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* MultipleGunshotDeath: Joe.
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* BloodlessCarnage: Being a black and white movie no red blood is expected; however, when Joe's in the pool there's no mess visible.
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* BloodlessCarnage: Being a black and white movie no red blood is expected; however, when Joe's in the pool there's no mess visible.
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** Norma's writing a screenplay based on the story of Theatre/{{Salome}}, the Biblical princess who helps pull off a successful plot to behead John the Baptist. Naturally, Norma feels attracted to this role. She fancies herself a young, still-famous actress who could pull it off. The role also mirrors Norma's own destructive tendencies. Joe Gillis may not be a John-the-Baptist-type, but he's seer-like enough to gaze past Norma's illusions and into the abyss of loneliness and sadness lying behind them. And, like John the Baptist, he gets murdered. Plus, the story of Salomé is similar to the kind of Biblical epic that Creator/CecilBDeMille would direct (he would later do ''{{Film/The Ten Commandments|1956}}'' starting Charlton Heston as Moses). And since [=DeMille=] is the director Norma wants for the project it seems like a match.
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** Norma's writing a screenplay based on the story of Theatre/{{Salome}}, the Biblical princess who helps pull off a successful plot to behead John the Baptist. Naturally, Norma feels attracted to this role. She fancies herself a young, still-famous actress who could pull it off. The role also mirrors Norma's own destructive tendencies. Joe Gillis may not be a John-the-Baptist-type, but he's seer-like enough to gaze past Norma's illusions and into the abyss of loneliness and sadness lying behind them. And, like John the Baptist, he gets murdered. Plus, the story of Salomé is similar to the kind of Biblical epic that Creator/CecilBDeMille would direct (he had already made [[Film/TheTenCommandments1923 a silent version]] of ''The Ten Commandments'' and would later do ''{{Film/The Ten Commandments|1956}}'' starting Charlton Heston make [[Film/TheTenCommandments1956 a more famous version]] starring Creator/CharltonHeston as Moses). And since [=DeMille=] is the director Norma wants for the project it seems like a match.
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** When Joe pitches his ''Bases Loaded'' script to Sheldrake at Creator/{{Paramount}}, he tells him the picture would make "a good change of pace" role for Creator/AlanLadd. He also claims that Daryl Zanuck of [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century-Fox]] has already expressed interest in it as a vehicle for Creator/TyronePower.
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** When Joe pitches his ''Bases Loaded'' script to Sheldrake at Creator/{{Paramount}}, he tells him the picture would make "a good change of pace" role for Creator/AlanLadd. He also claims that Daryl Zanuck of [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century-Fox]] has already expressed interest in it as a vehicle for Creator/TyronePower.Creator/TyronePower, and that "there's a great little part for [[Creator/WilliamDemarest Bill Demarest]]".
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* EndsWithASmile: [[spoiler:As reporters gather to cover the death of Joe, Norma, in the depths of her delusion, thinks they're there to report on her return to the silver screen. In the closing shot, Norma says 'All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup" and advances towards the camera with a demented grin on her face. The camera then goes out of focus, as if the sight of her madness were too much to bear.]]
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The film is in black and white, which wasn't by any means unusual in 1950 but wasn't strictly necessary either. Wilder would proceed with the B&W all the way to 1960.
** Considering the movie's many stylistic nods to silent movies, 1930's style horror movies and FilmNoir, black and white photography is very appropriate.
** Considering the movie's many stylistic nods to silent movies, 1930's style horror movies and FilmNoir, black and white photography is very appropriate.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The film is in black and white, which wasn't by any means unusual in 1950 but wasn't strictly necessary either. Wilder would proceed with the B&W all the way to 1960.
[[Film/TheApartment 1960]].
** Considering the movie's many stylistic nods to silent movies,1930's style 1930s-style horror movies and FilmNoir, black and white photography is very appropriate.
** Considering the movie's many stylistic nods to silent movies,
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* BaldnessOfSickness: Possibly, in the original replica productions. Unlike in the film, where Norma anxiously pulls at her own hair often enough that it's obviously really hers (it was indeed Gloria Swanson's), in the musical she often wears bright auburn wigs and/or various elaborate head scarves, turbans and hats to conceal (until she's finally lost it and doesn't care) that her real hair is now very thin and prematurely white, as well as very short.
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* BaldnessOfSickness: Possibly, in the original replica productions. Unlike in the film, where Norma anxiously pulls at her own hair often enough that it's obviously really hers (it was indeed Gloria Swanson's), in the musical she often wears bright auburn wigs and/or various elaborate head scarves, turbans and hats to conceal (until she's finally lost it and doesn't care) that her real hair is now very thin and prematurely white, as well as very short.
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** Gloria Swanson, who a forgotten silent movie actress (albeit one who had found modest and contented success in other fields, such as art, radio and stage acting, and fashion design), plays a forgotten silent movie actress (who very much has ''not'' found any success elsewhere).
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** Gloria Swanson, who a forgotten silent movie actress (albeit one who had found modest and contented success in other fields, such as art, radio and stage acting, and fashion design), plays a forgotten silent movie actress (who very much has ''not'' found any success elsewhere).elsewhere and is too deluded to look for it).
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** Gloria Swanson, who was an over the hill, forgotten silent movie actress, plays an over the hill silent movie actress.
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** Gloria Swanson, who was an over the hill, a forgotten silent movie actress, actress (albeit one who had found modest and contented success in other fields, such as art, radio and stage acting, and fashion design), plays an over the hill a forgotten silent movie actress.actress (who very much has ''not'' found any success elsewhere).
