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* UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode: Never explicitly mentioned, but the growing power of MoralGuardians in the early 30s are yet another source of headaches for the main cast, who suddenly have to censor their work to a much greater degree and find their personal lives being put under much greater public scrutiny.
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* GroinAttack: A rare example that is both directed at a woman ''and'' PlayedForDrama - James [=McKay=] threatens to do this with acid to Nellie if she doesn't make good on her gambling debts.
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* GroinAttack: A rare example that is both directed at a woman ''and'' PlayedForDrama - James [=McKay=] threatens to do this with pour acid to Nellie on Nellie's genitals if she doesn't make good on her gambling debts.
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* SuckOutThePoison: During an ill-fated party shenanigan Nellie is bitten by a rattlesnake in the neck. The attendees spend multiple minutes panicking before Lady Fay drops her cigarette, takes out a knife, coolly beheads the snake, sucks out the poison from Nellie's neck, and washes her mouth with alcohol. Everyone involved lives to see another day.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The main characters find themselves falling out of stardom: Jack commits suicide after realizing that his career is pretty much over, Nellie falls into obscurity and dies at the age of thirty-four, either due to her gambling debts catching up to her or from her own self-destructive tendencies, Sidney quits the film industry after he's asked to do {{Blackface}}, and Fay gets fired from Kinoscope after news breaks out of an alleged affair she had with Nellie and moves to Europe after having been offered a job there. Hollywood moves on to the next big stars and trends, forgetting about all the people who reached for fame in the past. But Manny is able to move on, setting up a successful business in New York and raising a family, and eventually achieves some catharsis after watching ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' at a theater in 1952. Not to mention that Jack and Nellie and all of the other stars after them that'll fall victim to the HollywoodHypeMachine will be immortalized and live on forever through their movies.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The main characters find themselves falling out of stardom: Jack commits suicide after realizing that his career is pretty much over, Nellie falls into obscurity and dies at the age of thirty-four, either due to her gambling debts catching up to her or from her own self-destructive tendencies, Sidney quits the film industry after he's asked to do {{Blackface}}, and Fay gets fired from Kinoscope after news breaks out of an alleged affair she had with Nellie and moves to Europe after having been offered a job there. Sidney does get at least one gig that we see at a much smaller venue where he seems genuinely happy. Hollywood moves on to the next big stars and trends, forgetting about all the people who reached for fame in the past. But Manny is able to move on, setting up a successful business in New York and raising a family, and eventually achieves some catharsis after watching ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' at a theater in 1952. Not to mention that Jack and Nellie and all of the other stars after them that'll fall victim to the HollywoodHypeMachine will be immortalized and live on forever through their movies.]]
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* ShowWithinAShow: Being centred around filmmaking, the first hour showcases Jack Conrad filming a medieval film and the chaos of it including extras getting hurt, Manny trying to find another camera after the six main cameras get wrecked and Jack drinking so much he stumbles (although he manages to finish his take perfectly). The process of Nellie and Constance Moore filming ''Maid’s Off'' is also shown, with Nellie stealing the show from Constance.
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* ShowWithinAShow: The first trailer shows some glimpses of filming sets. The first one appears to be medieval themed while the other seems to be a western. The second trailer showcases an argument between Constance Moore and Nellie on a film set.
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* StarMakingRole: In-Universe. Nellie [=LaRoy=] gets her start from starring in the silent film ''Maid’s Off''.
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* SlobsVersusSnobs: Jack's dialogue with his third onscreen wife Estelle is primarily about how she (an esteemed Broadway actress) finds his silent film acting populist and lowbrow. Jack retorts that film's populism means it has ''value'', as it brings joy to exponentially more people than the stage does.
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* CatFight: Zig-Zagged. The women cage fighting in [=McKay's=] club are dressed in skimpy outfits more appropriate for dancers, clearly meant to titillate the crowd. But they're also beating each other bloody and, given the depravity of the club in general, might literally be fighting to the death.
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* FightClubbing: James [=McKay=] runs an underground club that features two women fighting bare-knuckle in a steel cage. It's very bloody, to the point one of them is briefly shown covered in blood.
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* CastingGag: Constance Moore, one of Nellie's rival actresses, is played by Creator/SamaraWeaving, who has been often said to bear a strong resemblance to Creator/MargotRobbie.
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The eccentric supporting cast includes Creator/JeanSmart as gossip columnist Elinor St. John; Creator/JovanAdepo as Sidney Parker, a talented jazz trumpeter; Creator/LiJunLi as Fay Zhou, an openly gay cabaret singer; and Creator/TobeyMaguire (also an executive producer) as mob boss James [=McKay=].
