{"id":25,"date":"2007-03-21T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T19:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2007\/03\/21\/some-like-it-hot\/"},"modified":"2021-04-16T08:17:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:17:28","slug":"some-like-it-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2007\/03\/21\/some-like-it-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Like It Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have weird feelings about this movie<\/a>. I first watched it at GSP, almost ten years ago, when HOLY SHIT TEN YEARS I’M OLD<\/p>\n

Let’s try that again. I watched it and I thought it was hilarious, which was remarkable in itself, given my stupid prejudice against anything made before 1981<\/a>. In 1998 that was the kind of thing you thought about it. On vacation in summer 2000, we watched it get named the funniest American film ever<\/a> and I pretty much agreed (given AFI’s own stupid but inevitable prejudices). Since then I’ve only trotted it out to prove that yes, I do like something<\/i> made before I was born.<\/p>\n

I watched it again last night with Holly and Kevan, neither of whom had seen it before. Now I’m all jumbled.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of one-liners, but does that make a funny movie? I think improv training, the Daily Show and Arrested Development have done something to my humor palate such that those didn’t satisfy me. So I didn’t laugh much at it. But I did find it stunningly subversive.<\/p>\n

Now, was it subversive when it was released? Certainly–it helped end the Production Code<\/a>–but not in the way I’m thinking. A lot of the jokes now can be read as sly commentary on gay marriage, “cures” for homosexuality, and, er, Marilyn Monroe’s death. I don’t know if I’m reaching too far to do that. An English major would say no, but I got my degree in theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have weird feelings about this movie. I first watched it at GSP, almost ten years ago, when HOLY SHIT TEN YEARS I’M OLD Let’s try that again. I watched it and I thought it was hilarious, which was remarkable in itself, given my stupid prejudice against anything made before 1981. In 1998 that was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holly-gramazio","category-kevan-davis","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3814,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}