![]() Nellie is a displaced Jersey girl desperate to break into showbiz, and she pursues stardom with everything she has to offer. Fully engaged doesn't begin to describe how she embodies the Nellie LaRoy character. From the moment she crashes onto the party scene, this becomes Margot Robbie's movie. ![]() It's the latter which serves as a template or guidepost for Chazelle, to such an extent that he shows clips from it, quotes it, and even has a couple of his characters share similarities with Lina Lamont and Don Lockwood. Of course, that topic has been handled in other prestige films - recently with THE ARTIST (2011), as well as the classic SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952). Writer-director Damien Chazelle (Oscar winner, LA LA LAND, 2016) sets the stage for his wild and frenzied epic meant (I think) as a tribute to early Hollywood and the uneasy transition from silent films to talkies. ![]() The only touch of class is the old school Paramount logo. yes, this opening party sequence lasts 20-30 minutes, and occurs before the opening credits. Orgies, drugs, nudity, wild dancing, and a golden shower and drug overdose in the room of a Fatty Arbuckle type. ![]() Once the party starts, things get even crazier. Lest we have any doubt that this party is over-the-top, we are forced to witness the handlers of the main attraction - a circus elephant - get sprayed from the wrong end as they push the colossal beast up the hill. ![]() It's 1926 and a movie mogul is planning yet another massive debauchery-filled industry party at his palace of a home in still-developing Bel-Air, California. ![]()
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