"If I'd Never Seen the Sun" - "My Fair Lady"

Danielle 2022-04-20 09:01:41

This is the second movie starring Hepburn that I watched. The first movie was "Roman Holiday" that the whole class watched together when I was relaxing before the college entrance examination in my third year of high school. It has been almost two years now, and I still remember the first time at that time. The feeling of being amazed while watching a movie. "Look at your eyes again, the brilliance remains the same." With the preconceived concept, I thought that Hepburn would definitely play the role of a princess. As a result, I was really shocked when I just appeared on the stage. Is this noisy voice really Hepburn? The story is about a linguistics professor who makes a bet with the colonel that they can transform a rude, low-level flower girl with a heavy accent into a lady in six months, and bring her to the ball. No one will be able to discover her identity. When the flower girl really became a lady and the professor's bet was a big win, the professor's neglect and indifference to the flower girl caused the flower girl to have a crisis of spiritual self-identity. She came from the bottom, but now she can no longer fit into where she came from, "I don't hate the dark, if I have never seen the sun." In fact, think about sometimes ignorance is also a kind of happiness, the more you know , the more painful it will be. The story ends with the flower girl back at the professor, but I'm more inclined to be the professor's fantasy. The flower girl fell in love with the professor, but the professor did not show respect for her, but just regarded her as a pet who was used to being around. Although I am a bit hit by such a setting, I still hope that the flower girl can rely on herself instead of being attached to the professor.

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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?