Earlier in the film the black and white movie being shown in the projector room scene is Viale del tramonto (1950) in which Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) is a 50-year-old silent film star chasing after Joe Gillis (William Holden), a man half her age. Although some might speculate that it was meant to allude to the age difference between Carol (who is in her early 30s) and Therese (who is 21 years old), the scene from Sunset Boulevard was included because it is Phyllis Nagy's favorite film. She explained in an interview for The Film Experience: "It was Joe in that particular scene. It's my favorite movie, I have to get it into everything I do, and that scene in particular was the scene I chose in the script, and so it's Joe, who in that scene, is not actually saying what he means, until actually much later."
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