Comparison Of My Fair Lady And Pretty Woman

'My Fair Lady' (1964) and 'Pretty Woman' (1990), both based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, are both widely immensed blockbuster movies who have made it to the 'classics' list of movies that never get old, gaining infinite fame and success. The female audience swoon over the movies, wishing for a Prince Charming, a Henry Higgins, or a Edward Lewis to magically appear before them, for who wouldn't want to live the life of a woman who goes from rags to riches in a few days and falls madly in love with her savior? What woman wouldn't want to be swept away, rescued, and redeemed into heterosexual heaven? To be completely transformed into societies perfect image of what a woman

should walk, talk, act, and dress like? To be presented as an object from the male perspective? And to be seen as clay that a man can mold and shape as he pleases, until he is finally satisfied with the result? Both stories have similar plots, but because of the different era's they were made in, were portrayed completely differently, up to an extent that most watchers wouldn't even attent to the fact that they are both based off of the same play, with many differences in the nature of the story. Regardless, they both shared one main theme in the story, which is anti-feminism, among other themes that we will discover as this essay progresses.

Pretty, according to the Oxford dictionary means 'Of a person, especially a woman or child, attractive in a delicate way without being truly beautiful'. Pretty woman, Originally intended to be a dark narrative about class and sex work in Los Angeles, was reconceived as a romantic comedy. The genre of the romantic comedy can be said to function as one of the most destructive medium of patriarchy, a hidden theme in this movie. What most action movies achieves with the male intellect is exactly what a successful romantic comedy