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[YT Edit] My Fair Lady (1964)
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The difference between Henry Higgins and the Colonel was that Higgins was available. He thought himself a confirmed bachelor but he was rightly smitten. Done in via his own interests and pursuit of the language. His downfall began when he let a woman in the house 😊 By the end he could not live without her. Well... he could have soldiered on... but definitely he would not be the same again. The difference between Eliza and Henry was that he held too much power over her at the beginning. There was no way they could have an equitable relationship without things breaking down first. "He made her" and she fell in love with him as seen when she sang "I Could Have Danced All Night" She had to throw out that infatuation... outgrow it and then she had to come into her own. She had to be independent of Higgins the tyrant. Only afterwards could their relationship progress forward. In a way, Henry never changed. It was himself who took Eliza in and himself who fell in love with her. It was she who changed. He realized he was in love with that song "I've Grown Accustomed to her Face." He wished aloud why can't a woman be more like a man. Remember the ending when he left. Usually the man chases after the woman but in this case he left... and she came after him. She was the one who came to him, like a man would. This is the beginning of a more mature relationship. From here their relationship are their own... we don't have to meddle. The slippers? She chucked them at him last time 🙂 In other movies they say "He rescues the fair damsel... and she rescues him right back." It's the same here... but more so.
Mannygogou
2025-03-19 05:43:02 +0000 UTCDiiscover everything that Dropped in universal pictures presents best movie Amazing musical and song's it is green yes is WICKED winner movie
David
2025-02-28 05:03:48 +0000 UTCWell I gave this a go & though it was terrible. Wasn’t a fan of some of the acting and some of the songs I thought was a bit pointless. But just not a fan of these movies from the 50s & 60s, but I thought I’d just watch the YouTube edit as I didn’t think I’d made it through the full film.
Dean Holt
2025-02-25 01:37:04 +0000 UTCThat were right bleedin’ 'ilarious, that were.
Grad
2025-02-24 15:22:55 +0000 UTCTradition! Tradition!
Catherine LW
2025-02-24 07:01:29 +0000 UTCZed's dead, baby. It's Zed that's pushing up. Daisies.
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-23 22:31:43 +0000 UTCAs has been stated, My Fair Lady the movie is based on My Fair Lady the musical which was an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. Here's an amusing "alternate" scene: https://i.ibb.co/DHmPjbqp/Jolly-good.jpg (And yes, I am reminded of the Major in Fawlty Towers.)
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-23 22:28:04 +0000 UTCAhh, but I'm British, H. I was actually pushing up Zeds.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-23 21:38:52 +0000 UTCAnd for another kind of smile, here's Alfred Molina rehearsing the song while busy filming some little known movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTr-OkOkdy0
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-23 21:38:06 +0000 UTC[French accent:] You were pushing up zeez what?
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-23 21:33:31 +0000 UTCHilarious conceit of Julie Andrews learning Cockney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR20-qQmVmQ
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-23 21:32:16 +0000 UTCI loved Fiddler On The Roof when I was a kid. Topol belting out "If I Were A Rich Man" always made me smile.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-23 20:55:26 +0000 UTCI agree, this was a tad too long. I also think the songs aren’t as memorable as those from other musicals. Fiddler on the Roof is a classic and the songs will stay with you. Another musical is An American in Paris, with great dancing by Gene Kelly.
Catherine LW
2025-02-23 20:43:05 +0000 UTCSomeone here knows how to take the piss 😆
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-23 20:07:59 +0000 UTC🤣 Nice!
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-23 20:06:50 +0000 UTC🤣
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-23 20:05:59 +0000 UTCIt would be fun for you to do an Oscar month in March and watch classic best Oscar films.
JULIE
2025-02-23 19:10:10 +0000 UTCHonestly, Dafoe seems to be getting more work now in his 60's than he ever did in his younger days. 🤔
Byrd N. Hand
2025-02-23 19:06:29 +0000 UTChouse he suddenly praised her for being a tower of strength, so he could take credit for it. When in fact it was Eliza finding her inner strength all along.
