It’s my Genre Now

The article that I found is Whose Genre Is It, Anyway? Thomas Wartenberg on the Unlikely Couple Film, written by Deborah Knight and George McKnight. This article is about genres and couple films the author shows how movies can be pared together and you never really realize it. Like romance for example it is not truly a genre because their is romance in every movie.

This is a selected quote from this article that I disagreed with. “Wartenberg seems to rest his contention that Joe E. Brown & Daphne are a gay couple on the film’s final gag.”

- I really doubt that this is what the author of the movie was going for. If you watch this movie you would now that this is the total opposite. Gerry (who is really Daphne) when he first put on his falsies and both him and Joe/Josphine get on the train Gerry goes a little crazy. He tells Joe about how when he was a kid he used to dream about getting into a bakery and have all the sugar around him, and his dream was coming true. Later that night he would of blew his cover but Sugar happens to invite people to his special party, which inhibits Gerry from telling the truth about being a guy. Also you can see the Joe E. Brown’s character is a little out of tune if you watch the movie, you can tell due to the famous last lines of this movie “Well Nobody’s Perfect” after Gerry reveals that he is a guy. I think that he wasn’t truly listening and you have to take into effect that Joe E. Brown has been married 7 or 8 times.