"Sunset Boulevard" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Avaitor]

A Hollywood Story



"There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five."

Release Date: August 25, 1950
Studio: Paramount
Director: Billy Wilder
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

Plot Summary: The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.

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Pulling out one of my own tz talkbacks for Paramount's 100th anniversary, since Dalek's already done Chinatown on here, he has dibs on the Indy movies, Love Story sucks, and I still need to watch Wings.