La fama es injusta. Un día eres aclamada y reconocida, y al siguiente sólo te quedan las fotos y las viejas cartas de los admiradores. Qué triste y qué cómico, tragicómico..., darnos cuenta de con qué velocidad los tiempos cambian. Quizás en el cine sea más doloroso, porque tendemos a pensar que todo perdura, que al menos siempre queda algo en el celuloide... Pero el cine es moda y viento, y quién sabe si dentro de diez años no habrán quedado Allen o Scorsese en el olvido.

Mientras tanto, grandes perlas:

Norma Desmond: There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK!
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Norma Desmond: They took the idols and smashed them, the Fairbankses, the Gilberts, the Valentinos! And who've we got now? Some nobodies!
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Joe Gillis: Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture; they think the actors make it up as they go along.
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Norma Desmond: No-one ever leaves a star. That's what makes one a star.
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(mientras Joe le cuenta su historia con Norma)
Betty Schaeffer: It's that old familiar story, you help a timid little soul across a crowded street. She turns out to be a multimillionaire and leaves you all her money.
Joe Gillis: That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.


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*IMDb: 8'6 / 10, #30 en el Top 250.