What Pretty Woman Says About Money
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- Sign up for Skillshare: skl.sh/thetake58 | What was Pretty Woman really saying about money? Was it a capitalist cautionary tale - or a capitalist fairy tale? Almost 20 years later, the 1990 classic (starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts) is still telling us a lot about our desire for love, wealth, or both love and wealth. If you like this video, subscribe to our channel or support us on Patreon: / thetake
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Bloody hell your videos are always good... but this was exceptional! I just completed a course on project and corporate management and the description of Edward... that was like half of my lecturers in a nutshell. It's kind of scary actually. I wonder how many of them have transcational marriages. Anyway wow and thanks.
"Money can't buy you happiness, but it's incredibly more comfortable crying in a limousine than on a bicycle."
No. Makes no difference.
linchen008 Bullshit!
Agreed. Money may not buy you happiness, but it’ll buy you the things that make you happy.
linchen008 a banana seat makes a big difference
@BLAIR M Schirmer Happiness isn't always defined by comfort.
"the rich men is the equivalent of the pretty girl" this line is so powerful and gave me a whole new view in this aspect. I always saw these clips that you show us after this sentence, and, although it always has incommode me (in parts because of the truth in them) I could never find the role of the male as something other than the provider! but, when you tell me that the rich men fantasy is sold to us, women, the same way that the pretty girl is sold to the men it adds a new specter. Before this video I saw the iconic interview with Cher and her famous quote: "mom, I'm the rich men" and dare I say, it made the message of her interview so much more powerful.
Its not "sold to us", it is the way life is. Everyone wants a pretty girl and everyone wants a wealthy man.
And both are considered to be socially acceptable reasons to have horrible people as partners.
@@Justadisciple502 Yeah, you may be right in parts, but, PERSONALLY, I don't think that everyone wants JUST that. Some people just wanna be loved, in addition, I'm not denying that most people put money/beauty -or both- first because it gives power, comfort, and status.
And I don't know about you, but, my grandma, my mom, and aunties always told me that money >>>> love. Like, yeah you can be with someone you love and not be wealthy (my mom's part of the family is a portrait of that. None of them "mary rich", they were okay with that at some extent, but hey: "if only we had more money if only I had mary someone rich".) but money sure as hell was something I must prioritize when meeting someone! that was what I grew up hearing. So yeah, it was kind of sold to me that a rich man would solve all my problems (but never that I could "be" this man because I was supposed to be -just- pretty, but let's not dive into that).
I recognize what you mean, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just sharing my view! also, sorry if there's any mistake or incoherences English is not my first language.
@@anitaabage7570 of course it's not uni-dimensional on how we choose each other as mates. You got to think though that our preferences are rank ordered and what happens is men put a higher value on attractiveness over other attributes. Women put a higher value on male competency in something and money is a good proxy for that.
We had a discussion about this in my Feminist Theory class! Heterosexual men are socialized to seek an attractive partner while heterosexual women are socialized to find a rich husband, because in a patriarchal society men provide and women bear children as well as act as a sort of trophy of their husband’s success
OH I wish you guys would do a video essay about Pride and Prejudice
Maui- chan oh my god yes!!!
It would probably have to be done over multiple videos
Pride and prejudice the '95 BBC series!
Yesssss
@@007Julie, I've actually named my cat Mr Darcy after Collin Firth in the BBC adaptation of P&P, specifically ehen he emerges from a lake in his white shirt 😛
The difference between Pretty Woman and My Fair Lady that you pointed out is really interesting. Americans care more about wealth and money, while the English care more about class (related to wealth, but not exactly the same). In the US, money reigns supreme and it doesn't truly matter to people how you acquired it or if your family has always had it. People don't seem to care about class as much, as money is the universal language.
In England, you can only be considered high class if you and your relatives have been wealthy and powerful for generations. Being affluent and uppercrust is almost a distinct culture, and one's behavior, mannerisms, clothing, accent, and speech are all very important aspects of that. It always helps to be rich, but "old money" and class are what's truly respected.
Hence the prevalent concept of nouveau riche in England. They are not just rich, they are new rich so an undervalued rich
There is a concept of "old money" in the US but it is def not as prevalent here as it is in England
Yep, you’re “born in”, not bought in!
