Eliza,[Audrey Hepburn, who’s charming and adorable.. even in rags]who has a horrible London accent, lives on the streets and sells flowers for a living. One night she bumps into Professor Higgins who claims that he could have her speaking so properly that she could go as a duchess to a ball. Hearing this she knows she doesn’t want to live in rags forever and goes to him seeking help. Higgins can be a real sleaze ball and really inconsiderate but when it comes down to what he knows, he knows his stuff.
At first he doesn’t think he’s going to get anywhere with Eliza but keeps on trying now that this has turned into a bet. Soon enough she starts learning phrases in a proper accent. Poor girl is taken for granted though, she gets no credit for all the hard work she’s put in.
This is a very moving story, it’s a musical and I usually am not big on those but all these songs added more to the on-going script and soon enough they were stuck in my head. Other than it being charming its very amusing, with Higgins being such a bachelor and not caring who listens in to what he thinks about women. With lines such as “I find the moment a woman makes friends with me she becomes, jealous, exacting, suspicious and a damn nuisance..” and Higgins singing his own song “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” the story can’t stay serious.
i love-a this movie. :]
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