A full orchestra plays accompaniment on location for a giant battle scene? Who could hear them? Silent directors often used a few musicians to provide intimate moods for dramatic scenes. We almost don’t know how to react Chazelle’s more ‘explosive’ anatomical gross-outs, or how to understand what he wants to achieve. The elephant sequence and the vomiting sequence are pretty intolerable. That first four minutes of elephant slime play like an Audience Test, as if Chazelle were daring people to walk out. Nellie’s projectile vomit on Hearst’s rug far outdoes that of Linda Blair. What fun! Hooray for Hollywood! * As always, my favourite part of any Steelbook is opening it up and seeing the choice of the interior slip covers. There are a multitude of ways to go here, with posters, scenes from the film, promo shots, or simple scenes from the film, and with Babylon it could’ve gotten even crazier with some sort of ode to Hollywood and film that wasn’t even in the movie. Here they chose to go the movie scene route, and it’s the perfect scene to capture the early vibe of the film, with Margot Robbie’s character riding the party wave at the film’s opening celebration. It’s a spectacular shot that flawlessly spreads across both slip covers and was just an excellent choice overall.

A sprawling paean to the indulgent early days of Hollywood that is visually lavish and filled with superb performances. The 4K Ultra HD disc from Paramount is a release that will stun in your home theater. Recommended.The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release of ‘Babylon’ includes a few worthwhile extras which can all be found on the included Blu-ray Bonus Disc. Included on the release are a handful of ‘Deleted and Extended Scenes’ from the film (running approximately 9 minutes in length altogether) along with a few Behind the Scenes Featurettes that explore bringing the film to life and featuring interviews/comments with the cast and crew, plus behind the scenes footage and more. The included Featurettes are ‘A Panoramic Canvas Called Babylon’ (running approximately 31 minutes), ‘The Costumes of Babylon’ (approximately 3 minutes) and ‘Scoring Babylon’ (approximately 2 minutes).

By the mid ’20s a fairly well-policed ‘extras casting’ system was in place for group and crowd scenes. The battle extras’ revolt isn’t impossible, but seeing as this is a high-end studio film, abusing the extras like that is highly unlikely. Having Manny Torres use a gun to drive them about like cattle may be funny, but he’d likely get himself beaten to death. Babylon is writer/director Damien Chazelle’s tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. Hollywood 100 years ago, costume design, the film's technical details and inspirations, shooting on film, making the first "sound film" scene in the

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In addition to the flawless Dolby Vision transfer, we get an equally impressive 1080p version of the film on the included blu-ray disc, as well as a digital redemption coupon for the film. Perhaps they didn't want any sound coming from the machine so they could over-lay what they wanted, if so, a blank recording of nothing on it would have been the answer. free flow of the partying and filmmaking seen previous. Chazelle builds a fascinatingly and intoxicatingly slow The main characters in this overhyped fantasy are ‘adapted’ from recognizable historical models, with an eye toward racial diversity.

particularly soaking in the opportunity to act with near limitless inhibition, whether she's acting within her part in a film-within-the-film orAs for the discs, we’ve got the 4K release, a Blu-ray disc and a second Blu-ray disc that houses the film’s extras. There’s also a digital copy of the film inside as well. Far more brutal is the film’s constant profanity. It is wince-inducingly ugly, specializing in anatomical overkill, often mixed with racist and bigoted tirades. Every conflict or frustration ends with people screaming expletives at each other — directors, assistant directors, executives, and especially Nellie LaRoy. We’ve all heard stories of studio heads that brutalized their employees with profane, abusive tirades. Babylon clobbers its audience with the same in every other scene. Almost none of it is remotely funny or suggests that the writer has a point to make. It’s just more Audience Abuse. This year’s Oscar Broadcast missed a great opportunity — a fun montage of ‘great elephant moments’ in cinema history: Tarzan, Sabu in Elephant Boy, Dumbo and his animated mom, Elsa Martinelli taking a Baby Elephant Walk in Howard Hawks’ Hatari!, Claudine Longet painting an elephant in Blake Edwards’ The Party, and, and — Babylon’s pachyderm with its aggravated stomach complaint. Scoring Babylon— Take a peek into Justin Hurwitz's musical process to understand the artistry behind composing an iconic score that further elevates the film.