"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) - Review & Commentary

[Mister Obvious]

1:45 obviously the music video was a nod to "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?" (1962) as well...

Which is a far more legendary film than Sunset Boulevard in my book.

If Sunset Boulevard is a 9 out of 10, WHBJ goes to 11...

[Mister Obvious]

https://64.media.tumblr.com/441b0a9e233a...9af42.gifv

How did they get the mirror image to reflect toward the camera?

It's some kinda trick and I am totally obsessed with the cinematography.

Ooo la la...

The use of mirrors in the film went beyond macabre and haunting set pieces; a mirror was also used to shoot this scene. Seitz placed a mirror at the bottom of the pool and shot facing down towards the mirror.

https://rlterryreelview.com/2016/02/25/sunsetblvd

So there was even more funky mirror action going on than I noticed.

[Mister Obvious]

Finally a valid reason for mirrors to exist?!

[Mister Obvious]

Makes me think about all the silent film actors who never made it into the talkies because of their voices...

[Mister Obvious]

Kinda like having a face made for radio.

[Mister Obvious]

The scene of Norma's face in the hallway mirror after Betty leaves is actually my favorite scene (apart from the ending) and I wish I could find it on YouTube.

7:40 legendary. Obsessed.

[Mister Obvious]

2:20 amen, amen.

[Mister Obvious]

3:24 "I must've killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille."

[SuperMonkeyPants]

You gave up on me?

[FuckinWeird]

Makes me think about all the silent film actors who never made it into the talkies because of their voices...

I actually thought about this when watching a silent film.
Something wrong with you n me.

[Mister Obvious]

[insert random, wholly unrelated, off topic, banal interjection here]

That was my best Fung impression!?