Ronald Carpenter
2025-02-23 18:21:37 +0000 UTCCassie you're right, it did run way too long on music. Eliza's dad didn't need to hog so blasted much screen time! The movie was ABOUT HIM. As for Audrey Hepburn's singing, the first day that she had a song to sing she used her own voice and it sounded lovely. But the studio insisted Marni Nixon, who dubbed the songs for many starlets of the day, be the voice in the movie. Audrey stormed off the set in anger, but returned next day and apologized. Professor Higgins' voice was the real actor, but he refused to sing because he couldn't carry a tune, so they had him speak his way through the lyrics. The microphone was concealed in his ever present sweater. When Higgins was at his Mother's house
Ronald Carpenter
2025-02-23 18:19:52 +0000 UTCOh yes. Van Dyke’s accent in Mary Poppins is legendary.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-23 10:38:12 +0000 UTCThat’s such an interesting analysis, Katie. As a guy, I really missed all of that.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-23 09:43:28 +0000 UTCGreat list, Dave. +1s for Oklahoma, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (I wonder what Cassie would think of the Childcatcher!), Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The King and I and The Blues Brothers.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-23 09:39:35 +0000 UTCDon’t blame me, guv’nor. I was pushing up Z’s.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-23 09:38:00 +0000 UTCJulie would’ve been great in the role (probably better than Audrey, who I liked in Breakfast at Tiffany’s but not really in this), but Julie was very posh herself, so her cockney accent may have been just as bad.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-23 09:35:51 +0000 UTCI grew up watching this movie and it’s always fun to watch it as an adult because i pick up different things. I think Eliza returns because she knows that Higgins has truly learned to care for her in his own way and will continue to push her. She could go marry Freddy and probably be happy but as she said, she’d support him and i feel like she wouldn’t be challenged. She wouldn’t have a chance to grow and shine. She’d be perfectly ok with him. Higgins turning point for me though is when Pickering calls the police to report her missing. The police are asking for her description and Pickering can’t answer but Higgins knows everything about her. It’s such a subtle sign to who truly cares for her. Pickering treated her like a lady but didn’t SEE her. I also think when they are at his mom’s house, he tell Eliza she is a pillar of strength now. I feel like that is another turning point, he sees her as someone who is now standing up for herself and holding her own against him. She isn’t just cowering to him like everyone else and i think that draws him to her more. He’s never going to be a romantic guy like Freddie, that’s not who he is. She decides she wants the challenge back, thus choosing to return to him instead of marrying Freddie.
Katie H
2025-02-23 04:58:18 +0000 UTC:-) Possibly the interview you're referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiXhwkg6ikI&t=366s One actor who, while not being quite as transcendent, seems to be doing remarkably well in his 100th year is the previously mentioned Dick Van Dyke.
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-23 04:55:14 +0000 UTCSmall SPOILER for Unforgiven. English Bob (the "Duck of Death") generally speaks with a more upper class accent. After TSHTF, he reverts to his original lower class one. We first get a hint of this when he is unpleasantly surprised and shaken by the appearance of Little Bill. Note the momentary reversion before he catches himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWtEQzyMkQk&t=98s (Quotation marks for Englishman as he is played by the great Irish actor Richard Harris. Who had previously played Oliver Cromwell. :-) )
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-23 04:40:46 +0000 UTCbest musical's Oliver Oklahoma west side story high school musical disney live action beauty and the beast grace cats movie la la land mary poppins chitty chitty bang bang mamma mia bed nobs and broomsticks the sound of music the king and I live action Matilda the blue brothers first time watching movie reaction from popcorn in bed good luck viewing best movie's on channel and you tube
David
2025-02-23 03:59:39 +0000 UTCLol Willem Dafoe and Chris Walken seem to transcend time and age. And apparently Mel Gibson was convinced Walken was literally supernatural.
Chris Thom
2025-02-23 03:51:05 +0000 UTCI'm trying to guess but drawing blanks. Only ones coming to mind are maybe A Fish Called Wanda? Or Lawrence of Arabia?
Chris Thom
2025-02-23 03:48:04 +0000 UTC[Me again? Has everyone else gone to sleep, or is there some party I'm the only one not invited to?] Cassie's previous exposure to an "Englishman" who has striven to elevate his station by improving his English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3WuX4JEKZU&t=725s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3WuX4JEKZU&t=1233s
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-23 02:29:58 +0000 UTCFrom the French: entr means weak, and acte means bladders. :-P
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-23 02:15:53 +0000 UTCUnsurprisingly, "with a production budget of $17 million, My Fair Lady was the most expensive film shot in the United States up to that time." (Note the qualifier which excludes Cleopatra.)