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The eccentric supporting cast includes Creator/JeanSmart as gossip columnist Elinor St. John; Creator/JovanAdepo as Sidney Parker, Palmer, a talented jazz trumpeter; Creator/LiJunLi as Fay Zhou, an openly gay cabaret singer; and Creator/TobeyMaguire (also an executive producer) as mob boss James [=McKay=].
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He's told to drive Jack home and befriends him afterward + Jack's engagement to the Hungarian actress is mentioned to be his fifth betrothal
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* TheCameo: Creator/OliviaWilde appears in the beginning for barely a minute as Jack's first wife Ina, who demands a divorce after she gets fed up with him.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Much of stardom comes from sheer luck and being in the right place at the right time: Nellie lands a starring role after an actress overdoses at a party and she's found to be a suitable replacement for her, while Manny happens to come across and befriend a drunken Jack later on at that same party and offers to drive him home, leading to Jack helping him get a job as an assistant at Kinoscope out of gratitude.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Much of stardom comes from sheer luck and being in the right place at the right time: Nellie lands a starring role after an actress overdoses at a party and she's found to be a suitable replacement for her, while Manny happens is randomly assigned to come across and befriend wrangle a drunken Jack later on at that same party and offers to drive him home, drunk Jack, leading to Jack befriending him and helping him get a job as an assistant at Kinoscope out of gratitude.
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* HorribleHollywood: Early Hollywood is opulent and glamorous, but hedonistic, loose with morals, and exploitative with a criminal underbelly. The characters either [[spoiler:die when their time in the spotlight is up (Jack, Nellie) or leave it for what are implied to be more peaceful and fulfilling lives (Sidney, Fay, Manny)]].
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* HorribleHollywood: Early Hollywood is opulent and glamorous, but hedonistic, loose with morals, and exploitative with a criminal underbelly. The characters either [[spoiler:die when their time in the spotlight is up (Jack, Nellie) or leave it for what are implied to be more peaceful and fulfilling lives (Sidney, Fay, Manny)]]. However, Hollywood's ability to create works of art that leave lasting impressions despite all its foibles is also upheld as one of its strengths.
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* DistantFinale: The epilogue is set two decades later in the 50's, where [[spoiler:Manny, now a New York-based husband/father and business owner, visits his old place of work.]]
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''Babylon'' (2022) is an epic period comedy-drama film directed and written by Creator/DamienChazelle. The film features an [[EnsembleCast ensemble cast]] of Creator/BradPitt, Creator/MargotRobbie, Diego Calva, Creator/JeanSmart, Creator/JovanAdepo and Li Jun Li. Creator/TobeyMaguire serves as one of the executive producers and plays a character in the film.
''Babylon'' is set in 1920s Los Angeles, detailing the debauchery of early Hollywood and following the rise and falls of multiple characters, particularly the intertwining fates of Nellie [=LaRoy=] (Robbie), an aspiring actress who gets abruptly shoved into the limelight, and Jack Conrad (Pitt), an aging movie star wondering if his days of relevance are over. Their story is told through the eyes of Manny Torres (Calva), a young Mexican-American trying to make his way through the film industry as he interacts with a host of eccentric and wild characters.
''Babylon'' is set in 1920s Los Angeles, detailing the debauchery of early Hollywood and following the rise and falls of multiple characters, particularly the intertwining fates of Nellie [=LaRoy=] (Robbie), an aspiring actress who gets abruptly shoved into the limelight, and Jack Conrad (Pitt), an aging movie star wondering if his days of relevance are over. Their story is told through the eyes of Manny Torres (Calva), a young Mexican-American trying to make his way through the film industry as he interacts with a host of eccentric and wild characters.
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''Babylon'' (2022) is an epic period comedy-drama film about the early days of Hollywood. It was directed and written by Creator/DamienChazelle. The film Creator/DamienChazelle and features an [[EnsembleCast ensemble cast]] of Creator/BradPitt, Creator/MargotRobbie, Diego Calva, Creator/JeanSmart, Creator/JovanAdepo and Li Jun Li. Creator/TobeyMaguire serves as one of the executive producers and plays {{ensemble cast}}.
The film begins at acharacter debaucherous party in the film.
