Some Like It Hot (1959 film): Difference between revisions

 

 

 

It so happens that an all-girl band which is leaving town has openings for a bass player and a tenor saxophonist. This does mean that Joe and Gerald will have to pretend to be women, but they consider this better than dying. They introduce themselves as Josephine and Daphne (Jerry prefers that to Geraldine).

The lead singer of the band is called Sugar, and she is beautiful ([[Marilyn Monroe]]!). She has a weakness for tenor saxophonists, which is why her current band is girls only (she thinks). She is attractive to the men, and they both have to remember that they're supposed to be girls.

 

 

The coup de grace? Joe and Jerry/Daphne eventually learn that the hotel is booked for a [[The Mafia|friends of Italian opera]] convention...

 

''[[Some Like It Hot]]'' was named the funniest movie of the 20th century on the American Film Institute's "100 Years... 100 Laughs" list.

* [[Aborted Arc]]: At the beginning of the train trip, Sweet Sue tells Beinstock that she thinks there's "something funny about those new girls" and he tells her he'll keep an eye on them. Nothing further ever comes of this.

** Possibly a subtle set-up for when Joe steals Beinstock's glasses to use as part of his "millionaire" persona.

* [[Chase Scene]]

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: When Joe learns that Osgood proposed to Jerry (as Daphne):

* [[Cool Boat]]: Osgood's yacht is pretty snazzy.

* [[Different for Girls]]: Lampshaded as Jerry tries to figure out how to walk in heels, just as Sugar walks by them with a... ''memorable'' demonstration. Many years later, a movie reviewer asked Tony Curtis why his "Josephine" was so much more feminine than Jack Lemmon's "Daphne". A laughing Curtis explained that he was so scared to be playing a woman (or a man pretending to be one) that his tightly wound body language could be read as demure and shy, traditionally feminine traits, whereas Lemmon, who was completely unbothered, and "ran out of his dressing room screaming like the Queen of the May," kept much more of his masculine body language.

* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Osgood. Jerry even names him as such at one point.

* [[Disguised in Drag]]

* [[Dumb Blonde]]

* [[Fan Service]]: Just about every scene with Sugar.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The title alone should tell you everything.

* [[He Knows Too Much]]

* [[Hilarity Ensues]]

** The last item didn't happen until 2008, making this even more [[Hilarious in Hindsight]].

* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Apparently, the Mafia can only hit targets that stand still. Some [[Truth in Television]] to that, as the Saint Valentine's Day massacre was a case of [[More Dakka]], and one victim ''still'' lived long enough to tell the police to fuck off.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: When Jerry (Daphne) and Joe (Josephine) first get on the train and see all the other women, Jerry starts salivating over the prospect, and Joe has to tell him to keep telling himself, "I'm a girl." Later, after "Daphne" has accepted Osgood's proposal of marriage, Joe has to tell him again to keep telling himself, "I'm a boy."

* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: "Suppose the stock market crashes. Suppose Mary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks. Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn!"

* [[Jumping Out of a Cake]]: A gunman hides in a cake near the climax and mows down the [[Big Bad]] and his gang as retribution for the garage massacre witnessed by Joe and Jerry.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Sugar. It's [[Marilyn Monroe]], the original Sex Goddess, at her finest.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Sugar isn't ''quite'' as dumb as she acts; neither is Osgood.

* [[Orphaned Punchline]]: "So the one-legged jockey says, 'Don't worry about me, baby, I ride ''sidesaddle''!!' ", although the very beginning of the joke is told a few scenes before, when Josephine and Daphne are introduced to the band.

* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Aside from the flapper era coats, Sugar wears a fox wrap for her date.

* [[Recursive Crossdressing]]: Joe flip flops between being Joe, Josephine, and Junior so many times, it's a wonder he doesn't have split personalities by the end of the movie.

* [[Running Gag]]: Blood type O.

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: Daphne tries to talk Osgood out of his marriage proposal.

* [[Sexy Backless Outfit]]: Sugar's gown for "I Wanna Be Loved By You".

* [[Sexy Walk]]: Sugar. As Jerry comments: "Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motors."

** Several to classic gangster movies:

*** At one point "Spats", played by George Raft, asks a [[Mook]] who is playing with a coin "Where'd you pick up that cheap trick?". Raft had [[Actor Allusion|created the iconic image of the coin-flipping crook]]; he played one in ''Scarface'' and in ''If I Had A Million'', both made in 1932.

*** The leading mafia boss is nicknamed "Little Bonaparte", a nod to Edward G. Robinson's character from the gangster film ''Little Caesar'' (1931).

* [[Stage Names|Stage Name]]: Sugar Kane used to be Sugar Kowalczyk.

* [[Title Drop]]: Used when Joe, as his millionaire persona, discusses jazz music with Sugar.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: You didn't think the mafia convention ''called'' itself a mafia convention?

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]

 

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