Babylon (2022), written & directed by Damien Chazelle, starring Margot Robbie, Diego Calva & Brad Pitt, depicts early Hollywood’s extreme sides & shows its transition from silent to sound. Its fictional characters are based on combinations of real people, while its exploitative story is loosely inspired by true events.
Silent era’s immense growth & abrupt destruction by talkies reminds of Mesopotamia’s Babylon’s rise & fall. In 1920s Hollywood, the people in film industry built a city & made a name for themselves just like people in…