| re: Just you wait: Turner Classic Movies revisits 'My Fair Lady' tonight as one of its 'Reframed Classics' | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 06:45 pm EDT 03/25/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Just you wait: Turner Classic Movies revisits 'My Fair Lady' tonight as one of its 'Reframed Classics' - keikekaze 04:18 pm EDT 03/25/21 | |
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| ''The hosts will talk about why the film adaptation has a less feminist ending than the stage play, and Henry Higgins’ physical and psychological abuse of Eliza Dolittle. Not feeding her and stuffing marbles in her mouth are played for cute laughs in the film." I'm rather confused here. The ending of the film of MY FAIR LADY is exactly the same as the ending of the stage play, with Higgins saying "Eliza, where the devil are my slippers" and Eliza standing there -- not moving towards Higgins, but not leaving, either. The only difference I can perceive is that, according to the original stage directions, Eliza is supposed to "have tears in her eyes" because "she understands," and in the film, Audrey Hepburn doesn't seem to me to have tears in her eyes. So I don't understand how "the film adaptation has a less feminist ending than the stage play" -- unless, of course, this a reference to the new ending of the stage play for the Lincoln Center Theater production. Is that what we think they mean? "At no point in either Pygmalion or My Fair Lady does Higgins refuse to feed Eliza." Well, there is that brief, supposedly comic moment when there is an extra pasty (or something) and Eliza obviously would like to have it, but then Higgins says "I know someone who's very fond of strawberry tarts" (or whatever the pastry is) -- and then he goes and feeds it to a bird in a cage rather than giving it to Eliza, which causes her to wail "Aaaooh!" I've never found any of this especially funny, but neither do I think of it as evidence that Higgins is "not feeding Eliza." |
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