Some Like It Hot Film Analysis

Money is the root of all evil. This is probably one of the most common sayings in heard in the United States; you can see it on t-shirts, bumper stickers, online, everywhere. Yet many people use money to live their lives to the fullest, so maybe money is also a source of good. Seeing a theme about money in movies, more specifically a focus on wealth, is very common. Two of the movies we watched in class, Some Like It Hot and The Lady Eve, deal with money problems and how people in a romantic relationship handle money when one of the pair is wealthy, though the movies are different in how the story uses money as a plot device.
In Some Like It Hot we are introduced first to a group of gangsters, which people assume have a lot of money. When panning
Joe and Jerry do not have any money because their work got caught the night they were to be paid the first time, and after pawning their overcoats, Joe loses the bet on the dog. They dress up to get money and to get away to Florida, where they believe living will be easier. Sugar is running away from the same type of men that dump her to find a young millionaire who is smart and kind. Pike has so much money that he cannot spend a moment alone; rather he is getting too much attention from people that wish to use him for the money that his father makes. Both the movies focus on romances that are created with the lady’s knowledge about the man’s money. Daphne, though not a biological woman, is told directly from Osgood that he is very rich and willing to date and marry her, as long as his mother approves. Joe masquerades as the son of a millionaire to fool Sugar, who is pretending to be a debutante to catch a millionaire. Jean knows that Pike has a boatload of money, though her original plan was to win his money from him in a card game. In her defense she did not plan to get married to Pike for money, though when they got married it was more for revenge and love than the money. The woman’s knowledge of the money is what led the couple together in the first place, though all the couples fall in love and end the movie happily, though we do not know what happens to them once the movie is