it also is symbolic of the characters being multi faceted and not knowing each other's real image.

This scene was recreated in the Bruce Lee film Enter The Dragon (1973)...

Maybe I don’t get where you’re coming at, but his reflection is shown the first 11 seconds

The best Noir conclusion EVER

​@@talesfromtinpanalley-thedo6198 sunset Boulevard

I totally agree.

Was just watching her with Fred Astaire in a movie made in 1941. She was a real stunner then. She looks kinda dikish here.

I love the way she so-forcefully screams “I don’t want to die!”

pretty well said. another of those popular directros is Nick Ray, people dont really "get" the symbonlisms in his movies, most notably the box office hit Rebel Without a Cause. i mean the beggining of Bigger than Life hits you with its use of colours (red) and whats about to happen... i really dont care people overlook the genius factor... they just follow the Critics opinions... and about Orson, Le Process is amazing, Touch of Evil is a very stylized mess and etc, Touch of Evil really doesnt make any sense, but are those scenes in the isoleted Hotel great...

Why this film is a Masterpiece?

The most misanthropic film he ever made, seething with human snakes and sharks. Columbia didn't know what to do with it besides add music, a song for Rita, and cut a film which was incomprehensible to them from 155 minutes down to 86. The public didn't like it either, it lost money. Welles' was ready for The Scottish Play...

If my memory serves me correctly, Welles didn't want any music in the film at all. Is that right?

He was using an avant-garde score by George Antheil and some Mexican music (according to his memos). Harry Cohn had it replaced with the kitsch score we have now. Welles no longer had his old musical collaborator Bernard Herrmann, the composer for Kane & Ambersons.

That would have been superb to have Bernard Herrmann. One of the best thing about Hitchcock's films was the soundtrack.

>155 to 86 Wait so are all of Welles' films just mutilated by the studio or what? I read similar things about Touch of Evil.

fixed the error, thanks

You're welcome

And what are they exactly? This is a perfect scene

@@randywhite3947 For one, 0:24 to 0:27 - sound synch and what word did she actually say? They've overdubbed the original word, clearly. And his accent...

@@randywhite3947 From IMDB: When the shootout in the hall of mirrors ends; there is a close-up of Michael's right hand with a gunshot wound as he turns on the light and then after exiting he is holding the the right arm on which he has the wound. But on the following cut as he leaves the amusement park; he is walking as if the wound is on the left arm. XXX Elsa enters the hall of mirrors wearing a pair of peep-toe heels with a distinctive crisscross ankle strap, but a later shot in the same scene shows her wearing plain pumps with no ankle strap. Seconds later, she's wearing the original ankle-strap heels again. XXX When Mrs. Bannister is lunging for the exit in the mirrored room, the "broken glass" in the foreground stays in frame as the camera pans to the right, spoiling the illusion of a cracked window. XXX

​@HC-cb4yp Totally bizarre remarks... Dude if you're paying that much attention to that stuff, if it's even true??! Then you're missing the whole meaning of the drama of the movie!... get a grip!

Yes, many of her fans were shocked to see her with short blonde hair. They were even more shocked to see her play such a cold, deceitful character who was so different from her previous screen image.

@@tombennett3827 That's why Welles wanted her to act this part in short blode hair; to help disassociate her in the public's mind from her previous roles and image.