Florencia Martin leaned heavily on L.A.'s 'kaleidoscope of architecture' for the 120 sets created to bring back old Hollywood in 'Babylon.'
In “Babylon,” Manny Torres is a kid with a dream in silent-era Hollywood. “I always wanted to be part of something bigger, something that lasts, that means something, something more important than life!” he exclaims over a cocaine-fueled powwow with fledgling actor Nellie LaRoy .
Outdoor production stages were common to early Hollywood filmmaking, like this Gold Rush-era saloon in which the Nellie character gets her big break. When that didn’t work out, they considered Hearst’s Beverly Hills estate , which was used in “The Godfather.” Finally they arrived at a Beaux Arts Italianate manse on West Adams formerly owned by Busby Berkeley, neighbor to Fatty Arbuckle. “These places all came with film history,” Martin notes.“Babylon” begins with a shower of elephant poop, which might seem like a crass joke but is really a metaphor for what this town does to wannabes and has-beens.
The mansion’s exterior, a castle-like structure from the era, was built in Lancaster by Hancock Park developer Richard Peter Shea. It too was the site of lavish parties like the one depicted in the film, with a facade that required practical and digital augmentation. But the film’s biggest challenge was a battlefield backdrop for a climactic kiss between Conrad and his leading lady in his final silent film, the capstone on his career.
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