영화 속의 이미지들: 빌리 와일더의 <선셋 대로>를 중심으로 (On Images in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard)

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초록

The main action of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950) is about haughty Hollywood, full of insanity, ingratitude, and false-heart. “A film within a film” is reflected on the main action like a mirror. Some images of the film, photographs and paintings become “a film within a film.” What is strikingly noticeable in this “film within a film” is time images. Time images from photographs as well as from paintings are closely related with the main female character Norma Desmond’s madness and the main male character Gillis’ death.
Scattered photographs in Norma’s living room are souvenirs of her last glory. Those photographs tell us that she does not have any possibility of glory in the present which she used to enjoy in the past. Norma’s tragic ending comes from her intended confusion of the past and the present. She aspires to restore her past status to her present one. The moment she restores the past to the present, the photographs choke Norma. Also, as death gradually approaches Norma, her portraits create unreal time, which is death itself.
Gillis is almost under the same situation as Norma. The difference is that Gillis is inflicted with time images from the paintings unlike Norma, who was inflicted with the photographs themselves. At the end, the paintings beset him as if the photographs attacked Norma.

영어초록

The main action of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950) is about haughty Hollywood, full of insanity, ingratitude, and false-heart. “A film within a film” is reflected on the main action like a mirror. Some images of the film, photographs and paintings become “a film within a film.” What is strikingly noticeable in this “film within a film” is time images. Time images from photographs as well as from paintings are closely related with the main female character Norma Desmond’s madness and the main male character Gillis’ death.
Scattered photographs in Norma’s living room are souvenirs of her last glory. Those photographs tell us that she does not have any possibility of glory in the present which she used to enjoy in the past. Norma’s tragic ending comes from her intended confusion of the past and the present. She aspires to restore her past status to her present one. The moment she restores the past to the present, the photographs choke Norma. Also, as death gradually approaches Norma, her portraits create unreal time, which is death itself.
Gillis is almost under the same situation as Norma. The difference is that Gillis is inflicted with time images from the paintings unlike Norma, who was inflicted with the photographs themselves. At the end, the paintings beset him as if the photographs attacked Norma.

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