"Sunset Boulevard" is a 1950 film and is still an underrated work, with only two Oscar nominations. Sunset Boulevard is one of the earliest developed areas in the entertainment city of Hollywood. He witnessed the prosperous and prosperous scene of the Hollywood film and television industry in the early days. In this film, however, Sunset Boulevard has become a symbol of old, backwardness, the director's dark humor to the audience. Those who were all-powerful in the silent film era were overwhelmed by the tide of the sound era and were eliminated by the era. Norma Desmond is such a person. She traded her infatuation for her self-deceitful nostalgia for the past, thinking that she was still the idol in the center of the stage, who reserved the entire Paramount Street for her dressing room. . When the film features Norma, it is specially printed with the shooting techniques of silent films, heavy makeup, gorgeous costumes, exaggerated expressions and movements, close-up of the face to the camera, her exaggerated eyes - all of these are the most brilliant times of Norma. Familiar shooting techniques give us viewers a sense of distance in the age of color and color, but as Norma says, "I am still a big star! It's just that the screen has gotten smaller (I am big, it's the pictures that got small )”. She thought that the famous directors would still ask her to be the protagonist and appreciate her script "Salome", but she didn't know that they just wanted to rent her antique car as a movie prop. Like Miss Havisham in Dickens's novel "The Great Expectations," she trapped herself in the old days, eager to turn the impoverished young screenwriter Joe into her plaything, letting her fantasize about love and not allow him betrayed, and shot him. In front of the media and the police, she frantically performed her "Salome" with her familiar silent film performance. Under the spotlight, she thought she had returned to the center of the stage. This scene has become a classic in film history.
In 1994, the legendary British arranger Andrew Lloyd Webber composed the original work into a musical, which caused a sensation among audiences in English-speaking countries. The opera further emphasized Norma's lost madness through performance and musical techniques. The magnificent symphony laid out the glory of the past. Today's lonely contrast is full of atmosphere and strengthens the contrast, and it is still a classic play in the West District today.
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