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)