Pretty Woman

“Pretty Woman” is a trumped-up, adult oriented version of “Cinderella”. This movie is by far one of my favorite romantic comedies from the 1990’s. If you haven’t seen “Pretty Woman” I highly recommend that you do, if you're a hopeless romantic such as myself. I want to tell you about the plot of the movie, to the actors in it and how dynamite their performance was in making this film a #1 Hit. A very wealthy, and successful lawyer, Edward Lewis, stumbles across a beautiful and unlikely hooker, Vivian Ward, from Sunset Boulevard and ask her to join him for the night in his hotel in Beverly Hills. The morning after, Edward wakes up and ask Vivian to stay the whole week, to go along various business events with him. And of course…

view of typical archetypes, or they can reinforce negative stereotypes that are already so abundant in the media today. The two films I chose to write about were Pretty Woman and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Both films has positives and negatives influences throughout, but can be referenced as popular films which carry a strong social message. The Film Pretty Woman, was directed by Garry Marshall and written by J.F. Lawton. The film centers around Los Angeles prostitute Vivian Ward, Julia Roberts,…

it has been reinforcing patriarchal culture by emphasizing selective themes and viewpoints. Women, in Film media have always been seen, and portrayed as a sex symbol, and subservient one. Media has been instrumental in the construction and marketing of female subjectivities and it has urged women to leave behind their ‘own’ self and change into the ‘new’ woman of the moment. Feminism is no longer relevant to film media in today’s…

INTRODUCTION The motion picture that is being analyzed is a romantic comedy movie called “Pretty Woman”, which was filmed and featured during the year 1990. In the present, “Pretty Woman” is considered to be one of the greatest movies of all time, in most cases. To be in description of the film, the plot of the movie focus on a down-and-out, out-and-about prostitute by the name of Vivian Ward, (whom was played by Julia Roberts) who was just about to do a regular routine of prostitution on one…

review of a movie, Pretty Woman, from 1990 with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. Most girls of my generation have seen this movie over and over again, because it is soooo romantic! It’s a contemporary Cinderella-story about a wealthy businessman and a prostitute who fall in love. However, when I look at this beautiful love story with more critical eyes, I can see that it is full of prejudice ideas and values. Let me give you a few examples. Vivian Ward is a pretty but poor young girl, living in…

“I sold flowers. I didn’t sell myself. Now you’ve made a lady of me I’m not fit to sell anything else. I wish you’d left me where you found me,” said the smart-mouthed kerbstone flower girl Eliza Doolittle, who worked tirelessly to transform the negative perception society placed upon her. George Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmalion and Gary Marshall ‘s film Pretty Woman both explore the themes of change and transformation in addition to the theme of social class and its impact upon the female…

The movies, Pretty Woman and Fifty Shades of Grey, are seen to most viewers as classic fairytale films where a normal girl falls in love with her rich, handsome prince. In both films, the “rags to riches” appeal is sensationalized and made appealing. However, beneath these romanticized relationships are characteristics of abusiveness. Even though these elements are subtle in the film, they reinforce the unfortunate gender roles and hierarchy in society. In the film, Fifty Shades of Grey,…

Due to differing contextual influences, Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion (1912) and Gary Marshall’s film Pretty Woman (1990) portray unique perspectives on the values of social hierarchy and gender roles. Shaw and Marshall both explore the transformation and social mobility of a young woman in order to comment on the social constructs of class divisions and gender roles within society. In Pygmalion, Shaw satirises the social hierarchy of early 20th century England whilst also criticising the rigid…

George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion and Garry Marshall’s film Pretty Woman both thoroughly explore values of society, each expressed through their unique contexts, language features and mediums. The central social values explored by these two texts are patriarchy, capitalism, and social class structure and hierarchy. Both texts utilise a combination of varying discourses, and language and film features in order to establish these central values. First performed in 1913, Pygmalion was written…

There is one movie that I have always had to watch if I saw that it was playing on TV and I knew it was on; Pretty Woman, which was debuted in 1990. This movie shows both sides of socio-economic culture by one main character being wealthy and the other main character being poor. The wealthy business owner, Edward, which is played by Richard Gere, is out one evening and stops to ask for directions. The movie takes off from there with Vivian, played by Julia Roberts which is a prostitute, jumping…