Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is a Hollywood fantasy—but one that constantly leans on history.
is Brad Pitt as the drawling, charismatic, hard-drinking Jack Conrad. In an early scene, Conrad is shown rolling through an inadvertent dive off a balcony that recalls the athletic prowess of Douglas Fairbanks Sr., one of Hollywood’s first action movie superstars. But the resemblance almost stops there; for one thing, Fairbanks was a health nut who rarely drank.
But the fact is, Gilbert’s voice sounded good in his first scene with dialogue, a brief spoof of: Courtesy of Hulton Archive. Courtesy of Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection.does even more to disprove the old myth. The dialogue is bad, but Gilbert’s voice is not. For years, the scene has been fitfully available on Youtube in one form or another. It’s likely that Chazelle is familiar with the fragment, since he virtually recreates it for Conrad in.
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