Billy Wilder

Term Paper: Double Indemnity (1944) directed by Billy Wilder Modern society is undeniably obsessed with true-crime stories and murder mysteries. There is a prominent interest for the forces of so-called good and evil, attracting people to know about atrocities and massacres. Citizens, with the goal of obtaining a reasonable explanation of such events, question every aspect of a concrete crime or homicide, and try to find out the motive or the responsible’s background. All these doubts and…

When our generation today thinks of “black and white” movies, we think of the movies that our great grandparents and sometimes even our grandparents always have playing on the television in their homes. Or at least, I do. I remember the long, boring, two hours that I would sit on the couch and try to watch those movies with my grandparents. The movies always disinterested me because they did not have any dialogue. If movies came out today in our generation without any dialogue I have a feeling…

Some like It Hot is a romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder and the film was set in 1929The film is centered on two musicians who are dressed in drag with the aim of eluding from mafia criminals since they accidentally witness a St. Valentine’s Day Massacre the two are on the run. The film is noteworthy for characterizing cross dressing, and for playing with the notion of homosexuality, as well as portraying gender stereotypes. Some like It Hot offers view on gender…

in the minds of the world. Reaching fame is considerably easy, but attaining that achievement of fame is hard to come by as Norma Desmond knows all too well. She was an impressive silent movie queen, but got caught up in the corruption of success. Billy Wilder’s award winning film of the year 1950, Sunset Boulevard, portrays the theme of corruption of fame. Sunset Boulevard, compared to the films Chinatown and The Maltese Falcon, establishes a greater essence of film noir through the use of…

an older gentlemen try to woo Daphne, and ‘the girls’ find themselves in hot water when the mob convention comes to the hotel. Bill Wilder’s 1959 comedy “Some Like it Hot” is regarded by many as one of his best films. The film is made in away for Wilder to relive some of the sub-genres of the past. One of these was “the ‘all-girl’ as they were called, … popular in vaudeville, theater, dance…

The protagonist is an ordinary person in the extraordinary circumstances like Wilder in the book Double Indemnity. Or, on the other hand, an extraordinary person in the criminal circumstances like Marlowe and his crime­-solving skills. He is always a “loner, often utilizing the skills of violence in an extralegal fashion”, is hard­-boiled…

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…

Levitt Sunset Boulevard The movie Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder was very well shot and edited. There was a lot of great shots in the movie, a couple of the great shots was at the New Year's Ball scene and Norma got mad and went up the stairs but it showed through the mirror where she was going it was a really neat shot. Then when they were driving to Paramount and max looked through the rearview mirror to tell Norma what was wrong with her make up. What was neat with that shot was…

Often when people think of America, they think of the American dream. However, in the early 1900s, that dream became the American Nightmare. Everything seemed to be in chaos. The economic crash of the 1930s left America scrambling to rebuild itself while dealing with World War II. Meanwhile, the first wave of feminism began as women entered the workforce to replace the men off at war. Children were no longer monitored by their mothers since she would most likely be working during the day. This…

Director Billy Wilder’s, Double Indemnity (1944) has all of the characteristics of a classic film noir, using every low-key lighting trick in this richly textured black and white that masterfully portrays a neglected wife in a plot with passion, adultery and murder. With powerful performances by both actors, Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff, the tall, handsome insurance salesman who is enamored by Barbara Stanwyck, whose portrayal is one of the greatest femme fatales of all time, cold and…