The Day of the Locust (1975)
Directed by John Schlesinger
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
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What critics compared The Day of the Locust to
La lectura que hace Robert Mitchell de Los Ángeles es absolutamente cinematográfica: una mezcla de lo que se recuerda en el noir de Chandler interpretado por Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, 1944) y Howard Hawks (The Big Sleep, 1946); mucho del Hitchcock de los años cincuenta (Rear Window, 1954 y Vertigo, 1958) mediado por la ciudad de David Lynch en el neo-noir de Mulholland Drive (2001); algo de Pynchon interpretado por Paul Thomas Anderson en Inherent Vice (2014); otra pizca más del humor negro de los hermanos Coen en Barton Fink (1991) con mucho de The Big Lebowski (1998); y, finalmente, la locura indecente de Hollywood representada por los dos extremos incoherentes de The Day of the Locust (1975) y Map to the Stars (2014).
The Day of the Locust mined the same turf.
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is no “Hollywood Babylon” or “The Day of the Locust.”