Retrieved via the Wayback Machine. Originally posted by Maya

I took half day off work. I wanted to watch Thelma and Louise (T & L).Some like it hot was supposed to be a bonus.

So I walked in 12 minutes late for T & L, found my self a chair in the darkened Cama hall, and settled down to watch the master piece starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. Directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, the movie explores the story of two women, Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis) and Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon). Thelma is married to Daryl, a restaurant owner, who is as dominating likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. Louise, on the other hand, works in a fast food restaurant as a waitress and has some problems with her friend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road. One day they decide to break out of their normal life and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey, however, turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma. They decide to go to Mexico, but soon they are hunted by American police. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times. (Source: www.imdb.com)

Seven scenes before the movie gets over, there is some technical problem. Damn yam.Grumble mumble.Shit wit.Nit pick.Yawn gone.

Ah, the movie is back.5 scenes from the end.

If plotted on a graph, the T & L starts with a smooth concrete road ride and then moves on from a long jump leap, to kung-fu walking in the air move, to a superman flight. The build up is fabulous. Add to that, fantastic performances by Davis and Sarandon. The back ground score is awesome. “These girls are not the killing type,” says the waitress to the cop. Chilling.what can one incident do you? How can a harmless weekend getaway turn a monotonous existence to a monolithic adventure? Add to that, the blade-edge twists and turns of both the characters. Thelma’s submissiveness, encouraged by Louise’s ‘you-have-a-louse-for-a-husband’ talks, rages into a one night stand (Brad Pitt), armed robbery and eventual drive over the edge of the mountain. As the film lurches toward its lacerating climax, there are many conflicting feelings about Thelma and Louise: Whatcha-gotten-into-em??? When did they turn from women to bitches? Are they feminist martyrs or bitches from hell?

They are nothing but women.each marred by the transformation of a young dream to a tedious existence. They are nothing but women, who are not angry at the transformation because they don’t know that they should be angry.we do. They are not even vengeful.they just slide and stream into events, and enjoy the ride till the end.like most of us don’t. An iconic end redeems both.the protagonists and the audience.

Some like It Hot
This 1959 classic starring Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk, Tony Curtis as Joe (’Josephine’/'Junior’) and Jack Lemmon as Jerry (’Daphne’) is a story of two musicians, a saxophonist and a bass player who witness a murder committed by the mob/ mafia and are on the run to save their lives. In the process they enlist themselves in an all-girl’s band and impersonate as women (who are a tad large-boned) as a camouflage mechanism. In addition to hiding, each has his own problems; one falls for another band member but can’t tell her his gender, and the other has a rich suitor who will not take “No,” for an answer. As usual, Bollywood got inspired by this movie and in 1974, Rafoo Chakar was made starring Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh.

Being born in an era, which forced me to see the Bollywood version before the original; I found obvious similarities which dimmed the potential enjoyment that I would have derived from the film. Nonetheless, the dialogues saved the day.

Some gems.

Jerry: Have I got things to tell you!
Joe: What happened?

Jerry: I’m engaged.
Joe: Congratulations. Who’s the lucky girl?
Jerry: I am!
—-X—-

Jerry: Will you look at that! Look how she moves! It’s like Jell-O on springs. Must have some sort of built-in motor or something. I tell you, it’s a whole different sex!
—-X—-

Sugar: Water polo? Isn’t that terribly dangerous?
Junior: I’ll say. I had two ponies drowned under me.
—-X—-

Osgood: Right now, she
[his mother]
Osgood: thinks I’m out there on my yacht - deep sea fishing!
Daphne: Well, pull in your reel, Mr. Fielding, you’re barking up the wrong fish!
—-X—-

Sweet Sue: Are you two from the Poliakoff agency?
Joe: Yes, we’re the new girls.
Daphne: Brand new!

Apparently, Marilyn had a miscarriage during this film. In view of that, she acted remarkably well. Directed by Billy Wilder, ‘Some Like It Hot’ is a pleasure to watch.

Some Trivia.. A preview audience laughed so hard in the scene where Jack Lemmon announces his engagement that a lot of the dialogue was missed. It had to be re-shot with pauses (and the maraca gimmick) added.

. Colombo (George Raft) sees one of Bonaparte’s henchmen flipping a coin, and asks “Where did you pick up that cheap trick?” In Scarface (1932), Raft played a mafia henchman who is remembered for the fact that he kept flipping a coin.

. While watching the rushes of the famous kissing scene on the yacht, Tony Curtis told those assembled that kissing Marilyn Monroe was “like kissing Hitler” (to which Monroe replied to Life magazine in 1962: “I think that’s his problem.”) He has subsequently denied that, and claimed that she deliberately teased him by grinding her body against his until he was aroused, and then stop (Monroe told Life that, since Curtis was so negative to her, she imagined she was with someone else instead of him.) He has also claimed the two had an affair during filming. (trivia and dialogues; Source: www.imdb.com)