Sunset Blvd.

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The theme of "Sunset Boulevard" is
simply how corrupt Hollywood can be,

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how heartless it may be, how people
will do anything to get ahead there,

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even if it means sleeping
with a demented has-been.

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It's a story of Hollywood.

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The original opening was different
than the one we see in the film.

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What it was
was the LA County Morgue

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with a bunch of dead bodies
under sheets with toe tags on them.

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Holden is wheeled in
and he's placed there,

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and conversations begin to occur
between the corpses.

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They took the film out to show it
to audiences to get a reaction,

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and there was laughter.

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Wilder described to me exactly
what happened with the audience.

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The detail that got the audience
roaring with laughter,

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and just killing the intended mood,

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was two characters in the morgue
are talking to each other.

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It got worse.

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It was supposed to be kind of funny.
They thought it was hysterical.

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It's not like that when you read it.
But in visualising it, it does.

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So they said, "My God!" and
completely changed the opening.

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The beginning of the film, we see
police cars driving into a driveway,

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and, as if out of nowhere, we see a
corpse floating in the swimming pool.

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But we see it from a peculiar angle,
from down in the pool,

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looking up at the dead body with
blood trickling out of its chest.

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It was difficult to shoot and Wilder
is presenting the shot as an image.

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Difficult to film.

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They didn't know
how to film an underwater set-up,