One night in London in the nineteenth century, a group of exaggeratedly dressed aristocrats disappeared one after another after watching the opera. The sudden heavy rain trapped a few nobles who hadn't left in time at the door. The pretty-looking flower girl Eliza saw a business opportunity and was ready to earn money for the next few days from this group of nobles. Colonel Pinklin was going to buy Eliza's flowers for three pence. At this time, a linguist Henry Siegens became very interested in Eliza's vulgar English pronunciation. So I recorded the conversation between Eliza and Colonel Pinklin, which made Eliza very upset, thinking that she had collided with Seigens. When Professor Siegens explained that she was only interested in her pronunciation, Eliza remained reluctant, completely like a frightened cat. However, Professor Siggens soon lost interest in Eliza, and instead developed a keen interest in Colonel Pinkling. Colonel Pinkling is an expert on Sanskrit in India, and the two hit it off. Professor Siggens brags about himself in front of everyone: as long as he is trained, a vulgar flower girl can become an elegant lady. After giving Eliza six pennies, our dashing professor took Colonel Pinkling and left.
There is a way that the speaker has no heart, and the listener has heart. Eliza firmly remembered the brave words of Professor Sigens. She visited, hoping to change her rude pronunciation through the training of the professor, so as to get a decent job and move towards a new future. Although Eliza's performance was rude, but her cuteness touched Seigens. Professor Pinklin was also moved by Eliza's persistence, and he offered a bet. This made the eager Professor Sigens even more excited. He readily accepted the challenge and was ready to start training Elisha. After all, no English gentleman would refuse a rigorous gamble.
The kind housekeeper, Mrs. Pierce, prepare to dress up our lovely Miss Eliza more decently. Eliza, who has never experienced these, is like in a dream. The director flexibly used the social class gap between Professor Eliza and Professor Sigens to make a laugh similar to Grandma Liu's entry into the Grand View Garden. Professor Sigens is a singleist. He doesn't want to become concerned and irrational because of love. But if a person cannot fall in love with a person for a lifetime, his life will be incomplete, so everyone should not blindly try singleism. However, as the plot of the movie progresses, Professor Siggens' attitude towards people and love will gradually change. This is also a kind of fun for watching movies, and people are happy to see the protagonist grow up.
Eliza's idle father, Charlie, heard that his daughter had lived in a wealthy area of London, and thought she had climbed a high branch and was going to ask for some living expenses. Eliza was born in a divorced family. She didn't even know who her mother was. She had a bad-tempered stepmother and a father who just wandered around and only knew about drinking. But she is optimistic and hardworking, and wants to get a better life through her own labor. After some negotiations, Professor Siggens was angry with Charlie's words. He said that Eliza could go home with Charlie at any time, and he would not stop him. This made Charlie, who was doing his wishful thinking, like falling into the ice cave, he finally sold Eliza at a price of 5 pounds. Youdao is that people are poor and have short ambitions, and horses are thin and long. Poverty makes people only know the immediate benefits. Even now, it is normal to sell children and women for tens of thousands of dollars. How to solve poverty and solve poverty thinking is the eternal theme of human society. But our Professor Sigens, after all, is a nobleman of the upper class. He gladly accepted the offer and paid 5 pounds. Eliza was abandoned by his father in this way. Perhaps this is a true portrayal of the status of women before feminism has awakened.
The terrible training made everyone physically and mentally exhausted, but Sigens did not give up. As usual, they practiced until 3 am this day. When everyone's eyes were dim, Elisha, who had suddenly regained consciousness, finally corrected her accent, which made the professor and the colonel ecstatic. Feeling the hard work over the past few months, I finally saw the light. So the professor made a decisive decision and decided to take Elisha for a practical training. The place where nobles gather in horse racing in London is a very good touchstone. Elisha used her elegant accent to talk about the weather with the people around him. Just as the principal on Pinklin let out a sigh of relief, Elisha revealed the flaws that lacked true aristocratic connotations. This made the subsequent experiment almost a disaster. However, it captured the heart of aristocratic young man Freddie. This character personally feels that it is a transitional character that has been successfully transformed to express Elisha, and his role will gradually emerge in the future.
In the horse racing competition, the disappointing performance made the professor realize that the identity of the nobleman is not only the clothes and accent, but a manifestation of connotation and temperament. After summing up the mistakes, a new round of learning began. Six months later, the reception hosted by the Greek ambassador arrived as scheduled. Eliza came to the banquet as a distant relative of Colonel Pinklin. Eliza, who had been reborn for a long time, was so graceful and luxurious that she even won the favor of Her Majesty the Queen and Her Royal Highness. So the ambassador’s wife sent Professor Capasi to inquire about the details of Eliza, who is like a goddess. Professor Capazzi, a capable man proficient in 32 languages, was also a former disciple of Mr. Sigens. However, the sophistication, decentness, and indifferentness shown by Eliza at the banquet made Capaci no flaws in the slightest. After returning from Yusha, he even claimed that Eliza was a real princess, a Hungarian princess whose blood was as pure as the Danube. This time it did succeed. Even the most critical of etiquette and accent could not find out Eliza’s flaws. Professor Siggens completed this seemingly impossible task in only 6 months. , This is a miracle. Sigens and Pinkerin felt complacent about playing the group of nobles who only knew how to judge people by appearance.