I think it’s because England has that history of very strict class divisions- the United States became a country after feudalism gave way to capitalism. It doesn’t have that history of class division in the same way that Europe does.
Australia is the same as America in that. Our “classes” are based purely on money. There still a “working class” that refers to more than just money.
Money is not the universal language, Music is the universal language.
WHY is this video demonitized? UA-cam is out of control, you deserve a monetary reward for your work. Anyway, great video.
How do you know that?
Lol the irony.
Can't believe this movie is about to be 30(!) years old. Where does the time go?
Rob Chuk well, your comment almost gave me an anxiety attack. 💀
🤯
Yup! I was sooooo young then. Just graduated college. Didn’t have a full time job yet. Fell in love with this movie. Saw it over and over that summer.
Jesus!!!! I was 14 when I watched it. Totally fantasised about Richard Gere
And Julia Roberts still looks as breathtaking
"If you live for money alone, there will never be enough of it." Wow.
So if Richard Gere had Google Maps back then this movie would never have happened.
valar Pretty much! 😂
I guess the phone would have had to go dead in these days
XD
True. Just like "Romeo and Juliet" never happens with cell phones 😉
"I'm heading right for the hookers, Richard."
There was actually a study that shows that money does buy happiness, but only to the point where you are living comfortably. After that, more money doesn't equal more happiness. Being rich doesn't buy you happiness. Going after more money after you don't have to worry about your needs and can indulge your wants is just stressing yourself out for no reason and making yourself a target for greedy people.
To those who are surprised to learn that “Pretty Woman” is a Disney movie (technically speaking):
It was released through Disney’s adult banner *“Touchstone Pictures”* , which was created so Disney could release mature content without undermining the wholesome “Disney name”.
Think of “Touchstone Pictures” as Disney’s “pseudonym”.
If “Pretty Woman” were labeled as a DISNEY film, parents would assume that it was a “family picture” and therefore they could take their children to see it. 😂
The sames way, Pulp Fiction is also a Disney movie 😄
Disney's attempts to be "edgy"w/o offending their "heartland" audience -who saw the films , anyway.(lmao)
Beethoven’s Fidelio “He’s a stranger, Mommy. Why did she get in the car with him” BAH!
sorry, that was the first thing that popped in my head
Vera Dandiflor Sort of. Miramax is a film company that Disney bought back in 1993, whereas “Touchstone Pictures” is a “trade name”, not a film company.
Interesting
Pretty Woman made me realize I have to work hard to get what I want.
Richard Gere's line when he said "Stores aren't friendly to people, they're friendly to credit cards." made me look at retail in a different way, if I have the money and I'm not treated well by one business, I can go somewhere else and another business will be happy to serve me.
ruzzell907 Unless paid by commission or tips, those minimum wage workers in retail don’t give a fuck how much you spend. They’re there to collect the pay check. Which is entirely valid. It’s the higher ups who only care about making profit off you.
Not literally true. Every customers are treated like people while customers treat us workers as dirt. Like we owe them something.
This was back in the day now. Nowadays the average store has friendly staff who don't discriminate. Not that I've seen anyways and I've shopped in designer stores (mainly browsing though lol)
"Should you live your life for love, or for money? Before we go on, we'd like to talk about our sponsor..." LOL
yasmin7903 I didn’t even catch that lol
😂😂
And 👏🏾thats 👏🏾the 👏🏾answer
Lol the irony
Can't make the dream if u can't make the rent...
Some dreams just arent worth sacrificing your income for.. Change the dream, keep the money, be happy
GREAT , now i have to re-watch it . hope your happy
I agree-- every time I see the Big mistake HUGE scene I have to rewatch
just checked...its not on my 3 streaming services. UGH :(
So true.. and i love this movie
AS A poor person I rather be rich & miserable then poor & wondering when’s my next meal.
Alien Princess
Well I lived both and it’s very relative and searching freely for your next meal isn’t that damn bad compared to a life of f*kin misery. Think outside the box.
22PoeticImpact At least rich people can afford therapy.
@@beethovensfidelio true that
Beethoven’s Fidelio
Ha, good point actually.
Im sure Kate Spade would agree with you.
