Showing posts with label Some Like It Hot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Some Like It Hot. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Get Yourself A Key And Come On In To The Wonderful Billy Wilder Film The Apartment

Calvin Clifford "C.C." Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is one super dutiful worker at the insurance company he toils away at. He's very popular with his superiors, which you can chalk up to his agreeable demeanor, his work ethic and also the fact that he allows his various bosses to bring their mistresses to his apartment for sex. Baxter gets no money for this service, he just slips his superiors the key to his place of residence in the hopes that this will put him in the good graces of the higher-ups at his company and ensure his ascension at his place of employment. It's not the easiest way to get ahead, but it's the way Baxter is trying to get himself promoted.


Saturday, March 7, 2015

Some Like It Hot Review (Classic Write-Up)

Starting with the opening sequence of Some Like It Hot, the film has a palpable sense of assuredness, with no dialogue being used in a car chase scene that utilizes escalation excellently in order to establish the movies primary antagonists and their menacing nature. That assuredness continues throughout the rest of the film, whether it's tackling the backstories of it's characters or the way the film embraces it farcical sensibilities.