Some Like It Hot

 

        Continuing my search for great cinema, I decided to tackle more of Billy Wilder's filmography, which leads us to Some Like It Hot. When you think the mid or late fifties were a different time for comedy, especially when you have a bunch of dudes dressing up in women's clothes and then years later when the world is first introduced to RuPaul and everyone doesn't in a sense understand RuPaul at the time but yet it was the introduction of the Drag Queen trend but, again I don't know these are just bizarre theories I'm providing though there not actually theory's but I hell, I don't know maybe Some Like It Hot was probably the golden age or the birth of Drag Queen's, which explains it because when you get to late sixties and seventies things do get a little weird and by weird I mean 70's New York and 70's Los Angeles now again I'm not offending everyone I'm just throwing out interesting aspects but enough talk lets dive deep into the world of Some Like It Hot.

        After witnessing a mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvising a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives. Discussing themselves as women, they join an all-female jazz band and hop on a train bound for sunny Florida, (spoilers this movie is set in Prohibition time). While Joe pretends to be a millionaire to win the bands sexy singer, Sugar (Marylyn Monroe), Jerry finds himself pursued by a real millionaire (Joe E. Brown) as things heat up and the mobsters close in. 

        For sure this movie is a slap stick comedy as well as a buddy comedy, and that's really what gives this movie its charm and for sure that's what makes the film great. And mainly a ton of that credit goes to both Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, which the two of them does a great job in terms of comedy chemistry as two men who never learn from their lessons as well as each of them are annoyed in terms of having to do one or the others bad schemes and they do it so well together moreover if you’re looking for that type of comedy, if your trying to write a buddy comedy with slapstick humor this movie as well as dumb and dumber would be one of those films I would recommend, that is if you’re looking to make a buddy comedy. It is a strange thing seeing Jack Lemmon at a young age because throughout my childhood I remembered watching Grumpy Old Men, with him and Walter Matthau for which this is without a doubt the most saddest thing because I haven't at all dived into a lot of Jack Lemmon's movies and I need to make a point in that but then again watching Some Like It Hot is a great start so, now on to hopefully find more Jack Lemmon's films. Although I do have a memory of watching The Great Race with him and Tony Curtis along with Natalie Wood, I have bad memory of the entire movie, so I'll probably need to rewatch the movie but it's always good to start off your first movie with a bang. Marilyn Monroe again proves why she's a great actress and yet a tragedy of how and what she could of been if she lasted for so long, although I still say her best movie is Don't Bother to Knock (and if you haven't seen Don't Bother to Knock, you need to check that movie out) where she plays a terrifying crazy lady and with this movie she plays that pin up girl that our main protagonists are trying to hook up with, and really her transition from her last film I watched which was Don't Bother to Knock and then honing her comedy skills it's like she always been this natural at acting and it feels like no matter what movie she does, she always kicks it out of the park. Monroe is another actress that I need to continuing in watching her filmography and in fact I found other movies that going to plan on watching in the near future but really thinking back on Marylin Monroe, everyone remembers her being a pin up model who poses on the first cover of Playboy, and yet I truly want everyone to remember her for her acting skills because she was a fantastic actress in her time. Watching a movie like this, brings back memories of watching the Disney channel when the TV movie Mr. Headmistress would appear on cable channel all the time, in fact watching Some Like It Hot does remind me of movies, though some I haven't seen, Mr. Headmistress was the one of those movies that I watch at times on the Disney Channel for which I already said staring Harland Williams who stared in another movie where he's going full drag, Sorority Boys alongside Smallville Lex Luthor, Michael Rosenbaum and yet another movie reminds me of this movie is Juwanna Mannn, in which the premise is about a banded NBA player playing in the WNBA, yes I'm not joking when I tell you that premise and if you don't believe me check it out on Google. And again, one out of three of these films I mentioned I haven't seen but they reminded me so much of this bizarre topic, and yet I sadly forgot not seeing all of Mrs. Doubtfire with Robin Williams, ugh, so much shame I placed on myself. I would for sure recommending Some Like It Hot for many reasons because of its great list of actors and great comedy, but more importantly it's directed by Billy Wilder a legendary filmmaker up there with John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock, but more importantly in a lot of his film's he always deliver on his A-game, no matter if it's Stalag 17, or Some Like it Hot and more importantly another tremendously great film The Lost Weekend, Wilder is always such a great filmmaker from the past that no matter what film of his you haven't seen, he always deliver. So far, the movie is on Tubi and it's free, for which really if you’re tired of Netflix I would highly recommend saving your money and spending some time on Tubi for many reasons it has everything you need although, you do have to deal with a lot of commercials but still at least have some hidden treasures.