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    Some Like It Hot In “Some Like It Hot” by Lawrence Lessig‚ he talks about piracy and what piracy is. It talks about the different types of items that people use piracy for. Piracy is when someone makes their own copy of a product that has its own copyright. I think that piracy is wrong for a many reasons. Including: it brings down the economy‚ the artists that create the piece are not getting paid for it‚ and piracy is also considered stealing. First‚ I am going to discuss how piracy brings

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    Some Like It Hot

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    SELECTIONS BELOW. These sequences have been preselected for you. They are all available on YouTube/Daily Motion and on a DVD entitled ‘FTVMS 101 Assignment # 1‚ 2013’ in the AV Library. (A) The Artist (2011) (B) Singin’ in the Rain (1952) (C) Some Like It Hot (1959) (D) Annie Hall (1977) Please note that the quality of the sequence on the DVD is likely to be better than the quality of the clips posted online. Since you are doing a close analysis‚ it is a good idea to use the online material as

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    Some Like It Hot Analysis

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    The comedy ‘Some Like it Hot’ was named the best American Comedy all the time during the year 2000 by the American Film institute as directed by Billy Wilder (Ku 1). The comedy is a gender bender movie whereby you cannot know the flow of the movie and what is bound to happen next. In this narrative‚ jazz singers Jerry and Joe (Jack Lemmon) and (Tony Curtis) witness the execution done by ‘spats’. They‚ however‚ decide to run away to Miami while dressed like women‚ and they call themselves Daphne and

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    Carlos Villamarin Professor Pierson English Comp: Film March 16‚ 2015 A Thousand Miles “Yeah I like being famous. It’s almost like being white‚ y’know?” -Chris Rock At first glance‚ it’s easy to discredit White Chicks as another gimmicky comedy from the Wayans‚ filled raunchy humor‚ and “infantile flatulence jokes and fairly obvious gags”1. Coarse‚ raunchy language is spread throughout the film‚ intertwined with racial humor. Farts account for many of the plot turns‚ yet the Wayans utilize humor

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    Some Like It Hot is a hilarious movie about two men‚ Joe and Jerry‚ dressing up like women just so they can join an all girls band. Joining the all girls band came out of sheer desperation when they become witnesses of a mob shooting‚ not to mention‚ they are also going broke. The entire film is basically Joe and Jerry‚ or shall I say‚ Josephine and Daphne‚ running around with the all girls band in Florida and getting into all kinds of crazy‚ but funny antics. One of the things that make th

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    Maegan Cole MCOM 385 June‚ 12‚ 2009 Essay 1 Friendship and Loyalty in Some Like it Hot After viewing Billy Wilder ’s 1959 classic Some Like It Hot‚ it was apparent why the film was voted as the number one comedy by the American Film Institute (www.sheppardstownfilmsociety.org). Wonderfully constructed‚ this movie has all the characteristics that establish Wilder’s signature feature films: brilliant costuming‚ a subtle use of shadows and setting to establish a mood‚ and the cinematic of Film

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    Some Like It Hot is a very funny movie. The film uses many ways to make the audience laugh‚ but mainly the film creates a situation where normal people would not encounter. Such as the two musicians dress up like women and join an all girl band. To make this funny‚ Joe and Jerry become very unattractive as women and try to act like women‚ but fails horribly. Another example is that Osgood fells in love with ¡°Daphne¡±‚ which the audience knows that it¡¯s Jerry. The act of Osgood pursuing Jerry makes

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    Seeing a theme about money in movies‚ more specifically a focus on wealth‚ is very common. Two of the movies we watched in class‚ Some Like It Hot and The Lady Eve‚ deal with money problems and how people in a romantic relationship handle money when one of the pair is wealthy‚ though the movies are different in how the story uses money as a plot device. In Some Like It Hot we are introduced first to a group of gangsters‚ which people assume have a lot of money. When panning

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    • A cut-in is used within this sequence of “Some Like It Hot.” A cut-in is a transition or shift from a large area of space to a more closed-in area (usually to a person or object). An example of this particular editing technique is when “Sugar” goes from her cubicle to another (Daphne’s) which then shows/emphasising the “Cut-in.” • A cutaway is a continuous action shot which is then interrupted “cutting-away” to another action and/or image. In the beginning of this sequence we have a continuous

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    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

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