Amazing how well Audrey Hepburn delivered mispronounced English, since her English pronunciation is impeccable. But she managed a Midwestern American accent in another movie, THE UNFORGIVEN (1960). Meanwhile, she was multilingual!
We have an arabic play similar inspired by this movie. The man was supposed to teach the girl how to address the King. The pronunciations there were more important because they changed the meaning. Instead of saying "You are the big heart, you are the mirror of our nation, your wisdom is shinning on us". She says:"You are the big dog, you are our wife, your wisdom is scamming us"
I think it's the opposite order maybe, or that both are just from the novel, because the Egyptian play is in black and white, and this film is colored.
@@badinfluencerinc5686 The play's name is سيدتى الجميلة. I love it so much, but I'm not sure if you will find it with English sub, but anyway hope you enjoy.
The only issue I had with the movie was that it had to be dumbed down into a romance to suit the needs of cinema of that time. In contrast to the movie, the Eliza from the book does not fall in love with the old professor who sees her as a mere experiment and refuses to treat her better. She realises that she deserved someone who not only loved her and treated her well but would also support her dreams. She was a woman with great intergrity of character and spunk and a desire to become financially independent at a time and age at which it was definitely looked down upon. Her character development in the book was Brilliant but Unfortunately it's pretty much stunted in the movie. P.S read the book!! It's called Pygmalion. By G.B.Shaw who also went on to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. It's a masterpiece of a satire on the societal class divide, feminism and world problem of education and so much more. It's a reader's delight. :)
Oh I’ve read Pygmalion! So long ago! I was always confused when people said certain movies and shows were reinterpretations of My Fair Lady, but you’re right there’s a huge difference! I’ve actually never seen My Fair Lady
@@addlemm44 then go time travel and stop your ancestor from colonization so the half of the world dont have to learn english and can fully focus on their native languages🤷♀️
@@duelbuster123 Based on Europe's industrialisation even if we didn't colonise the world a European language would still be the lingua franca of the world. We must be thankful that the English language won out otherwise French would still be the lingua franca, and French is a dreadful and effeminate language.
"Pickering: Did you try the plain cake? ^-^ " "Try again. ^-^ " "Pickering: I said, did you try the pline cike?" o_O; " "Higgins: o_O; -_-; PICKERING!!! -_-; "
Casey Alcoser In the original Broadway production there's no mirror, just a candle placed in front of Eliza. Every times she pronounces the "h" sound, the flame flickers; otherwise, it doesn't. This rotating mirror was added in the film and, to be honest, it doesn't make any sense at all, rotating or not.
Don't you "DARE" tell me not to say my prayers Mister Higgens! God's going to punish you for that. All God hears when we speak is a beauty of his creation. We weren't meant to talk or prounce the same way, He didn't create us to be uniformed robots! He creates us to be unique individuals in His image.
Watching this as a speech therapy masters student was fascinating. As some have noted, she is merely speaking a different dialect of English. It isn’t “wrong” it’s just different.
Yes. We all got that many decades ago. The film itself does not endorse the idea of correct pronunciation. It questions the validity of that concept. You have finally caught up with GB Shaw.
Hi Kangakool, how can one learn the British RP accent? So you have any experience from speech therapy experience? I can already speak English but wish to develop this accent
@@TamarMebonia Yes, all while starving poor Eliza. The staff members, albeit probably poor themselves, dedicate all their empathy towards the boss. There are some nice ironies at work in this movie which até occasionaly overlooked by viewers.
Poor professor Higgins Poor professor Higgins Night and day He slaves away Oh, poor professor Higgins All day long on his feet Up and down until he's numb Doesn't rest, doesn't eat Doesn't touch a crumb
Phonics, once upon a time, was a skill all children learned in school. Not so now. Higgins' method is called, phonemic awareness. It uses rhyming words so that the student can see/hear the sounds. The issue, however, with English, is our exceptions. English is a wild and crazy language. That is why it is so expressive. I love teaching phonemic awareness to my students. It is like a window opens when they see/hear how the words are pronounced, and then know the rules of those pronunciations. Higgins also uses elocution as an overall method, because not only will Eliza need to pronounce the words accurately, she will need conversation. That means increasing her vocabulary. I would love to have my students for 6 months straight, every day!
"That is why it is so expressive." This is a very dangerous theory. Do you suggest there is an innate quality of English which makes it more expressive than another language which functions in a different way? Do Farsi poets wish Farsi was as expressive as English? Do humans have thoughts or feelings which can be expressed in English but not in other languages?