''Babylon'' is set in 1920s Los Angeles, detailing the debauchery of early1926 Hollywood and following follows the rise and falls lives of multiple characters, particularly several attendees over the intertwining fates of subsequent years as the industry transitions to sound films: aspiring actress Nellie [=LaRoy=] (Robbie), an aspiring actress who gets (Creator/MargotRobbie) is abruptly shoved into in the limelight, spotlight and Jack Conrad (Pitt), an struggles to maintain her fame; aging movie star wondering Jack Conrad (Creator/BradPitt) wonders if his days of relevance are over. Their story is told through the eyes of Manny Torres (Calva), a young over; and spunky Mexican-American trying to make his way assistant Manny Torres (Creator/DiegoCalva) rises through the film industry as he interacts with a host of studio system.
The eccentric supporting cast includes Creator/JeanSmart as gossip columnist Elinor St. John; Creator/JovanAdepo as Sidney Parker, a talented jazz trumpeter; Creator/LiJunLi as Fay Zhou, an openly gay cabaret singer; andwild characters.
Creator/TobeyMaguire (also an executive producer) as mob boss James [=McKay=].
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Manny and Nellie do not end up getting together, with her leaving him before they can carry out their plan to run away to Mexico together. He never sees her again and she dies a few years later.]]
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* FanserviceExtra: To show the raucous hedonism of the opening party, several people are in various states of undress (and in some cases are openly having sex) on the dance floor and in the background.
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* FanserviceExtra: To show the raucous hedonism of the opening party, several people are in various states of undress (and in some cases are openly having sex) on the dance floor and in the background. In interviews, several of the actors noted that the extras in the opening party scene were basically instructed to go crazy and do whatever they wanted.
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* MetaCasting: Jack is a movie star whose popularity is declining and feels like he's losing relevance in a rapidly-changing industry. His actor Creator/BradPitt has expressed similar concerns and has talked several times about how he's considering retirement in order to avoid being phased out; one can easily imagine Elinor's monologue to Jack about how he'll be immortalized on film to be directed at Pitt just as much as it is to his character.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Nellie projectile vomiting on a carpet and on a guest at a high-class party is shown in graphic and nauseating detail.
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** Sidney is forced to darken his skin so he doesn't look white onscreen -- if he looks white with a black backing band, the production will be deemed 'mixed' and unsellable in the segregated South.
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* HollywoodTactics: Invoked; the studio shoots a BigBadassBattleSequence that consitsts of two opposing armies running at each other in an empty field.
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* IronicEcho: "You either are [a star] or you aren't" is first said by Nellie at the opening party of the film, as a defiant proclamation of her future rise to stardom. It's repeated by James [[spoiler:at the grotesque rave he forces Manny and the Count to attend as they watch a giant consume a live rat]]. The mirrored circumstances emphasize that ultimately, people want ''spectacle'', and a famous movie star is only one way this desire manifests.
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* PygmalionSnapBack: The studio tries to reform Nellie into a respectable actress, which includes dressing her in more conservative and opulent outfits and a teaching her how to speak poshly. But when this is tested at a bourgeois party, Nellie rejects the judgements of the upperclass and makes a defiant and messy scene (including throwing food onto the floor on and on her dress and [[VomitIndiscretionShot prominently vomiting]] on a rich attendee), tanking her chances at respectability.
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* ActorAllusion: Jack attempts to speak Italian, with an emphasis on attempt, much like [[Film/InglouriousBasterds a certain Nazi-killing lieutenant]].
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Much of stardom comes from sheer luck and being in the right place at the right time: Nellie lands a starring role after an actress overdoses at a party and she's found to be a suitable replacement for her, while Manny happens to come across and befriend a drunken Jack later on at that same party and offers to drive him home, leading to Jack helping him get a job as an assistant at Kinoscope out of gratitude.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Real early-Hollywood figures who appear in the film include producer Irving Thalberg (Creator/MaxMinghella), actress Creator/MarionDavies (Creator/ChloeFineman), and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst (Creator/PatSkipper).
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* StarMakingRole: In-Universe. Nellie [=LaRoy=] gets her start from starring in the silent film ''Maid’s Off''.
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* BringMyBrownPants: Manny pees his pants when [[spoiler:held at gunpoint by [=McKay's=] hitman. The pathetic sight spurs the hitman to take pity on him.]]
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The film shows that early (1920s-30s) Hollywood ran on much looser rules than modern-day Hollywood.
** A child is seen buying 'peanuts' (actually drugs) from an onset dealer.
** Sets are very loose with health and safety -- several extras are hurt (and at least one is killed) while shooting a BigBadassBattleSequence; a cameraman dies of heatstroke when filming from a box (an attempt to minimize sound during the transition to talkies).
** Sidney is forced to darken his skin so he doesn't look white onscreen -- if he looks white with a black backing band, the production will be deemed 'mixed' and unsellable in the segregated South.
