She didn't have a career! She was a spoiled rich girl! She ruined her life! (Actually, she ruined her own life by unintentionally shooting her father)!
As a hairstylist for almost 40 years, as soon as Chutney said she washed her hair the same day as getting her perm, I knew, and I knew that's how Elle was going to get her.
Another Poster said something like,I am a Hairdresser and if someone washed out their perm out I gave them because they didn't like it and then came back to me the next day to redo it, I would refuse." 🤭🤔
I got perms when I was a young teen, and the stylists always INSISTED that I wait 24 hours to wash my hair or else the chemicals would wash out. Also, money was tight in my family, so I knew that it was best to protect my perm as long as possible. I laughed when I first saw this scene since I knew that 24 rule.
The thing I love about Elle is that her default mode is kindness and acceptance. She totally smashes that "rich bitch" stereotype. Even when she's being shallow and materialistic, she uses it to build you up instead of breaking you down. There are exceptions for people who get on her bad side, but you have to actually be _mean_ to get on her bad side, and even then she reserves her negative comments for gossiping out of earshot, where their feelings won't be hurt. (Well, except for that one time she called Vivian a "frigid bitch" to her face, but let's be real Vivian deserved that, and it was Elle's only truly catty moment.) If she's talking directly to you and she doesn't have something against you, she just radiates positivity. Even in this moment, where she's comparing her friend's bone structure negatively to Chutney's, she's saying it in a way that isn't unkind to her friend at all. She's not saying her friend was ugly, or that she had a bad bone structure in general, just that she didn't have the right look for curls.
Brooke knew she was innocent and her conscience was clear, so she had nothing to worry about, especially once she fired Callahan. All she needed was someone to prove that - and Elle did exactly that!!
Brooke might have been removed from the court if that happened, which would have been fatal to her case. Or maybe she would have been obligated to take the stand, in which case she would have had to admit to getting lipo suction, which would have been fatal to her reputation and her business.
The thing is, most people love this scene because it destroys blonde stereotypes, but what I love about this scene is that is manages to keep the personality. She is still Elle Woods. She still loves doing what she loves. But she is also smart.
@@missyraine8730 Exactly. The whole movie, she tries to change who she is, thinking that's what she needs to do to be successful. But as soon as she sheds all such notions and owns being a lawyer as HERSELF - realizing that she can combine both parts of herself - THAT'S when she comes into her own.
Even though Elle Woods herself helped an underdog (the dude she hugs at 4:59) land a date, it's too bad that an underdog would, in general, get told off by a blonde of this stereotype.
Dharma MacDonald No she really isn’t, and this movie doesn’t ‘destroy’ any blonde stereotype, it only enhances it. This court scene is an absurd made for little blonde/brunette girls to watch and think that their stupidity is tolerable in the real world. If you’re a grown person and you watch this with joy you’re either completely uneducated or simply stupid
it’d probably be felony murder, not second degree murder, since she accidentally killed someone while committing a felony (attempted murder) and the third crime is called perjury
3:27 I love that you can tell only her friends understood. The one with the purple hat was like "ohhhhh shit" and the blond one raised her hand well everyone else thought this was all pointless.
I have never seen this movie, let alone this scene, but when the girl on the stand said she was washing her hair, then after, described her day as involving getting a perm, MY FIRST REACTION was “NO ONE washes their hair the same day of getting a perm! She’s lying!” 😂😂😂
i love Brooke's expression.. she had confidence in elle since day 1.. when elle introduced herself to her, she was like "finally!" and not in a shallow cali sorority girly bonding way like they're just gonna sip mojitos by the pool. she was CONFIDENT that Elle's gonna set her free. even at the beginning of the movie the delta nus at Elle's undergrad were very supportive of her endeavour and never tried to actually stop her from doing law. the most negative thing they said was that getting into harvard was difficult and they do not want their girl to suffer. all I'm saying is, there's a great culture of girls supporting girls in real life that this movie actually showed compared to the toxic way media always showcased girls competing against each other and i think that's beautiful...pulling each other's hair is actually not what we do all the time!
My favorite part of this movie is how supportive her friends were - no matter what her goal was. She’s going on a date and thinks he’ll propose? They’re all wishing her well and helping her get ready. She wants to go to law school? They help her study and cheer for her when she gets in. None of them frown at her for either decision, they love and support her no matter what
What I liked about this scene: 1. Elle's friends were so supportive of her, even when everyone was laughing at her. 2. Brooke had full confidence in Elle from start to end of the scene, so did Emmette. They did not doubt her ability. 3. The way Elle transformed from a clumsy noob to a professional, as soon as she found that one flaw in Chutney's story. Very beautifully put together.
especially love that Elles personality stayed the same throughout transforming from a clumsy noob to a professional. at the end of the movie she's still a girly blondie fashionista clad in pink. wished more "woman empowerment" shows/movies revolved around growing and overcoming obstacles without losing yourself like this movie. Elle Woods is a rolemodel
Although if you watch Brooke when she is struggling to find the loop hole in the day, shes shifting, hanging her head, she's clearly nervous and SLIGHTLY losing confidence in her at that point.
Jane Bennet true, like I don’t mind when movies want to make women seem “tough” but I hate how so many movies portray that without a woman changing herself to assimilate in a “man’s world” she won’t be successful, Elle staying true to herself is the best part of the movie. There isn’t one type of successful working women and this movie clearly showed that with how both Elle and Vivien were super successful even though they were polar opposites
i love how at @2:43 Reese literally turned her character's persona around to be more confident, poised, and deliberate from unsure, insecure, and doubtful within this scene. glad that she got an Oscar later on for her acting.
Thank God Elle was a much smarter character than Nicole from fear. Nicole told her Boyfriend that she just started dating her house's security code and he later broke into her house after she dumped him, trying to kill her Family! What a stupid girl Nicole was!
Love the immediate change in Elle’s posture and body language when she catches the inconsistency in Chutney’s story. Going from nervous to full of confidence!
Yes! That, the lawyer’s face at 3:40 after Elle revealed that Chutney couldn’t have gotten her hair wet, and everyone’s faces when she confessed! The judge had my favorite “oh my God” moment out of everyone! She seemed the most shocked.
I absolutely love the transition you can see in Elle's tone and body language here. Before she sees the flaw in Chutney's story, she's all tense, she's clutching the papers and pacing nervously. But right after Chutney says "I got a perm", you can see Elle bloom with confidence. Her manner of walking, hand gestures and tone get relaxed, almost playful, as the interrogation becomes a child's play for her.
Also, Ella managed to catch Chutney in a lie the moment she said that she got a perm on the day her father was shot and that's why she couldn't hear the gunshot
This movie showed people how a woman can still be exceptionally smart while still being feminine. So many people nowadays think that smart girl characters have to be tomboyish but Elle stays herself while using her abilities. It's iconic
I thinj that's the point of Elle looking surprised and repeating like "you couldn't hear a gunshot BC you are showering???" But there's no way to like "prove" that it doesn't make sense on the spot so :/
I think something that stands out is how each time Elle repeats "you were in the shower," even before knowing she'd just gotten the perm, she gets more confident. Because if she was just upstairs, it's unlikely that water in a shower would stop her from hearing a gun shot in the first place.
I love Emmet's reaction the most. Everyone said "Oh my God" because they doubted her abilities as a lawyer, and safe for Brook, everyone thought she was a dumb wannabe blonde. But Emmet was astonished at her ability to pull the confession out of Chutney being a newbie, not because he ever doubted her intelligence. I've said it before, but I'll say it again: I love how Emmet believed in Elle and took her seriously when no one else did. Opposed to most characters in the movie who held from some to way too much prejudice towards Elle, he didn't. He was the only one who actually wanted to know Elle for who she was from the very beginning.
Wait...Wouldn't Chutney be charged with other crimes besides the one for killing her father? She pretty much also confessed that she intended to kill Brooke that day, and tried to frame her for the murder after acidentally killing her father.
