Dead By Sunset

Norma is an atypical, yet at the same time great example of a Femme Fatale in Film Noir. Perhaps the biggest characteristic in Film Noir is the element that gives it it’s name: the visual style. Whether it be a detective story, a crime drama, or Sunset Boulevard’s dramatized look at behind-the-scenes Hollywood, film noirs are all shot in a very distinct manner. The lighting is often single-source, making heavy use of chiaroscuro, a high contrast between light and dark, using things such as streetlights

Billy Wilder's famous and well known film called Sunset Boulevard is a masterpiece for the ages. Even though it is in black and white, don't think it isn't good. This film has so many twist and turns, the audience doesn't know what's going to happen next (even though you know the Writer in the movie is going to die because of the flash back). I thought the movie was interesting with the beginning of the film when they start out with the dead man floating motionless in the pool as police officers

Joe transforms from a self-worthless struggling screenwriter looking to pay off his debts, to a well-tailored man indulging in the new opportunities that have bestowed upon him from his association with the former silent film star. When Joe feels the unwary itch to build his own original screenplay, he finds it problematic to break free from the shackles of Norma’s ever so tightening grip. Both Joe and Norma use one another for their own selfish needs. Joe craves the kind of fame that Norma had and

different households on the Fourth of July. The letters offer a once in a lifetime chance to rent an apartment at the new and luxurious Sunset Towers, located on the shores of Lake Michigan. However, in the movie, Sunset Towers was located in the city. In the book, Sunset Towers was built mostly of glass and stood five stories high. Noticed in both the book and movie, Sunset Towers oddly faces east instead of west where the sun actually sets. In both the movie and the book, Barney Northrup manages to

Ironically, I want to pursue a science-based career, yet reducing the world around me to atoms and molecular models scares me. Science presents a fatal attraction composed of questions that often lack robust answers and the unexplainable hollowness of looking in the mirror to see a jumble of molecules. Most of the human body consists of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorous, but human existence comprises of different features. To me, the importance of the components that hold

There are many characters in the Outsiders book that found their identity in conflict. Bob is one of the characters in the Outsiders that found his identity in conflict. He didn’t have anything to find his identity in and the result of that was finding his identity in conflict and being in a gang. Randy found his identity in conflict and he also rose out of being a person who sought conflict in his everyday life. In the book, Randy participated in beating up Johnny, and certainly in fights with other

Craters, Tom Shiftlet has a chance to achieve Grace. He has been wandering and has no friends, and has found in this household a chance to work hard, watch a beautiful sunset every night, and live a quiet life. This opportunity is hinted at when he first approaches the two women sitting on the porch and turns his back to them to face the sunset: "He swung both his whole and his short arm up slowly so that they indicated an expanse of sky and his figure formed a crooked cross." That crooked cross embodied

The Hollywood Machine: Equations to Downfall in Sunset Boulevard The film industry operates in a continuous cycle, searching for the newest and best pieces to make their movies creative, interesting, and marketable. Historically, the film industry attempts to follow a set structure in an attempt towards success in such a volatile market, however, this approach creates a system much like that of Ford’s Model-T production line, invented in the 1910s, which involved each worker on the line doing a

A Response to Sunset Boulevard (1950) A film noir is defined by Webster dictionary as: a type of movie about crime that uses dark shadows and lighting to show the complicated moral nature of the subject. Sunset Boulevard is an excellent example of this type of film due to the intense atmosphere, the suspenseful and melancholy background music that coordinates with the scenes, and also other things. The film is centered around one main idea: the characters tiptoeing around Norma Desmond’s mental

it is a difficult experience that teaches Ponyboy how to accept what happened and move on. When Ponyboy begins to finish reading Gone With the Wind, he admits to himself that Johnny is dead and starts