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Some Like it Hot and Do the Right Thing (Political Context/Social Context,…
Some Like it Hot and Do the Right Thing
Sound
Sound
Mise-en-scene
Cinematography
Editing
Political Context/Social Context
African American:
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
Events of 1989:
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
Institutional Context/Cultural
New Hollywood:
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
40 Acres and Mule:
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
Auteur Theory (DTRT)
Cinematography
Editing
Mise-en-scene
Political Context/Social Context
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
Institional Context/Cultural Context
Old Hollywood:
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
United Artists (1919):
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
Hays Code End: In terms of opinions in culture
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
Auteur Theory (SLIH)
Gender Representation
Gender Representation
Ethnicity Representation