The Influence of Context on: Some Like It Hot and Do the Right Thing

Social Issues of the Time

Controversy and Censorship

The Visual Style

Some Like It Hot - Classical Hollywood

Do the Right Thing - New Hollywood

Some Like It Hot - Feminism

Do the Right Thing - Black Rights Activism

Some Like It Hot - Towards the End of the Hays Code

Do the Right Thing - New Hollywood

Construction of gender: looking at legs

Females made to seem boystrous

'None of that rough talk' - women not as innocent

Difficult/hard to be a women - 'how do they walk in these'

Sound motif for Marilyn Monroe - makes her seem more sexual

All men are the same

Daphne (Gerald) and Osgood have good time - subverts gender expectations

'Fight the Power' - people being proud to be black

'go black panthers' - civil rights group

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - Smiley puts their pictures up in the pizzeria at the end of the film

Riots at the end of the film - influencing/influenced riots in USA

White man infiltrating 'black neighborhood'

Aggressive Camerawork - Aggression over racial tension

Trying to boycott the pizzeria - Martin Luther King's Protests (Peaceful)

Marilyn Monroe wears a see through dress

The use of guns (promotes violence)

Elevator Sequence- metaphor for inappropriate/suggestive events

Drinking of alcohol by all characters (including females) - Illegal at time set

'None of that rough talk' - suggestive/dirty jokes

Sound motif for Marilyn Monroe - sexual

Innuendos used throughout - Sexual, suggestive and inappropriate

Sex scene - in your face (no hays code)

Lots of swearing and offensive language

Dance Opening - strange thing to do

Fight The power - aggressive/ a controversial song

The ending of the film could provoke riots

Cuts changing but sound continuous - so feels continued through time

Shot reverse shot and eye line matches - make everything feel continued

Classical Hollywood - Feel comfortable and can't see editing

Jump cuts and montage editing (opening)

Red and yellow light - unnatural, notice change

Direct address - takes you out of the stroy

Canted angles - Confusing and weird

Article- Change in sexual politics and black representation

Article- Set In Brooklyn relates to Brooklyn riots

Article- Strangely ambitious

Article- Shines light on racial tension

Auteur Theory

Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder and Others

Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee

Billy Wilder

Doane Harrison

I.A.L. Diamond

Marilyn Monroe

The relationship between Joe and Gerald: Based on her husband's relationship with Wilder

The use of witty dialogue - 'with those legs are you crazy' 'barking up the wrong fish'

Risque - the elevator scene and Marilyn's see through dress

Preferred to work in black and white

Showed how women were treated in society

The sound motif for Monroe - Suggestive

Joe and Gerald being women - Wilder often used ideas of deception

1950s Make-up and hair - her iconic look

Other Characters fighting over her - star persona

'dumb blond' - star persona

She preferred to shot in colour (didn't have this)

Cross Cutting between dates

Eye line matches (e.g. Osgood looking at Daphne)

Dissolve edits on the boat

Spike Lee was the writer, director and actor

Unique use of shots (dolly) - Racial Slurs - Mo' Better Blues

Breaks the forth wall - racial slurs 'you basketball dunking' - School Daze 'wake-up'

Colour Symbolisation - Dance Sequence (red and yellow tinted light=anger) - Mo' Better Blues (red coat=sexual)