@@cacambo589 Firstly, we are not addressing Farsi in this discussion. Nor poetry.The discussion is about the English language. Secondly, why is it a dangerous theory? What are you afraid of? Thirdly, it is how a language evolves and how open it is to adopting new words that broadens expressions. English is the STEM language. 1.5 billion people speak English, not because of Shakespeare, but because of science and technology.
Here are some fun facts: 1. In this movie, the main character's last name is Doolittle. 3 years after this movie, Rex Harrison played the title character in the movie Doctor Dolittle. 2. Eliza's first and last names are the first and last names of characters who can talk to animals: Eliza Thornberry from the TV show The Wild Thornberrys (which came many years after this movie) and the afromentioned Doctor Dolittle (though with slightly different spelling in both cases)
@@michaelscott3174 because English has no pronunciation rules: but if it had them, and the vowels were pronounced like in most of European languages with pronunciation rules, what the girl says would be much closer to how it would have to be pronounced: rain R - A (as in Africa, not as in Alternate) - I (as in Instrument, not as in Idea) - N
You're more right than you realize. In Middle English, "ai" was pronounced how Eliza says it. Modern English radically changed pronunciation but kept most of the spelling, which is why modern spelling is so illogical.
I do realize that Audrey Hepburn performance never could live up to that replacement voice in the songs, but her comedy timing was perfect, she was great as ever in those parts. (And she could dance better than anyone else...)
Elocution is not about getting rid of regional accents, it's about teaching a pronunciation everyone can understand. In a multilingual country, pupils are taught the other language/s, so likewise everyone should have a similar accent nationwide, as well as their regional one if they want to keep it.
Indeed. I watched Britain’s Got Talent 2009 sometime back, saw Hollie Steel audition singing I Could Have Danced all Night from My Fair Lady, watched the scene from the movie after that...and five years later, this came in my recommendations.
Non-native English speaker here. Re-watching this scene evoked some fun childhood memory. I was three and very eager to go to prep school. I wanted to impress my parents by trying to read the text on a portrait of Garfield on the wall which read: I hate Mondays. I got the I hate part, but I pronounced Mondays erroneously (short o and a sounds). My elder siblings laughed their butts off.
@@sailorv8067 yk this movie belongs in the 60's right? Of course the acting may not look authentic as of today but it was still enjoyable and appropriate for that time.
@steve gale Rhonda Rhousey is a female boxer. They seemed to just be using frail as a synonym for petite or waify. They never said it was a fault. Audrey is slender and went through years of malnourishment during WW2.
She’s meant to be a cockney, and Julie Andrews (who played Eliza on stage) actually can do a cockney and RP accent... the cockney Michael Caine can also do a good RP accent (as seen in Zulu). Hepburn isn’t English though so she can be forgiven.
Audrey's acting was superb it really is a shame she didn't get recognition just because she wasn't singing even though nowadays actors get away with it...
Many modern actors have never been able and never learned to sing at all. Unlike Audrey, who has spent months since Funny Face becoming a passable stage singer, but with a cockney accent.. coupled with her pleasant, but weak compared to a professional Marni Nixon voice - all this threw a sword into the scales of Jack Warner's decision. She knew five languages, was able to separate British and two American accents, but .. here her powers ended. And we see Audrey as an ordinary person, which one can often doubt to admit) Mean.
"My fair lady" is the most successful musical of all time!!!! It has everything you need :top actors and music,it's funny and it's unique! I love it!❤️
I'm not really understand english when i was a little kid. I love watching magic stuff and watching harry potter with an my language subtitles. And then i slowly understand and know how to pronounce them.
I remember when I was a kid nearly 45 year ago and struggling so hard to learn English. I could'nt much tell the difference betweeen American and British English not to mention why did Mrs.Hepburn drop her "h"s. in the movie. I listened carefully to the record over and over again as I did The Sound of Music... How painstakingly difficult was to learn a foreign language on my own listening to BBC and VOA news and reading Pearl S. Buck and Mark Twain and Charlotte Bronte and Anna Sewell. But it finally paid off! When I took the GRE in 1995 to get a PhD in the US I scored 97% on my verbal to my utter surprise! A major victory for a non-native English speaker.
'You'll get much further with The Lord if you learn not to offend His Ears.' So true.😅 I always thought those mirrors were absolutely unnecessary. Pickering decided that if Higgins didn't mind the Library burning down then neither did he. I like Pickering. A cool dude.
