Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Sunset Boulevard - Day 1

I never saw it before. I started reading Patton Oswald's book about movies and he starts it off with this Billy Wilder classic staring William Holden and Gloria Swanson. In order to read the book, I had to watch the movie. I always avoided it because I thought it would be a melodramatic chick flick. I couldn't have been more wrong. It's a gothic masterpiece about an aging silent film actress who entraps a young writer into her web of desperation and murder. Creepy, unsettling, and masterfully written. I can't believe they turned it into a cheesy musical.
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