![]() ![]() Soon the cynical and opportunistic Joe becomes Norma's kept man. ![]() Joe realizes that the script is hopeless, but the money is good and he has nowhere else to go. Upon learning Joe's profession, Norma inveigles him into helping her with a comeback script that she's been working on for years. Wandering into the spooky place, Joe encounters its owner, imperious silent star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). Hotly pursued by repo men, impoverished, indebted "boy wonder" screenwriter Gillis ducks into the garage of an apparently abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. Gillis told his tale to his fellow corpses in the city morgue, but this elicited such laughter during the preview that Wilder changed it). From The Great Beyond, Joe details the circumstances of his untimely demise (originally, the film contained a lengthy prologue wherein the late Mr. The story begins at the end as the body of Joe Gillis (William Holden) is fished out of a Hollywood swimming pool. Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. ![]()
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