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  1. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959): A Critical Analysis

    Introduction Some Like It Hot (1959) is a comedy film by famed director Billy Wilder, who also directed titles such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Apartment (1960). The film is centered on two Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis), and Jerry (Jack Lemmon). They witness a murder in the speakeasy they perform in and decide to flee to Florida in order to save their lives.

  2. Some Like It Hot

    Some Like It Hot centres around a simple plot that is driven by the fusion of two film genres: the crime film and the romantic comedy. The film follows two musicians, Jerry and Joe, on the run after witnessing a gangland murder. To disguise themselves they masquerade as women and find themselves hired to join a band, fronted by the glamorous Sugar Kane (portrayed by Marilyn Monroe).

  3. PDF Some Like It Hot

    film essay for "Some Like It Hot" Author: David Eldridge Subject: film essay for "Some Like It Hot" Keywords: film essay, "Some Like It Hot", National Film Registry, Library of Congress, Billy Wilder, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, I. A. L. Diamond, screwball comedy, David Eldridge Created Date: 12/28/2016 1:55:24 PM

  4. The One Movie Blog: Some Like It Hot (1959) Analysis

    Some Like It Hot (1959) Analysis. Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot is an enduring cinematic treasure. Mixing cheer and cynicism, snappy, sophisticated dialogue and slapstick, the movie veers between low and high comedy, incorporating elements of other genres as well, with quite a few winks in the direction of the gangster film.

  5. Some Like it Hot Summary

    Some Like it Hot Summary. Chicago in February, 1929. Saxophonist Joe and his upright-bass-playing friend Jerry witness the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre by accident after fleeing the police raid of a speakeasy where they were playing. When gangster boss Spats Colombo and his fellow mobsters spot them witnessing the scene, the two run for their ...

  6. Some Like it Hot Essay Questions

    Some Like it Hot Essay Questions. 1. How can Some Like it Hot be characterized as a "comedy of redemption?". Through his persona as Daphne and his subsequent romantic relationship with Osgood, Jerry comes to a fuller appreciation and understanding of the objectification of women as sex objects. While his realization is not especially ...

  7. Some Like it Hot Study Guide

    Some Like It Hot is a 1959 comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. The film is based on the French movie Fanfares Of Love, a film with a nearly identical plot.Fanfares of Love, like Some Like it Hot, is about musicians who dress in drag in order to hide from gangsters who they accidentally witnessed committing murder.

  8. Some Like It Hot

    Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder.It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film ...

  9. Critical Analysis Essay on "Some Like It Hot"

    This portion of the essay will investigate how the audience perceives the women in Some Like It Hot. This is vital in exploring what ways images construct identities, as it can be so dependent on the gaze intended. Mulvey's theory of The Male Gaze is relevant to this film as the "gaze voyeuristically is turned on to the woman as the object ...

  10. Some Like It Hot

    Dec 18, 1989. Share. B illy Wilder is to the sound era what Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd were to the silent: one of the foremost masters of the medium's comic forms. Like them, his comedies were not only considered the best in their time, they have continued to be the best over time. Some Like It Hot demonstrates Wilder at the peak of his form.

  11. Some Like It Hot (1959)

    Some Like It Hot. One of the most beloved films of all time, this sizzling masterpiece by Billy Wilder set a new standard for Hollywood comedy. After witnessing a mob hit, Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, in landmark performances) skip town by donning drag and joining an all-female band en route to Miami.

  12. PDF (1959, Billy Wilder, USA)

    ear Itch, The Apartment). What unifies Wilder's diverse films are the themes of deception and disguise, a tight script and. tty, memorable dialogue.Billy Wilder cultivated Marilyn Monroe's star persona, having previously directed her in T. e Seven Year Itch (1955). This film, along with Some Like it Hot, contributes to Monroe's persona as ...

  13. Some Like It Hot: How to Have Fun

    Seeing her so happy must have been fun for Some Like It Hot 's 1959 audiences, but for us, knowing what we know about her depression and self-loathing and death, watching Marilyn truly enjoy herself is, today, the movie's most painful pleasure. When she calls back, "Good night, honey!".

  14. Essay on Some Like It Hot

    3 Pages. Open Document. Some Like It Hot is an American screwball comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and featuring Marilyn Monroe as Sugar, Tony Curtis as Joe, and Jack Lemon as Jerry. Joe and Jerry are struggling musicians who accidentally witness a mob hit and become targets. To hide from the mob, they flee the state as members of a ...

  15. Some Like It Hot: Billy Wilder's Gender-Bending Gangster Comedy

    Billy Wilder's 1959 film Some Like It Hot is an age old comedic farce often regarded as one of the best comedies of all time (Mondello, 2008). ... in her essay on gender in Some Like It Hot notes that the film was conscious of Monroe's use and depiction and was "openly commenting on what she had come to signify and expecting the audience ...

  16. Some Like It Hot Film Analysis

    Some Like It Hot Film Analysis. In Some Like It Hot, directed by Billy Wilder in 1959, the movie was chosen to be filmed in black and white because when Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon were filmed in color they looked "ghoulish" in their makeup. The cross-dressing characters of Jo/Josephine and Jerry/Daphne choose to travel to Florida with an ...

  17. Some Like it Hot Essays

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  18. A Comparative Analysis of White Chicks and Some Like It Hot

    In the Some Like it Hot-inspired film White Chicks, we open on a similar duo - FBI agents Kevin and Marcus, dressed up in disguises to catch a drug dealer. Cocaine is supposed to come under the guise of "ice cream", but Kevin and Marcus are chewed out by their superior when they apprehend the actual ice cream man instead.

  19. Some Like It Hot, by Sophie Lewis

    Here was Sugar Kane Kowalczyk in Some Like It Hot, offering sisterhood and acceptance to "Daphne," a creation of the movie's Jerry, ... Bette Davis, and Doris Day, saying that those women "offered at least the illusion of being in control." In the essay "Marilyn, We Hardly Knew You," Kate Millett, the women's liberationist ...

  20. Here's How Some Like It Hot Affected the LGBTQ+ Community

    At first glance, the film appears to pack some punches toward the gay community for the sake of cheap laughs, but many of the film's jokes actually subvert the expectations of its heterosexual ...

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