"My Fair Lady" after watching
Movies in the 1960s had a very slow rhythm, and even the few frames of flowers at the beginning of the movie were particularly long. I huddled with my roommates in the dormitory at about 10 degrees, covered with a small blanket, turned off the lights, and watched the old movies that the picture quality was not so good, often accompanied by singing and dancing, and I sincerely felt that time was slowing down.
The film mainly tells the story of a linguistics professor who made a bet with a friend to turn the flower girl into a lady and make her a blockbuster at the ball. When the heroine feels that the professor has no respect for her, and only regards herself as a bet, not even as a friend, she chooses to leave, and the professor realizes her own emotions.
Hepburn must have a deep role in playing the very noisy market flower girl who cried, made troubles and hanged herself, because I can clearly feel the rejection and disgust in my heart. For now, if a cheesy flower-seller walking down the street expressing her emotions in the form of yelling, I'd probably take a detour.
However, in the film, the professor's accent on the flower girl Eliza and the transformation process of behavior are very little. It seems that one day after the jockey, the flower girl Eliza suddenly became a nobleman who speaks and behaves like a lady. woman. And this will inevitably cause the emotional line at the end of the film to be too hasty, and the love between the two will come to the end without the beginning.
In addition to the male protagonist with low emotional intelligence and vicious tongue in the film, Freddie, a handsome man who fell in love with Eliza at first sight at the horse race, is also very impressive. His classic line "I want to drink in the street" where she lives", and his thoughtful smile leaning against the street wall, even got me excited.
His liking, based on Eliza's beauty and the language style she showed different from the aristocratic class, aroused his great interest, and liked it because of her speciality. But if he got to know Eliza deeply and knew that she didn't belong to this class at all, this love might also end in vain.
Similarly, there is the colonel who made a bet with the protagonist. The gentleman behavior he showed when treating Eliza was due to personal cultivation. As a celibate like the hero Higgins, he did not even get along for a long time. He has a different feeling for Eliza.
In fact, I don't want to raise this film to the height of feminism. Like some friends, Eliza does have similarities with Jane Eyre in some places. The souls of the two people yearn for the respect of their lovers. But Higgins is not essentially someone who doesn't love Eliza and doesn't respect each other.
There are two lines in the film where Eliza says "well, you have my voice on your gramophone .When you feel lonely without me you can turn it on .It has no feelings to hurt" but Higgins responds "well, I can't turn your soul on". It is no exaggeration to say that it is a master of love words, a man with a vicious tongue is really charming.
When it comes to equality and respect, another line says, "I wouldn't treat a flower girl as a duchess. In my eyes, a duchess is a flower girl." Higgins is a pragmatic person. Knowing that it is not easy to cross between classes, he tries to treat them equally. At least, when he first met Eliza, the first thing he saw was her scientific research value in linguistics.
No matter how old I am, the story of the ugly duckling turning into a white swan always fascinates me. It may be that as an ordinary girl, seeing Cinderella at the bottom of the class, once transformed into a princess with gorgeous clothes and elegant temperament, will have an eager yearning. All in all, the language, conversation and behavior that the film reflects as a lady should be worth watching.
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