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Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard!!
Starting off a month where we talk about Movies about Making Movies
Sunset Boulevard examines the wreckage left behind by the transition from Silent Era pictures to the "Talkies"
A failing screenwriter named Joe Gillis (William Holden) is found floating face down in a pool on Sunset Boulevard, beyond the grave he begins telling us his story..
Struggling to make a living in Hollywood, Joe Gillis stashes his car which is about to be towed away in a random garage in the Hollywood Hills which ends up being the mansion of faded film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) and her butler Max (Erich Von Stroheim)
Gillis begins working for Norma Desmond on a screenplay, and is slowly lured into her world of psychosis, delusion, codependenc ...
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