![]() Director Chazelle was smart to fictionalize the names of his characters (except for producer Irving Thalberg). Margot Robbie’s character is based on Clara Bow. Who Was Margot Robbie’s Character, Nellie LaRoy, Based On? So many rootless transplants in a city with few civic structures often spelled mayhem and corruption. Guns were the instruments of choice for murderers, who were overwhelmingly young, white American men who-like the flickers themselves-had recently moved there from elsewhere in the country. In the period of the film, Los Angelenos experienced more burglaries and a greater homicide rate than any other city. Los Angeles exploded with the sights and sounds of a modern Wild West as it shot to become California’s largest city between 19, as the flickers settled there. The milieu of Babylon, particularly at the film’s end, is staggeringly violent, and the atmosphere is tense and volatile. Was Los Angeles Really as Freewheeling and Violent as Babylon Suggests? If this had been true, Hollywood could not have become such a massively successful business so fast, catapulting to a position as the fourth-largest industry in the U.S.-behind only steel, automobiles, and railroads-by 1920, and Los Angeles would not have ballooned so quickly. ![]() At its worst, the movie suggests that everyone partied this hard all the time. No doubt this isolation at times promoted bohemian excess. At its best, Babylon conveys the free-floating, magic bubble where “the flickers” lived and worked while creating a new art form that had made them richer and more famous faster than anyone could have dreamed.
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