The German dub did an interesting attempt. They replaced the Cockney accent with the typical "Berliner Schnauze" Berlin slang and to be honest it actually makes sense. Because it worked and had the exact same effect as it had in the original.
I was laughting until 4:34. I felt very very sad at this. The disappointment is writen all over her face. Atl east give her a piece of cake unless the cake is a lie.
My father loved this movie and was a Rex Harrison fan - yes, the movie didn't stay true to the original work of Shaw but Harrison and Hepburn probably delivered their greatest performances as actors.
Fair lady is an old classic in color, with great humor and manner. Money can shape minds and body but it can't make you a fair person.. I'm not quite sure I got message right, hence I'd like to watch this over just to refresh my thoughts out of modern era! #Myfairlady #1964 #2023 ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
I'm surprised that Audrey's"Ms.Eliza Dolittle" didn't get burned by that damn device that Sir Rex' "Prof.Higgins"uses to teach her how to pronounce her h's properly.
No it's not. She wasn't actually held captive. She agreed to be there of her own free will to learn to speak better so she could accomplish more. Just because you would choose to stay with a man like him doesn't mean she has to have Stockholm syndrome inorder for her to decide to stay. Stop trivializing real problems in order to criticize a poorly written plot just because the character didn't choose what you would have.
Man the dialogue in these movies and the elegant way it's delivered is just so fascinating to me. I hope I can speak with the Transatlantic accent one day!
I remembered watching FBE's React channel where the teens reacted to movie musicals, and one of the teens nonchalantly commented that Audrey/Eliza looked like she was in pain when she was singing the "rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains" song...I LOLed so hard because the timing was so perfect, and the teen even rhymed with the song...
Teaching "Received Pronunciation" to an English young lady... In Indonesia, we have the same tendency: the uneducated people drop every initial h, thus "halus" (soft) becomes "alus", "hilang" becoming "ilang" (missing), , etc.
Stewie is a Henry Higgins parody. In Received Pronunciation you pronounce the H in WH words (whom for example, or even why). Technically to the brits (and Aussie’s) it should be cool whip like Stewie says it.
Pause this film at any frame, and it's like an old painting. (Go on, try it with this very video.) I was utterly bored when I first watched My Fair Lady in middle school. I adore it now.
This is the perfect simulation when you migrate to other countries and try to learn a new language, although all those tools could have been very helpful! ;)
The irony of the servants singing "Poor professor Higgins, night and day, he slaves away" kills me everytime
Omg 😂
@@loisannebarin6995 lol
poor Eliza since she doesn't get fed and he said he and the servants beat her. She's the slave. :'-(
Absolutely
have you seen the show before making your conclusion?
Amazing how well Audrey Hepburn delivered mispronounced English, since her English pronunciation is impeccable. But she managed a Midwestern American accent in another movie, THE UNFORGIVEN (1960). Meanwhile, she was multilingual!
Andrews had a better cockney and RP accent though. Both of Hepburn’s are off.
She was a professional. And one of the best human beings..
Most of the world is multi lingual
@@Netalula0707 most american and native english-speakers are not....thats why they don't know much about other's culture
@@blancheneige9326 it's mostly an american problem. Even jn Britain you have to study at least French or German or something if i remember correctly
Not leviosA
Lmao
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA So unexpected xD
In the book it went:
Not leviosar. It's leviosa.
🤣🤣🤣
@@wyatt1750 porque ler os clássicos?
No, Eliza, you didn't sigh that. You didn't even say that.
Many of europa's former colonies are only a few years years old.
Zimbabwe I think is still under british rule when this movie was released.
😂
😂😂😂
“Say cup of tea.”
“Cupah tea.”
😂😂
Cupah tey
edit: can't believe I got 1k likes, thanks y'all
Zeus nah it ruins the comment lol
In the book it's even funnier. She says "Cuppattee" Or something like that
Lol.
We have an arabic play similar inspired by this movie. The man was supposed to teach the girl how to address the King. The pronunciations there were more important because they changed the meaning. Instead of saying "You are the big heart, you are the mirror of our nation, your wisdom is shinning on us". She says:"You are the big dog, you are our wife, your wisdom is scamming us"
What's the name of the movie?
I would love to see that movie. It already sounds so amusing xD
@@badinfluencerinc5686 I wanna know the name of the movie too :)
I think it's the opposite order maybe, or that both are just from the novel, because the Egyptian play is in black and white, and this film is colored.
@@badinfluencerinc5686
The play's name is سيدتى الجميلة.
I love it so much, but I'm not sure if you will find it with English sub, but anyway hope you enjoy.