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-23 01:39:23 +0000 UTCI'm more inclined to believe she had a very vague memory of the upcoming scene. But your suggestion (amended by Bernard) had the benefit of leading me to discover the following, with Julie Andrews (the original Eliza) and Gene Kelly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2wb6DBO95g
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-23 01:30:43 +0000 UTCThis reaction dedicated to Gabor. :-)
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-22 23:33:01 +0000 UTCSince we've had Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison practically back-to-back, surely The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) is next!
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-22 23:23:02 +0000 UTCWhat?! The movie cut out the "tuppence" finale from With a Little Bit of Luck?!?!?! I demand a refund! :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmmOTfRgNvk&t=200s
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-22 23:19:44 +0000 UTCAs jdj mentioned, Julie Andrews originated the role of Eliza on Broadway. Jack Warner "replacing" her with Audrey Hepburn was controversial.* Andrews used the spare time she now had to film Mary Poppins**. My Fair Lady won most Oscars, but best actress went to ... Julie Andrews. (Hepburn did not even earn a nomination.) Being a very polite lady, Andrews made sure to thank Warner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBCcfwWpug :-) * Perhaps Andrews' cockney accent would have met with Clarence's approval. :-) ** Alongside Dick Van Dyke. Oh dear. Poor Clarence! :-) :-) :-)
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-22 23:12:27 +0000 UTCEliza Rose, I'm home again, Rose, ... :-)
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-22 22:54:46 +0000 UTCForgive me, but I am almost amused by this "debate." The "classic" approach is that Eliza should have a romantic happy ending with Higgins, while the more "modern" one is that she should have one with Freddy. It seems almost unthinkable to consider that there might be no happy ending, and that Eliza is a tragic figure.
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-22 22:49:24 +0000 UTCBut how much of that is due to the Hollywood trope of casting Brits as snooty villains?
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-22 22:30:19 +0000 UTCJust you wait! :-)
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-22 22:28:48 +0000 UTCLeading to the joke about someone approaching Bernard Shaw (author of the play this movie is based on) and asking: "Are you Shaw?", to receive the response: "Positive!"
Happy Hanukkah
2025-02-22 22:24:23 +0000 UTCJust watched the edit and I have thoughts. 1) Audrey's cockney accent in the opening scene - my ears actually bled. 2) Time index 3:21 - Exactly how long has Willem Dafoe been acting?? 3) I love how Cassie has a private little battle with Higgins in this film. All the way from "I want him to have his turning point", through "Oh, I'm gonna punch him in the face", and all the way to "I'll kill him." 4) Seems like they were suggesting there would be some kind of romance at the end, but Higgins seems too rigidly proper for all that. "Eliza," he would say. "Please leave the room so I can maah-sturbate like a gentleman." A spiffing watch, though.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-22 22:21:29 +0000 UTCGet ready for some aggressive scowling and general displeasure in Higgins' direction.
Chris Thom
2025-02-22 21:11:41 +0000 UTCSounds about right. Had never seen this but it looks like one of the prettiest movies I've ever seen.
Chris Thom
2025-02-22 21:10:00 +0000 UTCGood news, Jonathan—she dropped that one a few weeks back.
Above Average Dave
2025-02-22 20:41:29 +0000 UTCHans Christian Andersen is fun. Possibly Danny's most famous role.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-22 20:18:29 +0000 UTCThe ambiguous ending was Shaw's attempt to subvert dramatic form from the melodramatic and overly-constructed "well-made plays" of the late 19th century; he's jumping off of Ibsen's shocking/unexpected ending of "Dollhouse" where the expected "reunion" doesn't happen, and the heroine walks out. The musical play here softens it considerably, and it has always been somewhat criticized for not being satisfying from a dramatic standpoint. What holds the 2nd act up are "Get Me to the Church On Time," "On the Street Where You Live," and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," which are absolutely show-stoppers regardless of the context of the play. I always found everything after the Ascot race to be kind of meh, except for those songs.
Jason Scott
2025-02-22 20:08:15 +0000 UTCCecil Beaton won TWO Oscars - he was also the production designer/art director.
Jason Scott
2025-02-22 20:04:23 +0000 UTCHave to agree that THE COURT JESTER is a real crowd pleaser, and a great introduction to one of the most talented people ever - Mr. Danny Kaye.
Jason Scott
2025-02-22 20:02:10 +0000 UTCThe Goodbye Girl starring Marsha Mason and Richard Dreyfuss he won an oscar for that great romcom film
Jonathan Leak
2025-02-22 19:41:38 +0000 UTCPlease do Breakfast at Tiffany's also Audrey Hepburn
Jonathan Leak
2025-02-22 19:38:59 +0000 UTCAhh! Musicals. Next Up : "The Court Jester" :-)
Christian Becker
2025-02-22 18:53:26 +0000 UTCI’ve voted for this in every poll. So glad we’re finally getting to see you get so appalled at the awfulness of Henry Higgins!
