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Joe (William Holden) is mistaken for a coffin maker when he meets the washed up movie star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson).
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Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson
Director: Billy Wilder
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Producer: Charles Brackett
Screenwriter: Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr., Billy Wilder
Film Description: Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The story begins at the end as the body of Joe Gillis (William Holden) is fished out of a Hollywood swimming pool. From The Great Beyond, Joe details the circumstances of his untimely demise (originally, the film contained a lengthy prologue wherein the late Mr. Gillis told his tale to his fellow corpses in the city morgue, but this elicited such laughter during the preview that Wilder changed it). Hotly pursued by repo men, impoverished, indebted "boy wonder" screenwriter Gillis ducks into the garage of an apparently abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. Wandering into the spooky place, Joe encounters its owner, imperious silent star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). Upon learning Joe's profession, Norma inveigles him into helping her with a comeback script that she's been working on for years. Joe realizes that the script is hopeless, but the money is good and he has nowhere else to go. Soon the cynical and opportunistic Joe becomes Norma's kept man. While they continue collaborating, Norma's loyal and protective chauffeur Max Von Mayerling (played by legendary filmmaker Erich von Stroheim) contemptuously watches from a distance. More melodramatic than funny, the screenplay by Wilder and Charles Brackett began life as a comedy about a has-been silent movie actress and the ambitious screenwriter who leeches off her. (Wilder originally offered the film to Mae West, Mary Pickford and Pola Negri. Montgomery Clift was the first choice for the part of opportunistic screenwriter Joe Gillis, but he refused, citing as "disgusting" the notion of a 25-year-old man being kept by a 50-year-old woman.) Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running musical version has served as a tour-de-force for contemporary actresses ranging from Glenn Close to Betty Buckley to Diahann Carroll.
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silentmoviequeen 1 year ago
One of the best lines in movie history in my opinion:" I am big." '' It's the picture that got small."
One of my favorite movies.
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Bfdidc 9 months ago
Sshh. You'll wake up the monkey.
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Bfdidc 1 month ago
Get out!
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dark7java7lava 1 month ago
Sorry, just thought we should make it gay.
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77giraffes 2 months ago
Gloria Swanson is so incredible. She takes lines & a style of delivery that could have been so cheesy in someone else's hands and she makes it perfectly suit this character. Wonderful -- probably my favorite performance in my favorite movie of all time.
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pinkmichelefloyd 3 months ago
Okay. I guess I was feeling passionate last night! :)
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willec49 3 months ago
I get that too. Thanks for the reply.
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pinkmichelefloyd 3 months ago
Am means present just as much as still does. The power of am in this context is not just the weight she gives it. *I* *am* is a double emphasis on the self. I AM THAT I AM - Exodus 3:14. In other words, she saying "Who are you to question me?"
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jasperwellington11 3 months ago
God this movie is amazing.
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fitchmate2321 3 months ago
Classic.
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