Some Like It Hot

Iconic, but just not that funny to me. Would’ve been interesting to see them delve more into the gender dynamics of this story, rather than resort to using the cross-dressing as a device purely for humour. I guess that’s a lot to ask of a film from the 1950s, and this film does still feel very progressive, doesn’t feel like it’s making fun of its subjects at all. I think a film from the same era with the same type of themes, but a slightly more serious tone, would be more interesting to me. Although the fact that this was even allowed to be made by one of Hollywood’s biggest directors at the time of the Hays Code is crazy enough, very important film