I think being rich and miserable would make a lot of your problems worse because you'd be so accustomed to buying your problems away that you wouldnt know how to solve the problems you cant buy away. Plus money tends to isolate you from others. Lots of successful people have said that their biggest breakthrough or biggest revelations happened when they hit rock bottom or were at their darkest moment. At least if you're poor, you've got nowhere to go but up. but of you're rich, theres nowhere left to go but off the deep end if you cant face your demons.
Literally...one of my favorite movies and ironically it is because of how it shows how utterly corrupt people really are if they have nothing else besides money to live for. It also shows how having class as nothing to do with your what *class* you belong to.
I mean, it’s an 90s movie so I can’t get too upset at the cliche of it all. To a certain extent it’s actually pretty ahead of its time that it addresses these issues.
BlairWaldorf2013 it’s an eighties movie
Dancestar1981 no it’s not... it was released on 1st of June 1990
@@mars-nf9cj It would have been wrote and filmed in the 80s. It's more 80s than 90s. The fashion, the music, the cars, the interior design etc, super late 80s
Mixed messages or no, I’ve always loved this movie.
Also- treat sex workers with respect. Sex work is work! Sex workers are not lesser people.
In that way, this was an extremely progressive movie for its time. We’re barely up to that very basic premise as a society almost 30 years later. In fact, I’d say that part from some more left leaning spaces of society, we still aren’t there yet, and that’s so bloody infuriating.
Katie_pol True. The film also avoids the “disposable sex worker” trope (that is, Vivian doesn’t get killed off for being a sex worker).
as a sex worker, I thank you. (No, not a prostitute-there's a lot of different types of sex work)
Nekid Snek9000 Not every sex worker is in the business due to sex trafficking. Some of them do it because they CHOOSE to do it (whether for intrinsic pleasure or because they need the cash)
Our society is so hypocritical everyone watches and enjoys porn it's a huge business. But porn stars are treated like lepers in society and people laugh when they get aids saying they knew the risks. I wonder if they would laugh at a burned fireman they knew the risks right?
@Nekid Snek9000 You're really comparing those that choose to have sex for their job the same as those who steal away others to force into the sex industry? How hard is it to understand that those that have sex for work don't deserve to be harmed and deserve equal respect? They're still human.
One of my favorite movies because Vivian had a lot of dignity and femininity in spite of the horrible life situation she was in.
Also Richard Gere and Julia Roberts are one of my favorite romantic duos of the 90s. This movie and the the Runaway Bride are my faves.
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"“It would be an excellent match, for he was rich, and she was handsome. . . . she [Mrs. Jennings] was always anxious to get a good husband for every pretty girl.” (Sense and Sensibility)
"But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.” (Mansfield Park)
Jane Austen telling it like it is since 1810
I never understood why people considered this movie as a classic.
I don't hate it but don't love it either but the scene where she takes "revenge" over those stuck-up ladies at the clothing shop is the best.
I loved that scene♥️
Luna agreed!
@Luna it says that life is a wheel of fortune so don't look down at anyone...because lives can change - dramatically. It also says that you have got to leave your comfort zone, cause you don't know who you'll meet, how someone from a completely different walk of life can make you evolve for the better. You need to break those social status lines in order for this to happen. That's why it's a classic. It's against the mantra of greed and decadence and for the mantra of spirituality, good karma and kindness :)
Well, it was a huge hit back in the day and made Julia Robert's career. But it is also simply a really well made movie, especially in the way it uses music.
The scene at the shop is most likely the most popular though, because most of us have experienced this at one point, that we are in a shop and just getting overlooked for a supposedly better customer...and then having to made the decision to really go through with you buy or not. Which is a little bit easier of a decision to make when the sales person doesn't work on provisions, btw, because then you can teach them a lesson without giving them a bunch of money, too.
It’s my moms favorite part of the movie and sometimes she watches it just for that scene
And now I want to watch Pretty Woman. Great analysis!
I want to add of the big mistake scene is similar to the shopping scene in the movie Selena but the scene from the ladder movie was definitely based on real life incidents. it would be nice to compare the scenes to and to about how one represents class prejudice of the other represents ethnic prejudice.
Was expecting that office reference and you guys delivered. My sunday is a bit brighter now.
I love that kind of moments haha
I just liked that this movie made people more like to see sex workers as people.