The only issue I had with the movie was that it had to be dumbed down into a romance to suit the needs of cinema of that time.
In contrast to the movie, the Eliza from the book does not fall in love with the old professor who sees her as a mere experiment and refuses to treat her better. She realises that she deserved someone who not only loved her and treated her well but would also support her dreams. She was a woman with great intergrity of character and spunk and a desire to become financially independent at a time and age at which it was definitely looked down upon. Her character development in the book was Brilliant but Unfortunately it's pretty much stunted in the movie.
P.S read the book!! It's called Pygmalion. By G.B.Shaw who also went on to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. It's a masterpiece of a satire on the societal class divide, feminism and world problem of education and so much more. It's a reader's delight. :)
Sounds interesting
It's not a book, it's a stage play of which the script can be read.
Oh I’ve read Pygmalion! So long ago! I was always confused when people said certain movies and shows were reinterpretations of My Fair Lady, but you’re right there’s a huge difference! I’ve actually never seen My Fair Lady
@@radsical1392 Also try the book Breakfast at Tiffany's - such an amazing piece of literature, has very little to do the fluff the movie is
That's open to interpretation though. Because IIRC there's a line at the end of the play where Higgins says pretty confidently that she'll be back
This is not "how to learn English pronunciation", this is "how to get rid of another English accent".
How to learn ("True") English pronunciation. Obviously any other accent deserves nothing but disdain.
addlemm44 oh, we’re sorry your majesty.
@@addlemm44 then go time travel and stop your ancestor from colonization so the half of the world dont have to learn english and can fully focus on their native languages🤷♀️
@@duelbuster123 Based on Europe's industrialisation even if we didn't colonise the world a European language would still be the lingua franca of the world. We must be thankful that the English language won out otherwise French would still be the lingua franca, and French is a dreadful and effeminate language.
@@addlemm44 disdaaayn?
"Did you try the plane cake?"
"Try Again"
"Did you try....."
"PICKERING!!!"
"Pickering: Did you try the plain cake? ^-^ " "Try again. ^-^ " "Pickering: I said, did you try the pline cike?" o_O; " "Higgins: o_O; -_-; PICKERING!!! -_-; "
RONNIE PICKERING
funniest line in the film XD
He said pline like Eliza
The one thing I never understood is why the mirror rotates. Doesn’t seem to give much of an opportunity to see your mouth shape.
Casey Alcoser In the original Broadway production there's no mirror, just a candle placed in front of Eliza. Every times she pronounces the "h" sound, the flame flickers; otherwise, it doesn't.
This rotating mirror was added in the film and, to be honest, it doesn't make any sense at all, rotating or not.
Casey Alcoser different angles?? Idek lol
Yes, it makes no sense.
THANK YOU THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT AS A CHILD.
It is 100% nonsensical. Stupid even.
Eliza’s reaction to the bird getting the strawberry tart was EXACTLY how I reacted!😂😂
I know! "Poor Professor Higgens," my foot. 😂
"You'll get much further with the lord if you learn not to offend his ears" had me dying 😂
Same
That's Shaw for you.
Don't you "DARE" tell me not to say my prayers Mister Higgens! God's going to punish you for that. All God hears when we speak is a beauty of his creation. We weren't meant to talk or prounce the same way, He didn't create us to be uniformed robots! He creates us to be unique individuals in His image.
I'm just sitting here imagining an Almighty God who's choosing his favorites based on their truest English accent. EL OH EL!
I feel like that when people say "bruv" and stuff like that. I much prefer cockney slang than words made up by gangster wannabes.
Watching this as a speech therapy masters student was fascinating.
As some have noted, she is merely speaking a different dialect of English. It isn’t “wrong” it’s just different.
Yes. We all got that many decades ago. The film itself does not endorse the idea of correct pronunciation. It questions the validity of that concept. You have finally caught up with GB Shaw.
It is wrong if you want to mix with the upper class. It's like not having lip fillers will be wrong if you want to mix with the beverly housewives.
Hi Kangakool, how can one learn the British RP accent? So you have any experience from speech therapy experience? I can already speak English but wish to develop this accent
as an English teacher, I can actually feel his pain
XD accurate
An English Language teacher*
*Correction:*
As an English teacher, I can actually feel his pain.
I'm just a student and I even share his pain
As a descendant of Noah Webster, the creator of the Webster's Dictionary, I can say that you have no idea.
"Did you try the "plain cake?" That gets me every time. These guys were doing comedy gold, and so perfect at that!