But Elisha was not so happy, feeling that the two men were immersed in their victory. This success has not been linked with Elisha's efforts at all. She felt that she was just a test subject. After the experiment was successfully concluded, she didn't know where to go. Should she go back and continue to be her flower girl? This anxiety and insecurity made Elisha a little hysterical. When women can't see the future and are upset, they always try to use, quarreling methods to solve problems. Elisha had a fierce quarrel with the professor. In just a few words, we have some understanding of the real source of Eliza's anxiety. She seems to fall in love with this gentlemanly professor. So after the experiment, there was no reason to stay with the professor and felt anxious and uneasy. But the professor who embraced bachelorism did not see the change in Eliza's feelings. He continued to use his usual rationality and profound knowledge, as well as his class cognition, to blame Eliza for making trouble. This made Eliza feel a real disappointment, so she chose to run overnight.
She met at the door, the infatuated Freddie. He was still waiting for Elisha to change his mind. This infatuated young man was shot by Cupid's arrow of love after his farewell at the racetrack. Every night, he would go downstairs to Sigens, waiting for the favor of the goddess in his heart. But Eliza, who was upset, could not accept this relationship for the time being, but the young man still did not give up. Eliza, who has returned to the slum, has become a lady, can she really still adapt to her original life? While Eliza was hesitating, Eliza's father, Charlie, walked out of the tavern in a decent dress. Because of a joke by Seigens, Eliza’s father, Charlie, inherited the property of an American rich man and became a gentleman. Seigens is really a nobleman of the Dolittle family. Of course, there is also a clear ridicule here, the American nouveau riche, the ignorance of culture and the superstition of authority.
The Dolittle family jumped and became a member of the middle class. Elisha's father, Charlie, has become a gentleman with middle-class morals from a prodigal son who is currently drunk and drunk. Money changed Charlie's life, changed the quality of life of the Dolittle family, and also changed Elisha's future. Their changes mainly come from money. When one day, they will lose money, can they return to their original life? Although the middle class is an important support department for a stable society, they must pay a lot of effort and price in order to maintain such a decent life. With the middle class in our country, the number of groups has increased. Everyone also needs to start thinking about how money can change our lives. During the conversation between the two, Eliza learned the cruel fact that she was sold for 5 pounds, and also knew that Charlie was about to marry Elisha's stepmother. After Eliza learned that she was sold, she left Charlie sadly.
Colonel Seigens and Pinklein, anxious after realizing that Eliza had left, began to look around. The aimless professor sneaked up to his mother's house, and when he was about to complain, he accidentally found a sad Elisha. As soon as the two met, a fierce quarrel broke out again. Eliza felt that Sigens didn't take her seriously and still felt that she was a flower girl. And Sigens said that she had this attitude toward everyone, so that she would stop making troubles unreasonably. As the two protagonists sang and danced, the two actually began to complain to each other. Although the changes here are a bit confusing. And this change made the direction of the entire film begin to tilt toward the direction of comedy. An arrogant and indifferent singleton is finally moved by the women he has created. It's true that the wicked have their own wicked. This can be regarded as a kind of long-lasting love for the time being, and this film has moved to a summary, and I wish the lovers will eventually get married.
This is a classic film tailored for Audrey Hepburn, adapted from Bernard Shaw’s drama "The Flower Girl". The musical of the same name was performed on Broadway for nearly 3,000 shows. At that time, it had accumulated a lot of reputation and reputation. Popularity. This kind of reunion story, like a gifted man and a beautiful lady, has a wide audience. Big stars + big IPs + extremely high popularity + big capital and good adaptations helped this movie reach its peak and made me fall in love with Audrey's charm. But with these alone, can you win eight Oscars? This is obviously not enough.
The film was completed in the 1960s, when the second feminist movement flourished in the United States. This movie, through the transformation of Eliza, transformed her from a free-spirited flower girl into a gentle and elegant noble lady. In the process of this change, it is completely a woman who is restrained by money and status, and turned into a female image under the dominance of patriarchy. The protagonist of the movie is undoubtedly Professor Seigens. He is a saint who can transform a person from a middle class into a middle-class man with just one sentence. Such a huge energy feels even more radiant than the President of the United States. This kind of gesture made the Eliza family richer. It was to tell the society at that time, the Yankees who had been troubled by feminist rights, what kind of means were used to get those beautiful girls with increasingly dangerous thinking. So this magnificent movie is only a propaganda tool to suppress the rise of feminism. Let the girls become slaves of money, status, silk, satin, and precious stones, instead of robbing men of rights and status. The essence is still to make women become men's vassals. This may be why this movie won the best Oscar of the year without any dispute. After all, this kind of thinking is what mainstream white patriarchs in the United States want to see.
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