What Would Billy Wilder Do?

In the annals of filmmaking, we have great writers and great directors, but then there is Billy Wilder – one of the greatest who did both.

CORRECTION: The sketch @1:05 was written by I.A.L. Diamond & staged by Billy Wilder in honour after his passing. The onscreen title card is wrong.

A Video Essay by Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou
End Title Music by Sean William
Stock Music provided by Pond5

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Billy Wilder, filmmaking, video essay, directing, writing, dramatic irony, situational irony, verbal irony, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Five Graves to Cairo, Sabrina, Ninotchka, Ernst Lubitsch, IAL Diamond