He meets one Walter Neff, insurance salesman, extraordinary, played by Fred McMurray.

And I got to think, as a leading man, I think Fred McMurray is so perfectly cast in this,

because he is, how's that put this?

Not that great an actor, as compared to William Holden, the lead in sunset Boulevard, just

like a virtuoso.

He's just nothing but character swag.

He's just everything where his Fred McMurray was mostly known as a star of kind of Disney

family movies, like the absent-minded professor.

You know, he was fucking around with Flubber, but then shows up as like two absolute shithills

in Billy Wilder movies for in Dublin, Dendriti, and then maybe even a worse guy in the apartment.

Oh yeah.

But what I mean is like, unlike Holden, who is such a presence, I think Fred McMurray

works so beautifully in this movie because he is kind of a bland, every man.

And he is this, he presents this kind of, this perfect portrait of the kind of like, sort

of like a drift American male, who's like, you know, like, as the movie begins, he's,

you know, selling insurance and he's sort of like walking around, you know, like, you

know, his head in the clouds in a state of kind of boredom and sexual fantasy.

Basically, that's how I describe it.

And he's, his narration is kind of like a pre-holding call field.

Like, he's very not disillusioned, I would say, but like, he kind of sees everything

as like being bullshit.

He's like, yeah, I do insure it's I'm good at it.

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