![]() ![]() In between these extremes, writer-director Wilder, along with Charles Brackett and D. Sunset Boulevard continues, moreover, in a manner that alternates between film noir and the macabre and absurdist worksof Tod Browning two decades earlier. (Dead on Arrival), in which a poisoned Edmond O’Brien (as Frank Bigelow) must convince the police of his murder before he actually dies, cannot compare with Wilder’s talking corpse. ![]() Few films have attempted such audacious narrative stances-even Raymond Maté’s movie of the same year, D.O.A. There is perhaps no better example of a voice speaking from the dead than the man lying face down in the pool at the beginning of Billy Wilder’s film Sunset Boulevard (1950), a voice which, despite the murder of the body it inhabits, proceeds to “narrate” the rest of the movie. THE VOICE FROM THE BODY LYING FACE DOWN IN THE POOLĬharles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. ![]()
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