Film Analysis Of Some Like It Hot

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Screening Analysis: Some Like It Hot, (1959) Billy Wilder Hollywood genre is represented in the 1959 musical comedy, Some Like It Hot through editing styles and screen play. Wilder uses high key lighting when character, Sugar; played by Marilyn Monroe is in the shot. By using choosing to use this glamourous white high key lighting grants the director the aesthetic of a Hollywood genre film. The screenplay of this film includes very exaggerated behavior from the actors/actresses. By exaggerating lines, actions, and behavior creates a masterpiece musical comedy; combining these two elements of film makes “Some Like It Hot” an all around pleasing film to watch. Besides this film, Gene Kelly’s and Stanley Donen’s Singin’ in the Rain, can also …show more content…
The scene starts with a long shot showing the band, Sue, and Beinstock all on the train. The sound of the band playing is diegetic. Sue notices that someone in the band is playing off tune, as she turns around in disgust the camera cuts to a medium shot as she continues to turn over her right shoulder. When Sue looks over her shoulder and the camera cuts to the direction of her glaze- this here is an example of continuity editing. Wilder cuts the camera in a way that matches up with the direction that Sue is looking, normally this editing style is used because it is a way of making smooth transitions between cuts. Once she’s completely facing the band the camera cute to another medium shot but now of the band. The slowly camera pans into Josephine and Daphne (Joe and Jerry) as they play their instruments with a corny attitude. Sue is still not satisfied so the camera cuts to a medium shot as she taps her baton on the seat directing the band to stop playing. She asks where Josephine and Daphne last played in a band. The camera switches back to the two girls in disguise with a close up shot this time. Sue questions Daphne where the holes on her bass came from (the shooting with Spats and Toothpick Charlie), the camera then cuts to a close up of the bass. The camera then tilts up from the bass to a close up shot of Josephine and Daphne. The camera returns …show more content…
Unlike “Singin’ in the Rain”, “Running Wild” is broken into two parts due to dialogue between Sue, Josephine and Daphne. In “Singin’ in the Rain” the sound of the instruments is non diegetic because they are not seen in the shot, and in “Running Wild” all the instruments are present in the shot- making the instruments diegetic sound. A very obvious difference between both music numbers is that “Running Wild” is in black and white and “Singin’ in the Rain” is in color. The lengths of shots for “Singin’ in the Rain” are much longer than “Running Wild”, there are not many cuts; making the length of the shot much longer. Both films are considered to be comedy musicals, and were the 1950’s. A similarity based off of the screenplay of both films is the time setting during the film; both were set during the

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