Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.

Today we are talking about Sunset Boulevard, the 1950 film directed by Billy Wilder,

written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D.M. Marshman, Jr.

I'm joined by the lessons from the screenplay team, Trisha Arand.

Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner. Hello, hello. And Alex Cayeros. Hi. So this was a fun video to force

me to revisit Sonset Boulevard because I hadn't seen it in a very long time, I think maybe 10 years ago

when I was first really getting into film noir,

I was kind of going through and watching all of the classic ones that you have to watch.

And I remember kind of liking it, but kind of being off put a little bit by the protagonist

and not really enjoying or investing in it the way I had some of the other films that I was

enjoying from this time period. But upon revisiting it, I've realized that I actually really like it

and there's, I've formed a deeper appreciation for it. So thank you, Brian, for bringing it up

and pitching it as an idea. Do you want to talk about why you wanted to talk

about Sunset Bullet Bart? Yeah, I had seen it before. I saw it actually in my existentialism in

film class in college, which is also where I saw the man who shot Liberty Valence and

I forget, but some great stuff in there and

I loved it then and I hadn't seen it in a while and the Vista Theater here in L.A. last year I went to

a 35 millimeter screening on Sunset Boulevard, which is pretty cool. And I was just, first of all,

just blown away by the movie. I just, I still think it's great. It was great to see it with an audience. And I was just, first of all, just blown away by the movie. I just, I still think it's

great. It was great to see it with an audience. But I had remembered reading in John York's

Into the woods, the idea of basically the negative change arc, the idea that if it's a tragic

story, it's almost like the upside down version of a normal change story where at the midpoint,

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