Will success spoil rock hunter?

Success was unable to phase Rock until he finally understood what success really was. But even then, in the end, Rock Hunter was not spoiled by success. In fact, you might say that Rock Hunter was humbled by success. Rock was able to see past the façade after being in, what we can only surmise was a very strange, relationship with Rita Marlow. Rock wanted to get the woman with the "oh-so-kissable" lips to do his lipstick adverts and save his job and the company he was working for. Little did he know that he would get into a deal he did not intend to make. Rock had to pretend to be in a hot and steamy relationship with Rita in order to get her ex-boyfriend jealous and to get her to sign on to the campaign. He scratched her back so she could scratch his and that's where the whole problem started. Rock didn't know fame could be so uncomfortable, wearing platform heels and huge monkey suits and all that. Rock almost loses the love of his life, Jenny, in the process. On the way to becoming a successful  chicken farmer, Rock’s campaign wins the favor of his boss and the owner of the company! Rock becomes the head of the company while Irving goes on to become a horticulturalist like he always wanted to (but he had to take over his father’s company and inheriting success is very difficult to live up to). I think that Irving going out and doing what he always wanted to do despite his father’s constant stare of disappointment really shook up Rock’s idea of what success is. Success isn’t being the head of a company and making a lot of money; it’s being surrounded by love and being what you’ve always wanted to be despite all the pressures around you. Rita Marlow was spoiled by success because she knew how to work the system to get what she wanted (except for love but that comes at the end of the movie). It’s not surprising to find out that the director, Frank Tashlin, has a background in animation (working with such brilliant minds as Chuck Jones at Warner Brothers). The physical comedy is very similar to many cartoons produced by Warner Brother Pictures. The best scene that really shows that off is when Rock tries on a suit that was her ex-boyfriend’s and Rock is swimming in the huge shoulders (extremely reminiscent of Tom and Jerry “The Zoot Cat”) and on a tilted axis in the high heeled men’s platform shoes. The point of this movie was to show what success was imagined as and what success should be seen as. Love was also a HUGE theme in the movie, although that message was much more mixed. Rock stayed with Jenny, Irving made a Even Rita finally ended up with the love of her life, the man who found her and made her a star in the first place, Georgie, played by Groucho Marx. In the end, everyone ends up happy and that’s how it should be.