Kate, on IMDB, Legally Blonde, someone did a kind of fanfic where Brooke's Fitness Empire grew even bigger, and Chutney was sent to a Women's Correctional Prison for killing her father and trying to kill Brooke. :)
My favorite part is when Elle got really aggressive as if she's mad that Chutney thinks she's stupid in the area and Elle really knows what shes getting at that oh my god hahaha freaking awesome. She got real scary real fast. Love it. HAHAHA
Elle knew what she was doing. She was playing dumb in order to get Chutney to admit one flaw in her testimony: she had permed her hair earlier. Once that was out, Elle took advantage of the mistake and pointed out her knowledge of perms and forcing Chutney to confess in accidentally murdering her father because she thought he was Brooke coming home. Despite being the same age, she hated Brooke for marrying her father and planned to murder her
4:58 Short moment, but I love how it showed Elle and David hugging! He's so happy for her! David always supported Elle from the beginning at Harvard and never put her down, and vice versa for Elle too - we love supportive friends :)
Many People in Chutney's case would have said something like,"I refuse to answer any more questions," when Elle pointed out the flaw in her claiming she was washing her hair the same day as she got a perm.
+Arikm7 yup! She made sure that she covered all her bases (in the case making sure that the witness knew not to wash her hair) before going in for the kill!
As someone who witnessed the ammonia thyglocolate deactivate with my mother’s straight perm because the hairdresser gave her the wrong time frame to wait before showering, absolutely DO NOT WASH YOUR HAIR BEFORE IT IS SET. If the hairdresser tells you to wait two days, wait an extra day JUST IN CASE. When Elle said her friend’s curls were ruined, she means RUINED. My mother’s hair got permanently dry, split and incredibly frizzy. Her ENTIRE head with a hair length that went halfway down her back. It looked awful, felt disgusting and brushing was a nightmare. She had to wear her hair in a pony tail for months because it was the only way for her to get it under control to go out until the new hair was long enough to chop the ruined part off. My mother never got another perm again even with a different hairdresser (she obviously never went to the old one again, especially when she never took responsibility for her mistake when my mother called to complain). She was understandably too traumatised by ordeal.
Everybody is talking about how Chutney could have told her she got it redone a few days later but two things contradict this possibility: the first being the fact that Elle kept talking and did not give her the chance to refute. While doing this, she continued to raise her voice and get a rise out of Chutney, eventually leading to her exploding out of anxiety and her nerves being strung too tight. The other reason is: who is actually going to believe that the daughter of someone who's father just got murdered is gonna go out and get their hair done? It would have been an empty lie and I think Chutney knew that, leading to her looking nervous and not knowing what to say.
+ wouldn’t her hair get destroyed for having a perm twice in a span of few days? + the cops that interrogated her would’ve seen if her curls were intact or not.
Legally Blonde is an absolutely iconic feminist movie, a lot of tropes where females are in careers typically dominated by males have them tone down their feminity to succeed perpetuating the idea that traits considered more feminine are a professional detriment, but Elle Woods proves that you don't have to hide your feminity if you don't want to, because it can be an asset to your success. It also challenges the stereotypes of cattiness in female friendships, Elle's friends believed and supported her all the way and much of the movie portrayed the ways in which women can uplift and support each other not bring each other down.
@@josephquesnel1737 Jealousy or bickering between friends isn’t specific to women though. I’ve seen the men in my life have more conflict between them than the women in my life. Saying women are catty is indeed a stereotype. And no one said it’s okay to attack men, so to bring that statement onto a comment that doesn’t even put men down is really odd
YES! I completely agree! Legally Blonde, Clueless, Aliens, Buffy, Xena, Charmed, Veronica Mars, H2O, The 100, Orphan Black, Beauty and the Beast (with Kristen Kreuk), Blindspot, Quantico, and the list of shows and movies with surprising and sometimes subtly feminist characters and tones goes on! Those are the few I could think of off the top of my head!
@@MRAAng-on2jg exactly! Cattiness might be real and the movie Mean Girls may be relatable, but girls don’t just bicker with and bully other girls. I’ve heard guys talk about their friends behind their back as well and I’ve met plenty of guys who can be catty and petty. There are catty and petty people, but it’s not just women, guys can be like that as well.
You know one thing I’ve seen about movies led by female characters? Women just have to bring it up , im not looking at a movie and wondering which gender is taking the center stage , just looking for 2 hour fun, enough already.
This is the BEST ending! Elle not only lets everyone know that ANY TYPE OF KNOWLEDGE could help in ANY case ... but she absolutely slammed the stupid "blonde bimbo" idea right to the ground!!! FANTASTIC! And her friends are the BEST! Love this movie Legally Blond!
Chutney didn't realize the flaw in her story the first time she even thought it up. I used to get perms all the time since I was a kid. Even at the age of ten I knew that getting my hair wet right after would deactivate the perm. Chutney should have taken more time to think of a good lie. LMAO
I think it was a lie she made at the spot, being already interrogated and story been on police reports, she had no other option than yo keep yo the story.
Thats against the rules. You have to give your hair a number of weeks break and she would have the same hair stylist doing it since she was a child. It wouldnt have looked bad
+Alex Jackson Plus, it would only be a matter of calling up the police officers who responded to the call initially and saw her ten minutes after the murder to testify that her hair was curly immediately after the crime. She probably thought of it on the spot and then figured because she wasn't immediately called out on it, none of those cop-types of law-types would see the big gaping hole anyways.
Elle went from 0 to 100 in 2 seconds lol. I love the scene construction where, leading up to her final questions, everyone pretty much assumed Elle was stupid. The most obvious was the opposing counsel who looked like she totally had this in the bag. She objected to Elle's story about Tracy Marcinko not because she was afraid it would be used against her case but because she thought 'why are we entertaining this idiot?' She underestimated her through and through. Then when Elle steps up with her rapid-fire questions the prosecutor was still struggling with cognitive dissonance about Elle's ability as a lawyer and her own chance at winning the case that she couldn't get the objection in. Then we got the confession from Chutney and the whole thing was over. This is such a great scene. Reese's acting and the editing of reaction shots are top-notch.
I love the fact that Elle goes through three enotions in just a few minutes. First, she is nervous and talking like a complete idiot. "Um,um you were in the shower?" Then she acts fake friendly towards Chutney when she realizes Chutney is lying "Your bone structure is gorgeous to being a hard, no nonsense lawyer when she yells at Chutney that washing your hair right after a perm would ruin it. :D
Karla Smith thats how we exactly behave when we are really like bitch/idiot and are trying to be as civilized n show the other person dude you are wrong . I did that at work multiple times
Chiara Offreduccio and actually when you think about it, her initial manner when she’s all “nervous” is just a way of getting Chutney to underestimate her and repeating “you were in the shower”, her supposed alibi, is a way of getting Chutney to slip up! And when Elle repeats it AGAIN after hearing that Chutney got a perm, she’s doing so in realisation 👏🏻 LOVE IT!! Totally undoes the stereotype 🙌
Also first she says shower she still unaware of what’s going on, later on when she says it has a tone of yes I’ve asked you this but I just found your fatal mistake and am running with it
can we just appreciate how freaking adorable Elle is in this scene 🥹 and the way “she didn’t have your bone structure” was so sweet and kind, just like her ❤
In addition to how great this scene in displaying Elle's intelligence in her own way, I also think it's a fantastic example of how important it is to ask the RIGHT questions in order to reveal the truth of a situation. It's a very simple, but often overlooked strategy in these types of interrogation scenes that can can be related to real life. If Elle hadn't asked Chutney what she'd done earlier that day, it's possible she could have lost the case whether her knowledge of perm maintenance was relative or not (but I like to believe Elle would've won no matter what). It's a very simple thing, but it brings me so much satisfaction to see Elle's face light up after asking that question and having put all the pieces together :)
I remember a Legally Blonde Fan saying something like,"It's great that Elle won the Case by exposing Chutney's lie about getting a Perm and then washing her hair the SAME day, but I would have liked it if Elle won the Case a different way that had nothing to do with hair care, beauty, or fashion. Not every case can be solved by using hair care, beauty, or fashion. I would have liked it if she won the Case by using critical thinking something like questioning Chutney on not hearing the gunshot when she was in the shower as gunshots are loud. That would have made the winning the Case all that sweeter." 😀
@@MarySmith-lv3mo That’s a wild quote cause people always think they know more than they do. A big house, faraway gunshot? In a shower? You’d have to do a whole experiment to make sure you couldn’t hear it. People just assume things like “Well gunshots are loud so obviously being directly under loud, running water isn’t loud at all” and decide it’s obvious and true. But anyway, saying “I mean I’m pretty sure she would have heard it” does NOT hold up in court it turns out. Chutney would just say “Well I was there and I didn’t hear it…” But pointing out a contradiction in testimony based on cold hard facts and visual evidence does. And that’s not even getting into narrative cohesion! Elle started in fashion school, of course she’d win with knowledge gained from her background. That’s how storytelling works and also a real reason law schools want people of various backgrounds! (Also their “not every case can be solved with X” sounds like such a crappy excuse. Like… yeah? But this one was? What kind of argument is that? Not every case can be solved with X so why ever bring it up? What?)
