Sunset Boulevard Essays

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

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

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 actress

​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

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

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

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

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

Sunset Boulevard is a classic black comedy/drama, the most acclaimed, but darkest film noir story about Hollywood and what happens behind the scenes written by Billy Wilder. It shows the true deceitfulness, emptiness, the price of fame, greed, narcissism, and ambition it really takes to be an actor or actress during the 1950’s in Hollywood. Norma Desmond was one of the main characters and she showed viewers how easily they can perceive their characters on screen for their real life and get them twisted

Sunset Boulevard is an entertaining portrayal of the dramatic side of Hollywood in the 1950’s through the film noir genre and thoroughly does so through repeated themes of entrapment. Sunset Boulevard is the name of the street Norma Desmond, a renowned silent film actress, resides in. She confides within a film writer to restore her fame back to what she had as a silent film actress in the newly introduced “talkies”. The writer, Joe Gillis, is thus stuck with the task of aiding her

XV). Billy Wilder 's Sunset Boulevard (Wilder 1950) will be analysed and explored with its techniques and styles of mise-en-scéne and how this aspect of filmmaking establishes together as a cohesive whole with the narrative themes as classical Hollywood storytelling. Features of the film 's sense of space and time, setting, motifs, characters, and character goals will be explored and how they affect the characterisation, structure, and three-act organisation. In Sunset Boulevard (Wilder 1950), the

In Sunset Boulevard, I chose to focus on Norma Desmond. I chose this movie because I thought the title was interesting and it took place in California. I liked Norma because she was mysterious and flirtatious. I've seen other movies with Femme Fatales like Norma which made it interesting to see the differences in the performances. Most Femme Fatales seem to be seductive and somewhat plays a big role in what ends up happening. Norma was mysterious because she didn't even know Joe was coming until

In the film Sunset Boulevard many character struggled with wishes, lies and dreams of fame and fortune. The film states the corruption in hollywood and that people will do anything to get ahead. With hope and delusion each character tries to gain happiness, while only being self-destructive and isolating themselves. The characters ultimately deny their problems and confuse those around them. One character in the film who struggles with her wishes, lies and dreams is, Norma Desmond, a washed up actress

In the film Sunset Boulevard many characters struggled with wishes, lies and dreams of fame and fortune. The film states the corruption in Hollywood and that people will do anything to get ahead. With hope and delusion each character tries to gain happiness, while only being self-destructive and isolating themselves. The characters ultimately deny their problems and confuse those around them. One character in the film who struggles with her wishes, lies and dreams is, Norma Desmond, a washed up

walks down, she says “I’m ready for my close-up” although, the shot isn’t even a close-up, it’s a medium shot that fades into a black end screen. This scene captured Norma’s delusion of still being a film star. There is mise-en-scene throughout Sunset Boulevard. Crane shots, as well as deep focus and high contrast lighting, were used in many of the living room scenes in Norma’s home to show how obnoxious her home was with all the

even people fall out of fashion. The films Sunset Boulevard and Hugo both use visual symbolism to demonstrate the characters having become trapped in the past. In Sunset Boulevard this can be observed through the images of the bars on the doors and windows, the microphone at the film set and the spiraled staircase in Norma’s home while Hugo uses the train station, the motif of clockwork and the automaton to illustrate its point. Wilder’s film Sunset Boulevard tells the twisted tale of an aged silent

As the debuting film for director Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler is, in its essence, a film not unlike some we’ve watched in class– one that certainly comes to mind is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a movie that inspires thought about not only the industry, but humanity. Instead of Norma’s post-film craze, our own protagonist, Louis “Lou” Bloom (portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal) is in almost a pre-career craze. Ruthlessly ambitious, he is, my opinion, the image of a sociopath on the prowl for the beginnings

authors use the adjunct characters in both King Lear, by William Shakespeare, and Sunset Boulevard, by Billy Wilder, to indicate why the main characters, Lear and Norma, are so delusional. Comparing the two we can see a pattern of “loyalty to a fault” that, in the end, leads to the main characters’ downfalls. Examining King Lear, we can see that Kent is responsible for King Lear’s delusion of power. In Sunset Boulevard, Max is to blame for Norma’s false sense of pomp. Though both Kent and Max have