quotes (SAC 1)

Question 1

Reality and Illusion

Answer 1

“She was still sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost career” - Joe about Norma

“Still moving proudly to a parade which has long since passed her by” - Joe about Norma

“I am big, it’s the pictures that got small.” - Norma

“No one leaves a star. That’s what makes one a star.” - Norma

“Alright Mr Demille, I’m ready for my closeup” - Norma (fully given into fantasy)

“Determined to be ready, ready for those cameras that will never turn” - Joe (The cameras do eventually be not in the way she intended them to (reports filming for the death of Joe))

“30 million fans have given her the brush, isn’t that enough” - Demille (She doesn’t realise that she is not famous anymore)

Question 2

Death - Joe

Answer 2

“Funny how gentle people get with you once you die” - Joe

Question 3

Love

Answer 3

“What you are trying to say is that you don’t want me to love you” - Norma to Joe

“To fall in love with you, that was the idiotic thing” - Norma to Joe

“I’ll fill up the pool for you” - (Irony of that’s where is dead body will end up (foreshadowing)

“Happy New Year, darling” (Joe just sold himself to Norma)

“I found everything unendurable after she left me” - Max about Norma

Question 4

Lies and Deception

Answer 4

“I wouldn’t look too closely at the postmarks” - Max to Joe

I made her a star, I can not let her be destroyed” - Max about Norma

“I was her first husband” - Max about Norma to Joe

“Madame got the razor from your room and cut her wrists” - Max to Joe about Norma (guilting joe into staying)

“Happy New Year, Norma” - Joe

Question 5

Hollywood

Answer 5

“I am big, it’s the pictures that got small” - Norma

“We had faces!” - Norma

“Shut up I’m richer, richer than this Hollywood trash” - Norma

Question 6

Body paragraphs

Answer 6

• what (T)
• how (E)
• why (authors perspective)(E)
• link back (L)