| re: Just you wait: Turner Classic Movies revisits 'My Fair Lady' tonight as one of its 'Reframed Classics' | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 05:48 pm EDT 03/26/21 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 05:47 pm EDT 03/26/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Just you wait: Turner Classic Movies revisits 'My Fair Lady' tonight as one of its 'Reframed Classics' - Michael_Portantiere 06:45 pm EDT 03/25/21 | |
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| Watch the film carefully. Eliza enters, turns off the recording, and says, "I washed me face and 'ands before I come, I did." Higgins sighs and very tenderly says "Eliza?", then reverts back to his old self (but more kind) and says "Where the devil are my slippers?" Eliza smiles knowingly, blinks her eyes twice as if to brush away tears, and very deliberately takes a few steps toward Higgins. I was shocked by the comments of Karger, Malone, and Stewart. The two women feel that Eliza will leave Higgins and marry Freddy. Malone even states Eliza was better off before she met Higgins. Really? Living in abject poverty in some hovel, unable to ever bathe properly, working the streets by selling flowers for pennies. The film really whitewashes her living conditions and that of her fellow streetworkers. Everything looks too pretty and neat to me. How exactly does Eliza get by during the winter when there are no local flowers to sell? Lerner obviously believes that Higgins genuinely loves Eliza, although he's too self-centered to tell her so in the film. Eliza has fallen in love with him. They need each other. Perhaps she'll continue to be his assistant in his work and maybe a romance will develop. Who knows? |
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