“I’ve never seen such waste all your life all my life!” : This is one of the largest films in the history of cinema and its test projection was a disaster

Test forecasts, screen test in VO, is a pretty old practice in the Hollywood landscape. Since the late 1930s, studios have fallen into the mediation of a small panel of viewers, which have been shown and have been busy after this projection to get their impressions, good and bad. If necessary, make the necessary changes to its commercial operation.

The legitimate moment of stress for the studio and the film team, according to the director, can also be transformed into a nightmare and disaster; Examples in this sense are diverse. From there it was due to the famous moments of tensions between the director, sometimes expelling his work, decreasing or made on his back, the artistic vision was completely restrained, and sometimes, eventually, in heavy economic sanctions, in the form of great commercial failure in theaters.

However, it would have been caricature and actually fake to say that the results of all these tests had ended between the standards between studios and film filmmakers, or that the works were all internal failures.

In this registry, Boulevard Du Twilight exists: Billy Wilder’s film at the end of his career amounted to more than $ 2.35 million, more than $ 31 million, if we make money before inflation. It was one of the best successes of the year in the American box office.

The projection of a catastrophic test

“I’ve never seen such waste all your life all my life!” It was in these words that the woman applied to film director at the end of the Boulevard Du Twilight projection. The public hated the first installation of this brilliant and brutal demying of the Hollywood Golden Age; Undoubtedly the most famous film in the Thread “Hollywood Flingsu Hollywood”.

At the top of the list: Opening a film that showed a discussion in the morgue between several corpses, including the narrator Joe Gillis (William Holden), according to their dead reasons. Sequence demanded three weeks of shooting and difficult special effects.

Lass, the viewer of the revision, laughed as a bonus when the label moved to the finger of the main character’s corpse. This beginning did not give the viewers to find out whether the film was comedy or drama.

Here is a sequence …

Wilder also had to decide his copy of the planned original end, which he worshiped, but the film was also closed with Morgue, where Nancy Olson cried on Holden’s body. According to this, the end that we know does not have a panacea and fuss, with this mind -the stairs of Desmond (Gloria Svanson), the silent glory of the film. Changes that did not prevent this masterpiece in the Oscars in 1951, won three sculptures, including the best scenario and the best artistic direction.