Sunset Essays

spread across the screen of the Music Hall in Sunset Boulevard. Using as the basis of their frank, caustic drama a scandalous situation involving a faded, aging silent screen star and a penniless, cynical young scriptwriter, Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (with an assist from D. M. Marshman, Jr.) have written a powerful story of the ambitions and frustrations that combine to make life in the cardboard city so fascinating to the outside world. Sunset Boulevard is by no means a rounded story of Hollywood

classical cinema and with the ascending narration. Sunset Boulevard {1950} directed by Billy Wilder is a classic American black and white comedy/drama film noir, cited as one of the greatest films of American cinema. With the greatest silent star cast of William Holden as Joe Gillis who is described as an unsuccessful screenwriter, Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond. The story revolves around a case of murder that had incurred at a mansion of Sunset Boulevard owned by Norma Desmond who is a faded silent

The film Sunset Boulevard, made in 1950 is a black and white film. The film is about Norma Desmond an old actor, who has issues accepting that she is becoming old. Gloria Swanson, the main character is Norma Desmond, suffers accepting that she is aging. Desmond has issues in her life regarding her age and does not accept that Hollywood does not want her anymore. Next, character Joe Gillis is William Holden, has financial problems and turns himself into a gigolo. The dilemma is Joe became a gigolo

​The movie picture Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder is a piece that shows both the glamourous and the not so glamorous side of Hollywood. Now, as a child everyone dreams of being a huge movie star, but Wilder’s film may change some minds. The film Sunset Boulevard has a multitude of different themes and ideas but the main theme is the heartlessness of Hollywood and the effect it has on the actors. It shows how this idea of show business will show you no mercy regardless if you are a new to the

Sunset Boulevard (1950), directed by Billy Wilder, is a black and white film, where Norma Desmond, a famous actress of the silent film era, cannot come to terms with her career’s end. Desmond meets a guy named Joe Gillis, a struggling writer who is in financial trouble. The two come to an agreement that Gillis will polish up her script, which Norma believes will be her ticket back to the big screen, and Norma will take care of Joe financially. The one thing Norma and Joe have in common is that Hollywood

Poetry Assignment Langston Hughes Langston Hughes lived long and interesting life. He has written a great number of novels and plays, short stories and critical essays, was good in translations, and collected folklore anthology. Yet, the true identity of his talent was revealed in the verses. That is why Langston Hughes became one of the largest national poets of the twentieth century. Langston Hughes has touched major social and racial problems in his works. The issues of racial transition, discrimination

“In listening to the silence of the mountains, I heard at last my own heart’s words and I found my voice.” This quote was on a light blue rocker that sat on the porch of the house where I was staying in Montreat, North Carolina and is representative of my experience while attending my first youth conference. Montreat is a mountain retreat center nestled between the bucolic mountains of western North Carolina. Every year, my youth group makes the pilgrimage down south to attend the Montreat Youth

that they are without excuse.” -Romans 1:20 My Piece of art is called Sunset Glow and was painted by HErman Herzog in 1886. He was a German born american painter who traveled through the western U. S. He was part of the Hudson River School, which painted landscapes. I believe that this landscape portrays 2 biblical truths: first that God is the creator and second that this is a fallen world. The first biblical truth that Sunset Glow demonstrates is the truth that God is the Creator. Although this

release of Billy Wilders satirical, film noir “Sunset Boulevard”; a film that portrays the corrupt nature of Hollywood glitz. Sunset Boulevard presents a scathing review of the dangers of becoming obsessed and deluded by the diamond-studded allure of Hollywood culture. Highlighting the corrupting effects of fame and stardom and the toxic psychological effects of failing to accept the inevitable career decline that comes with age. Additionally, Sunset Boulevard also explores the fatal effects of excessive

