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I just finally watched Sunset Boulevard.
Holy fuck. That was the most depressing last line I've ever heard, and that's counting "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown".
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Totally unique.
The casting of Gloria Swanson and Eric Von Stroheim was sheer genius. And after all her big silent films this is what she is most remembered for.
It took Film Noir to a new level. I can't think of another movie that was narrated by a dead man.
There are so many great quotes. "I AM big. It's the pictures that got small" "You see, I was her first husband."
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)was a morgue room, one drawer was pulled out and William Holden sat up in the drawer and began his dialogue. I would not have liked that.
sarge43
(28,942 posts)pressbox69
(2,252 posts)Wilder changed the opening.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Followed very closely by Bette Davies in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane in the scene where she sees herself in the full length mirror. Major Creepytude!
Both shot in black and White was pure genius
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Tarantino believes the craft was lost with digital. I believe it was lost with technicolor. But that's just me.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)It was lost with sound.