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To proper the technical info above, this DVD (both the special edition and movie-only edition) DOES HAVE an English monophonic soundtrack that was originally obsolete 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 certain and understable. The surround sound only comes into employ during the occasional music and gunfight sequences. I do applaud the inclusion of the unusual mono track, which quite a few unique DVDs of older movies do not provide in the hope of enticing unusual DVD owners with 5.1 audio.
The video transfer looks colossal — images are intelligent, levels of shadowy perceive realistic (you can clearly glimpse and feel the velvety texture of a dark robe Monroe wears), signs of wear and saunter are virtually non-existent. The represent aspect ratio is 1.66:1, which is not the 1:85:1 ratio weak for the recent US theatrical release and for all previous US letterboxed laserdisc releases. The 1.66:1 ratio adds a limited report 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 sign if they had included better supplementary material on the Special Edition DVD, such as the audio commentary and home movies that were assign on the Criterion laserdisc made in the early 90s. The extras on the Special Edition DVD include a absorbing but superficial 30-minute unique interview with Tony Curtis reminiscing about the film, a rather wearisome 12-minute interview with the actresses who played the girl band members, a segment called “Virtual Hall of Memories” that is essentially a tranquil gallery, and trailers of 7 Wilder films including SOME LIKE IT HOT; all the trailers are in abominable video condition. The most engrossing 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 glean to hear from Jack Lemmon or Billy Wilder, both quiet alive, on this DVD. These extras are not impressive, so one may think buying the movie-only edition for a cheaper impress.
Billy Wilder’s most common comedy finally receives the deluxe treatment it deserves. MGM previously released this classic comedy in a nonanamorphic widescreen version a couple of years encourage. While that edition looked comely decent this anamorphic transfer puts any previous editions (including my worthy 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 gawk 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 appreciate. Jerry/Daphne on the other hand finds himself romanced by a rich man (Joe E. Brown) who won’t acquire the hint as Jerry tries to blow off his advances.
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And you understanding the 50′s were tame. One of Wilder’s richest 50′s comedies “Some Like It Hot” continues to be very comical inverting our expectations constantly and playing with the roles that Jerry and Joe pick on with their current identities. Joe’s eyes begin the most as before he was a lovely ruthless womanizer. Becoming a woman puts him in the crosshairs of every male insight and he’s on the receiving demolish of all the smirks, comments and passes that he would have obsolete 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 moving a movie can be without being heavy handed. It’s also filled with some well-behaved in jokes (for example Colombo played by George Raft observes a thug flipping a coin and comments, “Where did you recall up that cheap trick? ” Raft of course did the genuine thing in one of his signature roles in “Scarface” from 1932) .
A big movie looks even better in this inviting looking transfer. The gloomy and white imagery of the film looks resplendent. 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 sad and white when he showed her perform up tests for Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in color where their develop up as women made them ogle slightly green) while the film certainly would have looked titanic in color the sumptuous cinematography by Charles Lang (“The Heavenly Seven”, “Wait Until Shadowy”) looks extremely profitable in this improbable looking transfer. Detail is quite ample and blacks are solid with a nice array of different textures evident in the transfer. Audio is presented in the fresh mono and sounds dazzling.
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For those that are into such things the special features here are a expansive improvement over the previous edition. We glean a commentary track compiled from comments by the behind 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 conception of better writers to pair with Diamond’s son) . While the insights aren’t exactly a revelation it is an delicious commentary track.
We also glean two terrific documentaries on the making of the film. The first features a mixture of current 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 bag “Memories from the Sweet Sues” featurette with members of the women who played in the band, an interview with Tony Curtis entitled “Nostalgic Gawk Succor” where Curtis reveals that actor/voice artist Paul Frees did remarkable of his sigh as Josephine because he had danger reaching the high squawk. We also procure the imaginatively titled but unimpressive “Virtual Hall of Memories 3-D Tour” The unique pressbook appears on the DVD as well and we come by reproductions of various lobby cards. Finally we win previews and the current 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 eye a bit more vibrant. The featurettes are, for the most section, very top-notch 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 design to serve provide context for the movie but that’s fair personal preference. A dazzling release that could have been substantial with a wee bit more grief on the fraction of Sony/MGM.
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