Gender Roles In Some Like It Hot

In society, most people agree with the conservative value of males are the breadwinners and females are the homemakers. Within this film, the values of these roles are reversed, and we see more women showing masculinity or power and men showing more care and thought into these situations. Daniel and Miranda have switched conventional marriage gender roles in that Miranda is the stern, stressed and workaholic mother whereas Daniel is the happy, loving caretaker of the children. There are many scenes throughout the film in which it shows how the male and female roles have broken the stereotypical standards. For example, in the Court House scene where Daniel, the father and Miranda, the mother are in court over custody of their children. The females in this scene look stern,

The sitcom That‘70s Show revolves around a group of teenage friends living in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin through the years 1976 to 1979. This sitcom expresses many different themes throughout the seasons and episodes. When watching this show you are able to notice how the themes change throughout each season. This show addresses social issues of the 1970’s such as sexism, sexual attitudes, generational conflict, the economic hardships, recession, and teenage drug use. The shows’ main characters include six high school teenagers, Eric Forman, Jackie Burkhart, Michael Kelso, Steven Hyde, Donna Piniclotti, and Fez.

Men are associated with strength and power, while women are associated with nurture and love. In a zombie apocalypse where humans are at war with zombies, women seem to have died off with the zombies, and if they happened to survive they are most often seen hiding in one particular spot scared out of their minds. In the novel Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion, the undead male protagonist R falls in love with Julie, a human girl. Julie, and her best friend Nora are the only two main female characters who are introduced in this novel among a sea of strong powerful males. In this zombie apocalypse women are outnumbered by men, and the women shown are far weaker than the zombies like R. In the zombie world of Warm Bodies both genders are able to protect

In conclusion, the film She’s the Man shows the audience how gender gets represented in films. It shows the traditional femininity as well as the traditional masculinity. This illustrates that gender has impacts on power and gender relations to contribute gender inequality. Gender norms are enforced in films which maintain the power inequality difference between both genders. These issues confine the way modern films represent gender and gives a direct effect to the

Moreover, the manhood acts in the film actively maintain the gender inequality present. The purpose of the acts is to be accepted by other as being in the “dominant gender group” (Schrock and Schwalbe 149). This demonstrates how sex and gender are different things. Sex is whether you are biologically male or female, but gender deals with how you behave such as masculine or feminine. These manhood acts can actually be seen

Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder's 1959 musical comedy is filled with double meanings and sexual overtones that also includes certain aspects such as cross-dressing and homosexuality. In 1959, the topic of homosexuality was taboo. If homosexuality was at all brought up, it was in a comical manner. Viewing Some Like It Hot fifty-five years later, one can not help but wonder if the films' last line spoken by Osgood, "Well, nobody's perfect", is meant to be satirical or solely for the purpose of a laugh. In the gender bending comedy, Some Like It Hot, directed by Billy Wilder, the affirmation of heteronormativity is established through narrative, thematic, and iconographic conventions.

Failure Leading to Success Some Like It Hot is a comedic movie released 1959 that is being watched to this day. Joe and Jerry, the two main characters of the movie dress up as women as an escape after witnessing a massacre.

In Classical Hollywood the representation of women is certainly quite clear cut, our main two definable types being that of the virgin and that of the whore. Our virgin represents the patriarchal ideals of family within which at the time a woman should represent

The film is a crafty combination of many components including a spoof of period gangster films, romance in screwball comedies, and gender reversal and cross-dressing. Evidently, one of the major themes in the film is disguise and masquerade. In its time, Some Like It Hot was the highest-grossing comedy, one of the most successful films in 1959, and undoubtedly Wilder’s funniest comedy. The film was based on a German movie, Fanfares of Love, directed by Kurt Hoffmann with similar plot elements borrowed by Wilder. The events in the movie were inspired by the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago. At the time of its release, the United States was at the end of the repressive 1950’s and the studio system was weakened as a result of censorship restrictions. The film received much criticism for its risqué subjects of double-entendre dialogue and gender bending theme. Wilder purposely challenged the system with Some Like It Hot, filling it with sexual innuendos and stereotypes and a

In this film gender is put across by using sex and religion, but it is

In contemporary film women's roles in films have varied quiet considerably between genres, geographical placement, and between

In Some Like It Hot, directed by Billy Wilder in 1959, the movie was chosen to be filmed in black and white because when Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon were filmed in color they looked “ghoulish” in their makeup. The cross-dressing characters of Jo/Josephine and Jerry/Daphne choose to travel to Florida with an all-girls band in order to run from some organized crime lords which they got mixed up with. The movie focuses on non-conventional forms of love and companionship in order to deliver catharsis to viewers. To film Some Like It Hot in color would destroy the sentiment of old-time nostalgia one feels while watching the movie, and in its entirety, the movie would feel less genuine. Exemplified through its jazz musical soundtrack and grayscale

Since the 1940’s, movies have predominately portrayed women as sex symbols. Beginning in the 1940’s and continuing though the 1980’s, women did not have major roles in movies. When they did have a leading role the women was either pretreated as unintelligent and beautiful, or as conniving and beautiful: But she was always beautiful. Before the 1990’s, men alone, wrote and directed all the movies, and the movies were written for men. In comparison, movies of the 90’s are not only written and directed by women, but leading roles are also held by older and unattractive women. In this paper I will show the variations and growth of women’s roles in movies from the 1940’s though the 1990’s.

The film industry has created the conventional gender roles of society into their movies. A majority of films have supported some of the male and female stereotypes. In the history of the film industry, the role of men is primarily that of the stereotypical working class man or hero, while the roles of women are primarily portrayed as being somewhat inferior to men. In the 1930s through the 1970s, men held the leading roles in films while women played smaller roles. In terms of jobs, women were given mostly family roles and rarely were shown outside of their homes, while men had successful careers and did many activities outside of home. “Women were shown doing housework and men were the beneficiaries of their work” (“Women’s roles in the

on society and culture. But since the beginning, there has been trend of male dominance in entertainment. This has contributed to gender inequality by not giving young girls strong role models in movies. It has also created ideal gender images that young children and adults feel obligated to follow. In more recent years, with the rise of feminism and gender equality, many have begun to push for changes in movies and Hollywood. Gender inequality in film can be reduced by creating more roles for women, avoiding gender stereotypes such as the damsel in distress, and avoiding oversexualizing women.