Comments on: Sunset Boulevard (1950)

By: 3 Cats & a Golden

3 Cats & a Golden — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 04:51:00 +0000

I agree with Biff’s first comment, especially about her age … but I have always loved this movie. Swanson’s total descent into madness at the end is so tragic. I have never seen the musical and have no interest in doing so. But does anyone remember Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman satirizing this movie? Very funny.

By: 沉溺

沉溺 — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:55:00 +0000

I love the musical“Sunset boulevard” composed by ALW

By: EmailHosting.com

EmailHosting.com — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:10:00 +0000

I love the piano big hands picture!

By: Paul McElligott

Paul McElligott — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:47:00 +0000

After finally seeing Sunset Boulevard, I started seeing Gods and Monsters as sort of a loose, unofficial remake. It's not close enough to be called an actual remake but I think there were interesting parallels.

By: Jai

Jai — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:44:00 +0000

Hi Paul,

Just found your blog- wow really interesting. I am really into movies too. i keep a list of all the movies with good reviews that I want to watch in order not to miss out!
I have not seen Sunset B the movie however, I have seen it at the theatre. Great performance and lovely story.
I have set up a blog to write beginners song lyrics to real events going on in my life.
I hope to make them an interesting read. I am currently working on one as draft at the mo. Not published anything yet.
Maybe you will keep an eye out for mine and have a read some time.
Keep up the good work.
Jai.

By: Biff

Biff — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:32:00 +0000

It never occurred to me that Gods and Monsters might be construed as a re-make of Sunset Boulevard, but now that I think about it I think you’re right.

Incidentally, I loved Gods and Monsters, finding the old man’s still-vivid memories of the horrors of the trenches of World War 1 to be particularly moving.

By: Biff

Biff — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:39:00 +0000

Yours is an excellent review of a movie so relevant to today that it is timeless.

One interesting aspect of this film is Norma Desmond’s age – about fifty. But by today’s standards she would be taken for about seventy, judging by her looks and demeanor.

If Sunset Boulevard were to be remade, I could see the seventy-plus Shirley Maclaine as Norma.

Having said that, I hope a re-make of this film will never be made for it is nonpereil, and to re-make it would be almost a desecration.

Sunset Boulevard also shows
that shooting a film in black-and-white can add to its power.

I’m told that many contemporary directors would love to make their movies in black-and-white, but fear that the movie-going public, having been nurtured on an unceasing diet of colour TV and movies, would never never buy it, and is perhaps why so many black-and-white films of the past have been digitally colourized in their DVD incarnations – a desecration, if ever there was one.