Reprint: Distressed "Legal Blonde"

Arden 2022-03-20 09:01:24

When I walked through the door of the law school with my female classmates, there were not many decent female lawyers in the courtroom films I could see. Their unified image is: lack of professional knowledge, severe neuroticism, and most importantly, a chaotic private life. For example, the female lawyer in "Jagged Edge" shares the bed with her client; the female lawyer in "French Ambition" secretly communicated with her immediate boss; the female lawyer in "The Truth" who is a member of the lawyers' ethics committee, but with a Lawyers under investigation are in bed; the most general is lawyer Caroline in "Desire", who before her death had an affair with a university professor, a lawyer who introduced her to the practice, a district attorney, and an inspector's representative. In short, the female lawyers on the screen are a mess with low IQs in terms of law and love. But in reality, people's imagination of female lawyers is the other extreme: cold-blooded, ruthless, without joy in life, unable to communicate at all, and there is no other way than the dark road of a lonely strong woman.

The only courtroom movie that inspired us at the time was "Adam's Ribs," with its beautiful, dedicated, and skilled female lawyers. But her most important opponent in a lawsuit was her husband who was a prosecutor opposite the court. In the end, the lawsuit was won and the marriage was over. This failure in the marriage event, coupled with two extreme imaginations, makes us in law school very pessimistic about the future. A female classmate once said: "I want to understand why the girls in law school are the most unattractive. Men all want to marry a wife who carries water for their feet every night and has a beautiful voice like a nightingale. Who can stand the sonorous speech? What about a powerful female lawyer who likes to memorize marriage law? In case they break up, everyone will cry and say goodbye, and they will be even more lingering when they come to us without throwing out a property list and smashing them into regrets?" Of course, pessimism is just a kind of worldview, but what saddens us the most is that it all seems to be true.

Luckily we graduated quickly and enjoyed the inspiring "Legal Blonde." Of course, none of us have the coquettishness and good luck of the protagonist Ellie in the film, but during the class reunion, we found that Ellie's pink lawyer career can be found in everyone. Lawyer Xuelian owns more than 50 pairs of high heels (although Ellie has more than 200 pairs, but there are quite a few), although she can't judge the Versace Anti-Wrinkle Series No. 115 lipstick based on the color, but which is the most moisturizing and which is anti-bleaching Nim is familiar with her, of course, like Ellie, she is equally strict in the matching of laws and clothing, and is best at providing legal aid to death row prisoners; lawyer Shanshan likes to look gorgeous, even in a gray suit, the trouser legs are looming Fuchsia net socks, if anyone dared to say that she dresses like a service worker, she will recite a sentence from "The History of Western Legal Thought": "Although prostitutes are not conducive to social stability, they contribute to leading fashion." And Another female lawyer, Xiao Bai, had already tied the knot with a learned and refined professor at the law school. During the party, she hugged a Chihuahua. Although her name was not Bruce, the dog was also wearing a pink coat. . Several female lawyers were complacent, chatting and laughing, and sighed that "Legal Pretty Woman" should really be used as a welcome film when entering the law school, so that little girls can hold their heads high when they step into the door of the law school.

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Legally Blonde quotes

  • Elle: And last week I saw Cameron Diaz at Fred Segal, and I talked her out of buying this truly heinous angora sweater. Whoever said orange was the new pink was seriously disturbed.

  • Elle: The rules of hair care are simple and finite. Any Cosmo girl would have known.