Some Like it Hot and Do the Right Thing

Sound

Sound

Mise-en-scene

Cinematography

Editing

Political Context/Social Context

Institutional Context/Cultural

Auteur Theory (DTRT)

Cinematography

Editing

Mise-en-scene

Political Context/Social Context

Institional Context/Cultural Context

Auteur Theory (SLIH)

Gender Representation

Gender Representation

Ethnicity Representation

Hays Code was coming near its end --> result of foreign films and changing attitudes towards morality (sex + violence)

  • Sexualised women - Monroe see through dress
  • Cross dressing - close up of their legs --> tricked audience (helps to construct gender)

Hard to be a women in society --> 'how do they walk in these things'

Objectifies women

  • eye line match MM backside
  • Sound motif (male gaze)

Breaks steortypes - drinking and dirty jokes

2nd wave of feminism - women have more freedom

  • Equal pay act 1963
  • contracpetive pill --> sexual freedom
  • Abortion rights
  • Femminist Literature

African American:

Events of 1989:

Sense of community/family and unity --> Buggin' out mad at guy on bike.

Sterotyped - Mukie and Pino discussing who there favvourite basketball player is

Proud of their culture - Radio Raheem wears Jamacian necklace/ 'the colour today is black'

Chaotic + conflict - racial slur scene/end

Deprived areas - lack of air conditioning and unemployment

Two women, 1 black and 1 white, were raped on the same night.

  • However the white women recieved more press over the black women--> central park 5 arrested (were innocent)

1st and only black mayor of NY --> David Dinkins

Yusef Hawkins - shot by a group of white youths --> mix up, thought he was attending a party

Old Hollywood:

United Artists (1919):

Hays Code End: In terms of opinions in culture

New Hollywood:

40 Acres and Mule:

Filmed in black and white - more typical to bbe shot in colour (1940s) --> Wilder prefered to shoot in black and white

Continuinity Editing

Big 5 (Warner Bros/RKO/Paramount/20th Century Fox/MGM) VS. Little 3 (Universal/Columbia/United Artists)

Marilyn Monroe - big star of the time, star persona

Billy Wilder - succesful director and writer

Founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith --> wanted more artstic freedom, away from the big studios

Funded outside productions - Marish Films (created SLIH)

More freedom/risque --> in themes and costumes

Men dressing as women

Witty dialouge - double entrodra

  • Controversial/hidden in metaphors
  • Some ways follows the rules but likes to push the boundries
  • Seen in actual ddialouge (sound) and visuals i.e. the elevator scene

One of the first films to not follow the haze code

The film was band in Kansas

Condemed by the Catholic Indecency

Box office sucess

Explicit themes and messages

  • Racism, swearing, nudity (ice scene), violence (condems)
  • Other films of the time followed a similar thing --> Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate

Use of colour - colour symbolisation

Jump cuts/long takes/canted angles/exstreme light/dolly shots

  • breaks continuity editing style
  • breaking forth wall (use of Brechtian Techniques)
  • makes you pay attention more

Independent - freedom, do what he wanted to do

His own production company - choose who he wanted and what he wanted to create

He played the lead, alongside being the director, writer and producer

Fight the Power was written directly for the film