fair lady

Trevion 2022-04-20 09:01:41

"My Fair Lady" is one of Hepburn's classics. The entire play revolves around Hepburn's transformation from a rude flower girl trained as a linguist to a so-called educated aristocrat. It can be said that the whole film reveals a sense of irony, class consciousness runs through the whole film, and the strong contrast between Hepburn's life and status before and after highlights the importance of class to a person's definition. The costumes in the film are gorgeous enough, and the restoration of the times is more realistic. The film is mostly narrated in the form of music, which can be said to be an intermediate product between a musical and a film. Although this narrative style gives a drowsy feeling, it still feels very good overall.

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My Fair Lady quotes

  • 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?