Oh lord, that does sound bad. I haven't watched enough silent movies in general, even the classics (Chaplin!); they take a different style of movie-watching that I'm just not as used to. (I did love The Artist from a few years ago, though--it did such clever things with the silent form while still being very watchable from a 21st-century perspective.)
The meta-ness of Sunset Blvd is half its fun, I agree--the more you know about the behind-the-scenes stuff the more interesting it gets (though I'd argue it's pretty interesting to begin with, for all that). Forever my favorite bit of trivia about it is that the movie they watch at one point was an actual silent movie Gloria Swanson starred in in the 20s--directed by Erich von Stroheim, who plays her butler/ex-director/ex-husband.
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Date: 2018-12-12 08:11 pm (UTC)The meta-ness of Sunset Blvd is half its fun, I agree--the more you know about the behind-the-scenes stuff the more interesting it gets (though I'd argue it's pretty interesting to begin with, for all that). Forever my favorite bit of trivia about it is that the movie they watch at one point was an actual silent movie Gloria Swanson starred in in the 20s--directed by Erich von Stroheim, who plays her butler/ex-director/ex-husband.