@@MarySmith-lv3mo damn but it was critical thinking. she managed to use her own experience and knowledge for something that needs logic. it was more or less a happy coincidence too but it shows that you don't have to stay by the books every time.
Aside from Elle, you also have to give Emmett credit here, as well. In the beginning of this scene, she kept turning back to him for help and he kept encouraging her to keep going, like he was saying "You got this." Also gotta love each OMG reaction. Elle's was out of surprise for the sudden revelation, Brooke's was for learning that she was Chutney's intended victim (and Elle having proved her innocence), and the judge's was for hearing the key witness inadvertently confessing to the crime.
Once Elle heard about the perm, she immediately knew what to do. No other lawyer would've ever known (unless it was a woman who had gotten perms before) that it was a flaw in the story
Even after attending Harvard, you see people laugh and mock at her. But she never looses a beat, never looses herself. This is why I love this movie. Because Ellie always remain her true self, despite people thinking she’s stupid.
Some of my favourite scenes in it are the one where she first gets mad at Warren and reminds him she got into the same school he did, and then when Vivien first visits her and tells her Warren actually did not pass the admission tests and they basically start bonding over the fact - not said out loud, but definitely heavily implied - that they, on the other hand, both got into the school under their own power.
The brilliance of this scene is that, everything about the way Elle acted prior to the perm reveal helped her point. Sure, we the audience are supposed to believe that she was stressed, nervous and out of her depth. But the fact that she kept going back to the shower point stressed to every member of the jury, the legal teams, and the judge that she had been caught in a lie. There was no way Chutney could have walked it back after stressing that point so many times. Anyone in that room would have assumed her prior performance was her Columbo-ing her way to victory, leading Chutney into a false sense of security so she would slip up.
Yeah, I had a law professor bring up this scene and he mentioned this point. If you know she has to be lying about being in the shower, you continue to have her confirm it so that when you catch the lie, you can point it out and destroy his/her credibility.
She asked all the right questions about Chutney's allibi , the ones that can be proved . Then she started questioning around the shower point as nobody saw her at that time and that's the time when the victim was shot . But this girl was a lousy criminal, I must say .
I think it's still just true that Elle was nervous and didn't quite do that on purpose. But it did end up helping her, and I'm sure she'll learn from that experience for later cases so as to do it on purpose.
"Exactly. Because isn't the first cardinal rule of perm maintenance that you're forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours after getting a perm at the risk of deactivating the immonium thygocolate?" 3:40- LOL! The other attorney is like "Oh, wait...hold on...that's...what is...? " 4:00- And also LOL at her ever rising 'Oh crap' expression! Classic. XD
One of my favorite scene in any movie I also just realized: is that Velma from Scooby Doo (2002)? Also 3:40 the look on that woman’s face was priceless! I love how supportive Elle’s friends were! Yes!! It was beautiful! I love always loved how it was something really girly - haircare rules - that saved the day. It shows that feminist does matter and can be powerful. And Elle completely embraces her femininity in every way. People assume she’s dumb and that there’s nothing more to her than her looks, humor, and silly side (as most people assume about girls) but she proves that there is way more than meets the eye with her compassion, genuine kindness, intelligence, and intuition. She is also tough, but it’s a quiet toughness for example she endured a lot of bullying, belittling, and humiliation in this film, but she never let it get the best of her. Her trails could have destroyed anyone’s self esteem, but she has so much mental toughness that she kept her sense of self and rose above the belittling, she knew who she was in her heart.
It is! Her real name is Linda Cardellini. She's been in Hollywood for a while, she started on Freaks & Geeks with the whole Judd Apatow crowd (Seth Rogan, Jason Seigal, James Franco, etc). She's also Hawkeye's wife Laura in the MCU
Okay... We all know Elle Woods is an icon for being a stereotypical blonde who is smarter than anyone gives credit to... This scene alone is iconic and we all know it (that's why it's been watched over 6 million times)... HOWEVER!!! Can we take a quick second to appreciate Emmette in this movie and scene? Full of confidence for her and 1000% supportive... and the moment at 4:30, you can just see the "I am going to MARRY this woman" look in his eyes!!!
The way Elle keeps repeating "In the shower" in the start of the clip, I have to wonder if the plan was to make a case about how loud a gunshot is and that it should've still been heard over the shower or something. And then the witness just kills it for them haha.
Yeah, that always confused me. Even if you were washing your hair, a gunshot waaaay louder than that. If anything, Chutney could have gotten away with it if she said she was listening to music with headphones on, I'd buy that
that might have been her first thought, because she couldn't think of anything else, but then she asked that 'earlier in the day thing' clearly to buy time and Chutney stepped in it
I wonder how the Prosecutor and the Professor felt when five minutes after taking over, a first year law student gets a case dismissed that they've spent weeks battling it out on?
I can still recall when I first watched this movie way back 2008 when I was a sophomore, in our Cosmetology class. Elle Woods started here stummering and nervous, but her knowledge in Cosmetology, hair perming in particular, has helped her win the case.. Great job, Ms. Legally Blonde in hot pink ❤️
My favorite part is at 2:01 when Chutneys lawyer rolled her eyes when they thought Elle was stupid and then little Bruiser popped up at Elle’s defense and gave her some sass and she jumped 😂 has me dead every time 😂💀
I love how in this scene, Elle finally comes into her own as a lawyer. And she does it by doing it HER way - pink jacket and heels and all. That's who she is, and that's how she makes the best lawyer.
PopedAMollyImCold she would have heard the gun shot if she was washing other hair and not on her head. and if she wore a shower cap she would've heard it as well.
3:31 from here, Elle is just questioning out of anger because she genuinely wants her friend to be cleared of all charges. Also, Elle is literally taking Brooke's secret to the grave! She got cleared and without even using an alibi!
It's also just a tactic to make them crack. If you push aggressively, it leaves them no space to think of a new lie. The more you accuse them of being the murderer and accurately guess details about it, the more they can't hide their guilt
We all need friends like Elle and her friends honestly, they're so supportive and encouraging, not to mention hilarious... They're all just iconic😌 (love the scene where her blonde friend raised her hand lol)
Did anyone notice the reaction from Elle's friends after she asked Chutney about why her soroity sister's perm was ruined when she got hosed down? Margot actually raised her hand to answer and Serena has the "oh my god" look cause she realized where Elle was going and what Chutney did.
I just love this scene because it unhesitatingly shatters blonde sterotypes and shows that you can be smart and professional while looking cute 🥰 This scene makes me smile and is so inspirational to women 💕💕💕
Lisa in Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic "Rear Window" is another great example of a "smart blonde" I feel (though a risk taker). Not only does she help unravel the murder, at the risk of her own life (and to her boyfriend Jeff's horror) she sneaks into the criminal's apartment to obtain the vital evidence. There even seems to be a subtle empowerment message when Lisa mentions to Jeff smart stable women saving guys in certain situations. Grace Kelly portrayed the role masterfully.
