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'Some Like it Hot' Foreshadowing

posted 15 years ago by dizexpat
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In some ways this feels like a dress rehearsal for Some Like it Hot. The notion of spending most of the film trying to pretend to be someone you cannot possibly be.

The scene in Ray Milland's train compartment was so much like the, admittedly racier, upper berth scene with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe.

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[–] stevenvh 14 years ago

The notion of spending most of the film trying to pretend to be someone you cannot possibly be.

In that case you also may call it a dress rehearsal for Irma la Douce (to stay with Wilder).
I call it far-fetched. There's lots of films in which at least someone pretends to be somebody else.

As for the scene in the train compartment, IMO the only thing both films have in common is that there's some action on a train. Sorry. You do realize that Spellbound and La Grande Vadrouille have train scenes as well?

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[–] FANatic-10 12 years ago

Of course there are major differences between the two films, but I found myself struck during the first half of the film by the common elements. The prominant disguise motif and the sexual undercurrents (admittedly rather creepy in this film to our modern eyes) brought the later film to mind. I wouldn't want to make too much of it, but if someone was programming a Wilder tribute on television or at a theater, these would make an ideal double feature!