Hahaha, I know right!!!
Anyway what about it gets you every time?
@@cashewnuttel9054 Sorry, I meant it makes me chuckle every time.
@@maksphoto78I always guffaw at that and then comes ' try it again' and off goes Mr Pickering,only to be yelled at ' Pickering!' 😆👏🏽
Prof. Higgins has about 8 servants!
*Poor Professor Higgins Indeed!!* 😸
😂😂😂😂😂
@@TamarMebonia Yes, all while starving poor Eliza. The staff members, albeit probably poor themselves, dedicate all their empathy towards the boss.
There are some nice ironies at work in this movie which até occasionaly overlooked by viewers.
😆😆😆
@@edisonlima4647Professor Higgins did nothing wrong.
The reindeer in Spain was hit mainly by the plane
That was one of my favorite lines of Colin's.
Good thing I put my coffee cup on the table before reading this. * snort *
Grandma got ran over by a reindeer.
*T* *A* *P* *I* *O* *C* *A*
We're watching animal Porn.
Poor professor Higgins
Poor professor Higgins
Night and day
He slaves away
Oh, poor professor Higgins
All day long on his feet
Up and down until he's numb
Doesn't rest, doesn't eat
Doesn't touch a crumb
And then it shows him stuffing his face with tea and cakes!!!
"Slaves away" sounds kinda……………………… I dunno WRONG
@@jenniferbussey1708 😁👍
@@jenniferbussey1708 yep
Sing all the busy servants
1:36 he sounded like a villager omg
this comment is so underrated lmao
Hahahahhaha wait do I sound like one toooo😂
HHHHHMMM
Underrated comment award
A proper villager.
Seth MacFarlane once mentioned that Stewie's accent from Family Guy was based on Pro. Higgins.
I can hear it
Polikos Tsangari There’s actually a family guy episode dedicated to this, where Stewie teaches an english girl how to speak properly
@@tobiaspartington1581 The life of the wife is ended by the knife.
Tobias Partington the life of the wife is ended by the knife
Well he did a miserable impression then, because it sounds nothing like it.
as i get older she becomes even more beautiful
She will always stay beautiful. But she also always was. Inside and outside.
Rex was brilliant in this roll. It was the most honest and effortless performance of his life
He was brilliant in The Ghost & Mrs Muir. He played a gruff sailor who was the opposite of the snobbish English characters he usually played.
My mother met Audrey Hepburn in a department store in NYC. She said she was such a sweetheart. My mother also resembled her in her youth.
Phonics, once upon a time, was a skill all children learned in school. Not so now. Higgins' method is called, phonemic awareness. It uses rhyming words so that the student can see/hear the sounds. The issue, however, with English, is our exceptions. English is a wild and crazy language. That is why it is so expressive. I love teaching phonemic awareness to my students. It is like a window opens when they see/hear how the words are pronounced, and then know the rules of those pronunciations. Higgins also uses elocution as an overall method, because not only will Eliza need to pronounce the words accurately, she will need conversation. That means increasing her vocabulary.
I would love to have my students for 6 months straight, every day!
I remember hooked on phonics from my childhood.
Having your students is abuse
"That is why it is so expressive."
This is a very dangerous theory. Do you suggest there is an innate quality of English which makes it more expressive than another language which functions in a different way? Do Farsi poets wish Farsi was as expressive as English? Do humans have thoughts or feelings which can be expressed in English but not in other languages?
@@cacambo589 Firstly, we are not addressing Farsi in this discussion. Nor poetry.The discussion is about the English language. Secondly, why is it a dangerous theory? What are you afraid of? Thirdly, it is how a language evolves and how open it is to adopting new words that broadens expressions.
English is the STEM language. 1.5 billion people speak English, not because of Shakespeare, but because of science and technology.
Ha... ta... ta...
Here are some fun facts:
1. In this movie, the main character's last name is Doolittle. 3 years after this movie, Rex Harrison played the title character in the movie Doctor Dolittle.
2. Eliza's first and last names are the first and last names of characters who can talk to animals: Eliza Thornberry from the TV show The Wild Thornberrys (which came many years after this movie) and the afromentioned Doctor Dolittle (though with slightly different spelling in both cases)
Also Julie Andrews had to sing for Audrey cause Audrey didn't have a awesome singing voice like Julie.
Marni Nixon dubbed her, notJulie. Also sang for Natalie Wood in West Side story.
Another fun fact, Stewie griffin in family guy is a parody of Henry Higgins.
