Merilyn Monroe Analysis

The movie has Merilyn Monroe. What more you want? She was under drugs during shooting of this film. Barbiturates. The end was death and yes, she died three years later, at the tender age of 36. But look her perform. You won 't believe she was compulsive drug addict. Had lost her memory. She couldn 't even remember her lines. Director Billy Wilder pasted her lines any which way she could read and say. She was at her worst but still gave the best and became Hollywood icon. The film has Miss Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. When this is the trio, It has to become one helluva cocktail which has a power to intoxicate you all through the film and still keep you alert. Can you doubt about their histrionic talents? No way..!

The plot is a classic screwball comedy. Opening scene will make you believe it is a gangster movie.

It is they who are telling about who likes it hot. Yes.. but as always and innumerable times it happens in every Monroe movie, Monroe steals the show. You require a sheer will power not to watch anyone else when Miss Monroe is on the screen.

One must admire Tony Curtis ' performance and patience because of number of takes and retakes Monroe needed. Tony did it staying fresh and alive at every retake. Monroe first meets him on the beach, where he introduces himself as the Shell Oil heir and millionaire while imitating Cary Grant. Next is the scene of seduction in the yacht. Watch Tony 's timings! Sheer magic and the way Tony plays with her naivete.
"Water polo? Isn 't that terribly dangerous?" asks Monroe. Curtis: "I 'll say! I had two ponies drown under me."

Jack Lemmon is awesome. He is iconic comedian in every sense of the role and carries the movie in his usual self and with aplomb. Jack is accurate choice for the character he portrays and no one could make a chemistry with Tony the way he has done. Billy Wilder needs accolades for his conviction of the choice of