SB - Themes Flashcards
Dark Side of Hollywood - Misc
“battling a set of ulcers”
“I felt caught, like a cigarette in the prongs of that contraption on her finger.”
“He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool, only the price turned out to be a little high.”
Dark Side of Hollywood - Fame
“a dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit”
“The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her’’
“I am big. It’s the pictures that got small”
“A return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen”
Bright Side of Hollywood - Artie
“stick around here for a while?” Wilder highlights Artie’s readiness to support his friend, saying that “we have a vacancy on the couch”
Bright Side of Hollywood - Betty
“Look at this street. All card-board, all hollow, all phoney. All done with mirrors. I like it better than any street in the world.”
“Saddest thing I ever heard.” “Not at all”
“Not at all. It taught me a little sense. I got me a job in the mail room, worked up to the Stenographic. Now I’m a reader…”
“Come clean, Betty. At night you weep for those lost closeups, those gala openings…” “Not once”
“Not once. What’s wrong with being on the other side of the cameras? It’s really more fun.”
Financial Side of Hollywood - Joe’s Struggle
“never let another writer read your stuff. He may steal it”
‘‘Who wants true who wants moving’’
“Audiences don’t know somebody sits down and writes the picture, they think the actors make it up as they go along”
“Things were tough at the moment”
“So I sat there grinding out original stories, two a week”
“Maybe they were not original enough. Maybe they were too original. All i know is they didn’t sell”
“I’d always heard you had some talent” “this year I’m trying to make a living”
Financial Side of Hollywood - Sheldrake
“I don’t want you to think I thought this was going to win any Academy Award.”
“If we made it a girls’ softball team, put in a few numbers. Might make a cute musical”
“Who wants to see a Civil War picture?”
Fame - Norma
“She has moments of melancholy”
“Poor devil, still waving proudly to a parade which had long since passed her by”
“You don’t yell at a sleepwalker, he may fall and break his neck”
“…sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost career, plain crazy when it came to that one subject: her celluloid self”
“She was afraid of that world outside. Afraid it would remind her that time had passed”
‘‘Ready for those cameras that would never turn’’
“Was her life really as empty as that?”
Fame - DeMille
“thirty million fans have given her the brush, isn’t that enough?”
“turn that light back where it belongs”
Love - Norma and Betty
“We don’t want to share this night with other people. This is for you and me.”
“Of course I love Artie. I always will. I am just not in love with him anymore.” “What happened?” “You did.” (To augment the poignancy of the scene, Waxman’s score is spare and delicate. Played on violin, it lilts as Betty confesses her love for Joe, suggesting that their union may only be temporary.)
Love - Rejecting Betty
“I like it here”
“Here’s the pool”
“good thing”, a “a long-term contract with no options”
“champagne on ice and plenty of caviar”
Love - Max
“to come back, humiliating as it may seem”
“three young directors who showed promise”
“I could have continued my career, only I found everything unendurable after she left me.”