Jackson Harper
2025-02-22 17:19:47 +0000 UTCThat's right, yes. Became a UNICEF ambassador, and inspired Roger Moore to get involved with UNICEF.
Stephen Wadsworth
2025-02-22 15:42:01 +0000 UTCI think she retired from Acting Early but did alot of Humanity Work in Africa. She was Beautifull but so Skinny.
Tim C
2025-02-22 15:09:35 +0000 UTCWill be interesting to see how this film strikes me in edited form with Cassie as an added sweetener. I tried to watch the whole thing for the first time a few months ago and had to give up after 30 minutes. Audrey's faux cockney accent made me want to go full Michael Madsen on my own ears.
Clarence Newman
2025-02-22 14:14:33 +0000 UTCProbably already been said in the comments, but - without wanting to shatter illusions - it's not Audrey singing. Her singing was dubbed by American singer, Marni Nixon (who also dubbed Natalie Wood's singing in West Side Story).
Stephen Wadsworth
2025-02-22 11:57:09 +0000 UTCThe ambiguous ending to the movie is confusing, especially after Eliza previously explains that Freddy is in love with her (and that she would be happy to marry him). In recent productions of the stage show and particularly the 2018 Broadway revival of My Fair Lady, during the final scene when Higgins demands his slippers, Eliza walks away from him as the music plays her out and the lights dim. This provides a clearer ending to the story and a cleaer picture as to how Eliza views her relationship with Higgins. Higgins's treatment of Eliza is detestable throughout the entirety of the story and by having Eliza walk away from Higgins in the final scene, it completes her story arc from helpless flower girl to confident woman in control of her own life. It's too bad that this staging wasn't used as the movie's ending.
Eddie M Lorenzo
2025-02-22 06:16:41 +0000 UTCIn fact Cassie says "they were three best friends" which is pretty much exactly the scenario that Shaw originally envisioned. Pickering and Higgins put up the money for Eliza to own her own flower shop, and they put up even more when Freddy got the idea to expand it to include produce and gave himself the title of Greengrocer. It's unclear whether they ever got paid back, but the shop became successful enough that Pickering could stop covering their bills; her father was right, she never took any money from him and became fully independent. Freddy willingly assisted Eliza in the shop they ran together; Pickering basically became an honorary uncle whom they spent holidays with; and Higgins and Eliza became friendly antagonists, like a civil ex-couple, and occasionally she did wifely things for him like check in with the housekeeper to make sure certain things were attended to in the household. The only reason Shaw didn't stick to his guns about this denouement is that there was too much popular sentiment that Higgins and Eliza MUST end up together and he didn't want to argue with the audience that made this his biggest commercial hit (and won him an Oscar for best Screenplay that he pretended not to care about but displayed prominently in his home; there's more than a bit of Shaw in Higgins.)
jdj830
2025-02-22 06:07:57 +0000 UTCThis is where Cassie’s instincts are spot-on. Higgins doesn’t deserve Eliza, and that romantic-promise ending is unearned. Shaw knew that there were too many bridges burned & that Eliza could & should find her own way.
Ken Schneyer
2025-02-22 05:28:33 +0000 UTCI will say that the Queen of Transylvania looks a lot like Boris Karloff.
TheSingulatarian
2025-02-22 05:22:36 +0000 UTCI think they left some of her vocals on Just You Wait, but even that wasn’t all her. I do believe Moon River in Breakfast At Tiffany’s was all Audrey, though.
Stardust_and_Madness
2025-02-22 05:08:31 +0000 UTCSomeone in the chat was saying she did one or two of the songs herself?
Chris Thom
2025-02-22 04:46:03 +0000 UTCAudrey's hat game was STRONG in this one. Respect to the costume designer. Would imagine they were nominated that year.
Chris Thom
2025-02-22 04:45:08 +0000 UTCHiggins sounds like a flat out villain at times though.
Chris Thom
2025-02-22 04:44:06 +0000 UTCShe and Carly would have them saying frick and fetch in no time.
Chris Thom
2025-02-22 04:43:17 +0000 UTCYou have to forgive Higgins a little. He had never felt love for anyone. He finally realized he had grown accustomed to her in a way for would be there forever. He tried to pretend he didn't need her but he couldn't be without her. Her singing was done by another actress. I don't remember the name.
