It is a major thoroughfare in the cities of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood (including a portion known as the Sunset Strip. There are not a lot of `dated' themes in this film the circle of life that is Hollywood isn't going to be much more evolved in 2050 than it was in 1950. Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles, California, United States, that stretches from the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades east to Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles. There are only a small handful of central characters in Sunset Boulevard and they are so richly written that this film will remain timeless.
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Now, in my late 20's and early 30's I found it to have a different impact on me I was saddened by Desmond's mental illness, and when she makes her final descent down her staircase and utters her famous line as the camera pans the faces of the people around her, so full of pity, and the care her butler/ex-husband takes to make sure she's happy for maybe the last time in her life made more of an impact on me than any other time in the 20-odd times I've seen this film. Before it became a hot spot for swanky hotels and juice bars, Sunset Boulevard was the epicenter for all things. In my teens/college years, I appreciated it as a certified classic and for its commentary on Hollywood. Sunset Boulevard stretches 22 miles, from glittery Hollywood to beachy Malibu.
I'll be at Comic Con Cape Town next weekend, selling the first 3 chapters of Until Sunset, both my books, and a buuuuunch of my art LGBTQIA southafrica Fantasy bl slowburn lgbt merman mermaid. It's interesting to watch the film during different times in one's life when I was a child watching this film, I thought the story was good and that Norma Desmond (Swanson) was a pretty scary lady. Read Until Sunset :: Ch 5 Pg 31 Tapas Comics. I have yet to see a Billy Wilder film that I haven't loved, and Sunset Boulevard is definitely one of those films.
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