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Mood:
- HumorousWittyCleverFeel GoodSentimental
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Plot:
- Opposites AttractSocial DifferencesTeaching the Ways of the WorldCinderella StoryCulture ClashFish Out of WaterLove and RomanceMisfit more...
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Genres:
- ComedyRomancePeriod
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Place:
- EnglandLondon
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Audience:
- Date NightGirls' Night
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- Critically AcclaimedOscar Winner
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Based on:
- Based on Play
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- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Pygmalion, 1938
English
UK
Profile of Pygmalion
Pygmalion can be described as witty, humorous, and clever. The plot revolves around a Cinderella story, teaching the ways of the world, and opposites attracting. The main genres are comedy, romance, and period. In approach, Pygmalion is realistic. It is located in London. It is adapted from a play. Pygmalion has received attention for being an Oscar winner and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for a girls' night and a date night.
Summary of Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw's play, PYGMALION, which takes its title from the Greek myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor who fell in love with a statue of his own making, was a hit on the London stage in 1912. The transition to film was co-directed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard, who also stars as Henry Higgins, the vainglorious snob who claims he can turn a guttersnipe into a Lady. Wendy Hiller is smart and witty, giving as good as she gets, as Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl Higgins takes from the street and tries to pass off as a Duchess. Hiller and Howard play off each other with a delightful spark. The play opens up well for the screen, as evidenced in the dreamy sequence when Eliza attends a society party, a scene smoothly edited by the young David Lean.
Shaw wrote the film script himself, ensuring that his original setting in the more innocent time before WWI, didn't feel dated in the dark days of 1938. Other writers were brought in to lighten Shaw's view of the class conflict between Higgins and Eliza, and to lessen the amount of brow beating Higgins employs. Still, compared with the musical version, MY FAIR LADY, there is no magical Cinderella process here, but a painfully, realistically resisted struggle mixed with a slowly developing romance.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 8 December 1938 |
| Runtime: | 96 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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Cast and Crew
as Eliza Doolittle
as Professor Henry Higgins
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