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"Money can't buy you happiness, but it does buy you a better class of misery."
Luboman411 I would rather be miserable and rich, than miserable and poor.
@@beethovensfidelio For what?? To be a corrupt monster who steals money from people???
My mom used to watch this movie all the time when I was a kid. I really appreciate this adult look at it. I do have a comment, though:
12:30 Someone hasn't seen Overboard for a long minute. This movie has NOT aged well. The story is full of awfully sexist double standards (the female character gets excessively punished for being a stuck up bitch; the male character never gets punished for his malicious schemes), and the "irresistible rom-com" element is rapey by today's standards.
I've just found pretty much the same rant in one of your older videos: Rom Cons: Problematic Movie Romance Lessons (2017). Did the editors change or something?
Ah, yes. A movie I pretend I saw. I really should get around to this lol.
Dooo!!! It's a nineties movie but there is something magical about it. I have never been a huge rom com gal but Pretty Woman is special.
@@FireFairy1994 I'm a 90's kid but would've definitely been too young to know what was going on in this film lol
Do it. It's SO GOOD
The moment when Richard ignores the hotel manager breaks my heart every time
I still don't understand how women find this kind of men attractive. He's just pretty and rich, basically lacks of personality except for his daddy issues and treating people like crap
Same reason people like physically attractive women.
María Txc Look at Christian Grey from “Fifty Shades of Grey”. He’s a creepy, abusive stalker, but because he’s rich and hot, his behavior is seen as “romantic”.
If Christian were ugly, poor, and living in a trailer park, it would be another episode of “Criminal Minds”.
I remember it coming out in the early 90's people were raving about it. I remember reading a screen publication about the original idea for the film. I was really disappointed in this film. I would have really loved the original screen play where it concentrates more on the whole relationship being nothing more than a transaction. I think in the original screen play he tosses her out onto the curb and she swears at him and goes back to her work as a prostitute. She is a dug addict in the film. The original screenplay was gritter and was a drama. No romanticizing anything. It is a pity they didn't speak about that a bit more.
Yes. But most people go through life operating on an unconscious level.
They accept the easy way of choosing a mate. (Like we're still primates in mud huts).
Men: bad boy, aggressive, athletic, emotionally distant (hunter type, stoic, leader)
Women: girly, passive/compassionate, sweet, pretty and/or hot (young enough to be of optimal fertility, old enough to take care of proposed kids as a consequence of sex)
I see this everywhere. Pretty people end up with pretty people.
No madder liberal cities or conservative small towns.
Others scrounge around, and settle for almost anyone when they get desperate enough.
Scarlett Johanson is a great example of someone who LOOKS like the ideal mate for a man. She has a youthful face and womanly body, athletic and strong; but obviously fertile and feminine.
Brad Pitt... any explanation necessary? He screams Alpha.
Tbh, whenever I watch Pretty Woman I'm sold because of Julia Roberts' captivatingly charming performance. Richard Gere is ok, he is an attractive man, but Julia Roberts shines like a diamond in this movie.
I think that's true for most romcoms. It's more about wanting to be like the female lead and less about wanting the specific guy, although he has to be attractive enough to be considered a good reward for the evolution of the protagonist.
"So what is it that makes Vivienne such a pretty woman?" She's played by Julia Roberts, I think an angel get its wings every time she smiles.
To be quite honest its money 1st always. People who already inherited wealth have the luxury to contemplate such a thing as love.
So true
Poor people dream of love too.
@@ayandak47 I hope so
@@TheBreezus i'm poor and i have.. though i think at this point its best to throw it out, make money and live in the mountains.
Soo true
Another weird thing to think about with this movie is that, so many movies/shows call it out for being unrealistic and trite that acknowledging how cliche Pretty Woman is has become its own romcom cliche. So many romcoms and tv shows have a scene where someone is either watching or discussing Pretty Woman, they get called out for being drawn to something so unrealistic usually by the character who’s arc revolves around learning to embrace love and being in a romcom and the hopeless romantic defends their pleasure despite its superficiality. It’s a weird kind of lampshading where the movie can call themselves out for being cliche and let’s the audience feel clever for being in on the joke while also getting to indulge in said cliches. What does that say about our culture and how we view Hollywood romance now? Is the world so grim, that we can’t indulge in the artifice unless it calls itself out.