William Brownlee
2025-02-22 04:40:26 +0000 UTCI highly recommend watching this while you're in the afterglow of My Fair Lady - 96 minutes well spent: https://archive.org/details/pygmalionvideoqualityupgrade
jdj830
2025-02-22 04:36:22 +0000 UTCSo now does Cassie's phonetic education begin in Received Pronunciation ("posh" British 😆)
Robert N Douglass
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David
2025-02-22 03:16:57 +0000 UTCThis is my first time commenting here, but I have to say this is considered a major classic
Rees Cleaveland
2025-02-22 03:15:08 +0000 UTCSince a major plot device in this film involves dialect coaching, I feel it relevant to note that while we may pronounce "Shaw" and "saw" and "law" with a more open mouth, in the Commonwealth most words ending in "-aw" tend to favour a sound like "Shore" or "sore" or "lore" only without quite completing the "r" sound. We'll say "draw-ing" where they'll say "drore-ing". Another interesting quirk of British pronunciation is when a previous word ends with the same vowel sound as the beginning of the immediately following word -- you'll hear a bit of an "r" sound there too, to let people know that one word has ended and the other begun, most commonly with words that end and then begin with "a".
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 03:14:41 +0000 UTCSince a major plot device in this film involves dialect coaching, I feel it relevant to note that while we may pronounce "Shaw" and "saw" and "law" with a more open mouth, in the Commonwealth most words ending in "-aw" tend to favour a sound like "Shore" or "sore" or "lore" only without quite completing the "r" sound. We'll say "draw-ing" where they'll say "drore-ing". Another interesting quirk of British pronunciation is when a previous word ends with the same vowel sound as the beginning of the immediately following word -- you'll hear a bit of an "r" sound there too, to let people know that one word has ended and the other begun.
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 03:14:37 +0000 UTCAha! That's what that was. I stand corrected, my good sir, and I extend to you my gratitude.
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 03:07:25 +0000 UTCIn the original play this is based on, Shaw's Pygmalion, she ends up marrying Freddy. But that isn't actually shown on stage; it's just written into the script as an epilogue. In the 1938 movie version of the play (an excellent film btw that's just as entertaining as this one) the ending is ambiguous as it is here. It might be the greatest play ever written that doesn't have a proper ending; for over a century the "ending" of this play is exactly what Cassie does at the end of this video, each audience member projecting onto it what they want. While Audrey Hepburn is great of course, Julie Andrews originated this role on Broadway and did her own singing; this is really her role, and while it's sad that she didn't get to do Eliza on film, her "consolation prize" was Mary Poppins, so I guess everything turned out all right. The singer you hear is the great Marni Nixon, whom I got to meet and hear perform, a wonderful artist in her own right; while her career was mainly on the concert and opera stages and on film soundtracks, her one on-screen role was as Sister Sophia in The Sound of Music.
jdj830
2025-02-22 02:54:59 +0000 UTC51:45 "You brazen hussy!" What he's denounced her as to diminish her, she could take as empowerment and run with it, I think. He made her that, and now he can't take it back.
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 02:54:03 +0000 UTCWe say "flower girl" they say "flahr gull"
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 02:49:39 +0000 UTC"ex-ahs-perating"
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 02:47:21 +0000 UTCIt wasn’t Gene Kelly in the Music Man but Robert Preston with Jennifer Jones. I think you were referring,g to Signing in the Rain where Kelly and Reynolds and Donald O’Connor were the stars.
Bernard Savoie
2025-02-22 02:42:18 +0000 UTC41:42 I remember when I saw this once as a young lad, I had the impression that her emotional trauma had compelled her to deliberately revert to her original accent to spite Higgins in her privacy.
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 02:41:10 +0000 UTCThis is, practically speaking, a tale as old as time. It’s a re-telling of the Greek ‘Pygmalion.’ ‘Pretty Woman’ is both a re-telling and homage to this. It’s about the artist loving his creation more than anything else. In ‘Pygmalion’ it tells the story of a very skilled sculptor who carves a statue out of Greek marble. He’s prepared to spend the remainder of his days worshipping his creation. The gods took pity on him and brought his creation to life
Lamar Smith
2025-02-22 02:37:25 +0000 UTCThe Music Man.🙏 You'll love that one!
