Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenplay writer, escapes the finance men who are trying to reclaim his car by driving into the garage of an old mansion on Sunset Boulevard. Assumed to be someone else, he is led by Max the butler to the mansion's owner, silent film star Norma Desmond. Wishing to make a comeback, she hires him to rewrite her "Salome" script, then falls in love with him. Joe moves into the mansion as a kept man. Secretly, Joe is collaborating with a pretty young screenplay editor, Betty Schaefer, on another idea. Though she is engaged to his best friend, Artie Green, an assistant director, Betty falls in love with Joe. When Betty finds out about Norma, she asks him to leave Norma for her, but Joe can't unsettle her life, too. He decides, instead, to leave Hollywood. As he is leaving, a crazed Norma tries to stop him.

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*很久沒看這種百大前段班的電影,No. 12哦~
*Tagline: This is it .. the most compelling dramatic story ever unfolded on the screen .. a tale of heartache and tragedy ..love and ambition .. told against the fabulous background of Hollywood.
*神經神經的女人,聯想到Vivien Leigh在慾望街車的演出~
*男主角William Holden也是25大巨星唷~
*本片導演是Billy Wilder,看了一下他的作品包括Double Indemnity (1944)之後,恍然大悟;因為雙重保險一開始便是演主角掛點...再倒流回去...
*男主角的無奈,跟Dustin Hoffman在Graduate中的角色非常類似,只是衝動程度不同~
*哇,這部電影的OST被AFI選為16名哩,作曲家是: Franz Waxman,十次的Academy提名(抱走2次)~
*No. 07 - All right, Mr. Demille, I'm ready for my close-up. (Norma Desmond)
*No. 24 - I am big! It's the pictures that got small. (Norma Desmond)
*好像是蠻經典的...dvd的字幕又有問題=.=