You look at what these people went through, and it gives you a sense of the human cost that accompanied the kind of ambition that attracted so many people to Los Angeles at that time. In today’s terms, we’d call it disruption. Hollywood underwent a series of rapid and at times seemingly-cataclysmic changes in the 20’s, and some people survived, but many didn’t. “And, on a deeper level, I liked the idea of looking at a society in change. “I wanted to look under the microscope at the early days of an art form and an industry, when both were still finding their footing,” Chazelle said in commentary included in the film’s production notes.
But was the Los Angeles of that time period really as uninhibited and debaucherous as Babylon makes it seem?
Beginning in 1926 and ending in the early 1930s (with an epilogue set some years later), the movie centers on the industry’s tumultuous transition to talking pictures. From there, Babylon takes viewers on a rip-roaring ride through the last days of the silent film era.
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