Fantasy Elements In The Movie, Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman is a romantic comedy of two people of different social class that meet on the streets of Los Angeles and learn about each others way of life. Edward is a rich businessman who specializes in taking over companies and then selling them off piece by piece. Vivian is a prostitute that works on Hollywood Boulevard. Edward accidentally meets Vivian as he stops to get directions to go to his hotel in Beverly Hills. His offer of ten dollars to get directions goes up to three-thousand dollars for Vivian to spend the week with him. Through out the week Edward and Vivian start to build a friendship relationship than it grows to be a love/romantic relationship. This scenario is some what a fantasy element of the movie because some thing like this happening in real life is not likely to happen. This type of scenario may lead people to believe that by becoming a prostitute people can find a rich business man and eventually build a love relationship and get married. There are many fantasy elements of Pretty Woman that lead people to believe that it is possible to happened in real life.
One fantasy element in the movie is that Vivian meets Edward on Los Angeles Boulevard as he is trying find his way back
home. There for after they start talking and Edward offers her three-thousand dollars to spend the week with him, she accepts the offer. From that woman on they start to build a friendship that then leads to romantic relationship. This scenario makes the a audience believe that being a prostitute in Los Angeles is a chance of to meet a wealthy business man, but in reality that is some thing that is not likely to happened. Because first of all not many rich business men want to get caught with a prostitute because that can cause them their reputation as a business man, especially if they have children it can break a family apart. Second, the woman can get hooked on drugs, be abused by men and even woman, and may get killed.
Second, the fantasy aspect that Barney Thompson is some what a male version a fairy god-mother similar to the movie Cinderella. There are of course differences between them. For example Barney does not have a magic wand to transform things to beautiful objects like the fairy god-mother. Barney helps Vivian learn her table manners and helps her with finding conservative clothes to wear by calling a friend at a store to help her out. At the end he some what transforms her in to a beautiful lady. This leads the audience to believe that there is a “fairy god-mother” that is willing to help out and transform people in to elegant conservative ladies. In real life there is a clothes stylist and a etiquette professionals to help out, but they charge hundreds of dollars to teach people. The professionals are not really there to be a friend they are there to help out. To get to the point there are not many people out there that are willing to do it for free like what Barney does for Vivian. Not only does Barney help her out he also is a good friend. In real life you can’t get that, but that is what the movie portrays there is fairy god-mother.
Third, Vivian has the fantasy of a knight in a white horse to come to her rescue. That really does not happened, but there are two scenes that she does get rescued by Edward. The first scene is Edward and Vivian are at the Blue Banana Club because Vivian is looking for her friend Kit. When she is done looking for her she goes outside and there is a guy that is hassling her about owing money. Just when things were starting to get ugly Edward steps up and rescues her. Second scene is when Edwards lawyer goes to the penthouse to look for Edward, but instead he gets Vivian in the penthouse. He goes inside talks to Vivian then he tries to have sex with her by forcing himself on top of her and she is putting up a fight. Edward then comes in and sees what is going on and pulls up his lawyer and punches him on the face. Edward got so mad that he fired him. Second scene leads the audience to believe that there is “white knight” that can come and rescue them from any type of danger. In reality some one can come to the rescue, but also some people just do not get involved because they are afraid they might get hurt in trying to get involved.
Fourth, Pretty Woman just like any other romantic movie has the fantasy that love will always prove to be strong in any situation.
For the reason being that despite being from two different social class, Edward being a high class rich business man and Vivian a low class prostitute, the two still found love for one another. This leads the audience to believe that love will always prevail. This can be true if people truly love each other they are immune to everything but each other. They can get through anything, and always prevail and be stronger for it. But other times one person can love, but not love the other back .Other times two families may not get along and that can separate the two people that want to be together in this cases love does not always
prevail.
Lastly, there is the part at the end of the movie where Edward goes to Vivian apartment and gets the love of his life and takes her away. The ending is a sort of a fairy tale ending implying that they live happily ever after. The end of the movie leads people to believe that there is a happy ending in any relationship. In reality there is no happy ending in every relationship. There are happily ever after in some relationships but not all of them. For example, when a couple gets married at first the marriage is good, and just like any married couple they have their ups and downs, but they eventually get through them. However, if their marriage experiences more downs then ups and start fighting more frequently, eventually their marriage ends up in divorce. Even if people have been married for twenty-five years and have kids they can get divorced. A second example is Romeo and Juliet their love for each other was truly strong. They did everything they could to be together despite the fact that their families disliked each other. Therefore one day they decide to do a scheme in which they can finally end up together and live happily, but it all ends up in a tragedy. One day Romeo killed himself by drinking poison. He mistakenly thinks that Juliet is dead, but she is actually drugged and is waiting for Romeo to come and rescue her. However, Romeo does not get the message about Juliet needing to be rescued, he hears only that she is dead. So he buys a poison, and lies besides Juliet and dies. When she wakes up seeing Romeo dead beside her, takes his dagger and stabs herself. Basically there is no happily ever after in every relationship.
In retrospect being a prostitute in los Angeles is not a good idea people never know what might happen someone can get killed or abused. There is no such thing as a ‘fairy god mother”, some one willingly to help out for free when it comes to etiquette courses or fashion and is there to be a friend at the same time, unless people are getting paid for it. The fantasy of knight on a white horse coming to the rescue I believe can be true. People just really need to find the right person in order to full fill that fantasy. In my experience I do believe love will prevail. Because when my boyfriend and I were dating we had a long distance relationship for one year and half. We went through a lot during that time because we were so far away from each other. I was in Northern California and he is from Southern California. But eventually we got through it and now we are so happy to be together. When it comes to happily after endings I do believe that there can be ending like that. You just make what you can out of what life gives.