Holly
2025-02-22 02:34:33 +0000 UTC"Entr'acte" (between acts -- pronounced "on-tract")
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 02:32:44 +0000 UTC34:02 Ah, but how would she look in a soldier's uniform? In our day even an Army woman can have her "staircase moment" in a set of Dress Blues or even ACUs (Advanced Camouflage Utilitys)
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 02:31:23 +0000 UTCAh, one can be taught to enunciate with culture, but it takes a bit more to teach the vocabulary and the "culture" of the culture haha 😆
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 02:28:02 +0000 UTC23:24 The movie you're curious about here is "The Music Man" with Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds (mother of Carrie "Leia Skywalker" Fisher. Gone the very day after her own daughter, the poor dear.)
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 02:18:18 +0000 UTCTry Oklahoma or The Music Man if you want musicals with the ending you like. Both are classics.
Paul Imrie
2025-02-22 02:13:46 +0000 UTCMr Dolittle is making quite the case for Universal Basic Income, isn't he?
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 02:13:35 +0000 UTCA "blackguard" is an archaic British pejorative.
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 02:12:01 +0000 UTCI find all these varied British accents to be most fascinating, at times amusing, and from the voice of a woman, very enchanting...
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 02:11:10 +0000 UTCA great film. Hope you watch "Funny Face". One of my favorite musicals. Also, stars Fred Astaire. A legend.
William Brownlee
2025-02-22 01:58:28 +0000 UTC4:53 "Tike me fourra full" Nice London accent, Cassie, you have a good ear!
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 01:57:23 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite musicals. A musical remake of an earlier film' Pygmilian" written by, George Bernard Shaw
Monte Durbin
2025-02-22 01:55:24 +0000 UTCWhen???????
Francis Redmond
2025-02-22 01:53:03 +0000 UTCHaha, we say "Cambridge", they say "Came-bridge"...
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 01:49:36 +0000 UTCThis is another film that loses a bit in translation—in this case, from Shaw's play—because of context. First, the significant age difference: Shaw didn't begin his writing career until he was almost 50. So the idea of the significantly older man paired with a younger woman was in part his own fantasy, and then experience as he became more famous and successful and younger women threw themselves at him. However, this older man-younger woman pairing was also a very real and accepted component of the upper-class Victorian lifestyle in marriages and mistresses. Shaw, while seen as a "modern" thinker (and a not-so-closeted Marxist), was also very much a Victorian and a snob. And England remained, until after WWII, very much a hard-class/station society. That society was deeply intertwined with some very different, widespread male-female relationships, especially in marriage. The predominant one:: - Strategic Marriages, which were often between members of two noble families, or, in the latter half of the 19th Century, a member of a family with great title but not the money to match it with a respectable millionaire-type (Hello Downton Abbey). In these unions, "growing into love" rather than falling in love was expected to happen. And if it didn't, the assumption was that discreet adultery would take place, even though the essential components of marriage, including social support of the spouse and making heirs, went on with no breaks in the public façade. - Arranged Marriages, which still happened between high nobility. Again, the idea of pairing great families to create even greater (and richer and more powerful) families relied strongly on the idea of "a good match growing into love." Marriage for Love was a relatively new concept among the upper classes, though growing in acceptance, as long as one did not stray (or stray far) from one's class. The ultimate pairing of Eliza and Henry Higgins—not nobility but certainly accepted by the upper classes as one of us—is not a possibility at the beginning of the play. She is an experiment, a gutter snipe who Higgins believes he can pass off as a lady with proper training. This is Shaw's commentary on his opinion of rigid class society, the moral fabric of the upper classes, and the great comic undercurrent running through the play (and this movie). But by the end of the play and the movie, the pairing of Eliza and Henry is very much presented as a likely outcome. They are—or are on their way to—growing into love, albeit with the good professor still possessing what we would identify as a strong chauvinistic attitude toward marriage (again, Victorian thinking).
Above Average Dave
2025-02-22 01:46:00 +0000 UTCThis was the movie my mum and I always watched with my grandma before she passed. Audrey is so great in this. It’s sad she didn’t get to do her own singing, but Marni Nixon did a great job in so many movies, she just had a stronger voice.
Stardust_and_Madness
2025-02-22 01:43:21 +0000 UTC"Jus' you wait, 'enry 'iggins, jus' you wait!"
Robert N Douglass
2025-02-22 01:43:10 +0000 UTCAudrey was a true angel, just like you. 👼😊
GomezAddams
2025-02-22 01:40:42 +0000 UTC
