The movie My Fair Lady satisfies the four elements that define fine arts. These elements include music‚ dance art and drama. Although the movie is set in a different time period‚ it still manages to successfully convey the important facets of fine arts. The movie My Fair Lady is a 1960’s musical‚ originally adapted from a play‚ Pygmalion. There are several different types of music included in the film. For example‚ one of the romantic songs is "I Could Have Danced All Night"‚ which is sung by Eliza
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Analysis of My Fair Lady The play My Fair Lady‚ written by Alan Jay Lerner in 1956‚ focuses on turning an unsophisticated flower girl into a well brought up lady. Henry Higgins is a professor of languages who is high class and very snobby. Eliza Doolittle is a poor flower girl who dreams of living the high class life. Colonel Pickering‚ a good friend of Professor Higgins‚ makes a wager with Professor Higgins that he can not fool everyone into thinking Eliza is a duchess. Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)
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My fair lady When I started watching this movie in the class‚ I thought it would be a little bit boring and it is just kind of classical old movie. But it was not true. ‘My fair lady’ was really interesting and a great enjoyment to me. As soon as the movie started‚ Eliza Doolittle’s voice brought me to attention to the movie. Her cracking voice and pronunciation which I never heard were good enough to pay attention to the movie. Also the atmosphere based on the early 1900s’ London captured me
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My Fair Lady My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical‚ My Fair Lady‚ based on the film adaptation of the stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ending and the ballroom scene are from the 1938 film Pygmalion rather than Shaw’s original stage play. The film was directed by George Cukor and stars Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. The film won eight Academy Awards‚ including Best Picture‚ Best Actor‚ and Best Director. Plot In Edwardian London
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‘MY FAIR LADY’ Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics and believes that an important factor in establishing one’s own social status is by the way a person speaks and presents themselves. Every division of a society is marked by linguistic differences but Higgins believes that there is a perfect and proper approach to the English Language. Higgins speaks Standard English which is a widely accepted form of English in the United Kingdom also known as Received Pronunciation (RP). Non-standard grammatical
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Heather Austin Comp 3 Drama Analysis B2 George Bernard Shaw’s My Fair Lady is the story of a lady‚ by the name of Eliza‚ who lives and works on the street. Eliza sells flowers daily to make a living. Eliza hears a phonetics professor say he can take Eliza and pass her at an Embassy Ball in six months or less‚ just after he puts her down by saying‚ “Yes‚ you squashed cabbage leaf! You disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns” (650)! Eliza over hearing the professor’s
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Film Review: “My Fair Lady” “My Fair Lady” is a classic 1964 film produced by Jack Warner and James Katz and Directed by George Cukor. The film’s protagonist‚ an ambitious Phonetician‚ Professor Higgins‚ promises to transform the life and socio-economic status of a poor flower girl‚ the female protagonist‚ Eliza‚ by teaching her to speak Standard English and the ‘proper’ way to behave. He aspires to “change her into a different human being by creating a new speech for her.” By doing this he suggests
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Discuss the different ways of representing class conflicts. Pygmalion‚ Bernard Shaw‚ 1914 My Fair Lady‚ George Cukor‚ 1964 “As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men‚ I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.” This famous quotation of French playwright Molière proves how powerfully theater and social criticism are linked‚ and how in its different genres‚ drama as well as comedy‚ theater can‚ and maybe must‚ be a way of communicating and expressing the human and society’s flaws
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My Fair Lady Reflection In the movie‚ there are some gender issues. In 1970s‚ women receive the unfair treatments. They could not live in the sex equality lives. Men always thought women were born for marrying with them‚ and their wives had to service them as the God. At that time‚ men usually went out for work‚ but women should stay home and do the household chores. In this way‚ men oppressed women indirectly. I think it is the sexism; males should not have the prejudice to women. Until now‚ these
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Review of My Fair Lady‚ as put on by Big League Productions Last month I saw a wonderful production of the musical “My Fair Lady” at Jesse Hall as a part of the University of Missouri Concert Series in Columbia. Big League Productions‚ Inc. is the touring theatre company who put on the show. They brought their own set‚ which consisted of a study in which most of the scenes took place‚ as well as the street entrance to the home of Prof. Higgins. There was also an elaborate backdrop used for the scenes
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