** Fay is officially fired from Kinoscope because her official job (writing intertitles) is obsolete with the advent of sound films, but unofficially because of rumors of a lesbian relationship between her and the studio's leading lady Nellie.
** A child is seen buying 'peanuts' (actually drugs) from an onset dealer.
** Sets are very loose with health and safety -- several extras are hurt (and at least one is killed) while shooting a BigBadassBattleSequence; a cameraman dies of heatstroke when filming from a box (an attempt to minimize sound during the transition to talkies).
** Sidney is forced to darken his skin so he doesn't look white onscreen -- if he looks white with a black backing band, the production will be deemed 'mixed' and unsellable in the segregated South.
** Fay is officially fired from Kinoscope because her official job (writing intertitles) is obsolete with the advent of sound films, but unofficially because of rumors of a lesbian relationship between her and the studio's leading lady Nellie.
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* BringMyBrownPants: Manny pees his pants when [[spoiler:held at gunpoint by [=McKay's=] hitman. The pathetic sight spurs the hitman to take pity on him.]]
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* HollywoodHypeMachine: InUniverse. Nellie nigh-immediately becomes one of Hollywood's hottest new starlets, but has difficulty sustaining her fame after the transition to sound films.
* HorribleHollywood: Early Hollywood is opulent and glamorous, but hedonistic, loose with morals, and exploitative with a criminal underbelly. The characters either [[spoiler:die when their time in the spotlight is up (Jack, Nellie) or leave it for what are implied to be more peaceful and fulfilling lives (Sidney, Fay, Manny)]].
* HorribleHollywood: Early Hollywood is opulent and glamorous, but hedonistic, loose with morals, and exploitative with a criminal underbelly. The characters either [[spoiler:die when their time in the spotlight is up (Jack, Nellie) or leave it for what are implied to be more peaceful and fulfilling lives (Sidney, Fay, Manny)]].
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* RunForTheBorder: Late in the film Manny concludes that the only way to escape the mob is to flee Los Angeles for Mexico. He tries to take Nellie with him but [[spoiler:she ditches him just as the mob's hitman arrives. Manny is allowed to leave with his life as long as he leaves LA; by the epilogue he's made a life for himself in New York.]]
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* StageMoney: The money Manny procures to get Nellie out of her gambling debts turns out to be prop money. [[spoiler:The mob boss is furious when he realizes it and Manny only narrowly escapes with his life.]]
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* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: From During the second trailer, when party, Jack explains to Estelle about the characters are all at a party together:art of Hollywood filmmaking, which includes this exchange:
* ClusterFBomb: Practically everyone in ''Babylon'' swears. Nellie in particular tends to drop f bombs a lot.
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* TheHedonist: Nellie tells Manny that she would like if everyone just partied all the time and that she would spend all her money on fun things, instead of "boring things, like taxes," all while doing coke. She's shown in the trailer to be a very enthusiastic participant of the various wild parties that are the norm in Hollywood.
* HookersAndBlow: The first trailer shows someone holding a nearly naked woman across his lap and snorting cocaine off one of her bare breasts. The woman has three additional lines of coke on her chest.
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* TheHedonist: Nellie tells Manny that she would like if everyone just partied all the time and that she would spend all her money on fun things, instead of "boring things, like taxes," all while doing coke. She's shown in throughout the trailer film to be a very enthusiastic participant of the various wild parties that are the norm in Hollywood.
* HookersAndBlow: The firsttrailer party shows someone holding a nearly naked woman across his lap and snorting cocaine off one of her bare breasts. The woman has three additional lines of coke on her chest.chest.
* LanguageFluencyDenial: When Manny runs into Elinor St. John, she asks him about the “upstairs bedroom” (where the drugs are kept). Don asks Manny to act like he doesn’t speak English. When Manny runs into Elinor again, he tells her in Spanish that he doesn’t speak English and leaves.
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* LanguageFluencyDenial: When Manny runs into Elinor St. John, she asks him about the “upstairs bedroom” (where the drugs are kept). Don asks Manny to act like he doesn’t speak English. When Manny runs into Elinor again, he tells her in Spanish that he doesn’t speak English and leaves.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: In the first trailer, Nellie asks the partygoers if they want to see her "fight a [fucking] snake". In the actual film, she actually asks if they want to see her dad fight a snake.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: In the first trailer, Nellie asks the partygoers if they want to see her "fight a [fucking] fucking snake". In the actual film, she actually asks if they want to see her dad fight a snake.
