Synopsis:
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics
professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her
presentable in high society.
The Freak's Rating: A :
So often in life I speak to someone about a film
I consider a work of art and they utter the
words, "I haven't seen that one". My heart
skips a beat, my eyes widen and I inevitably say
something like "we should go rent it right now".
In a conversation with my wife about some great
movies we'd seen, My Fair Lady caused a similar
reaction, though this time I was on the end I'm
not used to. Understanding her eagerness
for me to see it, My Fair Lady leapt onto my
Netflix queue and has now made it onto the site.
My
Fair Lady is adapted from the broadway play of
the same name. In the 1950s, 5 million
dollars was a sum unheard of for purchasing the
rights to a play to film adaptation, though
Warner Brothers eagerly forked over the cash.
WB spent a ghastly amount of effort on the film,
effectively shutting down many productions and
allotting nearly 90% of their studio space for
extravagant sets to be built. It was a
practice unheard of, but produced a film nearly
unmatchable in quality.
Acting is wonderful in the film and had Hepburn
been coached to sing her own tunes this is an A+
film. As it stands, you step away from the
film in your mind whenever Julie Andrews' voice
comes out of her mouth, the only times when you
aren't entranced completely by the film.
It is a solid film, one worthy of picking up if
you've never seen it.
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