Scattered... but Covered:
Thoughts on a Need-to-Know Basis
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
"I AM Big... It's the Movies that got small"
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
With Divah on my lap, I watched Sunset Boulevard tonight. I can't tell you how great this story is. The dialogue, storyline, the... everything. I couldn't even quote a few lines from the movie because there are so many great lines. Its like eye butter.
The story is about an aging star from yesteryear. She has been tucked away in her mansion away from the public, which prefers younger women on screen. She has cooked up an awful grandiose script about a young Salome, of course she'll play the younger role. She wishes to get Cecil B. DeMille to direct it, but it needs some work.
In comes, Joe Gilles, a 30 something hack screenwriter, he agrees to ghostwrite the script for her, even tho he knows it sucks. She eventually falls in love with him and he keeps him hostage in her arms as a kept man.
The story is such a good movie, I know it's hard for some of us to watch black and white films, but the stories are so much better. I don't know how that's possible and as a screenwriter, I can't tell you how I aim to bring back that quality, as I guess it's too hard, once you think about it. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was excellent, the whole thing was filmed mostly in one house, in one room, and it was a great study of acting and technical execution.
I will probably begin to post some great classic films as I think, they will help people watch the crap made now with more discretion.
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