Pygmalion

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Leaburn O @RT35452347 12/27/2024 Like My Fair Lady obviously but with a less convincing male lead. Eliza becomes a strong, independent lady and then at the end of the film debases herself again. Extremely of its time and maybe that’s why I can’t enjoy it. A film suffused with high minded snobbery even when it tries to make the opposite argument. Watched on DVD. See more Russ G @RT78760655 03/03/2024 Miss Hiller is terrific; she should have had top billing in this. It's a tough watch in places as to our modern sensibilities there's a tremendous amount of psychological cruelty displayed by Professor Higgins. At the conclusion I didn't know what to think. See more nick s @Nick_S 11/22/2023 This Leslie Howard film still looks good today. Terrific acting and directing, along with rich characters and great storytelling. Maybe a few wobbles near the end, but not enough to distract from a masterpiece. See more Sachin E @sachineldho 09/04/2023 A middle-class guy with a god complex imposes bourgeois dialect and etiquette on a working-class girl with Stokholm syndrome. See more John S @RT40486670 06/10/2023 This movie was a wild ride. These characters were forthright and self-aware and surprisingly unpredictable. Higgins has got to be the first truly functional(?) sociopathic character ever put to film. Incredible performances and never a dull moment. I don't know if I'd call it romantic though. Had it been a romance Eliza would have stayed in Freddie's car. See more michael d @RT16138633 12/26/2021 Nearly 70 years later the Gabriel Pascal "Pygmalion" still sets the bar for film adaptation of a stage play. So much so, in fact, that the GBS incorporated many of the film's upgrades into the authoritative published version of the play, despite the play being more than 20 years old when the film was made. When was the last time you saw a performance leap off the screen like Leslie Howard's as Professor Higgins? Shaw never saw such treatment on screen again, even under Pascal's hand. The film of "Major Barbara" is interesting (and a bit bizarre toward the end) in its own right, with some magnificent bits in the Act II homeless shelter and a heart-wrenching Wendy Hiller, but pales next to the stage version in its intellectual, political and dramatic depth. And all the rest, even the charming "Caesar and Cleopatra" with Raines and Leigh, just don't cut it compared to the plays. "Pygmalion" is where any screenwriter needs to start in adapting a play for the movies. No one has done it better since. (BTW, GBS's afterward to "Pygmalion" is intended to be tongue-in-cheek, I think. It's intentionally ridiculous, so that the mob clamoring for a romantic ending would realize just how inappropriate and uninteresting that would have been.) See more Read all reviews

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