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It was hard to believe all that ‘Some Like It Hot' got away with in the 1950's. Sexual innuendos, cross-dressing, barely their `clothes' and more definitely made it an eyebrow-raising movie. It was risqué, but it's what made it such a funny movie. Marilyn Monroe did as excellent job at playing a dumb blonde (If she was really acting at all) and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon did a superb job playing two cross-dressers trying to win a pretty girl's heart. Marilyn Monroe played a sweet, innocent girly-girl in an all-female band who every guy wanted, especially Joe and Jerry (Curtis and Lemmon). The two struggling musicians meet Sugar (Monroe) after they witness the St. Valentines Day Massacre and need to flee from the mob that is out to kill them. The only way to escape from being killed is to cross-dress and join the all-female band. The idea isn't too bad when they find out that Sugar is apart of the band. The girls in the band seem fresh out of seventh grade: boy-crazy and naïve, though it didn't seem to bother Joe and Jerry whose alias' while being cross-dressers where Josephine and Daphne. Even though the two guys were trying to win over Sugar while somehow remaining cross-dressers, it seemed to me that they were having a little more fun playing dress up than other guys would. I think they became too comfortable as women and it was kind of creepy, but also very humorous. While Jerry was having more success getting closer to Sugar and becoming more of her confidante, Joe was having more success in unintentionally wooing a rich yacht owner named Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown). This twisted comedy made me laugh the whole way through. The mishaps and misfortunes of the characters were very inventive. I thought that the ending was very witty and although I could see the direction that it was headed, I didn't think any other ending would have been as funny. Although, it didn't take incredibly talented actors to pull off a comedy such as ‘Some Like It Hot', it is still a movie that I would watch again and again.

The Godfather, which hit movie theatres and wowed audiences over 30 years ago, is still arguably one of the best movies ever made. Only the best writers, directors and actors could make a story about the mafia, who in the beginning seem to be cold, ruthless killers, and turn it into a group of people winning over the sympathy of nearly everyone in the audience. This film wouldn't have been as believable or worth watching if it weren't for the great cast. Their acting drew people into the movie. Marlon Brando, who played Don Vito Corleone, was introduced to the audience as the ‘Godfather', the leader of the organized crime family. I loved how he was portrayed as an intimidating leader, but had a softer side for his grandchildren and his son, Michael, who he had a close relationship with. Throughout the movie, negotiations are made, bold-faced lies are told, families are torn apart, and several people are killed. At the beginning of the movie, the viewer feels sympathy for Michael Corleone because he seems confused and not sure if he wants to join the business. He makes up his mind to be apart of the business that will soon consume his life and because of that he changes as a person and the viewer no longer seems to identify with Michael and they feel a little bitter towards him. He looses respect from the audience. The camera angles added more attitude to the movie, giving it more symbolism. Sometimes the viewer is frustrated with the actors, knowing that if they had just made a different choice, things would have turned out the way the viewer wanted them to. That's another thing that caught my attention during this film; I found myself upset with the characters and disappointed in them as if they were actual people. I think that is a great quality in a movie. I really liked how the viewer's feelings for Michael changed in the end. It's a nice surprise when movies throw something like that in to spice things up and make the audience hope for a sequel.

`Here's to looking at you, kid' was probably the most overused line in the movie, but nevertheless, Casablanca was one of the best love triangle/war movies that I have ever seen. The movie is set during WWII when people from Europe are traveling to Casablanca to try to get to America, where it was safer. This was a very hard and risky thing to do. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman lit up the screen playing Rick Blaine, an exiled American and owner of a well-known cafe and Ilsa Lund laszlo, Rick's love interest that left him in Paris when she found out that her husband was alive. Meeting in Paris, Rick and Ilsa fall in love and plan to spend the rest of their lives together, until Rick receives a letter from Ilsa before boarding a train saying that they can't ever see each other again. Rick is torn apart, especially when he sees her again unexpectedly at his café and is obviously very bitter towards her. He later finds out that she left him in Paris because she found out her husband was alive. I really liked Humphrey Bogart in this movie. He played the bad boy, which seems to be a reoccurring role in the older classic films. Although he was perceived as a rebel who `doesn't stick his neck out for no one', he was the kind of guy who would do the right thing in the end that was best for everyone. I think he's a great actor who delivers his lines well and makes the scene seem very realistic. I thought that the movie was well done. The were many scenes in which there was mostly talking and a lot of information was given at one time making the movie somewhat confusing at times, but for the most part it was a great film. There were many parts that movies today copy, which made the movie interesting to watch. Although I am not a big fan of war/love movies, I thought that this was a classic because of Bogart and Bergman's incredible performances. Even the corniest parts such as the flashbacks and the famous line, `Here's to looking at you kid' were well done. Everyone should see this movie at least once; it's a classic that has been an inspiration to many filmmakers for many years.