Pygmalion Play Vs Movie

When you watch the movie The Makeover, featuring famous actress Julia Stiles, you may notice that it resembles something that you might have read in your English 1104 class. The movie might remind you of the play, Pygmalion, written by George Bernard Shaw. It is the story of a phonetics professor who trains an ordinary flower girl to act like a sophisticated young lady. It is based off a Greek legend where a man named Pygmalion wanted to create the perfect statue. He made her so perfect that he fell into love with his own creation. The Makeover has a very similar plot to that of Pygmalion, where a young woman attempts to train a beer vendor to run for a seat in Congress in the commonwealth’s upcoming election. Both the movie and the play have
She is a local education consultant in the city of Boston. She is known for using correct grammar and being very uptight. The main character in Pygmalion is Henry Higgins. He is a phonetic teacher in the city of London. He has the ability to point out where somebody is from just by listening to their dialect. He is very proper and rude to everyone. Henry and Hannah are very similar characters. They even have the same last name. They are both upper-class citizens who decide to educate someone from the lower-class on how to be proper. They are both accompanied by another character who helps them accomplish their goal. In Pygmalion, Colonel Pickering helps Henry to train Eliza by teaching her proper etiquette. Hannah is joined by Colleen Pickering, the head of Hannah’s campaign who helps by practicing with Elliot to master his phonetics. In both the play and the movie, there is also a character of low socioeconomic status that Higgins and Pickering train to act like an aristocrat. In Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle is a common flower girl with poor grammar who learns to act and dress like a lady in Higgins and Pickering’s bet. In The Makeover, Elliot Doolittle is a beer vendor who is recruited by Hannah to run in the election due to his likeability. The characters are very similar, but the main difference between The Makeover and Pygmalion is that all of the gender roles are switched. Everyone that is a man in
Pygmalion’s setting is London in the early twentieth century, while The Makeover is set in Boston to put a modern spin on the story. When Henry first encounters Eliza in Pygmalion, she realizes that he is a linguist and follows him home to ask if she can take lessons about speech. She plans to speak proper so that she may one day work in a flower shop. In The Makeover, after Elliot meets Hannah, he realizes that there is a job opening at the company he works at to be a sales representative. To obtain the job, he asks Hannah to work with him so that he can master phonetics. The challenge is accepted by both of the main characters. There is also a similarity in the reason that both Hannah and Henry teach their protégés. They have their own secret reasons that they hide to themselves. Hannah plans to use Elliot to get her ideas into Congress by getting him elected. Henry uses Eliza because he is secretly in love with her, and he is fascinated to work with