"I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman except for that whole hooker thing." It’s no surprise that Laney‚ the speaker of these words and heroine of 1999’s She’s All That should feel that way. She could have just as easily said that she felt like Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady because She’s All That is the latest example of a series of movies based on the Pygmalion myth‚ an occurrence that illustrates Hollywood’s long fascination with this myth. The original Pygmalion story is found in Ovid
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In Michael Parenti’s interpretation of “Pretty Woman” I have to say that I agree with his interpretation of how Hollywood usually ignores inequities of class privilege‚ gender bigotry differences between the characters and his view on the moral of the story. Basically‚ the story is about a millionaire that is an educated corporate executive who finds himself lonely in Hollywood so to fulfill his needs; he offers to pay a beautiful‚ low class uneducated‚ non proper prostitute three thousand dollars
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Pretty Woman is a romantic comedy of two people of different social class that meet on the streets of Los Angeles and learn about each others way of life. Edward is a rich businessman who specializes in taking over companies and then selling them off piece by piece. Vivian is a prostitute that works on Hollywood Boulevard. Edward accidentally meets Vivian as he stops to get directions to go to his hotel in Beverly Hills. His offer of ten dollars to get directions goes up to three-thousand dollars
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Understanding the two texts “My fair Lady” and “Pretty Woman” have greatly developed and reshaped the indepth comparison of the both studied texts. Texts reflect the concerns of in time in which they are written. The fantastic team work of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic Lowe made My Fair Lady‚ an outstanding success in 1962. The story revolves around Eliza Doolittle‚ an unmannered cockney flower girl from Covent Garden‚ who agrees to take speech lessons from phonetician Henry Higgins in order
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"Phenomenal Woman‚" by Maya Angelou‚ describes herself from her own point of view. It shows us her strong self-confidence when expressing the way she feels personally about herself. She may lead us to think that she does believe to be unattractive when she describes in the poem‚ "Pretty women wonder where my secret lies" (1). "Men themselves have wondered what they see in me" (30). She shows that even though she is not the cute‚ petite women‚ she is beautiful and can attract attention in any circumstance
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“Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou is an inspiring poem which embraces such a strong message of Maya Angelou being proud of whom she is that all women ought to read over and over again. Maya Angelou (1928) is a talented African American. She mostly writes from experience‚ and this poem falls perfectly in that category. First published in 1978‚ “Phenomenal Woman” is an anthem of women’s strength in their own womanhood. It tells us about how the inner beauty makes a woman respected by the others. The
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feminism in Pretty Woman. The quintessential romance Pretty Woman (1990) staring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere is essentially a modern day fairy tale where the underprivileged young woman meets her handsome prince and lives happily ever after. The film resonates the same narrative formula as classic fable Cinderella‚ in that the film’s protagonist Vivian (Roberts) plays a prostitute who is bought for a week by wealthy businessman Edward (Gere) for everything but the standard reason‚ sex. Pretty Woman
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Pretty Woman > > Directed by Garry Marshall‚ Pretty Woman is a romantic comedy and a modernized Cinderella. The story involves the evolution of the relationship between the two protagonists‚ Vivian (Julia Roberts) and Edward Lewis (Richard Gere). In the film how a business arrangement between a business magnate and a prostitute quickly becomes a genuine loving relationship. In addition to their complex business relationship‚ Edward’s lawyer Phil (Jason Alexander) is one of many obstacles to the
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This story also brings out the daughter’s importance in everything the mother does when the mother decides on a very perplexed but a firm decision which is revealed in the ending. * This story also majors in the area of feminism. The power of a woman is pictured in the story when a single mother struggles to raise her only daughter alone and sacrifices her time and everything for her. Target audience Audience will set to be teenagers which mean 12 and above‚ because this movie contain .A very
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the text from the past and it’s appropriation. The intended audience of both Pygmalion‚ by George Bernard Shaw and Pretty Woman‚ directed by Garry Marshall was the mass of society at the time of composition. This is seen through the choice of the form of each text‚ Pygmalion is a play because in the early twentieth centaury this was the popular way of spreading ideas and Pretty Woman is a Hollywood film‚ a current form of mass media today. Because both texts were aimed at the majority of society they
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