Movie Review #1 is My Fair Lady. At first I thought I wouldn't like it since its an old movie but it was better than what I thought it was going to be like. Who knew old movies were good. My Fair Lady was really enjoyable and funny.My Fair Lady was actually a show/musical, in broadway it starred Julie Andrews with her partner Rex Harrison, but they turned it into a film. If you like comedies, musicals you should watch this movie!
So to start things of I would say that the actors did a fine job acting as the character. They were very, well in character. When you watch the movie you can tell who was who. In other words: who was the poor girl selling flowers, or the know-it-all professor Higgins. The costumes were very distinguishable for example, professor Higgins was an elegant professor and wore suits almost all the time. Eliza (the poor girl selling flowers, who has a speech problem) was dressed in not that elegant clothes, with dirt all over her. Eliza is a strong girl who defends herself. At the beginning of the movie when a man (the professor) tells her that she is not worthy of sitting on the pillar, she talks with confidence and tells the man what she thinks she should do or not do. Also she complains a lot, when the professor tells her to repeat the vowels-a, e, i, o, u she keeps arguing and complaining like a child. Professor Higgins is an arrogant know-it-all. He thinks he can convert/change any woman who doesn't know how to speak proper english and pass her of as a duchess. I would say the characters were casted well. They acted their part and did a good job with letting their character's personalities come alive. I liked how all the characters were different. Each one of the character's personalities brought something to the "table" and made the movie enjoyable. I did not like how Eliza kept complaining about almost everything, it was a little too much. But at the end she changes and her speaking becomes better.
So here is what the movie is about. There is Eliza Dolittle (Audrey Hepburn), a poor flower seller with bad speaking habits who encounters a speech professor. The professor-Higgins(Rex Harrison)-suggest that Eliza should go to him to better her awful speaking. She takes it into consideration and decides that she should do it for her sake and for the sake of getting a better paid job. She spends about six months at the professor's house and begins her speech lessons and becomes better at speaking. Later on she discovers that she was a bet, and know one cared about her, they only cared if she was going to be a better speaker in those six months. The major conflict is that Eliza doesn't want to recognize the she has a speech problem and she doesn't want to admit it. The conflict does get solved when she finally decides to have courage in improving her improper speaking. That is when she goes to professor Higgins to help her speak better.
The characters do seem to interact well with each other because they have this bond where they understand each other. They have good reactions when they interact, some reactions might be getting mad at a person or going crazy. This movie is a romantic comedy; the two characters that sort of fall in love with each other is Eliza and professor Higgins. The chemistry between them is there but in a weird way. I said in a weird way because you can't totally tell they like each other but the fact that there different and then Higgins realizes that all he wants is the crazy Eliza by his side then there's definitely chemistry going on.
The setting takes place in London when all the people especially the women wore huge hats and fancy-old style clothes. There are many stages in the musical/movie. Some of the stages were a small town, a huge house-plaza were Higgins lives, and the horse track. The small town looked really small, all white buildings, the town place looked fake since it was a stage. The house were Higgins lives has about two or three floors. In the horse track was a section were you can sit and then the section were the people were standing in grass watching the race. The horse track was not shown completely only part of it to get the point across. The prop that Eliza used was her basket of flowers to sell them to the people, it was effective it showed that the flowers were for buying. The music adds to the work by putting happy music when the character was happy or cheerful. Their is this one song that got stuck in my head while I was watching the movie it was sung my Eliza's dad, the song is called "With a little bit of luck," its a cheerful song that gets stuck in your head. When the music had an evil sort of rythm it meant that the character was mad. The end of my first movie review, yes!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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