Sunset Boulevard 日落大道

日落大道SunsetBlvd.(1950)
导演： 比利·威尔德
编剧： 查尔斯

日落大道 [Sunset Boulevard]

主演： 威廉·霍尔登　 埃里克·施特罗海姆
电影投资：,752,000 (estimated)
类型： 奇幻片 剧情片
地区： 美国
语言： 国语
时长： 115分钟
颜色： 黑白
声音： 单声道
别名： 红楼金粉

在好莱坞的日落大道边，有一个荒废的豪宅，院子进里的游泳池里发现了创作家卓伊利斯的尸体。故事就由这具尸体展开。失业又被分期付款所逼的卓伊利斯，逃到了默片时代的大明星若玛也斯的大屋内，受她的委托，修改一个叫《莎乐美》的剧本，从而开始了他的剧作家生活。后来他们二人都被对方所吸引。伊利斯对大导演马克斯作若玛的管家侍候若玛大为不解。剧本完成后，为了要把这本剧本送给老朋友沙利路比德导演，若玛带了伊利斯，叫马克斯开车到摄影场。这位导演只对这部老爷车感兴趣，并不喜欢若玛的剧本，马克斯和伊利斯都不敢把真像告诉若玛。这时伊利斯对在摄影场剧本部工作的贝蒂一见钟情，若玛知道这件事后决意要破坏他们的感情，伊利斯非常生气，将所有事情的真像都揭露了。若玛失去了返银幕的幻想，追上正想离开这间大屋的伊利斯，开枪射死了他。

A man has been killed and his corpse is floating face down in a swimming pool at a Hollywood mansion. A narrator explains that the dead man was an unsuccessful screenwriter. The film fades into flashback as the narrator, now identified as Joe Gillis, the screenwriter describes his attempts to raise some fast cash to save his automobile from being confiscated by two repossession agents.

Desperate, Gillis makes various calls to Hollywood friends and contacts, and manages to secure a meeting with a producer at Paramount Studios, where he pitches a baseball script he has written, Bases Loaded. The producer, Sheldrake, seems interested in the property until a young woman from the Reader Department, Betty Schaefer, is summoned and arrives with an outline of the script, but dismisses it as a mediocre work. Angered at the rejection, Gillis leaves and then manages to locate his agent, who is playing golf in Bel-Air. He does not help Gillis with his financial problems.

Returning to Hollywood along Sunset Boulevard, Gillis is spotted by two auto repossession men and a chase ensues; earlier, he had claimed the car was on loan to a friend. When a tire blows on Gillis' car during the pursuit, he swerves into a residential driveway in order to escape the repo men and discovers that he has entered the grounds of what he assumes is a deserted mansion. Hiding his car in the dilapidated garage, he is startled when a woman's voice from an upstairs veranda of the mansion summons him to come into the house.

At the front door, he meets Max, a stoic German butler and, once upstairs, the source of the voice - an eccentric older woman who has mistaken him for an undertaker. She has been waiting to make arrangements for the funeral for her recently deceased pet chimpanzee. Gillis recognizes her as Norma Desmond, one of the great stars of the silent screen. When she learns that Gillis is a writer, she offers him a job reading the script she has been writing for her planned comeback and, seizing a rare chance to make some money, Gillis accepts.

Gillis, working out of Desmond's house, is soon completely financially dependent upon Norma, who lavishes attention on him and buys him expensive clothing. While he occasionally shows discomfort, he makes no effort to change his situation. Upon questioning Max as to why there are no locks in the house, it is revealed to Gillis that Norma suffers from occasional "melancholy" and has taken attempts on her life before, and thus he has taken precautions to ensure her safety. Gillis is then prepared for a New Year's Eve party at the house. He soon realizes that no other guests will be attending, and is horrified when Norma reveals that she is in love with him. Rejecting her attempt at seduction, he hitches a ride to a friend's house where a party is underway. Upon his arrival, he is reintroduced to Betty Schaefer, who tells him that, despite the incident in Sheldrake's office regarding Bases Loaded, she has read some of Gillis' other submissions and one, in particular, shows promise.

Inspired to continue his writing, Gillis phones the Desmond house to say he will be moving out, but Max tells him Norma has attempted suicide. He rushes back to the mansion, where he comforts her and stays.

The two seem relatively content as Norma continues preparing for her movie 'comeback'. When she considers her script to be complete, she sends it to Paramount. She receives telephone calls from Cecil B. DeMille's office at the studio and assumes he is interested in filming the project. She travels to the studio and meets with him; Gillis and the butler learn the studio only wants to hire Norma's vintage Isotta-Fraschini car for use in a film and has no interest in her script. The two of them keep this from her. By now, Max has revealed he was the first of her three husbands, and is a former film director who had discovered her.

Meanwhile, Joe has secretly begun meeting with Betty to work on a screenplay together, and they fall in love. When Norma discovers this, she phones Betty and insinuates what sort of man Joe really is. Joe returns to the house in time to hear what Norma has said and takes the phone from her. He tells Betty to come to the house, where he explains his side of the situation before turning Betty away. Misunderstanding his actions, Norma is grateful to Joe, but he brushes her aside and begins packing to leave. Norma threatens to shoot herself but he does not take her seriously. As he walks away, she follows and shoots him three times before he falls into the pool, now dead.

Having explained the corpse in the pool, the film returns to the present, where Norma, seated before a mirror in her bedroom, appears to be lost in fantasy. The house has been flooded with reporters and curious passersby. News cameras arrive to film her and she thinks she is on the set of her new film. Norma slowly descends her grand staircase and, after making a speech declaring her happiness at making a new film (culminating in the film's most famous line: "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up"), she reaches for the camera, the screen fades to white and the narrator concludes that Norma's dream of performing for the cameras has in an unexpected way come true for her.

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