| Kirk Henderson wrote: Quote:Yeah, laughs. SLIH, The Apartment, The Major and the Minor, Love in the Afternoon, and Sabrina even though they are not all comedies, get their laughs from wit. Example, the man down the hall from Jack Lemmon's apartment mistaking him to be a womanizer from all the noise he hears coming from the apartment, lines in SLIH like Lemmon's when they first introduce themselves to the bandleader on the train and the guy asks them, "Oh, you must be the new girls?" "Yes," says Lemmon, masquerading as a woman, "brand new!" If you can't appreciate lines and constructs like those, it's too bad. You're missing out. Why not describe how Sturges is more witty than Wilder, if that's what you believe? How could I _possibly_ do that? By the way, the scene you cite from "Some Like It Hot" as an example of wit is what I would call an amusing little line. And Sturges is FULL of those. |