GoDucks71 t1_j6ogwcy wrote on January 31, 2023 at 7:49 PM

Reply to comment by ItsPennAgain in BABYLON in Three Key Scenes: An interview with Damien Chazelle, Cinematographer Linus Sandgren, and Editor Tom Cross about the movie's portrait of silent and sound filmmaking, and the crazy final montage. by Bullingdon1973

i didn't think that final montage was controversial, just arrogant. To me, it was the director trying to tell us that his movie should be considered a classic, like many of those he included in the montage. For me it put a This Is Not A Great Movie exclamation mark on the proceedings. Of course, we already knew the director thought he had made a classic when we saw that it was going to run over 3 hours. Maybe it would have been better if he had eliminated half the movie....maybe.

ItsPennAgain t1_j6omcuf wrote on January 31, 2023 at 8:23 PM

Well I meant controversial as in people liked it or didn’t — and judging by your response I guess that’s true.

I personally liked it a lot, and felt it wrapped up the movie celebrating cinema as it was doing throughout the film, but I can understand your opinion on it.

TacticalTuchel t1_j6oscdc wrote on January 31, 2023 at 9:00 PM

Maybe. I thought it was a way of showing, somewhat abstractly, how the little man played a role in all of these classic movies, seen through the eyes of Manny who was helped create some of the fictional movies (I think) that started the montage off. Maybe this article says something different. I haven't read it. It was definitely the weakest part of the movie imo, seeing it twice.