Norma Desmond Quotes

If all histories have a period known as The Golden Age, somewhere between The Beginning and The End, I suppose those Sundays during Fall Semester at Hannah's were just that, or, to quote one of Dad's treasured characters of cinema, the illustrious Norma Desmond as she recalled the lost era of silent film: "We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.

Michael Heseltine, a wild-haired visionary, Klaus Kinski to Margaret's Thatcher's Werner Herzog, pushed Docklands across the Thames to the East Greenwich Peninsula. The Millennium Dome concept was a remake of 'Fitzcarraldo', a film in which suborned natives (expendable extras) drag a paddle steamer over a hill in order to force a short cut to more exploitable territory. The point being to bring Enrico Caruso, one of the gods of opera, to an upstream trading post. An insane achievement mirrored in the rebranding of the Dome, after its long and expensive limbo, as the O2 Arena, a popular showcase for cryogenic rock acts:Norma Desmond divas and the resurrected Michael Jackson, whose virtual rebirth,post-mortem, gave the shabby tent the status of a riverside cathedral.

Yes, writing words, words, words. Well you’ve made a rope of words and strangled this business. Hah! But there’s a microphone right there to capture the last gurgle and Technicolor to photograph the swollen red tongue.

Por muy grandiosas que sean nuestras ideas y por muy orgullosos que nos sintamos de ellas, seguimos siendo humildes animales, sometidos a todas las leyes básicas del comportamiento animal. Mucho antes de que nuestra población alcance los niveles que se dejan apuntados, habremos quebrantado un número tan grande de las normas que rigen nuestra naturaleza biológica, que nos habremos derrumbado como especie dominante. Tendemos a dejarnos llevar a la extraña ilusión de que esto no ocurrirá jamás, de que hay en nosotros algo especial que nos sitúa por encima del control biológico. Pero no es así. Muchas especies interesantes se han extinguido en el pasado, y nosotros no constituimos la excepción. Más pronto o más tarde, nos iremos y dejaremos nuestro sitio a algo distinto. Si queremos que esto tarde en ocurrir, debemos estudiarnos a fondo como ejemplares biológicos, y darnos cuenta de nuestras limitaciones.

I loved it and was shocked at all of the similarities between President Trump and Norma Desmond, the lead character in the movie, who was a former silent-film star obsessed with her looks and with making a triumphant return to the screen. Here was a woman who was convinced that everyone loved her and lived in a fantasy world of her own making. I’m sure that Trump had no clue—like none—how similar to him she was.