Some Like It Hot Movie Analysis

In the two movies of the week Some Like it Hot by Billy Wilder and My Week with Marilyn by Simon Curtis The idea of the gaze was presented heavily in many scenes in both movies. Marilyn Monroe is well known for playing the role of the sexy, erotic goddess that attract both the attention of men and women, audience and cast. Marilyn Monroe was portrayed in both movies as a character that directors apply the idea of selective use on, In other words she was selected to play certain characters and personas and had to hide the other traits and not show them on camera. To clarify Marilyn was selected to play the role of the girl that is searching for the millionaire who she will marry and will change her life forever, which is also related to the idea of the american dream.In addition she was selected as a star in many movies for
The male gaze happens when the character is at the centre specially women, sometimes unaware of being looked at, but it signifies sexuality and and pleasure. In Both movies Marilyn was the biggest star and the centre of attention so the gaze was from men and women, men as a sexual object for pleasure, women gazed because of her impressive beauty and performances skills. The gaze was seen in many scenes for example when she took off all her clothes and she was going in the lake in the movie My week with Marilyn, the cameraman made great shot by showing how she was displayed as a pleasure object and was never understood as a human, with feelings and emotions that needs love for her personality too. However the Selective use of Marilyn showed her other traits that were always repressed in her, for example that she never had a father figure to love her and care for her. In addition that all her marriages and relationships were fails because her husbands married her only for her beauty and fame not