We all know who Marilyn Monroe is. The famous actress, model and singer. The famous pop art subject. The girl with a blown skirt.

But yesterday was the first time I have actually seen one of her films, Some Like it Hot (1959) by Billy Wilder. This black and white film is a romantic comedy with action sequences and reminded me of Keenen Ivory Wayans’ White Chicks (2004). How these two films are an intertextuality is that both main characters, two men are impostors to two women. In Some Like it Hot, the two men searches for a job but found one that needs women musicians, causing them to dress up as two girls. Similarly in White Chicks, two FBI agents are made up and impersonating two white girls. Both films also have a lady character which film theorist may call “femme fatale” and one of the two men ends up with the lady. While, the other man had to have a date with an attracted wealthy man. Finally, action sequences are present in both films. So there’s no such thing as an original idea. What if Wayans has actually seen Some Like it Hot and was inspired to direct his film? There’s always an adaptation in process of converting stories. From what I’ve listened in week 8 lectorial, that is why narratives have patterns of representation and expectation, as we as viewers have already experienced the ideas implemented through the stories.

One scene that I particularly like in Some Like it Hot is the musical performance scene where Sugar Kane (starred by Monroe) sings “I Wanna Be Loved By You”.  This song has stuck on my head since then, which is quite annoying but interesting because it has made me appreciate its music as an art form of communication. Well clear to that, I’ve been singing it to my best friends.