Haha ❣️🌫️🕊️😝interesting 🤷🙏
I WONDERED WHY PROFESSOR HIGGINS REMINDED ME SO MUCH OF DOCTOR DOOLITTLE!!!
"Doesn't eat. Doesn't touch a crumb."
Cuts to him eating cake
Plot twist: she wasn't really a cockney, she just had a terrible, debilitating speech impediment
Patavinity hahahahah!!! That’d be hilarious. He’d wasted so much time for nothing!!! 😂
Hah! I knw that wasn even a cockney accent
I’m crying of laughter
whats the difference
Ain’t that the same thing 😂
I love how Eliza's way of pronouncing has more logic than what the Prof is teaching her. She reads what is written.
How so?
@@michaelscott3174 because English has no pronunciation rules: but if it had them, and the vowels were pronounced like in most of European languages with pronunciation rules, what the girl says would be much closer to how it would have to be pronounced: rain R - A (as in Africa, not as in Alternate) - I (as in Instrument, not as in Idea) - N
You're more right than you realize. In Middle English, "ai" was pronounced how Eliza says it. Modern English radically changed pronunciation but kept most of the spelling, which is why modern spelling is so illogical.
Not really. cup a tea? dropping the H in front of words?
Neither pronunciation is particularly "as written".
@@MrBumblesayswhatYes, it is the vowel shift that changed English pronunciation sometime in the Middle Ages.
4:00 old movies are actually funny in a wholesome way
I do realize that Audrey Hepburn performance never could live up to that replacement voice in the songs, but her comedy timing was perfect, she was great as ever in those parts. (And she could dance better than anyone else...)
Yes, Jack Warner treated her very ungentlemanly in those days. Poor Julie Andrews... won an Oscar! 😄
"Aaaooooww" and "I'm a good girl I am!" Are debatabley the best lines in the whole movie
My favourite is, “I’d treat a Duchess as if she were a flower girl.”
Elocution is not about getting rid of regional accents, it's about teaching a pronunciation everyone can understand. In a multilingual country, pupils are taught the other language/s, so likewise everyone should have a similar accent nationwide, as well as their regional one if they want to keep it.
Weird yt recommendation algorithm we meet again!
Lol I thought it was gunna be a meme
We ALL meet again. Because there's dozens of us. DOZENS!!
Indeed. I watched Britain’s Got Talent 2009 sometime back, saw Hollie Steel audition singing I Could Have Danced all Night from My Fair Lady, watched the scene from the movie after that...and five years later, this came in my recommendations.
"You'll get much further with the lord if you learn not to offend his ears" 😂😂
Non-native English speaker here. Re-watching this scene evoked some fun childhood memory. I was three and very eager to go to prep school. I wanted to impress my parents by trying to read the text on a portrait of Garfield on the wall which read: I hate Mondays. I got the I hate part, but I pronounced Mondays erroneously (short o and a sounds). My elder siblings laughed their butts off.
pronunciation is very nice it is usefull to English learners
Gurubelli Manoharsai yup!
The older I get, he more I appreciate the marvel that is Pickering's character.
I remember that I laughed so hard when she said the dialogue of Hertford... 🤣 Always Love her. She was unique 💗☺️
'urricanes 'ardly hever 'appen.🤣🤣🤣
Great performance by Audrey Hepburn. One of he funniest character she's ever played
Idk as for me she looks really stupid here
@@sailorv8067 yk this movie belongs in the 60's right? Of course the acting may not look authentic as of today but it was still enjoyable and appropriate for that time.
@@mrunalkadam8584 oh please that's an amazingly ridiculous argument. You must have seen no movie before 1960s to say something like that!
In that era the male main character were older not that good looking men, while the women were beautiful, younger and kind of frail
steve gale yeah lets see a woman with Audrey Hepburn’s build fight Rhonda Rousey
@steve gale I think you misread what I wrote
@steve gale Okay...I didn't say anything at all about me fighting anyone...
@steve gale I genuinely don't know what's trolling here... Sorry.
@steve gale Rhonda Rhousey is a female boxer. They seemed to just be using frail as a synonym for petite or waify. They never said it was a fault. Audrey is slender and went through years of malnourishment during WW2.
Ahh, this is my job. I have spent two weeks trying to teach someone how to say looked properly!
@Janoue Martin I'm sure you can
Although I would keep it for backup as it's cute
@the earl of graylocked?
