In my love for the goddess Audrey Hepburn, I watched the movie "My Fair Lady" starring her. The film tells the story of a flower girl named Eliza, whose vulgar accent catches the attention of linguistics professor Higgins, who makes a bet with others that Eliza will be transformed into an elegant duchess within six months. The transformation of Eliza was realized in the difficult transformation, and it also secretly prompted the emergence of a relationship. But Higgins, who has always claimed to be celibate, never noticed the secret budding affection, and after a series of contradictions, the two reunited.
The film was directed by George Cook, known as the "female director". From the series of films he once directed, such as Gone With the Wind, it can be seen that he is very good at dealing with female-themed films, highlighting the advantages of heroines, and demonstrating his independent consciousness against traditional female oppression. And "My Fair Lady" highlights the self-awakening of women. At the same time, this film also embodies the director's artistic aesthetics, and profoundly interprets the highly praised "every frame is a painting".
Next, I will analyze the content of this film in three aspects.
1. This is a story of a woman's self-awakening.
"Do you think I'm going to stay and be someone who doesn't mean much to you? You think I'm a robot?—a machine without emotion? Can bear the only morsel of bread I've ever taken out of my mouth. Take away, and pour the last drop out of my cup? Do you think that just because I am poor, low, unbeautiful, and short, I have no soul and no heart?—You are wrong! I As much as you have a soul - and a heart too! If God had given me a little beauty and a great deal of wealth, I would have made it as hard for you to leave me as I am now. Customs, conventions, not even talking to you in flesh and blood, as if we had all passed away, standing together before God, equal to each other." I thought of Jane Eyre many times while watching the movie In this book, I have to say that Eliza shares many similarities with Jane Eyre in terms of character. The awakening consciousness of women is vividly reflected in it.
2. A story that truly reflects the social reality through the use of exaggerated techniques.
1. The social history of women daring to fight. After consulting, the film was shot in 1957. Combined with the background of the times at that time, the feminist movement really developed in the 19th century. After the end of World War II, World War II promoted the liberation of women to a certain extent. The legal status of Western women has been greatly improved, which is the biggest achievement of feminism's years of struggle. So this is also an important reason why Eliza has an independent personality and strong self-esteem.
2. Victims of class differentiation. "Transformer"
3. To satirize the bad phenomena of society in an exaggerated tone, most of them are in the form of singing by actors.
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