Film Noir research

This was the most  popular film noir movie that was on imdb. This is called ‘sunset blvd.’

The plot summary for this is ‘In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office. While trying to escape from his creditors, he has a flat tire and parks his car in a decadent mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond, who lives alone wit her butler and driver Max von Mayerling. Norma is demented and believes she will return to the cinema industry, and is protected and isolated from the world by Max, who was his director and husband in the past and still loves her. Norma proposes Joe to move to the mansion and help her in writing a screenplay for her comeback to the cinema, and the small-time writer becomes her lover and gigolo. When Joe falls in love for the young aspirant writer Betty Schaefer, Norma becomes jealous and completely insane and her madness leads to a tragic end. ‘ (taken from the ‘sunset blvd.’ imdb page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043014/ ) this film ends with tragedy and so this could be very useful to my work as I would like to add tragedy and pain into my work as I think this reflects the genre ‘film noir’ and this would also be a very powerful emotion to film.