I don’t see how they could mispronounce lookded
@@HUNKragor I hate the French accent, I quickly managed to drop it - I do have an accent but not the typical French one though
Must if been difficult to play a role of a common girl cant talk pronounce proper but in reality she speaks well spoken
She’s meant to be a cockney, and Julie Andrews (who played Eliza on stage) actually can do a cockney and RP accent... the cockney Michael Caine can also do a good RP accent (as seen in Zulu). Hepburn isn’t English though so she can be forgiven.
@@silversnow3186 She was born in Belgium
curt wall that was so cockney 👍🏽
“You’ll get much further with the Lord when you learn not to offend His ears!”
I died immediately.😂😂😂
The days when an English professor could afford a big house and maids.
Yeah I’m surprised. With a big house and a staff like this movie, he should be a titled man like a baron or viscount
He was a professor from an university, as i recall well, the professors make around at least 200k in oxford, cambridge and so on ...
Lives in Midsomar, I guess.
It is more a sign of how poorly paid labourers were than how rich professors were.
Higgins came from old money. That is why he was able to dabble in phonetics.
Audrey's acting was superb it really is a shame she didn't get recognition just because she wasn't singing even though nowadays actors get away with it...
Many modern actors have never been able and never learned to sing at all. Unlike Audrey, who has spent months since Funny Face becoming a passable stage singer, but with a cockney accent.. coupled with her pleasant, but weak compared to a professional Marni Nixon voice - all this threw a sword into the scales of Jack Warner's decision. She knew five languages, was able to separate British and two American accents, but .. here her powers ended. And we see Audrey as an ordinary person, which one can often doubt to admit)
Mean.
"My fair lady" is the most successful musical of all time!!!! It has everything you need :top actors and music,it's funny and it's unique! I love it!❤️
1:51 in some parts of India, yes. People do drop the sound 'h' and use it in a wrong place, usually the end which I believe is wrong.
This scene is so so hilarious 😆 Always put a smile on my face
I'm not really understand english when i was a little kid. I love watching magic stuff and watching harry potter with an my language subtitles. And then i slowly understand and know how to pronounce them.
I remember when I was a kid nearly 45 year ago and struggling so hard to learn English. I could'nt much tell the difference betweeen American and British English not to mention why did Mrs.Hepburn drop her "h"s. in the movie. I listened carefully to the record over and over again as I did The Sound of Music... How painstakingly difficult was to learn a foreign language on my own listening to BBC and VOA news and reading Pearl S. Buck and Mark Twain and Charlotte Bronte and Anna Sewell. But it finally paid off! When I took the GRE in 1995 to get a PhD in the US I scored 97% on my verbal to my utter surprise! A major victory for a non-native English speaker.
Audrey already talked with Julie Andrews about her "stolen" the role from her, and they become friends and also neighbors
WAIT FOR REAL?! OMG!
Julie andrews was in some many other things, can’t understand her being too upset
'You'll get much further with The Lord if you learn not to offend His Ears.'
So true.😅
I always thought those mirrors were absolutely unnecessary.
Pickering decided that if Higgins didn't mind the Library burning down then neither did he. I like Pickering. A cool dude.
English phonetics in a famous film...extremely rare! I love it!
Audrey wasnt only a brilliant actress, but also absolutely gorgeous, a true Hollywood star.
This is a beautiful movie.
The German dub did an interesting attempt. They replaced the Cockney accent with the typical "Berliner Schnauze" Berlin slang and to be honest it actually makes sense. Because it worked and had the exact same effect as it had in the original.
This is brilliant 😅😅
This is how I wish people still spoke.
some people still do or at least try.
I was laughting until 4:34. I felt very very sad at this. The disappointment is writen all over her face.
Atl east give her a piece of cake unless the cake is a lie.
3:50 "PICKRING!!"
Gets me every time. Comedy gold. Wonderful movie.
That *"cup a tea..."* is the sexiest voice I've ever heard lol
“The life of the wife is ended with the knife.”
My father loved this movie and was a Rex Harrison fan - yes, the movie didn't stay true to the original work of Shaw but Harrison and Hepburn probably delivered their greatest performances as actors.
How to be pronounced in an outstanding musical way! Merci beaucoup from Paris France
I love it when Wilfred Hyde White says "Did you try the pline cake?"
1:36 Squidward vibes
omg ahahahahaha.
Fair lady is an old classic in color, with great humor and manner. Money can shape minds and body but it can't make you a fair person.. I'm not quite sure I got message right, hence I'd like to watch this over just to refresh my thoughts out of modern era!
#Myfairlady #1964
#2023 ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
I played Mr Higgins at school a long time back❤️😂 Can't believe it's been so long and I miss those days deeply 😩
I watched this movie when I was eight years old and didn't really understand it. I think I should watch it again.
