscar candidates to be presented to the Academy: the film opens on December 23 in the US and in January 2023 in the rest of the world ( 19th in Portugal). During three hours, the film portrays Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s, with its sumptuous parties with drugs, elephants and topless dancers and its very expensive filming in the Californian desert. the devastating effect that technological change had on silent film stars, many of whom were abandoned almost overnight by the industry. Chazelle said he was inspired after reading about the “strange phenomenon in which, in the late 1920s, , there was a wave of suicides, deaths that appear to have been overdoses of a suicide drug”. This phenomenon coincided with the transition to Hollywood talkies, notes the director, who created his characters from various stars and magnificence Minutes of the time. Reviews of “Babilónia” remain under embargo until its release.SUBTITLED TRAILER.