Comparing The Apartment And US Hollywood

Throughout the decades of film evolution, the 1960s seem to show a drastic change when considering content and screenplay. U.S. Hollywood films began to show an influence by European films through content and style. European films since the beginning have been known to be racy when compared to U.S. films. In 1968 the rating system was put into effect to distinguish whether a movie was suitable for certain ages. This was extremely effective for the film industry for reasons being that sex was becoming present in films.
The film The Apartment was a Billy Wilder film about a man named C.C. Baxter whom lets his company bosses “borrow” his upper west side apartment for various affairs. Baxter’s manager begins to use his apartment in exchange for
Mae Tinee states that, “the film while it is funny, is also a biting satire on the behavior of some executives and the director, who helped write the story, said it could have been and brand of big business,” (Tinee, 1960). This film isn’t seen to be inappropriate by critics because there isn’t much explicit content. The only romanticized content is the many affairs these men are having with women, however the viewer doesn’t see the intercourse for themselves, but if this was the case then the reviews would be
The Apartment featured sexual affairs between single women and married men or vice versa. The Apartment lacks in quality of cinematography because Wilder wanted to stray away from common Hollywood film editing styles, but is essentially made up by the unique and interesting plot of the film. There is satire present in this film through poking at these big business corporations and how “easy” it is to get a promotion. This film featured dry humor and hidden jokes, which aesthetically made the film pleasing due to the simplistic editing styles and unique plot. In the film; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner we see the “dilemma” two families face when their children being two different races deliver the news that they are getting married. During this time racism was present in society due to the many bills and policies, so whites and blacks were racist towards each other, so this film made viewers experience mixed feelings. Though both films are from the same decade and almost the same genre, they are both very different from one another. The plot of both films is original which is what makes both of them so special in their own way. In the end both The Apartment and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner includes a happy ending just like Hollywood genre