Prefect for the Generation

Rating: 9/10 (1 October 2012)

Some Like it Hot is an exhilarating comedy that follows two struggling musicians that witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago 1929 and they try to escape the Mob. To get away from the Mob they joined an all women's band going to Miami but the only problem is they're both men. Joe and Jerry both pull off the role of women perfectly because they acted like women good enough that it fooled other people to think that they were women. I would say that the element of disguise is a good way to describe both of them. Both of their instruments played a pivotal role in why they got to Miami, Joe and Jerry play two instruments that the women's band needed. I would say that it provided Joe and Jerry with an escape and way to get away from the Mob and start a new life in Florida once they were done with disguising themselves and women.
In the movie I believe that Joe and Jerry played the role of two women perfectly and it was good writing. They disguised themselves well enough to blend in with the band and become one of the girls. None of the women in the band thought that they were men. With both of the personalities that they were given in the movie as men, Joe and Jerry transferred it as women very good. For me this is the earliest movie of guys disguising themselves as women and during the time this movie was made, it was done very well. There are some things that come in pairs or grouped together in this movie. During that time that Joe and Jerry are women they both attracted to the same woman, Sugar Kane, who is played by Marilyn Monroe in this film. They both fall for her when they realize that she in the same band that they "joined". They also go on dates, but Joe dresses up as a rich man to impress Sugar, while on the other hand Jerry "attracts" a rich man named Osgood. Also there is an important shooting scenes that happened that can go together. In the beginning, Joe and Jerry witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, where the Mob leader, Spats and his men kill another gang in a parking garage. At the end of the movie the head Mob boss has a "surprise" for Spats. They had a cake for Spats but what he didn't know was that there was an assassin in the cake who shoots Spats and his men.
From watching a few movies similar to Some Like it Hot I kind of knew that to expect, but there was some stuff that I saw that I didn't expect to see in it. I was surprised that the girls in the band wouldn't see the signs that Joe and Jerry could possibly be a man and that adds to the creativeness that they had to blend in like women. I think today it would be a lot easier for a girl notice that a guy is disguising themselves as a girl. Back in the late 20's, women really wore the same clothing and looked the same, so blending in with late 20's women society would be easier back then, than doing it today. All Cross dress runaway films are comedy. Some like it Hot is my MLK film, therefore it is a comedy.
From watching this movie there are some new things that I learn. Even though this is the first time that I have seen Some Like I Hot, there are a few things that I recognized. It seemed really easy for Joe and Jerry to be like the women in the band because they just acted the opposite of their personality and they seemed to blend in very well. From what I also saw, it seems that women are still looking for the same type of men that women are today. Women would want the kind, gentle, down to earth gentleman that would treat a woman right. I saw that in the movie and I believe that is what women wanted in a man back in 1929.
Some Like it Hot is an exciting Comedic film that follows two musicians that witness a shooting, who escape Chicago and try to restart their lives. Trouble is they have to dress up as women to join a band to get out, I guess cross dressing does work.