Some Like It Hot Satire

Throughout the 1950’s, the United States belonged to the Leave It To Beaver era. Families were structured around a strong, hard working father and a wonderful homemaker mother. Children were brought up with solid ideologies on what society expects from them and were warned about living a different and dangerous life. Only one-year separates Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room from there publishing dates during this decade of unwavering beliefs. These texts were seen as extremely controversial during their time due to their themes of homosexuality. Sexual orientation was an awkward topic during such a “to the book” time period and these texts pushed the limits, making them remarkable and memorable works. Both Tennessee Williams and James Baldwin explore the panic men experience while trying to comprehend what sexual orientation they belong to and highlight the masculine gay man. These texts also examine the woman’s role in the mist of it all.

Popular culture or Pop culture in short has never been a multidimensional representation of gender or race but in away it has been able to provide a platform of introduction for that unknown representation that has not been introduced to the masses. Queer culture nowadays seems to be a standard representation in film and television. As a kid growing up, queer representation was almost unheard of in media or so I thought. As I look back at one of the most influential cartoon character, Looney Tune’s Bugs Bunny, I can’t help but help think about all of the sexual uncertainty that this character displayed over the years. With his constant sexual seduction of Elmer Fudd through cross dressing schemes and trickery. This acts lead me to believe that this character, like many others, created a platform for the creators to introduce sexual ambiguity in order to desensitize young viewers from heterocentrist ways.

Even though I do not know well about American TV shows as a Korean, I picked a TV show, New Girl, among many TV show list of the website. “New Girl,” is an American sitcom television series about a story of a young woman’s, Jessica, finding her boyfriend. This TV show portrays real life of common people and draws sympathy of audiences. It says it’s OK to mourn breakups and unfortunate reality of being unemployed is not a shame. Many people would be consoled by watching this show.

Advertising to teens is nothing new to marketers they have been doing it for so long and they know that teens can be easily influenced by their desires such as merchandise, fashion, and music and they are also the impressionable consumers of tomorrow.

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.

A Chick Flick as broadly agreed upon is the kind of films that mostly appeal to a female audience. Even the name itself is a bit offensive. It implies that films having female characters are appealing just to women spectators, and films with men, as protagonists are more commonly considered as widespread, while those who have bunches of ladies in them are so called "Chick Flicks", and in this way, a corner shallow kind. Most of the time these films convey the point that ladies live happily ever after when they get the chance to discover intimate romance. Other Chick Flicks introduce a solid female protagonist but, as the film advances the hero needs to change herself of to adjust to her end goal to observe affection, to be recognized by her adoration intrigue, or to fit into her partner 's life. Most commonly the female protagonist is a stunningly beautiful woman, who likewise happens to be blonde rather than a brunette, youthful, white and thin. Yet she needs to have a blemish, which would make her more human and in this way, more relatable to lots of people. 10 Things I Hate About You is likely the most clear illustration. However she definitely must be physically dazzling like all the female characters in the film, with a specific end goal to keep the present magnificence ongoing.

With new ideas comes great debate. Through all great ideas time is necessarily for those ideas to be accepted for example, Aristotle. Aristotle and the sun being centered, not the earth. During the 1950’s sex was being seen as taboo but in fact it is that of biological order. During Kinsey experiments and throughout the film we can see that sex was depicted as a more improper against common beliefs and practices. As well as, not giving much effort however it can be justified that Kinsey observations led to the activists of 70s and the generation of the baby boomers.

Chapters eighteen through thirty-six in Keeping Cool on the Hot Seat by author Judith Hoffman discusses preparing for and recovering from the press. Getting the correct informational statements out to the media in a timely and accurate fashion is important to any Crisis Management Team; and being prepared for any forum of public speaking is vital as one only gets one chance to make a first impression. In order to begin preparation, it is recommended by Hoffman to begin with brainstorming to come up with the any and all possible questions that the press corps could possibly ask. Having the answers to questions goes a lot further with one’s credibility than the answer “I don’t know.” Some of the methods of brainstorming can include: historical

Threat to masculinity reached its apogee in 1950s with the re-returning of war veterans who felt domesticated in a family atmosphere, losing their roughness, harshness and becoming tender in their approach. A fear of losing masculinity was prevalent at that time. Western films in the 1950s dealt with race issues and how the rugged masculinity of the West was under siege from 1950s domesticity. Hong Kong films though maintained a patriarchal order but magazine articles that appeared in 1957-58 claimed that American men are going soft and diverse films such as Rear Window, Gunman’s Walk, The King and I, Sayonara and Home From the Hill were actually severely testing traditional forms of masculinity. The Western films were undergoing change

4. Does Some Like It Hot challenge traditional gender roles and the concept of marriage? Explain with evidence. Released in 1959, Some Like It Hot is an American screwball comedy and directed by Billy Wilder. In Chicago 1929, escaped from gangsters, two jazz musicians was forced to disguise themselves as women and joined an all-girl band to Florida.

From the abusive figure of George in The Killing of Sister George (1968) to the 'hot' lesbians in American Pie 2 (2001), queer women have always had difficulty finding positive self- representation on the silver screen. This has been an especially difficult task for non-white, non-feminine, non-middle class women over the age of 45. However, there has been much progress from the time of the homophobic 1930's Production Code to the modern day multitude of openly gay actresses and characters. This essay will examine the evolution of lesbian portrayal in film, with a focus on American film from the 1950's onward. Though this essay will draw somewhat from the realm of television, it will focus mainly on major release blockbuster films instead of

The Celluloid Closet explores representation in film and its enormous effect on American culture. Although the film was originally released in 1995, many of the same issues around queer representation in media still remain over twenty years later. Gay characters are often the sidekick in stories revolving around heterosexual heroes, and queer stereotypes like “The Sissy” still persistent nearly 80 years after the character first appeared; and although queer erasure is not a prevalent as it was in the 1950s and 1960s, with entire plots being changed to hide queer elements, queer stories are still hijacked in subtler ways. Notably, queer characters are still regularly played by straight actors. Furthermore, these straight actors often win prestigious

Some like it hot is a 1956 comedy film by Billy Wilder, which was produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studio (MGM). This film was about two men (Joe and Jerry) that witnessed a gangster mob shooting down a couple of men that sold them out to the cops. These two men were played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. They skipped town by dressing up as women and by joining an all-women’s band. Since they were disguising themselves as women, they began to encounter a lot of events that eventually got them discovered by the mob. Although this film revolved around Tony and Jack, there was a deeper meaning to the film that allowed the same sex to form some type of relationship connection that was not as open as this film portrays it to

As more and more images of homosexuality began to turn up in movies, still however they weren’t created to symbolize the average person, instead they were portrayed as overly dramatic and often very feminine characters. Also known as the sissy

Today we see women ready to pursue or flirt with a man, wear clothes that brings out her physical beauty, venture into professions that were dominated by men, venture into other relationships and still maintain a family of their own. Women are no longer held back by the ancestral Victorian customs by which they were raised; the custom for being prim, proper and persnickety. The modern woman refuses to be pushed around by the principal man in her life and was willing to become more independent. With the growing popularity of automobiles, sexual activity among young people have increased because of the privacy the automobiles provided. In addition to the automobiles, motion pictures and theater capitalized on the public's growing acceptance of heterosexual flirtation. "It's terribly exciting. We get suc