I really love the defense attorney's reactions...if you notice. At first she rolling her eyes...thinking more this girl is 'stupid' and they got this...but as Elle figures out that one flaw....and slowly confidence builds up...her expression changes to more 'oh crap'....when she realizes that she's on the verge of losing because it's all falling apart piece by piece in the defense for Chutney...that this 'Barbie' she completely underestimated being she was a law student....she had no chance at winning. It was epic. I mean this stuff you notice when you rewatch this move a billion times.
I Still just about die of laughter when everyone's getting ready to leave the court room,and Professor Callaghan just sits there looking stumped, irritated and defeated cos if HE'D have been in Elle's place. He'd have lost the case for sure. He doesn't likr being beaten / bested by a woman,AND one of his students at that.
Ellie repeatedly talking about the shower is just like me in business meetings... I'm just mindlessly babbling and repeating things that were already said just because I myself am slow to process.
DAMN IT VELMA YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO SOLVE MYSTERYS
This video has been getting comments for years, but this is my favorite 😂😂😂😂
LOLLL
LMFAOOOOO NOT VELMA
How have I never realized that was VELMA
@@Itsrichardash Probably because she wasn't wearing the glasses.
Chutney: I got a perm, came home.
Elle: I’m about to end this whole woman’s career
Niamh Lacie LITERALLY LMAOO
Niamh Lacie Correction: I’m about to end this whole woman’s life
It shouldve been "I got a perm, came home, *took a shower* ..."
Then Elle would wreck her
@@mistahkrazy7886 we
She didn't have a career! She was a spoiled rich girl! She ruined her life! (Actually, she ruined her own life by unintentionally shooting her father)!
All she had to say was "perm" and Elle was like "I got you now." XD
It that ONE word that make you realize what's really going on and the truth behind something
You pulled my trap card!
😂😂
Lmao so true but glad she slipped up
it's like when the pool boy said "prada"
As a hairstylist for almost 40 years, as soon as Chutney said she washed her hair the same day as getting her perm, I knew, and I knew that's how Elle was going to get her.
Another Poster said something like,I am a Hairdresser and if someone washed out their perm out I gave them because they didn't like it and then came back to me the next day to redo it, I would refuse." 🤭🤔
me too! I used to get perms and it was the cardinal rule! So I knew Chutney lied!
This is beautiful 😂
I had one perm and I knew that as well
I got perms when I was a young teen, and the stylists always INSISTED that I wait 24 hours to wash my hair or else the chemicals would wash out.
Also, money was tight in my family, so I knew that it was best to protect my perm as long as possible. I laughed when I first saw this scene since I knew that 24 rule.
I always loved the touch of “she didn’t have your bone structure “ she’s kind even when delivering you your justice .
I love how pleased the mum is after that comment, even though her daughter is being questioned about her ex-husband’s murder 😂
She is a cosmo girl!
Elle Woods is extremely classy. She’s the embodiment of “kill ‘em with kindness”
"We interrupt the absolute evisceration of the witness to bring you a wholesome compliment"
- Elle, probably
The thing I love about Elle is that her default mode is kindness and acceptance. She totally smashes that "rich bitch" stereotype. Even when she's being shallow and materialistic, she uses it to build you up instead of breaking you down. There are exceptions for people who get on her bad side, but you have to actually be _mean_ to get on her bad side, and even then she reserves her negative comments for gossiping out of earshot, where their feelings won't be hurt. (Well, except for that one time she called Vivian a "frigid bitch" to her face, but let's be real Vivian deserved that, and it was Elle's only truly catty moment.) If she's talking directly to you and she doesn't have something against you, she just radiates positivity.
Even in this moment, where she's comparing her friend's bone structure negatively to Chutney's, she's saying it in a way that isn't unkind to her friend at all. She's not saying her friend was ugly, or that she had a bad bone structure in general, just that she didn't have the right look for curls.
"At the risk of deactivating the ammonium thyglocolate!?"
Bill Hults SIS 👏🏼 WENT 👏🏼 OFF 👏🏼
But Ella makes a point, after you get a perm sometimes, you are forbid to wet your hair for 24 hours
THIOGLYCOLATE, dumbass.
@@sarahmariesarmiento2761 it was a mistake so what
Even the prosecutor was like "what the f*ck is that?"
Right after she said perm, Elle started walking like she was on the runway
I LOOK LIKE IM FRESH OFF THE RUNWAY
Yep. That confidence she needed kicked in then.
zoe magin-upshaw I GO CRAZY THE DUMB WAY
Boss walk
No.
She started struttin' like she own fucking Paris, Milan and New York City,bitches!
Can we appreciate Linda Cardellini's performance, though. The intense emotion - eyes watering - when she says, "I didn't MEAN to shoot him!"
I just found out after almost two decades that this brilliant performance was by Velma aka Linda Cardellini from Scooby Doo.
Oh she is the perfect Chutney like we learn so much about her character in such little time and the emotions are so believable.
@@iamshadowbanned699 And Wendy from Gravity Falls!
@@amandalynn4979
Holy crap! Linda Cardellini is Wendy on Gravity Falls?! 😃
@@iamshadowbanned699 omg she plays Velma?? I can see it now lol!
Can we appreciate Brooke’s nerve? She was sitting there, watching her stepdaughter lie to a judge, yet Brooke kept her dignity and didn’t cry or yell
she was very calm
Brooke knew she was innocent and her conscience was clear, so she had nothing to worry about, especially once she fired Callahan. All she needed was someone to prove that - and Elle did exactly that!!
Showing emotions over being unfairly jailed is not having dignity?
@@sky_saga you do you, but Brooke doesn’t seem like the kind of person that would cry in public and be proud of that
Brooke might have been removed from the court if that happened, which would have been fatal to her case. Or maybe she would have been obligated to take the stand, in which case she would have had to admit to getting lipo suction, which would have been fatal to her reputation and her business.
The thing is, most people love this scene because it destroys blonde stereotypes, but what I love about this scene is that is manages to keep the personality. She is still Elle Woods. She still loves doing what she loves. But she is also smart.
Dharma MacDonald exactly, she doesn’t change her personality in the end, she shows that you can be pink and girly and still a badass
@@missyraine8730 Exactly. The whole movie, she tries to change who she is, thinking that's what she needs to do to be successful. But as soon as she sheds all such notions and owns being a lawyer as HERSELF - realizing that she can combine both parts of herself - THAT'S when she comes into her own.
Even though Elle Woods herself helped an underdog (the dude she hugs at 4:59) land a date, it's too bad that an underdog would, in general, get told off by a blonde of this stereotype.
Dharma MacDonald No she really isn’t, and this movie doesn’t ‘destroy’ any blonde stereotype, it only enhances it. This court scene is an absurd made for little blonde/brunette girls to watch and think that their stupidity is tolerable in the real world. If you’re a grown person and you watch this with joy you’re either completely uneducated or simply stupid
@@wankstadresta9167 You're ugly, right?
The look of the other lawyer when elle says ammonium thyglocalate. Like oh shit she's smart
😂
Extremely smart, driven, gorgeous and takes no shit. Should be intimidating.
Yes! One of my favorite parts!
@@SimsinWonderland yes! Elle is truly the best!
I didnt even know if what she said was correct, but it sounded like it, i was sold!!🤩
I love Elle’s feminine traits being used as her strength, her haircare knowledge won her the case.
Yass she didn’t have to change herself she won just by being Elle😂
-Second Degree Murder
-Attempted First Degree Murder
-And lying while under Oath to tell the truth.
What is with that kid
Legally blonde
DakariKingMykan To protect herself. Obviously? She killed her father by accident ffs
it’d probably be felony murder, not second degree murder, since she accidentally killed someone while committing a felony (attempted murder)
and the third crime is called perjury
Wouldn’t it be attempted murder on Mrs. Windham (idk what degree) and involuntary manslaughter for her father?
@@TheMurrmursonbottle - If real, she'd probably be charged with wasting police time as well.
3:27 I love that you can tell only her friends understood. The one with the purple hat was like "ohhhhh shit" and the blond one raised her hand well everyone else thought this was all pointless.
