Some
Like It Hot 9/10
I got
to see Some Like It Hot a few decades after it came out. Hey. Shut
it. J-Ro suggested this so we checked it out. I knew that Marilyn
Monroe was in it and that is about it. And, boy, is she in it. These
two guys named Joe and Jerry played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon
who are in a jazz band. Joe has gambling issues and after the club
they are playing at is raided they take off running. They end up
stumbling across this gangster named Spats and witness him just
straight up murdering some guys. They realize they need to get their
asses out of town fast.
After
losing what little money they have because of Joe and dog races they
hear about a band that needs players in Florida but the problem is it
is an all girl band. They end up dressing up as two terrifying
looking women named Josephine and Daphne. They board a hotness train
filled with women and the main one being Sugar Kane played by Monroe.
I mean...come on. The train ride is them trying to control the urge
to have the sex with the ladies and gawk at them. They end up having
a party in one of the beds that magically the manager of the band
does not hear until way later.
Joe
wants to make a move on Sugar but she says that saxophone players
have always broken her heart so he comes up with another disguise to
get her of a billionaire with all of the things she likes. Glasses,
different voice, aloof. She can't resist him. So now he is running
from the mob and playing two different people. Meanwhile Jerry/Daphne
is trying to keep this weird little rich man out of his draws. Jerry
has to remind Joe that he is a jerk and is only going to break
Sugar's heart and that they are women and not supposed to be hitting
on the girls. Good luck with that.
Since
this is one of those kinda movies the mob show up in Miami for pretty
much a mob convention and they are spotted. More murder happens and
the cop that has been handling the case shows up and never quite
seems to do his job right until someone is killed. After wining and
dining Sugar Joe/Josephine/Junior tells Sugar that he has to leave
her but gives her a bracelet that the weird millionaire gave
Jerry/Daphne. Daphne is all about the millionaire now and planning a
wedding but it talked down by Joe who reminds him that men can not
marry one another. They end up escaping the resort and Sugar comes
along. Even after revealing the truth she still wants Joe and even
after being told that he is a man the millionaire still wants to be
with Jerry. Happy endings all around except for them dead mobsters.
This
movie was really funny and one of the things I appreciate most about
old movies is that the camera does not cut constantly. Scenes can
last for over a minute and it is not jumping over one shoulder to
another for closeup shots. Also, Monroe is almost too hot in this. I
just kept thinking “Damn...” whenever she was on screen. I read
about all the issues during this movie afterward and am glad that I
waited because knowing that stuff beforehand would've ruined the
experience for me. You should check this out if you have not.
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