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 traveling women’s band, where further complications set in. They quickly become besotted with the lead singer, Sugar, who in unable to recognize that her band mates are really men masquerading
The film Some Like It Hot at first seemed like a risky film due to its sense of humor and the many innuendos that it makes. However, this film quickly gained popularity due to all of the elements of a farce that are present throughout the film. Some of the elements of a farce that are applied to Some Like It Hot include disguise, humor and innuendo, a fast paced plot, and broadly stylized performances. Some Like It Hot seems to revolve around disguise due to the fact that two of the main characters
Some like it hot is a film which set in 1929 and released in 1959, two different time periods and both periods are responding to each other. “The movies ranged from crime thrillers to “message movies” which focused on societal issues” (Lindop 100) Thus, the movies in the 1950s shows plenty of social taboos. Some Like It Hot is one of the films which mentioned sexual innuendos and homosexuality, the serious social taboos in many years. For example, Joe and Jerry pretend as girls and Osgood fall in
Seung Kwan (Daniel) Min Film Studies Dr. Venell Some Like It Hot The first impression of the title, Some Like It Hot, directed by Billy Wilder, led me to think of it as an erotic pornography. However, this classic film turns out to be more than 50 years old and the era’s sexy symbol Marilyn Monroe star in the film as one of the main characters. The film, Some Like It Hot, was made in 1959, way before I was born; therefore I expected it to be rather old-fashioned, watching it in the 21st century.
Laken Hamby Professor Rosengarten ENC 1102 February 19, 2015 Some Like It Hot Research Paper Some Like It Hot is a timeless comedy directed by Billy Wilder. The classic film features Marilyn Monroe as Sugar, Tony Curtis as Joe, and Jack Lemmon as Jerry. Wilder reminds his viewers of how valuable a true friendship is through his use of certain film techniques and characterization. The film techniques and characterization develop the theme by controlling what people see and how they see it. Wilder
The Contradictory Spectatorial Address of Some Like It Hot A film of the fifties, Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, USA, 1959) provides insight into the state of the film industry, recently wracked by legislation and censorship, the implementation of pre-existing technology in part to combat the new limitations, the importance of the star system, and the two-sided response to the social norms, both contradicting and reinforcing the status quo. Billy Wilder seemingly celebrates disregard for moral values
“It’s a whole different sex!” Jerry (Jack Lemmon) exclaims in ‘Some Like It Hot’ (1959), while admiring Sugar’s (Marilyn Monroe) body. It is with statements like this that Billy Wilder’s movie challenges traditional views of binary genders. While probably unintentional, this movie uses cross-dressing , among other things, to parody the performativity of gender. This method of subversion was not conceptualized until the 90’s by Judith Butler in her books ‘Gender Trouble’ and ‘Bodies that Matter’ (171-189;
Although, (subordinating) there were other iconic people during the Twentieth century Marilyn Monroe is arguably one of the most famous women of that time because she changed many people’s lives. While doing some research on (subordinating) her I’ve come to realize that she did change many people’s lives. Marilyn wasn’t afraid to be herself and (coordinating) be who she really was. She showed women that they didn’t have to be afraid to be who they were and taught them that they were beautiful no
movies, plays, and musicals have been set in this great city. These various theatrical art forms try and portray what the city of Chicago is like however how accurate these portrayals are is open for debate. The 1959 movie Some Like It Hot, directed by Billy Wilder, is one such movie that attempts to depict what life in 1929 gangster-ridden Chicago is like. In this classic, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, two struggling musicians in Chicago witness “Spats” Colombo’s gang murder
In Some Like it Hot, the director combines two major issues during the time. First, the usage of men in drag was a nouveau technique and rising issue in America. Secondly, the depiction of the men and women (Marilyn Monroe) raises issues about gender roles and continuing sexist dogma. The scene at the train station introduces Sugar Kane, played by Marilyn Monroe. In Some Like it Hot, Monroe has various parts of her body highlighted. During the train station scene, Lemmon's character calls Monroe’s