I think this was my mother's favorite musical. It may very well be mine as well. As a former linguist I can truly appreciate it.
I'm surprised that Audrey's"Ms.Eliza Dolittle" didn't get burned by that damn device that Sir Rex' "Prof.Higgins"uses to teach her how to pronounce her h's properly.
hahaha she wants that strawberry " tart tart tart tart tart".
This is one of my fav classic movie we used to watch this in English class
Really the ending of this movie is a perfect example of Stockholm Syndrome
hfredydl exactly what I was thinking😂
Hahaha
hfredydl
In the actual play (Pygmalion) written by George Bernard Shaw. She leaves him and never comes back.
No it's not. She wasn't actually held captive. She agreed to be there of her own free will to learn to speak better so she could accomplish more. Just because you would choose to stay with a man like him doesn't mean she has to have Stockholm syndrome inorder for her to decide to stay. Stop trivializing real problems in order to criticize a poorly written plot just because the character didn't choose what you would have.
Gee, from living on the streets to filthy rich. In those days it was not a hard choice.
Man the dialogue in these movies and the elegant way it's delivered is just so fascinating to me. I hope I can speak with the Transatlantic accent one day!
After watching this.. I just remember gossip girl scene in season 2.. With blair and Serena doing "rain in spain" ❤️
I just saw this video today, heard a “Poor professor Higgins” song.
Looked for a lyrics in the comments section, and then I sang along~
Audrey certainly was one of the most beautiful women to ever grace all of us with her presence on the screen
It is so lovely if you live in Germany and have a thick northern German accent.
Everyone loves it.
I remembered watching FBE's React channel where the teens reacted to movie musicals, and one of the teens nonchalantly commented that Audrey/Eliza looked like she was in pain when she was singing the "rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains" song...I LOLed so hard because the timing was so perfect, and the teen even rhymed with the song...
Teaching "Received Pronunciation" to an English young lady...
In Indonesia, we have the same tendency: the uneducated people drop every initial h, thus "halus" (soft) becomes "alus", "hilang" becoming "ilang" (missing),
, etc.
🌸 I love this movie 💕
I must have seen it a thousand times 😊
Audrey looks like my grandmother so much when she was younger.
Really?! Wow so I hope those genes run strong in your family!
Professor Higgins, the most likable villain there is
01:39. Stewie Griffin talking about cool whip.
Stewie is a Henry Higgins parody. In Received Pronunciation you pronounce the H in WH words (whom for example, or even why). Technically to the brits (and Aussie’s) it should be cool whip like Stewie says it.
The life of the wife was ended by the knife.
"Schlachsahne. " "Schlagsahne" "Schlachsahne"
The "awwww" in the end is well pronunced :-)
0:58 Back in the time when the consonant immediately after /s/ was still aspirated. Today we mostly pronounce it unaspirated.
My favourite character here is Pickering....
She started off sounding like an Australian accent lol
Its kinda weird since cockney sounds a lot like aussie accent.
That's because White Australians are mainly descended from working class criminals from England
‘Rain’ with a cockney accent sounds kind of like ‘RAyhn’, but an Australian accent sounds more like ‘RAhhn’
"In 'Artford, 'Ereford, and 'Ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly *hever* 'appen!"
Have you no ear at all?
"No Eliza, you didn't saii dat. You didn't even say that!"
😂😂😂
I have mixed feeling about this movie overall but one thing is for damn sure, Audrey Hepburn was PERFECTLY CAST!!!
"Oh, no, no, no. Have you no ear at all?"
"Shall I do it over?"
"No, please."
Actually the rain in Spain stays mainly in the northern mountains
2:00 - still wonder how she even didn't put her own hair on flame accidentaly
Amazing film..love this scene it's makes me laugh every time.She plays a great character.Long suffering Eliza..
The only time I ever watched this movie was when I was a kid. The irony of that song completely escaped me back then.
Higgins is so condescending.
Tetéia!
Pause this film at any frame, and it's like an old painting. (Go on, try it with this very video.)
I was utterly bored when I first watched My Fair Lady in middle school. I adore it now.
Sanghoon Lee 2:29 doesn't look like an old painting😂
This is the perfect simulation when you migrate to other countries and try to learn a new language, although all those tools could have been very helpful! ;)
As a new learner to an another language than yours, I sympathize with her
Audrey Hepburn. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant! What a great actor!
Yes. Totally agree. She was great! One of the best actors ever!