Sound in "Some Like it Hot"

Sound, in "Some Like it Hot" is presented as another means of creating verisimilitude in a film, through helping to evoke moods and emotions in certain scenes, alerting the viewer about an important part in the film and helping editing in joining together clips, even is they are seemingly unrelated. In terms of heightening certain situations and events within the film Wilder uses a Jazzy non-diegetic soundtrack. This is evident in scenes such as when Joe and Jerry are escaping out of the Fire Escape from the Club and are at risk of being seen by the police. It is also present in numerous scenes with Sugar, to relate to the sexiness of her character and her overall sex-appeal. One of those scenes is when Sugar makes her first appearance in the film, walking down the along the train. It also reoccurs when Joe and Jerry stubble across her in the bathroom and she is pulling her flask out from underneath her stockings. Another scene which utilizes this sexy Jazz music for Sugar is when she sneaks out of her bunk on the train and into Jerry’s. Sound is also used, in turn, with editing as a means of linking shots together, such as when the film transitions from on the train to in Florida. Once in Florida the audience can hear the, in this case diegetic, sound of numerous girls singing together, thus alluding to the fact that they are in the bus making its way to the front of the hotel. This technique is also used in the scene where the girls are in the water and Joe is dressed up as Junior and the non-diegetcic music links the two shots together revealing that the girls and Joe are on the same beach at the same time.