John Landis on SUNSET BOULEVARD
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Billy Wilder royally p.o.'d most of the Hollywood establishment with this devastatingly dark yet moving take on the tragic decline of silent movie queen Norma Desmond (an unforgettable Gloria Swanson), pushed aside by an unfeeling industry. One of the all-time greats. "I AM big! It's the PICTURES that got small!"
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A seriously stunning film... in a class of it's own.
One of the finest movies ever made. She was robbed of the Oscar that year.
One of the all-time greats. I never tire of watching it again and again.
Another one I've been planning to watch.
Do. DO!!
I read "Vamp", Eve Golden's biography of Theda Bara and Ms. Golden said that Bara was never asked about playing the role of Norma Desmond. That would have been something! Imagine "Sunset Boulevard" with Norma Desmond played by the woman who played Cleopatra. Theda Bara was a talented actress and though she worked in silent films she had a good speaking voice. I heard a recording of Miss Bara and she sounded quite a bit like Vivien Leigh.
One of Billy Wilder's finest films. Gloria Swanson is excellent, William Holden is quite good and Nancy Olson is quite beautiful. Great cameos by Cecil B. DeMille, and Buster Keaton. It should have gotten more Oscars, but overshadowed by All About Eve.
I remember watch the caroll burnetts parody of this.
Louie B. Mayer tried to shut down this movie, since it was so negative. Not only did it not get shut down, Mayer himself got shut down by MGM when he tried to stage a coup at the studio two years later. Sic transit gloria mundi. Theme of this film- and Mayer.
It is a travesty that Gloria Swanson didn’t get an Oscar. Unbelievable movie.
It's a classic, John. It shows the effects of time and technology on people and society. Norma's real enemy is sound and in the scene at Paramount she pushes the boom mike away with disgust.
always good to heat landis speak
Landis for President
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Seen it a dozen times, and never thought of it as a monster movie, but it really IS, isn't it?
The monster is Hollywood and the way it ate up its stars. Hollywood not only created stars but ate them in the end.
I tend to view it as Hollywood being the catalyst, i.e, the dangerous, sinister force or idea, or just the system that creates the monster that is Norma Desmond.
Wilder's last movie co-written with Charles Brackett and the last with ace cinematographer John Seitz. It just wasn't quite the same after that.
I thought I was the only one to call him Bill Holden!
I'm surprised John didn't mention that this movie is also classed as a film noir.
I can't recommend this enough. Swanson was robbed of Best Actress.
Bello
Buster Keaton's great line: 'Pass'.
Nonsense!!
Really..Jack Webb got real old and talked with a smokers voice but he never got fat...
Landis needs to get his thoughts and research together. He comes across as an amateur blogger. He repeats himself constantly and rarely qualifies his statements. Sunset Boulevard is indeed a masterpiece. It's real subject is time and technology and its effects on people.
Too bad Swanson's career didn't thrive after this performance!
She became too identified with the role. And Swanson admitted that she was not a fluid enough of an actress to excel in other genres of films. When Mike Wallace asked her why her film work was at best sporadic after Sunset Blvd. she answered that she got her training in acting from silent films where exaggerated mannerisms were the norm. She admitted that she was never able to shed the silent film mannerisms. This became later became a liability for her. However, it worked in Sunset Blvd.
Hilarious
Gothic horror lol
ace in the hole is so much better. bill holden plays very wooden in this one. he‘s a better actor in old age like in network or S.O.B.
Your right on the money, one of my mainstays, I'd say, like the Asians, 10,000 times, and more if I hang around town, ya know.
the remake is way better