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Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Starring: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olsen
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Genre: Film Noir
Hey there, young fella. Down on your luck and thinking about getting with that rich cougar to solve your problems, huh? Well let me introduce to you a film that may alter that perception. Sunset Blvd. tells the story of Joe Giles, a young, struggling screenwriter who finds slowly finds himself in the strong clutches of Norma Desmond, the once Queen of silent films now a forgotten star (But you can’t tell her that.) In agreement to help develop her screenplays, Desmond helps Giles financially, but it comes with a cost.
The two get romantically involved but Giles isn’t the one pulling the strings. Norma Desmond might as well have had a leash on the guy the entire film. He wears whatever she gives him, she gets jealous when he interacts with other woman, and he just can’t seem to leave her super, million-dollar mansion (no car.) That’s as far as I tell of the film, but I highly recommend it to film lovers who respect good ol’ black-and-white nostalgia. It’s film noir at its finest. And I was joking about the cougar thing, people. Or was I?...
