Norma Desmond - I am a Star

Final scene from the film-noir Sunset Blvd.

Norma Desmond reveals to us, the people in the dark, a very big secret.

Every Man and Every Woman is a Star - Aleister Crowley

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[Tony721]

Can someone please elaborate what the secret meaning is? I would appreciate your enlightenment. Thank you.

[MrGatherfield]

What do you think it is?

[darren holcomb]

There's no celebrity today who can pull off this kind of mega presence.

[SuperWitchOne]

As I'm sitting here in the dark watching this, I think to myself, "Is nostalgia for old black and white films (with great acting, I might add) any different from the delusion that Norma Desmond rapped herself in for her old glory days in silent films? Where do you not cross the line between reminiscing and self-absorption for golden days?

Man, aging bites a big one.....

[Stephen Dean]

lmbo

[licentia1963]

Jennifer Traniston is sure trying!

[licentia1963]

Its a secret

[reese4240]

I used to luv to see Carol Burnett play her on her show as Nora Desmond with her butler MAX!!!

[Patrick Crosby]

The is perhaps the most philosophically interesting movie ever made. Why? Because it is Hollywood par excellence. First there is the fact of the entire movie being a tale told by a dead man (and we all know "dead men tell no tales"). Then, there is the complete fusion of fiction and reality, not only in the mind of Norma Desmond herself, but even of the audience. Do you *really* think Cecil B DeMille would show up with camera's a murder scene? In what sort of a fantasy world? Only this one.

[Omar Breeveld]

Nonsense, I am lobbying for a remake of this film with George Takei in the role of Norma Desmond.

[Devron Conrad]

Wish you had let the The End and Paramount logo appear. Cutting it off was jarring. Hearing the music swell to completion is all part of that wonderful scene

[Nick Morfitt]

Excellent portrayal of the paranoid ex movie queen by Swanson.Classic movie,one of my mums faves she watches it often.Has to be said though that this scene for me is a whole load of CREEPY!!!Still genius tho..

[heysatan8]

And I absolutely adore the way she looks RIGHT into the camera (at us, the audience) when she says her line "and those wonderful people out there in the dark..." One of the greatest films ever made....

[heysatan8]

Now every time I hear her say "Where am I?" I think of the film INLAND EMPIRE.