Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

Sunset Boulevard

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Speaking ill of the dead Death

Speaker

Joe Gillis

Actor

William Holden

Source

Sunset Boulevard

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1950.

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Martin Heidegger
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Building Dwelling Thinking
Genre
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Language
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Time
1951 1950s 20th century
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Heidegger, Martin. "Bauen Wohnen Denken [Building Dwelling Thinking]." Darmstadt Symposium on Man and Space. 5 Aug. 1951, Darmstadt, Germany. Lecture.

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Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
2000 2000s 21st century
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Gladiator. Directed by Ridley Scott. DreamWorks Pictures/ Scott Free Productions/Universal Pictures/Red Wagon Entertainment, 2000.

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Language
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Time
1992 1990s 20th century
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Glengarry Glen Ross. Directed by James Foley, Zupnik Enterprises, 1992.