Some Like It Hot Movie Analysis

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“Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot—the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.” Billy Wilder once stated these powerful and controversial words in The Art of Screenwriting. Wilder clearly favored his writing aspect to all other areas of film, and although talented in many other respects, his films most often reflected this, with every other component of his films lending to the story itself. Although Billy Wilder is absence in the world of film today, his presence is still very much felt with many directors emulating his style. One director who has had particular success in this field has recently gained a larger fan base due to his implementation of techniques that Wilder himself loved to toy with is David O. Russell, who since 2010, although …show more content…

Russell’s success by saying “Russell’s streak reminds me of Billy Wilder in his late 50’s-early 60’s later prime. In the span of four years that prolific writer/director turned out Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), One Two Three (1961), and Irma La Douce (1963), offering choice roles repeatedly to the likes of Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine to name two. Actors loved Wilder and returned to work with him often. And they seem to love Russell.” This quote displays the parallel between Wilder and Russell’s success. This success is not coincidental and after analyzing the report these men create with their actors and the immense scale of the stories they write. Although Wilder has passed away, his style is far from gone and David O. Russell will continue to implement these conventions and build upon them in the years to

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