Some Like It Wilder. Impact and Overcoming of the Hays Code in Billy Wilder’s 'Some Like It Hot' (1959)
Abstract
The present article’s objective is to explore how the rules dictated by the Hays Code defined and guided the narrative mechanisms and the means of representation of Some Like It Hot (1959). Likewise, a study of the use of comedy and its resources is proposed as a method used by Billy Wilder in this film —being faithful to both the initial spirit of the work and the its narrative— to impose its authorial voice to overcome the prohibitions imposed by the censorship. The script of the film is constantly adapting itself in order to avoid the famous code in relation to three themes with an important presence in the film: the tranvestism of the male characters, the sensuality of the character played by Marilyn Monroe and the latent eroticism of some scenes, and the violence of other sequences.
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