Connie Cai 01/23/2023 Period 1/2 Connecting Sunsets How can sunsets, something we have no power over, connect two people from different worlds? Sunsets in The Outsiders are used to show relationships and similarities between different people from very different places. In The Outsiders, a realistic fiction novel by S.E. Hinton, greasers, like Ponyboy, and Socs, like Cherry may be very different people that come from very different backgrounds. From lifestyle differences to clothes, many differences

a) The Sunset Grocers Case Study will help in understanding the nature and scope of grocery store industry. The defining characteristics of the grocery store industry would include retail store that basically sells goods and particularly perishable foods such as bakeries, delis, meat, fresh produce as well as other non-food products. Sunset Grocers is a large grocery store that stocks substantial amounts of non-food goods such as household items and clothing. In the recent past, the grocery store

Sunset Overdrive is a game that is extremely successful in everything it sets out to do. It’s combat and traversal systems are innovative and fun, the tone of the game is funny and meta, and the story is unpredictable and wacky from start to finish. To top it off, each character in the game is memorable in their own weird and wonderful ways. Sunset Overdrive takes place during an apocalyptic event in Sunset City, when the release of Overdrive, FizzCo’s latest energy drink, starts to turn its drinkers

Sound design consists of three components; dialogue, music and sound effects. Each component carries a significant role to enhance the overall intention of the medium in which it is being used for. In film, for example, sound design and location recording is perhaps one of the last aspects of a production to be addressed. However specifically in a film where the dialogue is of utmost importance, it is an aspect that should not be dismissed. Unlike many directors, Quentin Tarantino is a director who

The famous science-fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by the stalwart filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick, can be described as one of the seminal works ever in the history of world cinema. The film succeeds in leaving a very lasting effect on the minds of the audience with its sheer quintessence of content and aesthetic portrayal on the screen. An introspective analysis of the contextual work can make one understand how the filmmaker exudes his cinematic prowess via the use of impressive cinematic

Released September 29, 1950, Sunset Boulevard is a film noir of a forgotten silent film star, Norma Desmond, that dreams of a comeback and an unsuccessful screenwriter, Joe Gillis, working together. Ultimately an uncomfortable relationship evolves between Norma and Joe that Joe does not want a part of. Sunset Boulevard starts off with an establishing shot from a high angle shot with a narrative leading to a crime scene shot in long shot (a dead body is found floating in a pool). The narrative throughout

not felt by Charles Marion Russell or Albert Bierstadt who preferred to make Romanic Realism paintings. Further more Charles Marion Russell’s painting “Bronc to Breakfast” (1908) and - Albert Bierstadt’s “Yosemite Valley Sunset” (1865) (hereafter referred to as “Bronc” and “Sunset”) both significantly feature horses, people, and western backgrounds. Russell builds drama within his painting by using

Billy Wilder’s 1950 melodramatic feature film Sunset Boulevard explores the dark side of Hollywood, where fame and fortune can lead to deception and madness. Wilder contends that those within the glamorous film industry will eventually receive the repercussions of their actions, however, things like karma work in funny ways. The lavish lifestyles celebrities seem to have can often draw in those who desire more, little do they know what truly lies beneath the surface. Sometimes desperation to reach

This story is unique in the way that it is that it stays in one setting most of the time The main setting is sunset tower located somewhere in wisconsin along lake michigan it does not give a city the main premise is a game That starts when the inherit of sam westing is argued over and his will says whoever finds the “murderer” will get the inheritance personality the main characters are sketch to say the least and since there's 20 different characters none of them are described very fluently

Does happiness equal freedom, or is it just the ability to question? In the play The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy, there are two characters, Black, an ex-convict and Christian who prevented White (an atheist professor) from committing suicide by saving him from an oncoming train. They then indulge in a conversation addressing life, faith and happiness. Throughout the conversation, we see themes of perception and reality that are similarly consistent throughout Plato’s, Allegory of the Cave.

Introduction to Riding Off Into The Sunset I think that I began writing at a very young age around the age of six or ten. I have included my first short story about my grandfather. Before Riding Off Into the Sunset, I imagined I was a raisin and wrote about being one. Really it wasn’t a precious piece of writing and I intended it to be that way. Over the years people enjoyed my writing and especially this piece for some reason. Even though my raisin story won over my audience by it humor and