"money doesn't buy happiness"
No, but it does give me the opportunity to be both rich and happy. I can always BE happy, I can't just BE rich.
I love how y'all included the coming to america clip
Exactly you don’t have to marry a girl bc she’s pretty or a man bc he’s rich but it sure does help🤷🏿♀️ And the ppl who say otherwise are being intellectually dishonest!(and are probably lacking wealth/looks)😂
Lay a whisper on my pillow, leave the winter on the ground ... and then I notice my favorite ladies have just uploaded another fantastic video.
"All relationships are transactional"
11:39-11:47 I can only imagine Disney didn’t like the original ending, since the idea of hookers going to *Disneyland* would be antithetical to the company’s “wholesome, family-friendly” image. 😂 😂
Pretty Woman was one of three.VHS movies we had-and no cable most the time. I can’t count how many times I’ve watched it. Thank you so much for doing this deep dive. Brought it all back.
I personally think you have to have a balance in your life. You need money plain and simple it’s a necessity. But it won’t help you feel love or be loved. It’s one of the few things that it can’t buy.
Hector Thompson was my favorite character from this movie. I never compared him to the fairy godmother, but it works!
On the whole, it's better to have money than it is not to have money. The "successful" people who tell "ordinary" people that "money cannot buy happiness", and to just "follow your bliss", are usually the same people who are insanely rich and very blissful about it.
In the movie "The New Leaf" a newly bankrupt and distraught former millionaire playboy complains to his servant that he has lost all his wealth and did that mean that he was "poor" now? The servant tells his soon to be former employer that yes, indeed he has suffered the worst possible kind of poverty, i.e. that he was no longer RICH.
This analysis is incredible
So Pretty woman is on the long list of things than Fifty Shades bastardized noted.
I consider it the good 50 Shades.
You know, I only just watched pretty woman today, and I started to fear that he was somehow a perverted creep only to realize that I literally only thought that because of goddamn fifty shades. The situation was, in reality, not even remotely the same. His behavior was not predatory and he showed no inherent desire to control her or go against her wishes. Yes he sometimes told her what to do but it was for social appearance reasons and not some weird screwed up desires, and this was not presented as sexy, it was presented as a mistake and a major flaw in the relationship he had to apologize for and correct. Although both stories are about a poor woman entering the world of a rich man (and them having a fair amount of sex with each other), the similarities end there. The sex scenes in pretty woman go out of their way to show enthusiastic consent, and they’re used as a way to HUMANIZE the relationship between the leads and show their inherent affection for each other, not as a way to showcase their deep screwed-up-ness. Although the movie acknowledges the power imbalance the leads start with, it keeps that power imbalance OUT of the sex and it explicitly corrects these issues by clearly stating them and having the male lead apologize when he does wrong and correct his behavior. The female lead is an intelligent person who knows her goddamn rights as a human being and fights for them if she doesn’t get them, setting an excellent example and inspiring women in any similar situations. Also, despite technically being paid to have sex, she is always shown to be very attracted to the male lead and interested in sex in any scene where the act takes place, something that should be a given for any piece of media but unfortunately isn’t. The male lead does have a sad past that causes him to behave negatively at times, but this movie makes the RIGHT FREAKING CHOICE by not having him abuse people because of that past as if that’s even remotely reasonable or excusable. Instead his past’s effect comes out through everyday social interactions which are rude but not abusive or intentionally cruel, and he explicitly grows past these issues by the end.
In other words, fifty shades may have stolen the basic synopsis of pretty woman in some ways, but it took what was a positive story about two individuals finding happiness and growing as people in a NON ABUSIVE relationship with an interesting critique of capitalism, and it turned it into a disgusting story about an abusive piece of trash that claims to justify his repulsive behavior with the fact that “his family was mean to him :(“ and glamorizes his abuse, frames it as sexy, and pretends that the magic wealth scenes somehow make this nightmarish and violent relationship ok because ✨money✨. Personally, I think the two movies are almost opposites. Screw fifty shades for almost making me think this wonderful movie was about another abusive prick when really it’s pretty damn consensual and honestly very positive towards women and the way they deserve to be treated.
