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My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty understanding women,…
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The 1960s marked a significant period in cinema, yet the general perception of this decade often overlooks the reality of its film landscape. Contrary to the notion that the era was dominated by “hip” avant-garde art dramas or bold experiments like those seen in the French New Wave, the most popular and commercially successful films were, in fact, much more “square” or conventional. Historical epics and musicals rei…More
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"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain". When you've spent the last two months of your life studying linguistics and phonetics in particular, this phrase automatically comes to mind. As well as the "Har, har, har..." repeated by the female protagonist who tried to achieve the correct pronunciation of h. (My dear Audrey, after so many rehearsals that we did in the workshop, I understand how tiring it is... ). T…More
source Have you read the book by George Bernard Shaw - The Pygmalion? If you have not, then please do try to because it is a very interesting read, trust me and there is also a movie based on it - My fair lady, starring - Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison. I have watched the movie too. It is a brilliant adaptation and does justice to the book which often others don't. I say this because I felt that the Harry Potter serie…More
Another good classical movie coming from 60's, for me personally I think that the most beautiful movies are made in 60's and later on in the 90's, those two decades have gave us a lot of classical movies that worth a lot and they are a real treasure that will be available for the future generations. The content of this film I have seen copied or reworked in several series and films. A phonetics professor is betting…More