The down-and-out screenwriter Qiao strayed into a ghostly mansion, where Norma, a superstar of the silent film era, lived with her loyal butler (in fact, he was also her director, her first husband, and the one who made her popular), And her pet gorilla who just died. The cash-strapped Joe is tempted by money to leave behind to revise her bad Salome script, and has since fallen into the gorge of time, one side is the silent era, the other is the modern age. He's here for a while, and over there for a while. On one side is Valentino dancing tiles, on the other side is a young blond woman who is laughing wildly. On one side is a 50-year-old superstar like Liu Xiaoqing, and on the other is Betty, a youthful reviewer, who is only 22 years old. "How old are you?" "22 years old." "Smart girl, nothing compares to 22 years old." Norma is still immersed in her superstar era, reading fan letters every day and sending them autographed photos without knowing it. Fan letters are all from the housekeeper. She is also looking forward to a comeback, her gestures are dramatic, her home is full of her photos, and she watches her starring movies every night. Paramount wanted to borrow her antique car to film, but she thought that the director extended an olive branch to her again, and everyone watched her at the filming site, like watching a weird antique. There is no such sad moment anymore. He became her "Darling", wearing a shrugged suit and a camel hair coat, but unable to resist the attraction of reality, he ran to write a new script with the reviewer lady in the middle of the night. When Betty confessed to him, he wanted to get rid of it all and go back to reality. He didn't want to be 22 or 50 and decided to go back to Ohio to be a newspaper editor. Of course, he can't go back. "It's not sad to be 50 unless you want to be 25," he told her before she was shot by the pool. Perfect beginning, perfect ending, perfect but now largely defunct character narration. Billy Wilder used this film to send away the silent film era and the famous producer LB Mayer of the silent film era. An era is over.
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