Thank you for pointing this out
Denise Martinez also the minute chutney said, “perm” even Elle’s dog popped his head up and was like “THAT is NOT correct”
As soon as she said Deactivate the ammonium thioglycolate, the prosecutor was like “Damn” she knew the case was lost right there.
Yup. Proof that they aren’t as dumb as they seemed, either.
@@anonomus8709 i agree! they’re smart in terms of knowing about hair care, makeup, fashion…etc.
I have never seen this movie, let alone this scene, but when the girl on the stand said she was washing her hair, then after, described her day as involving getting a perm, MY FIRST REACTION was “NO ONE washes their hair the same day of getting a perm! She’s lying!” 😂😂😂
Now you gotta go watch the whole movie
@@samanthastephens9720 I know! 😂
Exactly! Just like NO ONE goes to the gym and then gets a perm! There would be holes in your scalp🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@wvcricker5683 Please, tell me did u watch the movie ???
This is beautiful 😂 I absolutely adore that they used a real inconsistency that a real person knowledgeable in the subject can pick up on easily ❤
i love Brooke's expression.. she had confidence in elle since day 1.. when elle introduced herself to her, she was like "finally!" and not in a shallow cali sorority girly bonding way like they're just gonna sip mojitos by the pool. she was CONFIDENT that Elle's gonna set her free. even at the beginning of the movie the delta nus at Elle's undergrad were very supportive of her endeavour and never tried to actually stop her from doing law. the most negative thing they said was that getting into harvard was difficult and they do not want their girl to suffer. all I'm saying is, there's a great culture of girls supporting girls in real life that this movie actually showed compared to the toxic way media always showcased girls competing against each other and i think that's beautiful...pulling each other's hair is actually not what we do all the time!
My favorite part of this movie is how supportive her friends were - no matter what her goal was. She’s going on a date and thinks he’ll propose? They’re all wishing her well and helping her get ready. She wants to go to law school? They help her study and cheer for her when she gets in. None of them frown at her for either decision, they love and support her no matter what
What I liked about this scene:
1. Elle's friends were so supportive of her, even when everyone was laughing at her.
2. Brooke had full confidence in Elle from start to end of the scene, so did Emmette. They did not doubt her ability.
3. The way Elle transformed from a clumsy noob to a professional, as soon as she found that one flaw in Chutney's story.
Very beautifully put together.
especially love that Elles personality stayed the same throughout transforming from a clumsy noob to a professional. at the end of the movie she's still a girly blondie fashionista clad in pink. wished more "woman empowerment" shows/movies revolved around growing and overcoming obstacles without losing yourself like this movie. Elle Woods is a rolemodel
Although if you watch Brooke when she is struggling to find the loop hole in the day, shes shifting, hanging her head, she's clearly nervous and SLIGHTLY losing confidence in her at that point.
2 and 3 yes but 1. They are too stupid to do anything but support her. She could have said something completely wrong and they would have cheered
@@masterreaper115 Name calling is so without class.
Jane Bennet true, like I don’t mind when movies want to make women seem “tough” but I hate how so many movies portray that without a woman changing herself to assimilate in a “man’s world” she won’t be successful, Elle staying true to herself is the best part of the movie. There isn’t one type of successful working women and this movie clearly showed that with how both Elle and Vivien were super successful even though they were polar opposites
The rules of hair care are simple and finite! Any Cosmo girl would've known!
Soundfactory yep 100% 😂
💖😌
i love how at @2:43 Reese literally turned her character's persona around to be more confident, poised, and deliberate from unsure, insecure, and doubtful within this scene. glad that she got an Oscar later on for her acting.
Like Elle is "Ooh I have you there! Let's play with you" before railing her into confession.
Thank God Elle was a much smarter character than Nicole from fear. Nicole told her Boyfriend that she just started dating her house's security code and he later broke into her house after she dumped him, trying to kill her Family! What a stupid girl Nicole was!
@@riverjordan2725Teenagers often don't think things through. 💡
Love the immediate change in Elle’s posture and body language when she catches the inconsistency in Chutney’s story. Going from nervous to full of confidence!
'she doesn't have your bone structure' and her proud mother is my favorite scene
The woman that plays the mother looks absolutely stunning in that split scene
Same
@@peacheskong2245 that’s Raquel Welch! A famous model
Yes! That, the lawyer’s face at 3:40 after Elle revealed that Chutney couldn’t have gotten her hair wet, and everyone’s faces when she confessed! The judge had my favorite “oh my God” moment out of everyone! She seemed the most shocked.
@@rachaelalys i only know her as Aunt Vesta from Sabrina the teenage witch 🧙♀️ 😁
I absolutely love the transition you can see in Elle's tone and body language here. Before she sees the flaw in Chutney's story, she's all tense, she's clutching the papers and pacing nervously. But right after Chutney says "I got a perm", you can see Elle bloom with confidence. Her manner of walking, hand gestures and tone get relaxed, almost playful, as the interrogation becomes a child's play for her.
yeah, because who wouldn't feel that way when the situation suddenly becomes related to your field of expertise...
dot good actress
I know right
Also, Ella managed to catch Chutney in a lie the moment she said that she got a perm on the day her father was shot and that's why she couldn't hear the gunshot
I noticed that too the first time I watched this clip
The sudden shot of confidence is so evident in her walk when she's walking towards chutney and asking her about the perm!
This movie showed people how a woman can still be exceptionally smart while still being feminine. So many people nowadays think that smart girl characters have to be tomboyish but Elle stays herself while using her abilities. It's iconic
Tell me about it. Look at Tanya from "Mortal Kombat".
I loved it how Chutney revealed she got a perm, implyed Elle is stupid, and Elle comes back with the I gotcha moment.
Never underestimate your opponent...
"Gotcha" moments are a Staple in The Legally Blonde movies...
She didn’t even exspect Elle to know about the rules of getting a perm
Worth the price of admission.
If only O.J.'s case was as easy as this..
Are we just gonna ignore the fact that you could DEFINETLY hear a gunshot in the shower?
Right ! even down a block she clearly didn’t think this through
I thinj that's the point of Elle looking surprised and repeating like "you couldn't hear a gunshot BC you are showering???" But there's no way to like "prove" that it doesn't make sense on the spot so :/
@@ZeroOhClock memento Mori my friend
I KNOW IT! FOR REAL FOR REAL!!
That's what I was thinking. I was like how can u not hear a gunshot. Unless it's a big house
I think something that stands out is how each time Elle repeats "you were in the shower," even before knowing she'd just gotten the perm, she gets more confident. Because if she was just upstairs, it's unlikely that water in a shower would stop her from hearing a gun shot in the first place.
I love Emmet's reaction the most. Everyone said "Oh my God" because they doubted her abilities as a lawyer, and safe for Brook, everyone thought she was a dumb wannabe blonde. But Emmet was astonished at her ability to pull the confession out of Chutney being a newbie, not because he ever doubted her intelligence. I've said it before, but I'll say it again: I love how Emmet believed in Elle and took her seriously when no one else did. Opposed to most characters in the movie who held from some to way too much prejudice towards Elle, he didn't. He was the only one who actually wanted to know Elle for who she was from the very beginning.
They are one of my favourite couples ever, in movies.
In general, i absolutely love both their characters.
Wait...Wouldn't Chutney be charged with other crimes besides the one for killing her father? She pretty much also confessed that she intended to kill Brooke that day, and tried to frame her for the murder after acidentally killing her father.
Kate, on IMDB, Legally Blonde, someone did a kind of fanfic where Brooke's Fitness Empire grew even bigger, and Chutney was sent to a Women's Correctional Prison for killing her father and trying to kill Brooke. :)
Oh. I was asking if this was a real case, what sort of charges would she face besides for the murder of her father.
Probably 2nd degree murder, attempted murder, and maybe falsifying testimony.
+meow and someone said pergury as well, because she lied under oath.
The trail was only for his murder, they’d need a seperate trail for additional charges.
