Daily Dialogue — April 21, 2017

“This is the staircase of the palace.”

— Sunset Blvd. (1950), written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder & D.M. Marshman Jr.

The Daily Dialogue theme for this week: Lying.

Trivia: Upon seeing the film at a star-studded preview screening at Paramount, MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer screamed at director Billy Wilder that he should be tarred, feathered and horse-whipped for bringing his profession into such disrepute. Wilder’s response was a terse, “Fuck you.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: Sometimes a character needs to lie to protect another character. Such is the case in this climactic scene as Max goes along with the ruse that Norma is filming a movie scene.