Whether you have heard of the film, Some Like it Hot, or not, it is one of the greatest comedies in movie history. One of the most frequently asked questions about this film is, why? Why is this film one of the best comedies ever made. According to Film.com, Some Like it Hot earned a variety of different Oscar nominations. Those nominations include best actor, director, set direction, cinematography, adapted screenplay, and costume design. The only winning nomination was costume design, but even
Russell’s success by saying “Russell’s streak reminds me of Billy Wilder in his late 50’s-early 60’s later prime. In the span of four years that prolific writer/director turned out Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), One Two Three (1961), and Irma La Douce (1963), offering choice roles repeatedly to the likes of Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine to name two. Actors loved Wilder and returned to work with him often. And they seem to love Russell.” This quote displays the parallel between Wilder
usually introduces the characters and establishes some sort of introduction to the plot, if not the plot itself, and establishes the theme of the film. The ending of a film, almost always, resolves any conflict from the plot. “Some Like It Hot,” “Citizen Kane,” and “An Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge,” are no exception, the theme is established for all three films in the beginning and then resolved in the endings. Billy Wilder’s “Some Like It Hot,” is established from the beginning of the film as
The Representation of Women in Some Like It Hot and Alien 3 This essay will be about how women are and have been represented in films in the past and how they are represented nowadays. I will be looking at the roles and representations of women in 'Some Like It Hot' and 'Alien 3'. 'Some Like It Hot' was made in 1958. Marilyn Monroe starts in the comedy as Sugar Cane who is a very feminine musician. 'Alien 3' on the other hand was made 40 years after and is a sci-fi horror. Sigourney Weaver
isn't going anywhere. It's like that with solid objects, which are really vast "crowds" of individual atoms, that may be quiet (cold) or may be milling around excitedly (hot). A hot (jumpy) solid contains more energy per unit volume than a cold (quiet) solid. If we put a hot solid next to a cold, then some of the energy in the hot solid will flow into the cold solid. This is called the flow of heat. OK, now we need to think about how heat flows from something hot (your hot chocolate inside your thermos)
preservatives in hot dogs, and what's really in hot dogs, it becomes clear that the production of hot dogs is very dangerous, and need stricter laws on what is put in the mass production of hot dogs. Taking a closer look on what’s damaging the body, and a higher risk of cancer, The preservatives, and how each processed hot dog is made, What meat is really used in the hot dog. The use of Higher Risk of Cancer, and Damaging the immune system helps the reader visualize what’s in the hot dogs. The following
help women with menopause reduce hot flashes frequency? Menopause naturally occurs in women at a median age of 51 years old due to deficiencies in hormones from ovarian loss of function.1 Some of the most common symptoms of menopause are vasomotor hot flashes and night sweats. The goal of therapy is symptom and quality of life improvement while minimizing side effects. As long as no contraindications are present, the recommended treatment for menopausal vasomotor hot flashes is hormone replacement
Criminology of Place Hot spot policing is based on the idea that some criminal activities occur in particular areas of a city. According to researchers crime is not spread around the city instead is concentrated in small places where half of the criminal activities occur (Braga chapter 12). Also, many studies has demonstrated that hot spots do show significant positive results suggesting that when police officers put their attention on small high crime geographic areas they can reduce criminal activities
fail even with a good chance of winning. The hot-hand fallacy and gamblers’ fallacy are assumed to be common among gamblers because it is thought that they have a strong tendency to believe that outcomes for future bets are predictable from those of previous ones. In chapter 4, a mechanism of the gamblers' fallacy creating the hothand effect will be revealed. Belief in a hot-hand is “If you have been winning, you are more likely to win again.” The term “hot hand” was initially used in basketball to
through appearance as a way to entertain the audience, such as Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night and Billy Wilder’s movie Some Like it Hot. Deception can be intentional, accidental, and can even deceive oneself. Deception is also used to establish the plot of a work of art and create many subplots. Through the use of the theme of deception through appearance, the film Some Like it Hot is a natural descendant of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The use of deception often has an intentional purpose, whether