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To legal the technical info above, this DVD (both the special edition and movie-only edition) DOES HAVE an English monophonic soundtrack that was originally feeble in the film. Also included is a Dolby Digital 5.1 track, but one wonders if a dialog-heavy film like this should really need a surround soundtrack. Dialogs in both the mono and the 5.1 tracks sound perfectly obvious and understable. The surround sound only comes into employ during the occasional music and gunfight sequences. I do applaud the inclusion of the unique mono track, which quite a few novel DVDs of older movies do not provide in the hope of enticing modern DVD owners with 5.1 audio.
The video transfer looks expansive — images are spellbinding, levels of dusky contemplate realistic (you can clearly leer and feel the velvety texture of a dark robe Monroe wears), signs of wear and hurry are virtually non-existent. The relate aspect ratio is 1.66:1, which is not the 1:85:1 ratio frail for the novel US theatrical release and for all previous US letterboxed laserdisc releases. The 1.66:1 ratio adds a shrimp narrate to the top, but doesn’t really affect the composition. The video is also non-anamorphic, so the resolution is not as high on a widescreen TV as it would be with an anamorphic DVD. There is also no English optional subtitles, but there are yellow optional French and Spanish ones.
I would have gladly paid a higher trace if they had included better supplementary material on the Special Edition DVD, such as the audio commentary and home movies that were attach on the Criterion laserdisc made in the early 90s. The extras on the Special Edition DVD include a though-provoking but superficial 30-minute novel interview with Tony Curtis reminiscing about the film, a rather stupid 12-minute interview with the actresses who played the girl band members, a segment called “Virtual Hall of Memories” that is essentially a quiet gallery, and trailers of 7 Wilder films including SOME LIKE IT HOT; all the trailers are in unpleasant video condition. The most intelligent extra is a reproduction of a pressbook for the film, but the pictures are blurry and the smaller text is illegible. I am disappointed that we never secure to hear from Jack Lemmon or Billy Wilder, both collected alive, on this DVD. These extras are not impressive, so one may think buying the movie-only edition for a cheaper trace.
Billy Wilder’s most current comedy finally receives the deluxe treatment it deserves. MGM previously released this classic comedy in a nonanamorphic widescreen version a couple of years support. While that edition looked fine decent this anamorphic transfer puts any previous editions (including my noteworthy favored laserdisc edition) to shame. Wilder’s comedy operates as a spoof of gangster films and a comedy about gender roles. Jerry (the leisurely Jack Lemmon) and Joe (Tony Curtis) are two musicians on the lam when they study the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. With Spats Columobo (George Raft) and his men looking for the duo they go undercover as musicians disagreeable dressing and joining an all female band headed for a gig in Florida. Becoming a woman allows Joe/Josephine to spent time with Sugar (Marilyn Monroe) the latest woman that catches Joe’s cherish. Jerry/Daphne on the other hand finds himself romanced by a rich man (Joe E. Brown) who won’t pick the hint as Jerry tries to blow off his advances.
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And you notion the 50’s were tame. One of Wilder’s richest 50’s comedies “Some Like It Hot” continues to be very laughable inverting our expectations constantly and playing with the roles that Jerry and Joe retract on with their novel identities. Joe’s eyes initiate the most as before he was a stunning ruthless womanizer. Becoming a woman puts him in the crosshairs of every male insight and he’s on the receiving destroy of all the smirks, comments and passes that he would have passe with Sugar before his change. Wilder mixes social commentary so deftly with comedy (like Hitchcock’s work with suspense and social commentary) that at his best–and he’s at his best here–it reminds us how gripping a movie can be without being heavy handed. It’s also filled with some proper in jokes (for example Colombo played by George Raft observes a thug flipping a coin and comments, “Where did you remove up that cheap trick? ” Raft of course did the real thing in one of his signature roles in “Scarface” from 1932) .
A expansive movie looks even better in this piquant looking transfer. The dark and white imagery of the film looks glowing. Originally Marilyn Monroe lobbied to have the film shot in color which Billy Wilder felt wouldn’t work for this comedy (he persuaded her to agree to shoot in unlit and white when he showed her develop up tests for Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in color where their produce up as women made them glance slightly green) while the film certainly would have looked tall in color the sumptuous cinematography by Charles Lang (”The Sparkling Seven”, “Wait Until Sad”) looks extremely valid in this fantastic looking transfer. Detail is quite capable and blacks are solid with a nice array of different textures evident in the transfer. Audio is presented in the unusual mono and sounds aesthetic.
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For those that are into such things the special features here are a large improvement over the previous edition. We acquire a commentary track compiled from comments by the leisurely Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and I.A.L. Diamond’s son (working with the comedy writers Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel–honestly I could have idea of better writers to pair with Diamond’s son) . While the insights aren’t exactly a revelation it is an palatable commentary track.
We also fetch two terrific documentaries on the making of the film. The first features a mixture of recent and older interviews from the cast and crew. The second documentary “The Legacy of `Some Like it Hot’” is packed with trivia about the making of the film, Wilder & Monroe’s relationship on the spot and the difficult time Wilder had making the film with his leading lady including footage shot in the 80’s of Wilder and Diamond.
Finally we net “Memories from the Sweet Sues” featurette with members of the women who played in the band, an interview with Tony Curtis entitled “Nostalgic View Encourage” where Curtis reveals that actor/voice artist Paul Frees did mighty of his articulate as Josephine because he had anguish reaching the high teach. We also fetch the imaginatively titled but unimpressive “Virtual Hall of Memories 3-D Tour” The unique pressbook appears on the DVD as well and we gather reproductions of various lobby cards. Finally we acquire previews and the unique theatrical trailer.
Far more impressive than the lackluster previous DVD releases “Some Like It Hot” looks solid in this re-release although the film could gaze a bit more vibrant. The featurettes are, for the most section, very fine and the compiled commentary track adds loads of trivia (some of which is duplicated in the featurettes) about the making of the film. I do wish that a film historian such as UCLA professor Howard Suber had been eager in some intention to assist provide context for the movie but that’s objective personal preference. A beautiful release that could have been expansive with a wee bit more trouble on the fraction of Sony/MGM.
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