My favorite part is when Elle got really aggressive as if she's mad that Chutney thinks she's stupid in the area and Elle really knows what shes getting at that oh my god hahaha freaking awesome. She got real scary real fast. Love it. HAHAHA
THATS THE ONLY PART HERE LIKE THATS THE WHOLE SCENE
exactly. my favorite part is the whole video.
yep me too
Elle knew what she was doing. She was playing dumb in order to get Chutney to admit one flaw in her testimony: she had permed her hair earlier. Once that was out, Elle took advantage of the mistake and pointed out her knowledge of perms and forcing Chutney to confess in accidentally murdering her father because she thought he was Brooke coming home. Despite being the same age, she hated Brooke for marrying her father and planned to murder her
What are u talking about
4:58 Short moment, but I love how it showed Elle and David hugging! He's so happy for her! David always supported Elle from the beginning at Harvard and never put her down, and vice versa for Elle too - we love supportive friends :)
I love how Elle was completely shocked that Chutney had actually confessed.
Many People in Chutney's case would have said something like,"I refuse to answer any more questions," when Elle pointed out the flaw in her claiming she was washing her hair the same day as she got a perm.
Queen of breaking blonde stereotypes
+Arikm7 yup! She made sure that she covered all her bases (in the case making sure that the witness knew not to wash her hair) before going in for the kill!
Tassadar blond wearing pink stereo types
Esther Hulst What they meant is blonde are stupid. which isn't the case for elle. She strived to be what she is now.
But I still don't get why is there a stereotypes that blondes are dumb when they are not, I know a lot of smart blondes
Wahlt G. Thank Marilyn Monroe for that stereotype.
Elle: Oh my God...
Brooke: Oh my God....
Judge: OH MY GOD....
LMAO! XD
KoKoJazz99 Jance : OH... MY.. GOD
KoKoJazz99 o lawddd
*jumps to the musical*
oH MY GOD OH MY GOD YOU GUYS
i literally said oh my god after the judge said it lmao
A-Fandom- A-Minute you beat me to it😂
As someone who witnessed the ammonia thyglocolate deactivate with my mother’s straight perm because the hairdresser gave her the wrong time frame to wait before showering, absolutely DO NOT WASH YOUR HAIR BEFORE IT IS SET. If the hairdresser tells you to wait two days, wait an extra day JUST IN CASE.
When Elle said her friend’s curls were ruined, she means RUINED. My mother’s hair got permanently dry, split and incredibly frizzy. Her ENTIRE head with a hair length that went halfway down her back. It looked awful, felt disgusting and brushing was a nightmare. She had to wear her hair in a pony tail for months because it was the only way for her to get it under control to go out until the new hair was long enough to chop the ruined part off.
My mother never got another perm again even with a different hairdresser (she obviously never went to the old one again, especially when she never took responsibility for her mistake when my mother called to complain). She was understandably too traumatised by ordeal.
I love how Emmett isn’t even surprised, he’s in awe and proud 🫶
Everybody is talking about how Chutney could have told her she got it redone a few days later but two things contradict this possibility: the first being the fact that Elle kept talking and did not give her the chance to refute. While doing this, she continued to raise her voice and get a rise out of Chutney, eventually leading to her exploding out of anxiety and her nerves being strung too tight. The other reason is: who is actually going to believe that the daughter of someone who's father just got murdered is gonna go out and get their hair done? It would have been an empty lie and I think Chutney knew that, leading to her looking nervous and not knowing what to say.
america’s favorite wizard plus it would’ve either shown up on credit card charges or the staff would have said something.
+ wouldn’t her hair get destroyed for having a perm twice in a span of few days? + the cops that interrogated her would’ve seen if her curls were intact or not.
Also why would someone pay to get a perm just to wash it right out?
Of course, any real prosecutor would have called out Elle for badgering the witness long before that point. As would the judge have, for that matter.
Plenty of objections to be made for the way she questioned the witness....
Legally Blonde is an absolutely iconic feminist movie, a lot of tropes where females are in careers typically dominated by males have them tone down their feminity to succeed perpetuating the idea that traits considered more feminine are a professional detriment, but Elle Woods proves that you don't have to hide your feminity if you don't want to, because it can be an asset to your success. It also challenges the stereotypes of cattiness in female friendships, Elle's friends believed and supported her all the way and much of the movie portrayed the ways in which women can uplift and support each other not bring each other down.
How is that a stereotype? Female cattiness is a real thing. All okay to attack men, but too much when people point out women's unique flaws. lol
@@josephquesnel1737 Jealousy or bickering between friends isn’t specific to women though. I’ve seen the men in my life have more conflict between them than the women in my life. Saying women are catty is indeed a stereotype. And no one said it’s okay to attack men, so to bring that statement onto a comment that doesn’t even put men down is really odd
YES! I completely agree! Legally Blonde, Clueless, Aliens, Buffy, Xena, Charmed, Veronica Mars, H2O, The 100, Orphan Black, Beauty and the Beast (with Kristen Kreuk), Blindspot, Quantico, and the list of shows and movies with surprising and sometimes subtly feminist characters and tones goes on! Those are the few I could think of off the top of my head!
@@MRAAng-on2jg exactly! Cattiness might be real and the movie Mean Girls may be relatable, but girls don’t just bicker with and bully other girls. I’ve heard guys talk about their friends behind their back as well and I’ve met plenty of guys who can be catty and petty. There are catty and petty people, but it’s not just women, guys can be like that as well.
You know one thing I’ve seen about movies led by female characters? Women just have to bring it up , im not looking at a movie and wondering which gender is taking the center stage , just looking for 2 hour fun, enough already.
I’ve rewatched this scene hundreds of times and it never looses it’s magic
loses
This is the BEST ending! Elle not only lets everyone know that ANY TYPE OF KNOWLEDGE could help in ANY case ... but she absolutely slammed the stupid "blonde bimbo" idea right to the ground!!! FANTASTIC! And her friends are the BEST! Love this movie Legally Blond!
Chutney didn't realize the flaw in her story the first time she even thought it up. I used to get perms all the time since I was a kid. Even at the age of ten I knew that getting my hair wet right after would deactivate the perm. Chutney should have taken more time to think of a good lie. LMAO
I think it was a lie she made at the spot, being already interrogated and story been on police reports, she had no other option than yo keep yo the story.
She could have said she washed out the perm because she thought it looked bad and then put a new perm.
Thats against the rules. You have to give your hair a number of weeks break and she would have the same hair stylist doing it since she was a child. It wouldnt have looked bad
TheNonMakeupGuru That and her hair would very brittle with TWO BACK TO BACK perms. It would fall out!
+Alex Jackson Plus, it would only be a matter of calling up the police officers who responded to the call initially and saw her ten minutes after the murder to testify that her hair was curly immediately after the crime. She probably thought of it on the spot and then figured because she wasn't immediately called out on it, none of those cop-types of law-types would see the big gaping hole anyways.
In the UK "chutney" is a pickle sauce that you usually put on a cheese sandwich. SO, Chutney rather finds herself in a pickle ...
mickypoo4622 thanks for that :)
Ha! Amazing. 😎
Lol
Chutney has its origin in Indian Cuisine
mickypoo4622 it is also called that in Pakistan and India but it is kind of like a dip
Elle went from 0 to 100 in 2 seconds lol. I love the scene construction where, leading up to her final questions, everyone pretty much assumed Elle was stupid. The most obvious was the opposing counsel who looked like she totally had this in the bag. She objected to Elle's story about Tracy Marcinko not because she was afraid it would be used against her case but because she thought 'why are we entertaining this idiot?' She underestimated her through and through. Then when Elle steps up with her rapid-fire questions the prosecutor was still struggling with cognitive dissonance about Elle's ability as a lawyer and her own chance at winning the case that she couldn't get the objection in. Then we got the confession from Chutney and the whole thing was over. This is such a great scene. Reese's acting and the editing of reaction shots are top-notch.
Just like columbo
I know, her brain collapsed that it did not give her time to object
I love how her 2 friends were pissed at the people behind laughing. Love their disgusted expression & the look they gave them!!
