Screenwriting 101: Billy Wilder
“The most important invention in Some Like It Hot was to make the fact of the two male musicians disguising themselves as women a question…
“The most important invention in Some Like It Hot was to make the fact of the two male musicians disguising themselves as women a question of life or death. If you don’t have death — if you have not seen the St. Valentine’s Day murder at the beginning and know that those are ruthless guys who want to bump them off — then these two guys who have hopped into women’s clothes could just take their wigs off and say, ‘Look, I’m a guy.’”
— Billy Wilder
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