Babylon » Vavilon| 37 36 | Vavilon » Babylon đenih i sanjara koji beže iz svojih rodnih gradova podiže šator i gradi industriju od nule u pustinji, a ta industrija postaje svetski behemot – priča autor filma. „Vavilon“ nas vodi na putovanje od visina holivudske dekadencije do dubina izopačenosti, stvarajuci sliku Los Anđelesa pre nego što je postao grad koji se širi. Šazel je morao da pronađe lica i glasove kako bi oživeo likove koje je stvarao više od decenije. Prvo je obavio kasting za Neli la Roj, nepoznatu glumicu koja pokušava da se probije u šou biznisu. Kada je Margo Robi prvi put pročitala scenario, rekla je da je to bila najjača reakcija koju je ikada imala. – Moram to da uradim. Ova uloga jemoja! Odmah sam to znala, bez dileme – kaže Margo Robi. Za ulogu poput Neli Šazelu je bila potrebna glumica koja zaista nema strah. Neko ko može da uzme ekran, da ga protrese i uradi šta god želi. – To je za mene Neli. To je za mene Margo. U mnogim drugim aspektima one su neverovatno različite, ali postoje energija, žar i glad koje dele – kaže Šazel. Izbor Breda Pita kao Džeka Konrada, zvezde nemog filma na “We often look at the time period as though maybe the most ‘extreme’ thing that happened was having a fewtoomanymartinis.The reality is that these people were operating in a no-holds-barred kind of world in which an entire industry and city were being built from the ground up, and that takes a certain kind ofmadness. Hollywood inparticular was a wilder, rowdier, more diverse, more free-formplace than people realise. It’s a very American story in that way. A group of outsiders, brigands,misfits anddreamers, fleeing their hometowns, pitching a tent and building an industry fromscratch in the desert, and that industry becoming a global behemoth,” explains Chazelle. Babylon takes us on a journey fromthe heights of Hollywood decadence to the depths of depravity, recreating the feel of Los Angeles before it became a sprawling metropolis. Chazelleneeded tofind the faces and voices to bring life to the characters he had been creating for more than a decade. First up was the casting for Nellie LaRoy, an unknown actress who’s trying to get her big break into show business. WhenMargotRobbie read the script for the first time, she said it was the strongest reaction she had ever had. “I was like, ‘I have to do it. This role is mine,” says Robbie. For a role like Nellie, Chazelle needed a truly fearless actor; someone who can take the screen as though she’s grabbing it by the sides and shaking it to do whatever she wants. “That, to me, is Nellie.That, tome, isMargot. Inmany other respects they are incredibly different people, but there’s an energy and fervour and hunger that they both share,” says Chazelle. The casting of Brad Pitt as Jack Conrad, a silent movie star at the top of his game, was just as natural as it sounds. “Brad’s one of the fewpeople today withwhomyou get some sense of what the old school movie star really might’ve been like. That sort of larger-than-life aura that a star of that time could exude seemingly effortlessly. That’s the thing withBrad, especially at this point in his career. You don’t see the work, it’s completely effortless.That’s part of what’s so magical about it.” Pitt also did his own research into order to portray a silent film star. “I went back and studied. I watched a lot of Gilbert, Fairbanks and Valentino.There’s a real charm in those performances. Silent films didn’t have dialogue to rely on, they only had the occasional title card, so the performances have a style to them that’s different than what we have now, that I wanted to catch,” says Pitt. vrhuncu igre, bio je jednako prirodan. – Bred je jedan od retkih ljudi danas kodkojih imateneki osecaj o tome kakobi zvezda stare škole zaistamogla da izgleda. Ta vrsta aure vece od života kojom je zvezda tog vremena mogla da odiše naizgled bez napora. To je stvar sa Bredom, posebno u ovom trenutku njegove karijere. Ne vidite rad, sve je bez napora. To je deo onoga što je taVratio sam se i učio. Gledao samGilberta, Ferbenksa i Valentina, otkriva Bred Pit / I went back and studied. I watched a lot of Gilbert, Fairbanks and Valentino, reveals Brad Pitt Moram to da uradim. Ova uloga je moja, znala je Margo Robi čim je pročitala scenario ‘I have to do it. This role is mine,” knewMargot Robbie as soon as she read the script Foto: „Image Capital Pictures / Film Stills / Profimedia“ Foto: „Image Capital Pictures / Film Stills / Profimedia“ Holivud je prošao kroz niz brzih i ponekad naizgled kataklizmičkih promena tokom 20-ih i neki ljudi su preživeli, ali mnogi nisu, kaže Šazel / Hollywood underwent a series of rapid and at times seemingly-cataclysmic changes in the ‘20s, and while some people survived, many didn’t, says Chazelle Holivud je bio divljije, bučnije, raznovrsnije, slobodnije mesto nego što to ljudi shvataju Hollywood was a wilder, rowdier, more diverse, more freeform place than people realise ko magično – kaže Šazel. Da bi igrao zvezdu nemog filma, Pit je takođe obavio sopstveno istraživanje. – Vratio sam se i učio. Gledao samdostaGilberta, Ferbenksa iValentina. Imapravogšarmautimnastupima. Nemi filmovi nisu imali dijalog na koji biste se mogli osloniti, tako da predstave imaju stil koji je drugačiji od onoga što imamo sada, a što sam želeo da uhvatim – rekao je Bred Pit.
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