Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunset Boulevard. Billy Wilder utilized his detailed knowledge of Hollywood decadence in writing the Oscar-winning screenplay to an all-that-glitters-is-not-sequins sunset city epic. William Holden gurgles the narration from his face down predicament in Gloria Swanson's swimming pool, but after the devastingly effective shot of Miss Swanson descending the spiral staircase, it is understandable why he chose to watch the action from that vantage point. One gets the feeling that only those who have seen this peculiar type of behavior will appreciate it, and maybe even they wouldn't. Channel...
...shows up all preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody--the old Hollywood style Western hero has become the outcast; on the run, a wanted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory--at this point the movie gets boring--he makes fools out of the cops a bit longer and then gets shot...
...Carats is a brazenly ugly film in the way only Hollywood studio products can be when they try to look stylish. Miss Ullmann is deft and charming despite it all. When she kisses Albert goodbye the morning after their beach idyll, she brushes her lips close to his face in a moment of quiet poignancy; later, when she describes Albert and defends their relationship, she speaks with glee and the pride of a woman feeling a kind of renewal...
...early '40s, the spy pre-empted the gangster as Hollywood hero. After WWII the national mood turned cynical and gangster movies were revived as grim portrayals of city life, with dark, oppressive lighting, lonely streets in the cold rain, and tough cookies like Barbara Stanwyck who came into their...
...shows up all preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody-the old Hollywood style Western hero has become the outcast; on the run, a wanted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martry's glory--at this point the movie gets boring--he makes fools out of the cops a bit longer and then gets shot...