Babylon » Vavilon| 35 34 | Vavilon » Babylon „Vavilon“ je film o dekadenciji, o brzini i nekoj vrsti ekstatične žurbe, i kako to na kraju krajeva ne može da potraje— to je vatra koja gori takvim sjajemda mora samu sebe da proguta Babylon is about decadence, the fast life and a kind of ecstatic rush, and how that ultimately can’t last – it’s a fire that burns so bright that it can only consume itself Kultura Culture Vavilon Babylon Od Demi j ena Šaze l a F rom Dam i en Cha z e l l e Veliki američki ep o ranomHolivudu The great American epic about early Hollywood „Vavilon“, koji predvode Bred Pit i Margo Robi, smešten je u Los Anđeles 20-ih godina 20. veka. To je priča koja prati uspon i pad glavnih aktera tokom ere neobuzdane izopačenosti u ranom Holivudu Babylon is set in 1920s Los Angeles. Led by Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, it tells a tale that traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled depravity in early Hollywood Foto: „Image Capital Pictures / Film Stills / Profimedia“ Tekst/Words: Jelena Pantović Fotografije/Photography: Profimedia.rs “I wanted to look under themicroscope at the early days of an art form and an industry. On a deeper level, I liked the idea of looking at a society undergoing change. Hollywood underwent a series of rapid and at times seemingly-cataclysmic changes in the ‘20s, andwhile some people survived, many didn’t. In today’s terms, we’d call it disruption. 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. There’s a darker side to the story of that transition than I’d previously seen. It went beyond the arrival of sync sound to include a host of new moral codes turning an unregulated community into the global corporate industry that we know today. Coinciding with all of this is Los Angeles morphing from a mostly-rural desert town at the start of the ‘20s to one of the world’s major megalopolises by the decade’s end. A lot of gleaming new buildings and soundstages rose from the ashes, but the human wreckage was considerable, says Chazelle. As he delved deeper into the history of the silent film era, he came away with an impression of the people who lived through the Roaring Twenties, which differed radically from the ways it had been portrayed in the past. Za pisca i reditelja Demijena Šazela „Vavilon“ je rezultat 15 godina istraživanja i izgradnje sveta koji je počeo u njegovoj glavi mnogo pre nego što je otkucao prvi nacrt scenarija i zakoračio iza kamere kako bi oživeo svoj ep. – Želeo samda pogledampod mikroskopomrane dane umetničke forme i industrije. Na dubljem nivoudopalami se ideja da posmatramdruštvo koje će se promeniti. Holivud je prošao kroz niz brzih i ponekad naizgled kataklizmičkih promena tokom20-ih godina i neki ljudi su preživeli, alimnogi nisu. U današnjem smislu, mi bismo to nazvali poremecajem.Gledatekroz šta su ovi ljudi prošli i to vamdaje osecaj ljudske cene ambicije koja je privukla toliko ljudi u Los Anđeles u to vreme. Postoji strana priče o toj tranziciji koja je mračnija nego što sam ranije video. Otišlo je dalje od dolaska zvuka i uključilo mnoštvo novih moralnih kodeksa neregulisane zajednice do globalne korporativne industrije koju poznajemo danas. Uz sve ovo, Los Anđeles se pretvara iz pretežno ruralnog pustinjskog grada na početku 20-ih u jedan od najvecih svetskihmegalopolisa do kraja decenije.Mnogoblistavihnovihzgrada podiglo se iz pepela, ali je visoka cena za to plaćena – kaže Šazel. Kopajući dublje po istoriji ere nemog filma, došao je do zaključka o ljudima koji su živeli bučnih dvadesetih i koji se radikalno razlikovao od onoga kako su to vreme prikazivali u prošlosti. – Često gledamo na to vreme kao da je možda najekstremnija stvar koja se desila bila da smo popili previše martinija. Realnost je da su ti ljudi radili u svetubez ograničenja, gde su se čitava industrija i grad gradili iz temelja, a to zahteva određenu vrstu ludila. Holivud je bio divljije, bučnije, raznovrsnije, slobodnijemesto nego što ljudi shvataju. To je veoma američka priča, na neki način. Grupa autsajdera i razbojnika, neprilagoFoto: „Image Capital Pictures / Film Stills / Profimedia“ For writer and director Damien Chazelle, Babylon is the result of 15 years of research and world-building that started in his head long before he typed the first draft of the script and stepped behind the camera to bring his epic to life.
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