Hollywood loves love triangles. Sunset BLVD was one of the best. A young writer, (William Holden), gets into a financial scrape which will likely end with him banished to Dayton, OH. Dayton, OH wasn't a bad place in 1950. But Sunset BLVD wouldn't have an engine for the finely tuned plot without the drama of the explanation of the film's famous and bizarre opening.
Right away there's all manner of questions which draw you in. It's horror film told from the perspective of a never-was screenwriter as dead man recounts how he got that way. Only the scary demon isn't a ghost or a devil. It isn't even Gloria Swanson, who plays the past-her-prime-but-doesn't know-it star who he is taking advantage of.
It's his greed. Greed that killed him. Greed is frightening. Especially when it blinds people to reality.
Shae was blinded by her greed. In a much longer time-frame we see her work her wiles on Tyrion. She has him convinced that even though she is a prostitute, it is he that she truly loves.
Her long-con of The Little Lord was much more shocking in it's payoff and his killing spree was much more shocking. Game of Thrones proves that Hollywood has gotten better at storytelling.
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