[lit-ideas] Re: Movie Night
- From: Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:01:26 -0700 (PDT)
Speaking of Wilder, references to homosexuality, and
good old movies how about Some Like It Hot? First of
all, should you for some weird reason have not seen
the film, do yourself the favour. What never ceases to
amaze me is how perfect it is, the frantic Jazz like
pace executed flawlessly, Monroe's every mesmerizing
move, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in sync like they've
acted all their lives together...
But to get back to the point, Curtis cross-dresses up
as a "Josephine" and Lemmon as "Daphne" to escape the
mob with an all girl-band. The womanizer played by
Curtis learns to respect the fairer sex as espected,
but Daphne is more interesting. That is Jerry (Lemmon)
starts to really enjoy being a chick, especially when
a millionaire (Joe Brown in another brilliant
performance) starts courting her/him. Lemmon almost
steals the whole show with his girlish glee at getting
diamonds and doing tango with "Osgood Fielding III".
What is interesting is how female stereotypes are used
to liberate the men from their roles, Joe (Curtis)
getting all responsible playing the serious big sister
Josephine in contrast with his playboy role while the
nervous and nagging Jerry turns into daft but loveable
little sister Daphne. All set in Florida at 1920's,
ofcourse. So on the one hand we've got a classic
tragedy, characters are bound by, well their character
to meet ruin, but by chancing their character they
escape their fate.
Cheers,
Teemu
Back in business at
Helsinki, Finland
Jazz, the roaring 20s, freedom of life on the road, is
all tied to joys of girlish irresponsibility
--- Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For your amusement:
>
>
http://www.writingclasses.com/InformationPages/index.php/PageID/270
>
>
> Billy Wilder: 10 screenwriting tips
>
>
> # The audience is fickle.
> # Grab ?em by the throat and never let ?em go.
> # Develop a clean line of action for your leading
> character.
> # Know where you?re going.
> # The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your
> plot points,
> the better you are as a writer.
> # If you have a problem with the third act, the real
> problem is in
> the first act.
> # A tip from Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two
> plus two. They?ll
> love you forever.
> # In doing voice-overs, be careful not to describe
> what the audience
> already sees. Add to what they?re seeing.
> # The event that occurs at the second act curtain
> triggers the end
> of the movie.
> # The third act must build, build, build in tempo
> and action until
> the last event, and then?that?s it. Don?t hang
> around.
>
>
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