Quotes sunset Flashcards
Hollywood/Stardom/Fame
1) “He always wanted a pool”, “only the price was quite high”
2) “Nobody important really”
“a movie writer, with a couple of B-pictures to my credit.”
3) “He was a smart producer, with a couple of ulcers to prove it”
4) “You’re Norma Desmond. You used to be big.”- Joe
5) “She must be a million years old”
6) “It’s Norma Desmond!”- old ppl in paramount
7) Hog-Eye, turn that light back where it belongs.”- DeMille
8) They took the idols and smashed them. And who’ve we got now? Some nobodies!”
9) “They only wanted her car”
10) “they didn’t like my nose”
11) “Norma Desmond who?”
Control/Power/Manipulation
1) “You don’t yell at a sleepwalker.”- Joe
2) No one leaves a star”- Norma after killing Joe
3) “You’re holding me tight.”- Joe
4) “I wouldn’t let you”- Norma
5) Hog-Eye, turn that light back where it belongs.”- DeMille
6) “I dropped the hook and she snapped at it”- Joe
7) “I havent been keeping myself at all”
7) “Madame is the greatest star of them all”- Max when Joe is leaving and tells Norma the truth. Basically Max is STILL feeding into her delusions
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Vanity/Delusion
1) “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small!”
2) “She was afraid of the world outside, afraid that it had changed”
4) “I’ll show them! I’ll be up there again, so help me!”
5) “We had faces!”
6) They took the idols and smashed them. And who’ve we got now? Some nobodies!”
7) You’re going to be a great big star again. “- Max
8) “Madame is the greatest star of them all”-
9) The stars are ageless, aren’t they?”- Norma
10) “That is my job. I made her a star”- Max
11) All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”
11) “Cameras?”
Desperation
1) “Things were tough at the moment”
2) That was last year. This year I’m trying to earn a living.”
3) “It was made from hunger”
4) There’s nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you’re trying to be twenty-five.”
5) “I can’t face life without you, and that’s the truth.”
6) There’s nothing else. Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark.”
7) “i don’t want you buying them for me”-> proceeds anyways
8) “as long as the lady’s paying for it”
Gender roles
1) “They didn’t like my nose”
2) “Put that light back where it belongs”
3) “They only wanted her car”
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