Some Like It Hot
— Of course it broke the mould in 1959, but today it just seems mouldy.”
- Director: Billy Wilder
- United States, 1959
What is it with Billy Wilder movies? For me, only the unprecedented content made The Apartment stand out. Now I find that this highly esteemed comedy does very little for me either.
Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe deliver some reasonably fizzy dialogues; there are lots of lukewarm references to old gangster flicks; the finale suggests an unusually tolerant attitude towards cross-dressing. But what else, dare I ask?
Some Like It Hot is very watchable and occasionally fun. But should a movie’s reputation rest on one-liners, or an isolated memorable scene? I mean, maybe it broke the mould in 1959, but today it just seems mouldy.
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not the Princeton curator, the US senatorial candidate, the Kentuckian pastor or the journalist from Arizona. In fact, I work as a consultant in User Experience and Information Design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Brussels, Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Ellezelloise Hercule.
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