The body has the fragrance of flowers, and the butterflies come naturally

Eloy 2022-04-19 09:01:55

Adapted from Bernard Shaw's novel "The Flower Girl", it tells the story of Eliza, a lower-class flower girl, who is transformed into a lady with the help of linguist Higgins.

The heroine Eliza Doolittle, a flower girl, was born in a poor family, lost her mother very early, and received only a poor primary education. She went to the streets to sell flowers every day to make a living, and she often supported her poor and impoverished father who often drank too much. Life was very difficult.

Linguist Professor Xigan often went to the bottom of the society to collect and record various materials in the local language. When recording the flower girl's speech, he was mistaken for the policeman and had a verbal confrontation with the flower girl. The professor saw that she was articulate and spoke a very earthy dialect, and on a whim, he boasted that as long as he trained, the flower girl could also become a noble lady.

The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, and Eliza, who was unwilling to live in the current situation, felt that this was a rare opportunity, and the next day, she hurriedly came to the door and begged the professor to train her. Coincidentally, Colonel Pickering, who came to visit Professor Hiegan, was also present. Seeing her naivety and embarrassment, she and the embarrassed professor were immediately attracted by this interesting scene, so he made a bet with the professor that if I let Yi Lisa attends the ambassador's garden party to be held in 6 months' time as your lady without being seen through the truth, then Pickering is willing to bear all the experimental costs and Eliza's tuition, and admit that he is the best linguistics teacher .

Not to be outdone, Professor Higan readily accepted the challenge, energetic and scientific, he started teaching from the most basic letter pronunciation, and gradually trained her social etiquette and manners. Through the rigorous training of Eliza Doolittle's sleeplessness, she finally achieved great success.

This fake woman living at the bottom of the society even entered the aristocratic social occasions and won the praise of the guests with her noble status as a Hungarian noble princess. After the success of Professor Heegan and Colonel Pickering in the face of their great masterpiece, can not help but love Elisha. Professor Heegan, like Colonel Pickering, had been celibate as long as he had, and had a hard time putting up with women's willfulness, fickleness, sensitivity, ranting, complaining, and emotionality. In the face of sudden love, they seem to be in a hurry and be at a loss.

Although Professor Hiegan is open-minded, kind-hearted, thoughtful, rigorous in his work, and does not harbor any malice at all, he is as straightforward and stubborn as a child. The overconfident, arrogant character and the superiority of the noble blood made him ignore the true feelings of Eliza, who had already been reborn. When Eliza pushed towards Colonel Pickering, she completely angered Eliza, who was grateful, respected and adored for him.

At night, Elisha took off her costume and resolutely left the place where he was reborn. Leaving Professor Heegan's house, Elisha, accompanied by a handsome young, crazy and infatuated suitor, Fred, returned to the place where she sold flowers six months ago, with a noble demeanor that no acquaintance ever recognized. The revisiting of the former living environment makes the kind Elisha have a clearer plan for her future destination.

When they woke up the next day, Colonel Pickering and Professor Heegan learned that Eliza had run away overnight and there was no news. When the distraught Professor Heegan sees Irasha at her mother's house, her heart is finally down. Professor Heegan finally lowered his noble head to tell Elisha of his admiration for her. Elisha, who still hated her, tried her best to ridicule, ruthlessly rejected Professor Heegan's marriage proposal, and immediately Leaving Professor Higan's mother's house.

A basin of cold water made the professor feel disheartened, and Professor Heegan, who had mixed feelings of loss, depression, resentment, regret, and longing, returned to his residence with unspeakable pain and listened to Elisha's voice on the tape recorder. The voice, recalling the scenes together, he lay down on the rocking chair, and his longing was difficult to dispel. When Elisha, who had finished washing up, appeared in front of the professor with great demeanor, the exhausted professor covered his gaffe face with a hat and lay down in the reclining chair in relief.

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  • Professor Henry Higgins: Eliza, you are to stay here for the next six months, learning to speak beautifully, like a lady in a florist's shop. If you work hard and do as you're told, you shall sleep in a proper bedroom, have lots to eat, and money to buy chocolates and go for rides in taxis. But if you are naughty and idle, you shall sleep in the back kitchen amongst the black beetles, and be walloped by Mrs. Pearce with a broomstick. At the end of six months you will be taken to Buckingham Palace, in a carriage, beautifully dressed. If the king finds out you are not a lady, you will be taken to the Tower of London, where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls! But if you are not found out, you shall have a present... of, ah... seven and six to start life with as a lady in a shop. If you refuse this offer, you will be the most ungrateful, wicked girl, and the angels will weep for you.

  • Eliza Doolittle: [singing] Lots of chocolate for me to eat! / Lots of coal makin' lots of heat / Warm face, warm hands, warm feet / Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?