ESSAY PLAN - HOLLYWOOD
COMPARE THE EXTENT TO WHICH YOUR TWO CHOSEN FILMS ARE PRODUCTS OF THEIR WIDER CONTEXTS. ARTHUR PENN 1967, SET IN 1930 - BONNIE AND CLYDE BILLY WILDER 1959, SET IN 1929 - SOME LIKE IT HOT INTRO: - Identify both films and explain when they were set. - Express the similarities and differences of the setting. - Classical Hollywood vs New Hollywood. - The films produced between the later 1960s and later 1980s can all be seen in terms of 'New Hollywood', where a new generation of directors began to show new influences. - Penn attempting to destroy the hays code, whilst Wilder follows the hays code. This essay will analyse the extent to which Some Like it Hot and Bonnie and Clyde can be compared when their production context is examined. Wilder's film comes at the end of what is notionally the 'Golden Era' of Hollywood whilst Penn's film strongly reflects the production context of what has been termed 'New Hollywood'. Old Hollywood was characterised by the
