Sunset Boulevard Daily Analysis (x Tahnee Dwyer)

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BEAR Quotes Daily Analysis for Sunset Boulevard (directed by Billy Wilder, produced by Paramount Pictures, 1950) - authored by Victorian teacher, Tahnee Dwyer

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Film summary from the 2023 VCAA Text List

Joe (William Holden) is a broke and increasingly desperate writer who becomes trapped in a mansion with aging and delusional film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). He is notionally employed to write a script for her to finally make her come back, but in truth he is only indulging her fantasies while accepting her largesse. Joe’s decline is marked by his growing self-loathing, his hopeless attempt at a double life and his strange affinity with Max (Erich von Stroheim), Norma’s servant and chauffeur … and former husband.

A film about films, Sunset Boulevard explores illusion and reality and the often dark world of cinema and celebrity. The character of Norma, in particular, offers insight into the concepts of celebrity and fame, and the price of performance. The film also plays with masculinity and femininity, and how these constructions can imprison and distort.

Sunset Boulevard is, by turns, hilarious and hideous, creepy and comic. It features unsettling, gothic elements including a narrator from beyond the grave, a funeral for a chimpanzee and the full sweep of film noir tropes. It won an Oscar for best screenplay (also by Billy Wilder). (Rating: PG)