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Summary: old-fashioned & outdated
Review: We think, it's quiet an old -fashioned message, that the autors gives to us. I think it's stupid, to tell us, that only the speech is important to be somebody. We also didn't like to read a play alone. It would have been much more interesting and funny to read it in class, everybody is a certain person. G.B.Shaw seems to know very much about the way of life in every class. He shows the differences in a pretty funny way, and we could get a good idea about those persons. The film is really too long. We didn't like the songs very much, perhaps they are important for understanding, but we think it was not always necessary. We think, today the world is much more complicated, it's not enough to have a good pronunciation to get a good job. And there are too few Higgins-like people in the world. I think, today, nobody would teach a guttergirl for so little money.
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Summary: PYGMALION WAS JUST GREAT!
Review: We read Pygmalion in class and we were very fascinated by the way, G..B. Shaw criticises the British system. He does it in a very funny and humorous way. We liked especially Elisa, the lovely flower girl . She proves, that even a common flower girl can become a "princess". We liked also Higgins and his habits , his curses and we wished just for the end that Higgins would marry Elisa.
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Summary: This play is really classical !
Review: The difference between the poor and the rich is very good visible.But it' s a pity, that the film is so long and boring.The film lasts nearly three hours and we think unnormal, that Eliza obeys Higgins for such a long time even though she was a free person ! We wonder why it can go on that a woman like Eliza can get into a higher social class only because of her language. Her life depends on Higgins
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Summary: A Shavian Delight
Review: PYGMALION (the play and the movie) has in recent years been almost entirely overshadowed by MY FAIR LADY (the musical play and the movie musical). To be sure, MY FAIR LADY is a superlative work, but so is this adaptation of G.B. Shaw's play. Indeed, Lerner and Leowe knew a good thing when they saw it; they actually based MY FAIR LADY on this screenplay rather than the original play. A magnificent cast headed by Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard find all the vibrancy in Shaw's prose. Interestingly, Shaw fully approved of Hiller (whom he'd seen play Eliza on stage), but originally wanted Charles Laughton to play Higgins. Nevertheless, Howard is excellent as the brilliant, infuriating phonetics professor.PYGMALION is an absolute delight, but Shavian purists may well grumble at the film'sending, which is totally different from the play's (and was also used in MY FAIR LADY). How producer Gabriel Pascal convinced Shaw to go along with that is anyone's guess!
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Summary: Really Good
Review: This is the grand-daddy My Fair Lady, minus the songs. In fact, this movie is almost shot for shot the same as the musical version. The performances are top notch, particulary Howarard's. The only problem is, like the musical, the ending was slightly changed from the original stage version so it would be happier. Besides that minor flaw, this is a film not to be forgotten.
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Summary: STEVE
Review: MUCH BETTER THAN MY FAIR LADY.I LOVED THIS MOVIE. WENDY HILLER IS FUNNY AND SUPERB. HIGGINS WAS A STRANGE MAN WELL PLAYED BY LESLIE HOWARD. TWO BIG THUMBS UP
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Summary: If only the world were filled with Henry Higgins'
Review: In this day and age of classless, tasteless society, where the lower classes consisting of white trash, black trash, and brown trash are idolized by the young, while the elite in society are looked down upon by the politically correct class, this timeless tale should be on every shelf, and Henry Higgins should serve as the role model for all men everywhere. Sure, there are those who still mock the elite, but it IS the elite that rule society. How many of our Presidents graduated from the Ivy League. . . Reagan did not, and he was mocked as a dullard. Bush, Clinton, Carter(Annopolis), Nixon, JFK,Ike (WestPoint). It is the elite that rule, and that is something that men should strive for.
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Summary: pretty good, for black and white...
Review: This was a very good movie. Higgins is rather a jerk who cannot express himself the way he should, but Pickering is a perfect gentleman. The transformation of Eliza Doolittle is a pleasure to watch... I enjoyed the Maestro deciding who she really was. I would have redone the ending (after the party), and worked with the script until the movie actually ended, not just stopped. However, all in all, it was a refreshing break.
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Summary: What an incredibaly great novel!!
Review: Well, This book was magnifcent! I really liked the way G.B Shaw criticissed the louer class. How he showed that they we're pourly treted...he seems to no how tomake you laff yousing comedy.I red the bouk in class and I gut to bee a bunch of different peeple.It was KewL It waz goud. (haha Hugh)
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Summary: Great! Just great!!
Review: G.B Shaw did a wonderful job critisizing the British society. About how they treated women that is. He really opened my eyes to how women were treated like crap for the better part of our existence on earth.
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