Sunset Blvd. Comments

  • Lea 2022-03-24 09:01:24

    First of all, I heard that Weber's musical of the same name was made super well. The neuroticism and hysteria of the past actress' performance is reminiscent of the VL in a Streetcar Named Desire. What she needs is a loyal servant and an absolute admirer like Mac. The little white face is also well chosen. The final tragedy is also expected. Classic ~ I want to watch the musical version...

  • Kiera 2022-03-24 09:01:24

    I can't see how awesome it is at...

  • Kaia 2022-03-24 09:01:24

    Wilder uses the flashback narrative that Xi Pang often uses, and the psychological side narrative is exceptionally brilliant. The "greatest actress" who lives on "Sunset Boulevard" but believes that the sun never sets, the glory of the past and the changes of the times, indulging in memories and falsifying audio-visual, only this confrontation never ends. Black, but self-defeating black; the last scene shocked and stunned, to the peerless actor in my heart, to the sunset and dusk in my...

  • Ransom 2022-03-24 09:01:24

    8.4 Rewatch, Billy Wilder's black masterpiece, once again I hate this arrogant, disgusting and twisted woman, I can't deny her acting skills, William Holden is also dwarfed, I love the ending, without this ending, the movie is dead most of...

  • Marie 2022-03-24 09:01:24

    The last scene Norma walks down the steps and into the camera, getting closer and then out of focus and fades out. This timeless and classic scene is not only a satire of the star system, but also a typical Billy-style bitterness. Holden looks so amazing, especially when she puts on the dress, she's amazing, wait, am I focusing on the wrong...

  • Isabel 2022-03-24 09:01:24

    It was so dark that it made me feel extremely uncomfortable. Two of the saddest episodes, one is when she dances with him in the gorgeous room at the unattended New Year's party, and the other is what she said at the...

  • Lizzie 2022-03-23 09:01:24

    I feel so sad when I watch it. In the eyes of outsiders, Norma may be like a clown. Max really loves her too, for fear that she can't accept the truth and keeps hiding it from her. In the end, she finally got her wish. The most annoying thing in the whole film is the male protagonist, who stays and enjoys everything for money, but says behind the scenes that people are stupid and money is old. When the bitch stands the archway again, the dog takes...

  • Evert 2022-03-23 09:01:24

    93/100, the ultimate writing within the framework of film noir: refined story and narrative, meta-film, reflexivity of the medium, borders and references to reality, elegy of the past, judgment of the present, can All packed into one container, the inner density of the work is amazing. Everywhere you look is a projection of desire. In the end, the heroine's mad stare is like a question to everyone: you who are swallowed by the dream machine will finally usher in this moment, and then lose...

  • Frances 2022-03-23 09:01:24

    Typical film noir. The play is perfect. The works of 1950 are still accurate and unique when viewed today. The design of the servant corner is chilling. The complexity of the heroine is also amazing. A person in a state of "manipulation" is full of possessiveness towards everything, and her life is "directed" into a strange tragedy. The mirror and the water in the swimming pool have become the carriers of metaphorical information. The actress's self-pity for the mirror is very much like the...

  • Gregorio 2022-03-23 09:01:24

    I Am Big, it's the picture got small! The gap makes people crazy and life doesn't exist anymore. Truth or lies, which one is more suitable for vulnerable and desperate...

Extended Reading
  • Gabriel 2022-04-23 07:01:26

    Disappointment in the fifties

    I have always been devoted to the classic Hollywood films of the 1950s, probably because of the high status of Citizen Kane and the like, and the quality of the films is also second to none. I have known Billy Wilder for a long time, and I have only seen his prosecution witnesses, so when I decided...

  • Reva 2021-10-22 14:31:04

    A classic saved by the pretended Mary Pikfu and the simple Christian Women's Temperance Association



    Gloria Swanson was attending the coronation of George VI when the telegram P415-421 from "City of Nets" arrived . The telegram said that Harry Cohn wanted her to come over and sign a contract immediately to play a movie called "The Second Mrs. Draper". She hurried over, only to find that...

Sunset Blvd. quotes

  • Norma Desmond: You must forgive me for calling you so late, but I really feel it's my duty. It's about Mr. Gillis. You do know Mr. Gillis? Exactly how much do you know about him? Do you know where he lives? Do you know how he lives? Do you know what he lives on?

    Betty Schaefer: Who are you? What do you want? What business is it of yours anyway?

    Norma Desmond: Miss Schaefer, I'm trying to do you a favor. I'm trying to spare you a great deal of misery. Of course you may be too young to even suspect there are men of his sort. I don't know what he's told you, but he does not live with relatives. Nor with friends in the usual sense of the word. Well, ask him. Ask him again.

    Joe Gillis: [grabbing the phone from Norma] That's right, Betty. Ask me again. This is Joe.

    Betty Schaefer: Joe, where are you? What is this all about?

    Joe Gillis: Well, better yet, why don't you come out and see for yourself? The address is 10086 Sunset Boulevard.

  • Joe Gillis: Thanks for letting me wear the handsome wardrobe, and thanks for the use of all the trinkets. The rest of the jewelry's in the top drawer.

    Norma Desmond: [desperate] It's yours, Joe. I gave it to you.

    Joe Gillis: And I'd take it in a second, only it's a little too dressy for sitting behind a copy desk in Dayton, Ohio.