Some Like It Hot
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| Name: | Some Like It Hot |
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| Creator: | Billy Wilder |
| Date(s): | March 29, 1959 |
| Medium: | Film |
| Country of Origin: | USA |
| External Links: | at IMDb at Wikipedia |
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Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American romantic comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. The film is about two musicians who disguise themselves by dressing as women in order to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime.
The film was produced without approval from the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code), because it features LGBT-related themes, including cross-dressing. The code had been gradually weakening in its scope since the early 1950s, due to greater social tolerance for previously taboo topics in film, but it was still officially enforced until the mid-1960s. The overwhelming success of Some Like It Hot is considered one of the reasons behind the replacement of the Hays Code.[1]
Fandom
The fandom is a tiny one that remains eligible for Yuletide, and some of the most popular fics have been written for that, but especially in more recent years, it's drawn interest from fans both for the canon cross-dressing and for the famous final exchange between Jerry/Daphne and Osgood Fielding III, during a debate over their upcoming nuptials:
Jerry/Daphne, removing wig: I'm a man!
Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
Osgood's lack of concern, along with an earlier scene in which Daphne is so giddy after a romantic evening with Osgood that Joe has to work to remind his friend Jerry that their life as women is all a farce, has drawn queer interpretations of all stripes, and in modern fandom Jerry/Daphne may be depicted as a cis man, as a trans woman, or as a genderfluid person.
Jerry-Daphne/Osgood is the most popular pairing on AO3, and 'Jerry "Daphne"' is the most tagged character. A Perfect Honeymoon, written for Yuletide in 2009, was only the second fic on AO3 for Some Like It Hot, but it remains the most-commented fic for the movie, with nearly 200 comments. A Perfect Honeymoon is still receiving comments in 2022, some from readers saying they've remembered the fic ever since 2009. In it, the character is referred to in narration with alternating names and pronouns. FanFiction.Net records only three fics for the movie before AO3 was established. The first, Love is White Roses Every Fourth of July, is also focused on Jerry/Daphne, and while it's labeled Slash, it uses "Daphne" only, while avoiding any pronouns.
Example Fanworks
- Love is White Roses Every Fourth of July by Tiamat's Child (2003), the first fic for the movie on FF.Net
- A Perfect Honeymoon, by Delilah_Joy
- The Road Leads Where It's Led, by incapricious for Yuletide 2011; the most-kudosed work on AO3, which also treats Jerry/Daphne's identity as somewhat fluid
Links
- Some Like It Hot on FanFiction.Net
- Some Like It Hot (1959) on AO3
Notes
References
- ^ "Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On". NPR.org. 8 August 2008. Archived from the original on 2022-04-14. Retrieved 14 March 2016.