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* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/LaLaLand'', Creator/DamienChazelle's previous throwback to vintage Hollywood about people trying to make it in the film business. While that film was set in the present day and its classic influences came through its GenreThrowback to old movie musicals, this film is a PeriodPiece with a lot of more contemporary stylistic elements. Furthermore, while both films had [[HorribleHollywood a streak of cynicism about "the industry"]] to them, ''La La Land'' used it in service of a lighthearted (if {{bittersweet|Ending}}) RomanticComedy story that was rated PG-13, while this film takes every tale of Hollywood depravity past and present and mashes them into an ''extremely'' adult, R-rated story in which the main characters' dreams end in disaster.
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* FightClubbing: James [=McKay=] runs a underground club where one of the things there is two women fighting bare-knuckle in a steel cage. It's very bloody to the point one of them is briefly shown covered in blood.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: In the first trailer, Nellie asks the partygoers if they want to see her “fight a [fucking] snake”. In the actual film, she actually asks if they want to see her dad fight a snake.
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'''Previews''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HT83wkVss Trailer 1 (uncensored)]], [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PXXLbic3QTk Featurette]], [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5muQK7CuFtY Trailer 2]]
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'''Previews''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HT83wkVss Trailer 1 (uncensored)]], [[https://m.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXXLbic3QTk Featurette]], [[https://m.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5muQK7CuFtY Trailer 2]]
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* BeastlyBloodsports: During one of the parties, Nellie’s dad, Robert, talks to a girl about supposedly fighting a snake. Nellie ends up asking the party members if they want to see her dad “fight a fucking snake”. Most of them are apprehensive about this until Jack yells out “Fuck yeah!” The next shot is of the partygoers driving late at night to find a snake. Once they do, Robert drunkenly tries to demonstrate how to fight a rattlesnake before passing out. Nellie ends up taking the opportunity to fight the rattlesnake. [[spoiler:It doesn’t end well where she actually gets bit by it and its teeth are stuck in her neck for a rather long time.]]
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* BeastlyBloodsports: During one of the parties, Nellie’s Nellie's dad, Robert, talks to a girl about supposedly fighting a snake. Nellie ends up asking the party members if they want to see her dad “fight "fight a fucking snake”. snake". Most of them are apprehensive about this until Jack yells out “Fuck yeah!” "Fuck yeah!" The next shot is of the partygoers driving late at night to find a snake. Once they do, Robert drunkenly tries to demonstrate how to fight a rattlesnake before passing out. Nellie ends up taking the opportunity to fight the rattlesnake. [[spoiler:It doesn’t doesn't end well where she actually gets bit by it and its teeth are stuck in her neck for a rather long time.]]
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'''Jack''': Fuck yeah!
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'''Jack''': Hell yeah!
** James [=McKay’s=] “What the fuck?!” line gets [[CurseCutShort cut short]] and becomes “what the-“ in the censored trailer.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:George Munn, a friend of Jack’s, commits suicide as the film industry starts transitioning to the talkies. Much later in the film, Jack commits suicide in his hotel room.]]
* FightClubbing: James [=McKay=] runs a underground club where one of the things there is two women fighting bare-knuckle in a steel cage. It’s very bloody to the point one of them is briefly shown covered in blood.
** James [=McKay’s=] “What the fuck?!” line gets [[CurseCutShort cut short]] and becomes “what the-“ in the censored trailer.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:George Munn, a friend of Jack’s, commits suicide as the film industry starts transitioning to the talkies. Much later in the film, Jack commits suicide in his hotel room.]]
* FightClubbing: James [=McKay=] runs a underground club where one of the things there is two women fighting bare-knuckle in a steel cage. It’s very bloody to the point one of them is briefly shown covered in blood.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:George Munn, a friend of
* FightClubbing: James [=McKay=] runs a underground club where one of the things there is two women fighting bare-knuckle in a steel cage.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The main characters find themselves falling out of stardom: Jack commits suicide after realizing that his career is pretty much over, Nellie falls into obscurity and dies at the age of thirty-four, either due to her gambling debts catching up to her or from her own self-destructive tendencies, Sidney quits the film industry after he's asked to do {{Blackface}}, and Fay gets fired from Kinoscope after news breaks out of an alleged affair she had with Nellie and moves to Europe after having been offered a job there. Hollywood moves on to the next big stars and trends, forgetting about all the people who reached for fame in the past. But Manny is able to move on, setting up a successful business in New York and raising a family, and eventually achieves some catharsis after watching ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' at a theater in 1952. Not to mention that Jack and Nellie and all of the other stars after them that'll fall victim to the HollywoodHypeMachine will be immortalized and live on forever through their movies.]]
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* ShipTease: Manny falls in love with Nellie the moment he meets her and as they develop a friendship, the film teases the possibility that they might get together. [[spoiler:They don't.]]
