Sunset Blvd Analysis

Module 1 Homework Assignment Allied American University Author Note This paper was prepared for Introduction to Film History, Module 1 Homework Assignment, taught by Professor Stephanie Sandifer.

“Sunset Blvd” is not subtle in stating illusion will win out over reality. After all, Norma Desmond, the aged silent movie star who deludes herself into believing that she will be famous again, kills Joe Gillis, our involved narrator and voice of reason. But before we analyze the dramatic pool scene, which dispels any idea that “Sunset Blvd” sides with reality, we must first look at the characters, the embodiments of dreams and of reality in this movie. Norma Desmond, who dreams of rising to greatness again, refuses to believe that time has passed and that she no longer has any fans. Max, her butler and first husband, feeds into this facade by writing her fan mail, encouraging her

The Sunset’s Limited Tomorrow Too Cormac McCarthy is perhaps one of the finest writers alive today. A novelist in the veins of apocalyptical Southern Gothic that’s tried his hand as a playwright as well as a screenwriter. In 2011 he offered up a play, or rather a novella in the form of a play entitled The Sunset Limited. A title which most definitely does not refer to the train line that runs from New Orleans to Los Angeles. No, it’s not a train line, it’s a play and a movie starring Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones, who also directed (and even had some on set script guidance from McCarthy, who’s a long-time friend). One need not differ much from the source material, but one can refine the suggestions of the lines and how they should be spoken, how they are to be felt.

This is the starting display of the original screenplay that was scraped off and replaced by showing the audience at East Coast the preview. It scared the audience because it depicted the life of a movie star who faded in a realistic way, thus making the Hollywood members to evaluate their life and careers after stardom. Narrated by an evidently dead author, the film; Sunset Boulevard is not simply the story of how the movie writer Gillis Joe died and involvement of the great Desmond Norma with the affair. This is a story of a disenchanted writer who once ever believed himself about his talents. However, ambition and poverty pushed him to sell out the ideas he had for bread. His practical personality is nonetheless unable to awaken the great Desmond Norma from her illusions of fame/continued marketability. Nor is the writer unable to crush ambitions of Betty of becoming a substantial and talented writer in a town like Hollywood that is so superficial. It is indeed these two women who expose his perception into the constructions of reality and identity. However, it wasn’t only the film plot that scared Hollywood, but also the Wilder’s casting of Stroheim and Gloria Swanson in the two leading roles. Both of them had been filming stars in the silent era

After reading the story “Night Drive”, we came up with a question: “Who is the murderer of the night drive? Mr. Tabor or Bob?” Although there is some evidence argue that Mr. Tabor is the murderer, they are weak. In my opinion, Bob is the murderer. Despite he was described nicely in the story, the evidence is strong to prove that he is the murderer. The strongest evidence is the description when Madge saw Bob changes his shape, “... very gradually and very terribly – from that of a tall and well - made young man favoring an injured leg, to a crouched horror which was wholly animal and an embodiment of blood-lust” (8). Based on this description, we can know that it was certain that Bob wasn’t a normal human. Bob is a werewolf, just like Eunice (Mr.

Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder in 1950 is based on how Norma Desmond, a huge Hollywood star, deals with her fall from fame. The film explores the fantasy world in which Norma is living in and the complex relationship between her and small time writer Joe Gillis, which leads to his death. Sunset Boulevard is seen as lifting the ‘face’ of the Hollywood Studio System to reveal the truth behind the organisation. During the time the film was released in the 1950s and 60s, audiences started to see the demise of Hollywood as cinema going began to decline and the fierce competition of television almost proved too much for the well established system. Throughout this essay I will discuss how Sunset Boulevard represents the Hollywood

In the short story, “Along the Frontage Road” by Michael Chabon, a father and son visit a pumpkin patch off a frontage road to escape from their home and problems. While at the pumpkin patch, the father reflects on how many situations in life are uncontrollable. The family had suffered the loss of their unborn daughter, and the father and son use their experience at the pumpkin patch to move on in life. Michael Chabon uses figurative language in the form of metaphors and similes, a depressing mood, flashbacks, and pumpkin symbolism in “Along the Frontage Road” to comment on hardships in life that people have no control over.

