The film "My Fair Lady" directed by George Cukor is an adaptation of the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. The movie is set in London in the early 1900s. Although the film has too many songs, I believe that it is overall very good and has great actors and actresses castes to play the rolls, and scenes that are an addition to the book that add a great new taste!
The movie My Fair Lady starts with the main character, Eliza, as a poor girl selling flowers on an England street corner. She has a strident accent which is holding her back on her full potential. She then, fatefully, meets Professor Higgins who is an expert in phonetics. Later, Eliza decides that she wants to make a significant decision to speak "like a lady" so she searches for the knowledge and help of Higgins. Higgins hesitantly agrees to teach …show more content…
Coming from the view of somebody who has read the Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, I was hesitant to watch the movie as I believed that it would alter my feelings that I had about the characters if they acted differently as I imagined. However, the cast members acted precisely as explained in the book. Audrey Hepburn acted with the exact accent and attitude as she should have and her relationship with Higgins and Pickering just seemed so real! While watching the movie I honestly forgot that they were acting and I believed I was watching the whole story unfold before my eyes.
While I loved many things about this movie, I must say that if you don't necessarily enjoy musicals, you definitely wouldn't like this movie. There were so many songs in this movie that they played almost every 5 minutes which I believed interfered with the story and made it seem less realistic because I have never seen a group of people singing and dancing outside my window. I think a few of the most catchy songs would have added a bit of fun to the movie but so many made it more of a
The movie My Fair Lady starts with the main character, Eliza, as a poor girl selling flowers on an England street corner. She has a strident accent which is holding her back on her full potential. She then, fatefully, meets Professor Higgins who is an expert in phonetics. Later, Eliza decides that she wants to make a significant decision to speak "like a lady" so she searches for the knowledge and help of Higgins. Higgins hesitantly agrees to teach …show more content…
Coming from the view of somebody who has read the Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, I was hesitant to watch the movie as I believed that it would alter my feelings that I had about the characters if they acted differently as I imagined. However, the cast members acted precisely as explained in the book. Audrey Hepburn acted with the exact accent and attitude as she should have and her relationship with Higgins and Pickering just seemed so real! While watching the movie I honestly forgot that they were acting and I believed I was watching the whole story unfold before my eyes.
While I loved many things about this movie, I must say that if you don't necessarily enjoy musicals, you definitely wouldn't like this movie. There were so many songs in this movie that they played almost every 5 minutes which I believed interfered with the story and made it seem less realistic because I have never seen a group of people singing and dancing outside my window. I think a few of the most catchy songs would have added a bit of fun to the movie but so many made it more of a