The scenes on Sunset Boulevard were not used, probably because the director did not pay too much attention to the background of Hollywood, but focused on the protagonist’s character and circumstances.
A person’s room and home are a manifestation of a person’s living conditions. Through the display of the interior and exterior of the space of a mansion, we can see the character of Norma’s character, the inner and outer conditions of life, and our understanding of the space of this mansion follows Giles From the outside to the inside, first of all, the exterior of the house is a luxurious scale, but from the dilapidated garage and the drooping lifeless trees and wild weeds outside the house, we can know that the magnificence and splendor are in the past. At the same time, with the help of Giles' narration: "This house is reminiscent of the old lady's house in "Great Expectations". The lady He Weixiang tore in her rotten wedding dress and became cynical because of being forgotten." echoes. With the identity of the owner of this mansion-a dead old movie star, the glory is no longer there. When entering the interior, the luxury of the interior decoration is in sharp contrast with the dilapidation of the exterior. There are heavy carved tassel curtains, wooden carved benches, and large crystal chandeliers everywhere. The strong contrast between inside and outside forms a great irony of Norma's living conditions, nostalgic for the bustling past of nothingness, but outsiders seem to have been deserted in terms of career.
Norma almost never leaves her mansion. Her mansion is all of her life. With Giles's knowledge of the mansion, we understand Norma’s inner condition step by step and walk down the stairs to the living room through Giles. The lens, a shallow depth of field, the slow roll of a short-focus lens, the foreground part of the picture is slightly deformed, Giles rotates from the picture, and the gorgeous decorative lines in the background part are blurred and distorted, which outlines the strange feeling of the living room space of the mansion. It is a distorted portrayal of Norma's heart. Large and small picture frames are all over the living room, and huge portraits are hung in the center of the living room. These photos of the glorious period are the pathological manifestations of Norma's distorted and obsessed with the glories of the past and self-impression. The dress also reflects this. We see that Norma always wears heavy make-up in her home, wears sunglasses, and wears leopard print clothing. Just imagine who would dress like this every day at home. Such clothing is Norma’s emphasis on her once-famous movie star status. Giles has repeatedly called Norma and her same outdated movie star friends as idols to ridicule them, and this kind of deliberate packaging to conceal their true appearance and empty heart is not uncommon. relation.
The leopard print is a display of female strength and inner desire at the same time. When Giles lived in the garage at night, from the window we saw the empty and run-down tennis court, the swimming pool with no water and weeds, and the secret funeral of the pet orangutan. In the form of prying, we penetrated into Norma’s inner state. And the emotional world. The openness of the swimming pool and the openness of the tennis court symbolizes the emptiness of Norma’s emotional world. When Giles later became Norma’s lover, there was a scene where they had filled the pool with water. Giles’ arrival once filled her. In her heart, love filled her long-empty heart like water. At the same time, we see that she wears more leopard print elements. In fact, this indicates that she has a strong desire to control Giles and a desire to conquer the opposite sex. This is implied in Giles’ night peeping passages. The orangutan as a pet is an emotional substitute. Giles’ appearance replaces the orangutan. Norma pursues a kind of adoration and worship of others in the emotions. Obedient, so she kept buying various things for Giles, ordering him to be a manifestation of the desire to conquer the opposite sex. This all came from her pathological decline of her past status, so when she learned of Giles' betrayal of Norma Only when the emotional turmoil shot him and the swimming pool, the symbol of the sea of love where the two were immersed, and this was when the housekeeper mistakenly believed that he was a coffin mover at the beginning: "If you need me to help you move the coffin , Please tell me." It has heralded the cause of Giles' death in the opening scene.
The scene of the swimming pool promotes the narrative of the film. The space of the swimming pool explains that the two began to be together, and in the end Norma ended the life of Giles and his betrayal because of the anger of love. In the narrative line of Norma’s personal circumstances, certain scenes and settings also played an important role. The contrasting mansion inside and outside divides the outer world and the inside into two worlds. Norma has been shaped by various Indulging in her past glory, the interior of the mansion is full of her own past photos, an idol image created by Hollywood. At the same time, the butler is also her ex-husband as one of her admirers. An illusory space created by the past. The scene in which Norma went to Paramount to find Demir was very interesting and dramatic. The new doorman did not recognize her, and the old doorman wanted to invite her in enthusiastically, leaving Norma with something. The illusion of her identity as a movie star is still very important, and when she enters the studio, Demir asks her to sit in the director’s chair. The lighter who knew her in the past pointed the light at her, and other people recognized her. Flocks swarmed around her. At this moment, the space next to the studio formed a sense of stage. The real scene instantly became a fictitious stage space. The past time also converges with the present time at this moment, although this A short period was quickly interrupted by Director Demir, but the scheduling of the scenes and scenes made Norma trance between reality and illusion, and became more convinced that she was still the famous movie star in the past, and this was for Norma later. Unable to accept my own reality and being lost in reality played a driving role. At the end of the film, the camera entered Norma's mansion. With the help of the housekeeper, the spotlight was again directed at Norma. The space of the mansion turned into a stage. As Norma kept getting closer to the camera, he was immersed in the realistic acting skills of the lens. , Reality and reality seem to have been confused.
"Sunset Boulevard" uses a variety of scene scheduling, the use of the set shows a narrative that is compatible with reality and reality, and it is difficult to distinguish between reality and reality. It shows the loss of a smashing movie star being eliminated by the times. Before the last scene, the lost Norma examines herself in the mirror. Behind her is the Hollywood Reporter who once pursued her, Hollywood made her, and finally buried her. Hollywood is such a place. Today’s sun is sunset, and some people are taken away. Tomorrow’s sun It shone on Sunset Boulevard again, and new people came again.
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