Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Sunset Boulevard

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Celebrity Delusion

Speaker

Norma Desmond

Actor

Gloria Swanson

Source

Sunset Boulevard

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1950.

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If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection.

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Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom.
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1969 1960s 20th century
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.

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Genre
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Time
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Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.