Wilding entertaining Interview with Wilder

I found the interview piece this week the most interesting and entertaining. One thing that stood out for me the most was home openly critical Wilder was about some of his leading actors and his staff. He describes their addictions, suicides and death very explicitly. Although most are likely to be posthumous descriptions, it still was somewhat provocative. In most interviews you read currently, the interviewee would calculate and plan their answers as to not offend or receive any negative reactions because of it. I found Wilder to be extremely honest and candid in his answers, which was refreshing. Especially for our generation, we don’t have much experience with these amazingly important historical figures in film so the first hand accounts really bring them to life.
I walked into the beginning of “Some Like it Hot” last week a few minutes late so I missed the opening credits, there fore not knowing what film we were watching until about half way through when the characters are talking about jazz music and Joe says “Some like it hot”. Throughout the entire film I kept looking at the Jerry/Daphne character wondering where I had seen him before. I knew that I had not seen many films from this period, so I thought that possibly I was mistaking him for someone else. It wasn’t until about half way through that all of a sudden the though popped into my head, “It’s the guy from Grumpy Old Men!”. It was such an interesting moment because I has always thought of Lemmon as the actor who plays all the old men. Hearing Wilder talk about him as one of his favorite actors really put into perspective Lemmon’s long film career way before our time, and also give him tremendous credit for having such longevity in the film industry.