An Analysis of the film Gone With the Wind Catherine M. Piraino ENG 225 INRO TO FILM Instructor Pal December 17, 2012 An Analysis of the film Gone with the Wind Rarely has a film impacted an audience and held the test of time as the film Gone with the Wind. I have always been curious if director, Victor Fleming and producer, David O. Selznick and screenplay writer, Sidney Howard knew what they were creating a masterpiece and how this film would have such an enormous impact on audiences for years to come. Interestingly enough there were some who thought the film should not be made, as Irving Thalberg said to Louis B. Meyer in 1936, “Forget it Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel” (Ten Films that Shook the World).

An illegal alien is a foreigner who enters the United States of America crossing the border by avoiding inspection. Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "The Devil's Highway," states, "The first white man known to die in the dessert heat here did it on January 18, 1541. As long as there have been people, there have been deaths in the western desert." pg.5 We might think we know everything, but we are not there yet. Just like we are not sure who was the first to die in that dessert, there are places in the world that we have not yet discovered. Places like jungles, rivers, forests, and maybe even other desert. Border patrols focus on putting an end on people crossing the border, their territory, but have they thought about what are their reasons.

Themes in the Novel and Movie Adaptation of James Cain’s Mildred Pierce In contemporary film making, “Hollywood-ization” generally refers to the re-creation of a classic work in a form more vulgar and sexually explicit than the original in an effort to boost movie attendance. After all, sex and violence sell. However, from the mid-1930’s to the 1950’s, “Hollywood-ization” referred to the opposite case where controversial books had to be purified to abide by the Production Code of 1934.[1] This occurred to many of James Cain’s novels as they moved from text to the genre of “film noir.” As has been said about Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, “The property, bought several years ago, was kept in the studio’s archives until now

War and perception “When I awoke I was sweating. I had thrown may blanket off onto may floor“( Myers 105 ). Birdy has had nightmares when sleeping, and what it means to be at war. In a moment of . Over the course of Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean

Off the Veranda by Bronislaw Malinowski is a documentary that begins to discuss the start of his upcoming in the field of anthropology, the people of Trobriand Island and Functionalism. In the start of the Documentary we learn Malinowski began his field work by studying the Mailu people. During his work he was studying the natives afar from a Veranda. We learn that in order to fully understand the society of the Mailu; Malinowski believes he needs to learn their native language. Ultimately he decides to start afresh by studying the people of Trobriand Island. During the beginnings of his encounters he began to understand what it takes to be a member of the Trobriand. At first he was seen as an outsider and that his studies weren’t “working”

What makes for a classic Hollywood film? Increasingly, films have evolved to the point where the standard by which one calls a “classic Hollywood film” has evolved over time. What one calls a classic film by yesterday’s standards is not the same as that of today’s standards. The film Casablanca is no exception to this. Although David Bordwell’s article, “Classical Hollywood Cinema” defines what the classical Hollywood film does, the film Casablanca does not exactly conform to the very definition that Bordwell provides the audience with in his article. It is true that the film capers closely to Bordwell’s definition, but in more ways than not, the film diverges from Bordwell’s definition of the typical Hollywood film.

The Las Vegas Strip is full of surprising views. The Smith family certainly found that out on their family vacation last year. One strip photographer caught this picture of the parents looking appalled and holding back their young child John who looked shockingly cavalier. Why were the parents so scared and the child so calm? After interviewing the family we soon found out that the object of interest was a nude show girl on the Strip. The Vegas Strip was actually “stripping.” This explains the boy’s almost happy grimace. With somber moods the Smith’s have decided to never come back to Vegas as their eyes and their child’s are too “scorned” to ever return. They have recently started touring in their program called We Are Traumatized where they

The image quality of #3.2 Talbot’s photographic printing establishment at reading, appears to be dark with very little lighting on the men’s faces, but their clothing and the daguerreotypes are all shady. Certain parts of the image are blurred including facial expressions and body movements. Leaving the shed behind them the only thing that’s bright and have specific detail. This has to do with the long exposure time and the fact that it was taken outside, applied India ink to remove the imperfections of the picture can be seen. As for the #3.6 The Sun at Zenith, by Gustave Le Gray shows great detail of the entire ocean and the light reflected from the waves. He achieved this by waxing the negative image first, then sensitize it, allowing the