@@engelberthovel8566 pretty woman is classoc. It's charm never fades away.
Woah that Marilyn Monroe scene aged pretty well
It aged well because our culture hasn't advanced as much as we like to think it has when it come to gender roles.
The day that Marilyn Monroe clip starts sounding ridiculously outdated is the day you'll know we achieved real gender equality.
I just burst out laughing knowing Disney did this movie.🤣🤣🤣🤣
I saw a post about some similarities between Pretty woman and the princess diaries movie .
clover They were directed by the same man: Garry Marshall.
Olatoye Gureje It was released through Disney’s adult banner *“Touchstone Pictures”,* which was created so Disney could release mature content without undermining the wholesome “Disney name”.
Think of “Touchstone Pictures” as Disney’s “pseudonym”.
If “Pretty Woman” were labeled as a DISNEY film, parents would assume that it was a “family picture” and therefore they can take their children to see it. 😂
I can only imagine Disney didn’t like the original ending, since hookers taking a bus to *Disneyland* would harm the company’s image. 😝
I liked this video but it seems to be a shallow look at just the movie and Pretty Woman seems more like a time capsule. As much you talked about living within your means/being middle class and happy is better than being wealthy, there’s been so much that’s happened these past 30 years that makes Pretty Woman seem more like a Disney Fairytale.
In the past 30 years since I was born, and this movie was released, wages have stayed flat, college tuition has skyrocketed and the wealthiest now own a larger percentage of all wealth since the roaring 20s. Something’s got give when not even the rich want to live or be driven into the same neighborhoods as their doctors, teachers of their kids or homeless; they can fly off in helicopters above them to jet off to other countries or their private island to vacation.
Being poor and happy while living with a partner seems romantic until you realize you can’t take a break from work to pay bills or put them on a almost maxed out credit card. My fiancé and I have been together for three years and I’ve just now started a great paying job that’ll help with expenses a lot. I’m lucky in my situation but there’s so many people who aren’t and all they have to afford is watching films like Pretty Woman, hoping the same fairytale can happen to them
Next do Frank and Roxie from "Frank's pretty woman" in Always Sunny. It's so heartwarming to have Frank learn that loving hookers, and boiling jeans he found under the bridge, is just who he is.
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Maybe Edward will make less money building ships instead of buying businesses, so in a sense, he did choose love over money.
@@oof-rr5nf You can always use more money. Making less money means less choices.
@@oof-rr5nf I said 'use' not 'need'.
@@oof-rr5nf That he might still have the money he need to keep his house, car and driver but he might not have the money to use as he please anymore.
Wait. George Costanza was in Pretty Woman?
Yes he played an asshole character lol
@Lace & Roses that happened so awkward to watch.
SEEMINGLY ☝🏻
Yep! And pretty much playing the type of guy George Costanza wish he'd been lol
I swear to god, Richard Gere was so deliciously irresistible in this.
I AGREE
honestly yes
He looks like a foot
Watched this movie again recently and it 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 stand up well in 2019, specifically the way he speaks to and treats Vivian
Great work! Please let us now your take on 'other people's money'. Movie is so good, so underrated and plays perfectly with these themes here imho. Would love to hear your take!
Funny if you consider this movie to be set in the real world. The US shipping industry got destroyed via dumping and low labor cost by the South Koreans and the Chinese in the 2000s. Edwards would have lost a lot of money.
don't know why but watching this as an 19 years old in 2020 still makes me feel so joyous, everything about this is still very relatable to be honest.
Always giving me a new insight into films. I love this channel so much
Also interesting that the movie adaptation of Pygmalion also romanticized the ending. In the original play she ends up with the poor young guy and the professor has to put them both up in his house. A more realistic but dim end.
I like how you ended the video. I wasn't sure about this video until you tied it all together. Thank you.
it means that no matter how you begin your life if you are attractive you can get whatever you want.
Wow, The Take, you do wonders for peoples love of movies, Hollywood itself should pay you. My wish: Do The Talented Mr Ripley, based on genius crime writer Patricia Highsmiths novels. Many movie adaptions came from her work, recently Carol ( actors, Blanchett & Mara), Todd Haynes masterpiece. Highsmith was in her day compared to Dostojevskij, loved in Europe, underrated in America. She deserves a golden hommage!
