Some Like It Hot

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…

starts to fall for Sugar and 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…

America in the 1959 was about partying, live music, illegal alcohol and the mob. In the movie Some Like it Hot all of those elements were expose. Starting with the first scene when the Chicago cops are chasing the Italian mob for having illegal alcohol and still got away. The next scene Joe and Jerry were in a live band playing at a funeral party. That was Chicago at its best, having illegal alcohol at the underground parties that were owned by people like Al Pacino and the mob. Another scene…

life, owned by the state, I concluded that the Bolender family was not a foster home as we Americans know or imagine them to be. Monroe’s time with the Bolender family didn’t last long and Monroe soon found herself back with her mother (Morgan Ch. 2). In my opinion, based on my reading of Marilyn Monroe: private and undisclosed, Monroe’s mother, was for some time a very good mother, who worked hard to take care of her daughter (Morgan Ch. 2). Sadly, all good things must end, and Monroe’s mother…

Some Like It Hot (1959) is an all-time classic Hollywood comedy directed by Billy Wilder. The story follows a smooth saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his intuitive bass-player best friend Jerry (Jack Lemmon) after they witness a Mafia massacre. The two buddies create a spontaneous plan to get away from the Chicago native mobsters. Joe and Jerry disguise themselves as cross-dressed women and join an all-female jazz band who are boarding a train from Chicago to Florida. The story heats up…

"Well, nobody's perfect" the famous last line from the movie Some Like It Hot by director Billy Wilder, almost did not make it into the film. The line was only a temporary fill-in, until Wilder could come up with a better line. Fortunately, the line made it into the film, and became the most famous and iconic line of the entire film. The story is about two men, trying to escape from a criminal gang by dressing up as woman, and fleeing to Florida with an all-woman jazz band. The film thus stands…

Some Like It Hot: The Temporary Transvestite Movie Billy Wilder’s irreverent slapstick masterpiece, Some Like It Hot, challenges conventional ideas of gender, attraction, and sexuality. The main characters in the film are shown as stereotypical womanizers. They evolve, through very untraditional means of sensitization, into men capable of supporting and sustaining romantic relationships. Their transformation takes place through the use of the temporary transvestite genre. These characters,…

How “Some Like It Hot” transpose the gender roles and concept of marriage? A traditional gender role is a set of societal norms that are dictating how each gender is to think, speak, act, and engage with each other. In 1950s, this role is stereotyped. More so, a marriage in that time is preferred as a career and women were assumed to be a perfect wife. However, in “Some Like It Hot”, director had broken the roles of it and created many amusing scenes. It does challenge in both traditional…

In 1957, Monroe starred in The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier, who also directed and produced the film. She often didn't show up for filming and her unpredictable behavior on set created a tense relationship with her co-stars, the crew and Olivier. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office hit in Britain, but not as popular in the United States. The bad production was the backdrop for the 2011 film My Week with Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams as Monroe. In 1959,…

The play Twelfth Night and film Some Like it Hot both include the idea of deception to help make the structure of their story. Twelfth Night is about a woman who plays the role of a man in order to work for the Duke in Illyria, but eventually has Countess Olivia fall in love with her while being a messenger of the Duke’s love letters. Some Like it hot is about two men who join an all woman jazz band to run away to Florida after witnessing a mob murder. The characters in both Twelfth Night and…