Mar 02 2010
Miami Adult Entertainment: Taking a stroll down "Sunset Boulevard"
Taking a stroll down “Sunset Boulevard”
Billy Wilder’s 1950 film “Sunset Boulevard” is a sordid tale of Hollywood’s highs and lows but, most dramatically, the lows. For instance, a silent-screen actress is reduced to a grinning mockery of herself in a world without mercy. A talented screenwriter makes her relevant once again, while documenting his own strange prostitution in her company as a kept lover!
This is intriguing stuff-dark, dirty, funny stuff. This is “Sunset Boulevard.”
Its plot follows a young writer, Joe Gillis, who is found dead in the film’s opening moments and continues narrating his own story. He’s in a swimming pool that belongs to Norma Desmond, a movie star of yore, a silent-screen goddess past her prime.
Actor William Holden is beautiful in his portrayal of Gillis, the whip-smart, dynamic underdog. His character embodies the male anxiety of entrapment by female sexuality.
See the full article from “The DePauw”