I love the fact that Elle goes through three enotions in just a few minutes. First, she is nervous and talking like a complete idiot. "Um,um you were in the shower?" Then she acts fake friendly towards Chutney when she realizes Chutney is lying "Your bone structure is gorgeous to being a hard, no nonsense lawyer when she yells at Chutney that washing your hair right after a perm would ruin it. :D
Karla Smith thats how we exactly behave when we are really like bitch/idiot and are trying to be as civilized n show the other person dude you are wrong . I did that at work multiple times
Chiara Offreduccio and actually when you think about it, her initial manner when she’s all “nervous” is just a way of getting Chutney to underestimate her and repeating “you were in the shower”, her supposed alibi, is a way of getting Chutney to slip up! And when Elle repeats it AGAIN after hearing that Chutney got a perm, she’s doing so in realisation 👏🏻 LOVE IT!! Totally undoes the stereotype 🙌
That wasnt fake friendly....that's just Elle
Also first she says shower she still unaware of what’s going on, later on when she says it has a tone of yes I’ve asked you this but I just found your fatal mistake and am running with it
Shes not talking like a complete idiot, that's you and your stereotypes. It was just nervous at first not idiocy.
5:00 I love how Brooke answers the reporter’s question saying “because she’s brilliant of course”. Makes me so happy
They're so cuteee
I swear women supporting women 🤌🏼
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I loved how the Blonde Reporter nodded in agreement. Lol
Yessss.. Me too👍😍
can we just appreciate how freaking adorable Elle is in this scene 🥹 and the way “she didn’t have your bone structure” was so sweet and kind, just like her ❤
I liked how Emmet believed in her and that gave her the confidence to win the case despite everyone else having doubt about her ability!
In addition to how great this scene in displaying Elle's intelligence in her own way, I also think it's a fantastic example of how important it is to ask the RIGHT questions in order to reveal the truth of a situation. It's a very simple, but often overlooked strategy in these types of interrogation scenes that can can be related to real life. If Elle hadn't asked Chutney what she'd done earlier that day, it's possible she could have lost the case whether her knowledge of perm maintenance was relative or not (but I like to believe Elle would've won no matter what). It's a very simple thing, but it brings me so much satisfaction to see Elle's face light up after asking that question and having put all the pieces together :)
And people wonder why I ask so many questions
Yes! Elle’s face when she said she got a perm was priceless!
I remember a Legally Blonde Fan saying something like,"It's great that Elle won the Case by exposing Chutney's lie about getting a Perm and then washing her hair the SAME day, but I would have liked it if Elle won the Case a different way that had nothing to do with hair care, beauty, or fashion. Not every case can be solved by using hair care, beauty, or fashion. I would have liked it if she won the Case by using critical thinking something like questioning Chutney on not hearing the gunshot when she was in the shower as gunshots are loud. That would have made the winning the Case all that sweeter." 😀
@@MarySmith-lv3mo That’s a wild quote cause people always think they know more than they do. A big house, faraway gunshot? In a shower? You’d have to do a whole experiment to make sure you couldn’t hear it. People just assume things like “Well gunshots are loud so obviously being directly under loud, running water isn’t loud at all” and decide it’s obvious and true.
But anyway, saying “I mean I’m pretty sure she would have heard it” does NOT hold up in court it turns out. Chutney would just say “Well I was there and I didn’t hear it…” But pointing out a contradiction in testimony based on cold hard facts and visual evidence does. And that’s not even getting into narrative cohesion! Elle started in fashion school, of course she’d win with knowledge gained from her background. That’s how storytelling works and also a real reason law schools want people of various backgrounds!
(Also their “not every case can be solved with X” sounds like such a crappy excuse. Like… yeah? But this one was? What kind of argument is that? Not every case can be solved with X so why ever bring it up? What?)
@@MarySmith-lv3mo damn but it was critical thinking. she managed to use her own experience and knowledge for something that needs logic. it was more or less a happy coincidence too but it shows that you don't have to stay by the books every time.
Aside from Elle, you also have to give Emmett credit here, as well. In the beginning of this scene, she kept turning back to him for help and he kept encouraging her to keep going, like he was saying "You got this."
Also gotta love each OMG reaction. Elle's was out of surprise for the sudden revelation, Brooke's was for learning that she was Chutney's intended victim (and Elle having proved her innocence), and the judge's was for hearing the key witness inadvertently confessing to the crime.
Also the judge was probably shocked she was about to sentence an innocent woman for a crime the key witness did
I think Elle was more like "i actually did it" like when you pass a hard a exam
I think the judge was shocked that Elle solved the case despite the earlier shower debacle blonde moment Elle had.
And Emette had a silent OMG of being impressed.
The little chihuahua popping its head out and scaring the lady made me laugh so hard 🤣😭
Once Elle heard about the perm, she immediately knew what to do. No other lawyer would've ever known (unless it was a woman who had gotten perms before) that it was a flaw in the story
Exactly!!💯
Even after attending Harvard, you see people laugh and mock at her. But she never looses a beat, never looses herself. This is why I love this movie. Because Ellie always remain her true self, despite people thinking she’s stupid.
Some of my favourite scenes in it are the one where she first gets mad at Warren and reminds him she got into the same school he did, and then when Vivien first visits her and tells her Warren actually did not pass the admission tests and they basically start bonding over the fact - not said out loud, but definitely heavily implied - that they, on the other hand, both got into the school under their own power.
The brilliance of this scene is that, everything about the way Elle acted prior to the perm reveal helped her point.
Sure, we the audience are supposed to believe that she was stressed, nervous and out of her depth.
But the fact that she kept going back to the shower point stressed to every member of the jury, the legal teams, and the judge that she had been caught in a lie. There was no way Chutney could have walked it back after stressing that point so many times. Anyone in that room would have assumed her prior performance was her Columbo-ing her way to victory, leading Chutney into a false sense of security so she would slip up.
Yeah, I had a law professor bring up this scene and he mentioned this point. If you know she has to be lying about being in the shower, you continue to have her confirm it so that when you catch the lie, you can point it out and destroy his/her credibility.
"Columbo-ing" 😁❤️ love it!
She asked all the right questions about Chutney's allibi , the ones that can be proved . Then she started questioning around the shower point as nobody saw her at that time and that's the time when the victim was shot .
But this girl was a lousy criminal, I must say .
That was her story and she was gonna stick to it!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think it's still just true that Elle was nervous and didn't quite do that on purpose. But it did end up helping her, and I'm sure she'll learn from that experience for later cases so as to do it on purpose.
I love how she becomes Camille after she heard that she got the perm.
Hurray for the writers. Great, creative, increasingly exciting lines. Great job by the actress, too, of course.
Reese Witherspoon plays Elle so perfectly
Ikr she's really beautiful too
"Exactly. Because isn't the first cardinal rule of perm maintenance that you're forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours after getting a perm at the risk of deactivating the immonium thygocolate?"
3:40- LOL! The other attorney is like "Oh, wait...hold on...that's...what is...? "
4:00- And also LOL at her ever rising 'Oh crap' expression! Classic. XD
Ammonium Thioglycolate = perm solution.
And someone who had 30 perms in her life should be well aware of that rule and what happens when not following the said rule.
SHE NEVER SAID SHE WASHED HER HAIR THO. OBJECTION!!!
@@nopo8011 she said she didn't hear the gunshot because she was shampooing her hair, that factor alone proved that she lied
no po @2:03
One of my favorite scene in any movie I also just realized: is that Velma from Scooby Doo (2002)? Also 3:40 the look on that woman’s face was priceless! I love how supportive Elle’s friends were! Yes!! It was beautiful! I love always loved how it was something really girly - haircare rules - that saved the day. It shows that feminist does matter and can be powerful. And Elle completely embraces her femininity in every way. People assume she’s dumb and that there’s nothing more to her than her looks, humor, and silly side (as most people assume about girls) but she proves that there is way more than meets the eye with her compassion, genuine kindness, intelligence, and intuition. She is also tough, but it’s a quiet toughness for example she endured a lot of bullying, belittling, and humiliation in this film, but she never let it get the best of her. Her trails could have destroyed anyone’s self esteem, but she has so much mental toughness that she kept her sense of self and rose above the belittling, she knew who she was in her heart.
