I walk a lonely road The only one that I have ever known Don't know where it goes But it's home to me, and I walk alone I walk this empty street On the Sunset Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Sunset Boulevard is a spectacular movie of its own but it kinda feels like it’s one of the multiverses of Twilight Zone or Black Mirror in a modern sense.
Twilight Zone generally utilizes the supernatural and Black Mirror uses hyperbole to comment on modernity; Sunset Boulevard is closer to a Jordan Peele film in the sense that it's essentially a documentary with actors.
Yes, it seems to me like a similar phenomenon to people avoiding foreign-language films. People are much too easily put off by even the slightest difference from a format they're used to.
Ha, I see what you mean. But I gotta admit, I find those effects a bit more distracting than charming. I can easily see why so many later comedies made fun of them.
No “green screen” back in those days. It was rear projection. They’d set up the shot with the rumbling car passenger compartment in the foreground while they projected film of the moving road in the background.
YO SOY UNGRIPPED? Ancient FILM spoiler ALERT UNneccessary. Haven’t seen it in last 90 years that’s ON ME. Beautiful sunsets aren’t BLack AND WHite needs the COLOURS!!!
“I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” Genius.
Billy Wilder sure can write a darn good script
Stone cold classic movie. Watch it once a year.
I love absolutely everything about Billy Wilder’s filmography and I really hope someday you’ll talk about the apartment
I'm ready for my close up Mr. Demille!
A narration of a narration! Nice job!😎
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me, and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Sunset Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Sunset Boulevard is a spectacular movie of its own but it kinda feels like it’s one of the multiverses of Twilight Zone or Black Mirror in a modern sense.
Twilight Zone generally utilizes the supernatural and Black Mirror uses hyperbole to comment on modernity; Sunset Boulevard is closer to a Jordan Peele film in the sense that it's essentially a documentary with actors.
Nice
Goes to show that peeps really shouldn't discard a movie because it's in black and white - I know too many people who do :'(
Yes, it seems to me like a similar phenomenon to people avoiding foreign-language films. People are much too easily put off by even the slightest difference from a format they're used to.
Theres something charming about those old driving a car green screen shots
Ha, I see what you mean. But I gotta admit, I find those effects a bit more distracting than charming. I can easily see why so many later comedies made fun of them.
No “green screen” back in those days. It was rear projection. They’d set up the shot with the rumbling car passenger compartment in the foreground while they projected film of the moving road in the background.
Cool movie, thanks for the recommendation and spoiler warning.
I love me some film noir
Haven't heard anyone say purple prose in a while, took me a sec to remember what that was lol
LOL to that Blade Runner clip
Too bad Morgan Freeman wasn't available back then.
If I were Norma, I will just go travelling and explore the world and just enjoy my hard earned money 😂… why make a comeback? Why need a gigolo?LOL.
gillis is a ‼sagittarius‼of course he is brutally honest
YO SOY UNGRIPPED? Ancient FILM spoiler ALERT UNneccessary. Haven’t seen it in last 90 years that’s ON ME. Beautiful sunsets aren’t BLack AND WHite needs the COLOURS!!!
Ha, I assure you it's much younger than that . . . a spry 72, in fact.