I forget.
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The black and white scenes that move forward are flashbacks and the rest of the movie is just told backwards. My view.
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I see what you did there.
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Casablanca (1942). Paris Flashback. Outside Vertigo’s (1958). Is there anything better?
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Which begs the question. You want some movie with that flashback?
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Once back from The Ends of The Earth, let us know!
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“…and that’s why… I accuse my parents.”
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Great one! Court scenes bookending a flashback.
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Joe Doaks wasn’t a very good driver…
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Without the flashbacks in Riding with Death, we wouldn’t have learned from Sam that Abby’s some gal.
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Isn’t Goodfellas (1990) all flashback? Narration, bookends, specific points in time? All in the mind of one guy? And occasionally his wife?
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As I watched The Violent Years this morning, it just occurred to me that — like I Accuse My Parents — practically the entire movie is told in a flashback with a courtroom scene as a framing device.
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You know, all of this might be a flashback Joel’s having in the year 3000.
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That’s not terribly unusual, especially for the era. Double Indemnity is almost entirely flashback as well. Not say that I Accuse My Parents is anywhere on the level of DI, but…
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The original wraparound of Sunset Boulevard would have made for an even weirder flashback. And the flashback would have almost returned to the beginning of the movie, but not quite:
It’s not a part of the public record which screenwriter first cracked the code to the film’s opening scene, but one of them thought that a narration from beyond the grave would have been appropriate to highlight the dark tone of the movie. And what better place to see a dead person than the Hollywood morgue? The trio wrote a scene of Joe Gillis being wheeled on a gurney into a room surrounded by corpses — just another stiff. The idea was that Joe was going to be telling his story not to the audience, but to the other corpses in the room with him. Notable timing: “Tales from the Crypt” would debut the same year “Sunset Boulevard” was released.
The original ending was also different. In the final version, we witness Joe’s body being pulled from the swimming pool, waterlogged and very much the worse for wear. In the original version, Joe was to lay back down on the proverbial slab, when Betty (Nancy Olson) enters to weep over him.
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