Billy Wilder

Marilyn Monroe was famous for many things. She was a very strong independent hard working women. She didn’t let anyone let her down or make her decisions for her. Well her dream shortly ended without any warnings, Marilyn Monroe died of a drug overdose on August 5, 1962. She’s still known world wide to this day. Marilyn Monroe is a influential advocate of making things more socially acceptable through her actions including singing,acting and modeling. Marilyn Monroe impacted social movement,…

Behind the scenes of Marilyn Monroe, the “Blonde Bombshell” Marilyn Monroe's career as an actress spanned 16 years. She made 29 films, 24 of which were in the first 4 years of her fame. Marilyn is not only a symbol of beauty to many but she is also a role model to many young women for how strong and determined she stayed through the darkest and saddest imes. Monroe has accomplished many things through her short life including several marriages, lead roles in many movies, and her modelling career…

Manipulated By Beauty: Body Heat vs Double Indemnity In the film noir Double Indemnity (1944) and neo-noir Body Heat (1981), two men commit adultery as they are convinced by narcissistic, money hungry, manipulating women who have premeditated the murders of their spouses. Even though both men are in different professions, Walter is an insurance man and Ned is a lawyer, they prove to be valuable assets to the femme fatales of the film’s, Phyllis and Matty. In the same way that Walter risks his…

Marilyn Monroe Biography Early life: Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926, as the third child of Gladys Pearl Monroe, a negative cutter at Columbia Pictures. However, Gladys was mentally and financially unprepared for a child, so she place Monroe with Albert and Ida Bolender in Hawthorne, California for several years. In the year of 1938, Monroe attended Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles, where she wrote for the school's newspaper. In late 1944, Monroe met…

Marilyn Monroe, born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, was an iconic actress and one of the most enduring sex symbols known. Marilyn led an astonishing career even in her short life, starting as a model and making her way towards the film business, she dazzled the public with her beauty and charm. To Marilyn, her refusing happiness was a massive quest for love and a sense of belonging. Looking back at her short career, one would think that Marilyn had not only achieved fame by her films but also with…

Film in the 1940’s focused on lying, crime, and mystery. This particular style of film is now known as Film Noir, which focused on the dark side of humanity. Certain elements are needed to properly display a true film noir film. Double Indemnity (1944) is a film that focuses on insurance agent Walter Neff. Due to the dark events that take place throughout the film, several elements of film noir were used in the filming of this movie. Double Indemnity utilized film noir by setting a dark mood,…

Have you ever dreamed of becoming one of the world’s biggest icon for decades? Even after you were no longer around? Before I jump to far ahead there are a couple things most people do not know about the all-time famous “Marilyn Monroe”. For starters her real name was Norma Jeane Mortensen born in California who grew up with a very rough and unstable childhood. Marilyn Monroe died at a very young age, 36 years old. Marilyn Monroe had to use perseverance, passion, and creavity just to survive her…

1. The movie Sunset Boulevard follows a writer, a man named Joe who comes across an old mansion while trying to hide his car which is about to be reclaimed because he is unable to pay his bills. Desperate for a job, he starts to read the script of the old Hollywood star that lives in the mansion, Norma Desmond. Norma was once one of the biggest silent film stars in Hollywood, but once talking pictures got popular and she got older, there was less demand for her work, and she has spent the last…

Kel had a while before he was scheduled to work and knew that since Dixie was around, that if he was running late, she'd ensure he was covered. Thinking quickly about how to approach what happened today and the fact he wanted to make sure Johnny was doing as fine as possible after such a difficult morning, Kel figured it would be best to just be straight with him. "Before I drop you back at the Stanleys, would it be okay if we went to your apartment and talked? I won't have time otherwise…

After the masterpiece documentary “The Salt of the Earth” about the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, the extraordinary German director, Wim Wenders, stumbles in his most recent fictional drama, “Every Thing Will Be Fine”. Here, the iconic filmmaker works over a script by the Norwegian Bjorn Olaf Johannessen and entrusts to James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Rachel McAdams, the main roles. The story is based on Tomas Elden (Franco), a writer who’s making an effort to maintain in…