As much I like The Talented Mister Ripley, she really fall in the old troupe of the amoral character being sexually "depraved" aka being a homosexual, like if that was a sign of malice from part of the character, most funny thing, the people that surround Ripley are offend more amoral and hypocritical that he is.
One of my favorite Rom Com! Thanks for analyzing this! Great job!
Are you gonna make videos about Parasite & Weathering with You? They'll be in Oscar next year
I lived around the block from the "Pretty Woman hotel" in Hollywood in the 90s. One day I was walking home and there was a movie crew in front of the hotel shooting the final scene of Pretty Woman where Edward climbs up the fire escape. No, it wasn't the original movie, it was an entirely Japanese cast and crew shooting a Japanese version of the movie.
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Me too!
Rory Bjorkman totally,but i still wanna learn the process
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Love doesn’t pay the bills
I would like to hear your thoughts on the new Hustlers movie! It's a given blockbuster because of the cast and promo tour, sure, but the surprisingly emotional depth is worth deconstructing. Love your work!
Money matters but it matters increasingly more because a tiny percentage of people control most of the world's resources while the have nots fight amongst themselves for the mere crumbs. Civilized societies should ensure their citizens have free healthcare and education and do not support excessive consumerism. There is a difference between having enough to live and to protect your family's future and greedily amassing wealth for your own selfish interests. Look at the birds and how incredibly they live. They do not consume anymore than they require neither do they hoard on food.
Some people having a ton of money does not make you poorer. Period.
@@ColinTherac117 It does when they control most of the world's resources. When thanks to their greed we have companies like Nestle giving statements that 'water is not a basic human right.' When billionaires and their brands are responsible for the deforestation of our planet, when companies care more about profit for which they are ready to criminalize tribal people for protecting their land, then people with an insane amount of money do become responsible for the poverty of those whom they are willingly exploiting to earn their next billion dollars.
@@aamnahere6250 I like how Colin had nothing to say in response. You made excellent points.
would love it if you eventually did an analysis on the main characters from Boardwalk Empire (especially Richard Harrow)
I love the fact that this channel always has English subtitles :)
I love this analysis!!! I almost cry at the end.
I would love to see your take on the "Lost".
This is my favourite UA-cam channel for sure.
It's nice to hear Susannah narrating these videos
Perhaps Holly Golightly fits in here, as well.
Ok, now I need to watch this. Is it out on Blu-ray?
So the rich [not handsome] man marries a pretty woman. Their rich daughters may not look so pretty. Any movies that addresses that next step?
@V D.O. oh, that "cuts" 😂
LMAO
The movie "Penelope"
That’s why plastic surgeons and cosmetic procedures exist. No one is ugly, they’re just poor.
mayying a pretty woman is going to resukt in better looking offspring than if the rich guy married an ugly woman...
I lived around the block from the "pretty woman hotel" in Hollywood. One day I was walking home past the hotel and saw a film company outside the building. They were filming the final scene when Edward was climbing the fire escape. The entire cast and crew were Japanese.
Sooo interesting watching this after watching Hustlers!
I just love and adore your videos it’s so educational. I have watched this analysis of Pretty Woman 5 times this month, and your video on Nicole Kidman was brilliant, same as for Cinderella’s analysis video and many more.... 😍. Can you make some for Blake Lively’s Serena Van der Woodson of Gossip Girl or anything related to Audrey Hepburn. ❤️
Damn. Never thought Pretty Woman could have a deeper meaning. Amazing video btw 👍🏿
I wish there was an updated version of My Fair Lady where instead of a rich man transforming a young woman, it's literally her education and will for success that does.
@@somethingsomething922 Thanks and I will! :-)
In Audrey Hepburn's Sabrina, her transformation only happens cause her father sends her to get an education so partial wish granted? Also in a reverse of My Fair Lady, it's Sabrina who we see teaching Linus French as well as to value the little things that her modest but happy upbringing allowed her to see.
Thank you, girls, because this kind of videos are really good to analyze the media we consumed in a little more practical way. I just read the book Crazy Rich Asians, and I couldn't stop to think in this video, and the 50 shades of grey. It's true, It is the perfect capitalist fairy tale.
