Some Like It Hot

Question 1

Social Context:

Answer 1

1950 America
-Consumerism
-Liberalism
-Red scare, cold war, mcCarthyism
-Civil Rights movement
-Juvenile Deliquency
-Post war booms
-jazz
-rock n roll
-Television

Question 2

Hay’s Code:

Answer 2

Censorship
White slavery
profanity
nudity
trafficking in drugs
interracial
sex diseases
ridicule of the clergy
sex organs
sex
(attempted) rape

Question 3

Production Context:

Answer 3

Didn’t show the MPAA as they did not allow him to go against the Hay’s Code.
Said he would never work with Monroe again after the ‘7 year itch’
Challenged the system
Catholic League of Decency complained
Marilyn’s contract stated she would be filmed in colour but the makeup of the men was so horrendous it had to be filmed in black and white

Question 4

Film Opening:
Film Form

Answer 4

Crime genre
Low key lighting
comedy

Question 5

Film Opening:
Atmosphere

Answer 5

Chicago is dangerous
Wall street crash
great depression forthcoming

Question 6

Film Opening:
Representations

Answer 6

Women are objectified
Men are manipulative

Question 7

Film Opening:
Contemporary audience response

Answer 7

Familiar with the crime genre

Question 8

Train scene:
Film Form

Answer 8

Costume as women
‘How do they walk in these things?’
Female attire
Sugar’s hip flask
‘Tube of toothpaste’
‘Running Wild and Free’

Question 9

Train scene:
Representations

Answer 9

Men are sleazy
Women are flirty
Not all women are the same
Traditional vs modern?

Question 10

Train scene:
Performance

Answer 10

Men as women are overexaggerated
Women are undomesticated

Question 11

Train scene:
Elements of challenging 1950s America

Answer 11

Taboos of cross dressing, alcoholism, sex before marriage, multiple relationships

Question 12

First Day In Florida:
Film Form

Answer 12

Women are excited
‘1,2,3,4,5,6,…’ Junior is the 7th
Osgood’s infatuation with Daphne
‘As long as you’re wearing a skirt’

Question 13

First Day In Florida:
Representations

Answer 13

All men are the same no matter the age
Far from dangers in Chicago
Undomesticated women
Adultery

Question 14

First Day In Florida:
Mood

Answer 14

Upbeat music
‘I want to be loved by you’

Question 15

First Day In Florida:
Relationships

Answer 15

Joe and Sugar grow closer
Daphne’s frustration grows as well as his comfortability as being a woman

Question 16

First Day In Florida:
Gender

Answer 16

Men are ‘grabbers’
Women are gold diggers, dumb, and desperate