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Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles, California, United States. Stretching from the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades to Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles, it is a major thoroughfare in the cities of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, as well as several districts in Los Angeles itself.
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The film industry is full of stories of the pursuit of success. The stories of struggles on the rise to fame and success, and often enough showcasing that achievement around the conclusion. Sunset Blvd. dabbles with both concepts: the aspect of failure in Hollywood. The struggle to get somewhere and earn a living. While also displaying the life of someone that has lived the life of success and luxury as a result, th…More
In a mansion on Sunset Blvd, floats the body of a man riddled with bullets. Joe Gillis (William Holden), the victim, was a Hollywood screenwriter, and although he had financial problems, and although it seems incredible, he himself tells us his story. Source Gillis escapes from some debt collectors, and manages to take refuge in an apparently abandoned mansion. But he discovers that he is not alone, a woman and her…More
Norma Desmond- aging actress, yesterday’s glamour queen - these words would have destroyed the mirage that she had built up over the years and her too, but it didn’t; not even in the end. It’s tough to forget the past; even tougher to leave it when one has been living in the past for decades; all that shine and all those forgotten years when Norma was the greatest star of them all. It’s hard to leave it all behind,…More
*The great silent screen star Gloria Swanson basically played herself in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. , the story of a has-been silent screen star who can't accept her faded fame.* #film #movies #cinema #writing #filmnoir #billywilder #davidlynch To be honest, I didn't realize the parallels between the famous David Lynch film, Mulholland Dr. (2001) and the even-more famous Billy Wilder film, Sunset Blvd. (1950) until…More
You're probably wondering what this scene is referencing, and why it is parodied in so many places. What are all these images? Oh, just a few unimportant homages to one of the most famous motion pictures of all time. Unmistakable, yet largely unrecognizable to the intended viewing audience. Their tale is a largely tragic one, of writers overestimating the viewer's knowledge of film trivia. But this is where I come i…More