It is! Her real name is Linda Cardellini. She's been in Hollywood for a while, she started on Freaks & Geeks with the whole Judd Apatow crowd (Seth Rogan, Jason Seigal, James Franco, etc). She's also Hawkeye's wife Laura in the MCU
Okay... We all know Elle Woods is an icon for being a stereotypical blonde who is smarter than anyone gives credit to... This scene alone is iconic and we all know it (that's why it's been watched over 6 million times)... HOWEVER!!!
Can we take a quick second to appreciate Emmette in this movie and scene? Full of confidence for her and 1000% supportive... and the moment at 4:30, you can just see the "I am going to MARRY this woman" look in his eyes!!!
The way Elle keeps repeating "In the shower" in the start of the clip, I have to wonder if the plan was to make a case about how loud a gunshot is and that it should've still been heard over the shower or something. And then the witness just kills it for them haha.
Yeah, that always confused me. Even if you were washing your hair, a gunshot waaaay louder than that. If anything, Chutney could have gotten away with it if she said she was listening to music with headphones on, I'd buy that
I’m guessing that’s the case. I would have done that
that might have been her first thought, because she couldn't think of anything else, but then she asked that 'earlier in the day thing' clearly to buy time and Chutney stepped in it
That would have been a brilliant evidence show in court.
I wonder how the Prosecutor and the Professor felt when five minutes after taking over, a first year law student gets a case dismissed that they've spent weeks battling it out on?
lostinfantry They're men. Lol
Actually the Prosecutor was a woman.
lostinfantry Well my mother says sex doesn't matter. It's her hair. Delta Nu's don't get perms. So Elle was lying about Traci.
@@DavidKen878 Either way, she knew about the perm rule thing.
@@DavidKen878 it worked
That lawyer's face when Elle figures out that Chutney was lying about getting a perm. 😅 One of the best scenes in the whole movie.
I love that as soon as she said she was washing her hair, even the dog knew "girl, you just F'd up"
I love the little smirk on Brooke's face when Elle is exposing Chutney's lie.
Ha! It's velma from scooby doo!!
Yep lol
omg it is!!! I didn't recognize her! good eye!
Yup
and Lindsay Weir from Freaks and Geeks 🧡
For the longest time I thought Chutney was Ellen Page for the longest!! Lol
3:05 that "aww" is brilliant whoever wrote that in 😆
I can still recall when I first watched this movie way back 2008 when I was a sophomore, in our Cosmetology class. Elle Woods started here stummering and nervous, but her knowledge in Cosmetology, hair perming in particular, has helped her win the case.. Great job, Ms. Legally Blonde in hot pink ❤️
My favorite part is at 2:01 when Chutneys lawyer rolled her eyes when they thought Elle was stupid and then little Bruiser popped up at Elle’s defense and gave her some sass and she jumped 😂 has me dead every time 😂💀
I wonder if later she regretted letting Elle take over at Brook's lawyer
The reason I love this scene is because it shows that even the slightest details can flip the situation, making the unconfident confident.
And vice versa. As soon as Chutney realized she had been caught in a lie with her perm story, she went from completely confident to falling apart.
I love this thinking
"At the risk of deactivating the Ammonium thioglycolate"
What I love about this scene is that everyone in the room who underestimated Elle suddenly realized she outsmarted them all!
CLASSIC SCENE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hassan Hartley definitely, this is my favorite scene in this movie
THIS IS THE MOST SAVAGE SCENE
I love how polite she is towards the Judge, despite the latter being snarky to her (for a good reason, of course, but still).
Love how shocked Elle was when Chutney confessed on the stand. "Whoa, I didn't expect it to work that well!"
Loved how Elle proved to be quite smart.
I love how in this scene, Elle finally comes into her own as a lawyer. And she does it by doing it HER way - pink jacket and heels and all. That's who she is, and that's how she makes the best lawyer.
4:29 I love the way he couldn't even speak and was smiling and looking at her like she was the moment 🥺🥺🥺
Love when Elle addresses the jury--she is using her power in the best way.
She could've just said she used a shower cap
She should have done that, but she made the mistake of saying she was washing her hair.
Chris Cindrich armpit hair, puebic hair, facial hair etc.
PopedAMollyImCold she would have heard the gun shot if she was washing other hair and not on her head. and if she wore a shower cap she would've heard it as well.
My mom said that!! HAHA
Besides, too risky, bits of hair does get wet in the shower....
3:31 from here, Elle is just questioning out of anger because she genuinely wants her friend to be cleared of all charges. Also, Elle is literally taking Brooke's secret to the grave! She got cleared and without even using an alibi!
It's also just a tactic to make them crack. If you push aggressively, it leaves them no space to think of a new lie. The more you accuse them of being the murderer and accurately guess details about it, the more they can't hide their guilt
I just love the lawyer goes from smug to both confusion and panic as Elle tears into Chutney
We all need friends like Elle and her friends honestly, they're so supportive and encouraging, not to mention hilarious...
They're all just iconic😌 (love the scene where her blonde friend raised her hand lol)
2:29 Elle leveled up.
Elle learned 'Gotcha Bitch!'
It was super effective
Did anyone notice the reaction from Elle's friends after she asked Chutney about why her soroity sister's perm was ruined when she got hosed down?
Margot actually raised her hand to answer and Serena has the "oh my god" look cause she realized where Elle was going and what Chutney did.
Yeah, we watched the video
No god but Allah
Islam way for peace and real monotheist
Search about the truth with honest heart
This movie is the reason why I'm a lawyer today. No Joke 😅
Good for you. I hope not the corrupt ones lol.
@@iamshadowbanned699 Nah. I'm a JAG.
Her acting skills are god level. Amazing
2:56 the look on her face is like "LMAO thiissss biiittttcchhhhhhh......"
Haha
Lol, right?? I love her face! Like, "You know you done fucked up, right?"
chutney: i got a perm
elle: i’m about to end this whole man’s career
Woman*
@@tombstonerforever9374 it’s a saying
I just love this scene because it unhesitatingly shatters blonde sterotypes and shows that you can be smart and professional while looking cute 🥰 This scene makes me smile and is so inspirational to women 💕💕💕
Lisa in Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic "Rear Window" is another great example of a "smart blonde" I feel (though a risk taker). Not only does she help unravel the murder, at the risk of her own life (and to her boyfriend Jeff's horror) she sneaks into the criminal's apartment to obtain the vital evidence. There even seems to be a subtle empowerment message when Lisa mentions to Jeff smart stable women saving guys in certain situations. Grace Kelly portrayed the role masterfully.
It’s probably my favourite example of “no such thing as frivolous knowledge”.
When elle heard "perm" her face was like girl u messed up 😄 🤣
A totally messed up😅
I'm a cosmetologist for 21 years and that's where this has always been my favorite scene or part of the movie.
The ammonium thyglocalite part makes me laugh for some reason
I really love the defense attorney's reactions...if you notice. At first she rolling her eyes...thinking more this girl is 'stupid' and they got this...but as Elle figures out that one flaw....and slowly confidence builds up...her expression changes to more 'oh crap'....when she realizes that she's on the verge of losing because it's all falling apart piece by piece in the defense for Chutney...that this 'Barbie' she completely underestimated being she was a law student....she had no chance at winning. It was epic.
I mean this stuff you notice when you rewatch this move a billion times.
she is not the defense attorney, she was the prosecutor, the defense attorneys were Emmett and Elle
I am so waiting for Camille to shut down Amber Heard like Elle shut down Chutney
And she did!
Chutney- perm
Elle- I’m about to end this mans whole career
It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this scene I will always make me feel proud of Elle
I Still just about die of laughter when everyone's getting ready to leave the court room,and Professor Callaghan just sits there looking stumped, irritated and defeated cos if HE'D have been in Elle's place. He'd have lost the case for sure.
He doesn't likr being beaten / bested by a woman,AND one of his students at that.
2:05 I just realized Bruiser figured it out first. Thats why he popped up like that.
Ellie repeatedly talking about the shower is just like me in business meetings... I'm just mindlessly babbling and repeating things that were already said just because I myself am slow to process.