This is one of the very few, truly intelligent movie reviews that I have ever seen. Great insight, and a truly compelling analysis. Geoff Rohde
Money can buy happiness if ones happiness lies within material stuff.
That's exactly what it is a fairy tale that's not the real life..
Another great analysis. I've learned a lot about good film making from your channel including how detail oriented it is... in this case down to Vivian's name. Makes me wonder if these decisions are conscious or simply intuitive impulses by the writer/filmmaker.
Whenever I want to feel good, I’d watch Pretty Woman. 🤗
This movie is a classic. The hate against it is just bullshit
And largely Pretty Woman is the modern version of a Restoration Comedy, with a tiny bit of Sentimental Comedy thrown in to balance it out. I'd love for you to talk about those theatre influences on this film as well.
Never saw the movie and came here for two reasons: The Office scene with Dwight and the song by Roy Orbison.
Just wanted to say that I am glad that your videos are understandable and give a good summmary on plot and characters. I always thaught "Pretty Woman" was a cheesy romcom but I guess I was wrong.
Holy crap, I never thought that rom com was so deep. You guys are amazing, and eloquent AF
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you’ve got.
Oh it was so good I almost peed my pants!
PatisserieBoy 🤣
“She said it was better than Pirates of Penzance.”
Make a video essay about "Two and Half man" please
Love your take on this. Also the way you made her legs the t’s in “Pretty” 👍
I cant help but to feel that even though money is not everything, the extreme lack of it shows a bit of a character flaw... like not being consistent, not being able to hold down a job, not being there. Vivian must not be able to hold down a job for example or must have some distress
@@oof-rr5nf I live in a Capitalist society buddy, it kind of does. We all have faults that don't let us progress, no need to get triggered.
Sometimes, but most often people don't have the ability to be wealthy, because in a capitalist economy poverty of the many is intrinsic to the system. Unexpected turn of events like a medical issue can make people go bankrupt without them having a chance. It could hit you as well. You can make a point that people who highest value is money and the supposedly attached attributes to it have a character flaw of their own and are pretty shallow.
@@IsomerSoma of course there are exceptions like your health issue example. The degree of poverty also varies. But to be on the streets with no other choice but to beg or prostitute, it's usually drugs, mental issues, psichological issues, no financial education or character flaws. I don't know why it's so hard to acknowledge that.
@@AlfoncinaMatilda The most aren't on the street so even if we assume your redefined premise to be true the wealth someone owns still has little to no significance in terms of judging someone's character. You are more like saying that if you can't function within the system you are of bad character, but poor people have a necessary function in a capitalist system just as wealthy people have a function; therefore only "drop outs" have a bad character. I still think that this is a very narrow and downright missguided view on morality and character as your value or at the very least value indicating sign seems to be wealth for you. Many rich people are psychopaths as such a trait is beneficial to climb corporate ladders. I don't know why you think that diligence should be the primary character trait of a human and why you think that the amount of wealth correlates with diligence as tightly as you do. Scientists don't earn as much as economists; not even close. Meanwhile they work just as hard and on a higher knowhow level, while benefiting humanity, while an economist mainly just makes him/ herself rich. His work has no more worth than the money he makes. It's pretty shallow and the reasons why people join this field are therefore shallow as well, if we only judge someone based on what he does, which I would like to avoid (I don't think economists are shallow). Understandable yet shallow. To me this is more a sign of bad character than a citizen who choses that he doesn't needs to shit money; someone who possesses modesty. People working in the social field are infinitely more valuable for society then economists and even scientists tho they are payed very poorly as the market value isn't necessarily a healthy society. To then just take the market as a moral compass, like you seem to do, is so incredibly intellectually poor (and American) it makes me sad. Well one more thing: mental issues and drug abuse which highly correlates with mental illness and bad environment in childhood aren't so much a question of morality but of illness which is caused by a disfunctional society producing a disfunctional system. It should be seen as a medical and sociological as well as economical issue. Not so much as an individual issue as any person in the wrong conditions could drop out.
@@IsomerSoma maybe, I guess everything can be debated cause everything is relative to ones point of view.
I never completely watched Pretty Woman, but I would love to watch the original script being produced. The gritty version. In this time filled with remake after remake, why not make it!!