Pretty? Woman?

I don't hate this movie for a 90s romcom, it's suitable. It has a bit more substance to it, I guess. I don't know My Fair Lady outside of a couple of songs. I don't know Pygmalion at all, just the premise. I don't hate Julia Roberts but I don't know about the idea of her being "pretty". She had a certain look about her that made her unique, I think she and Sarah Jessica Parker got some unfair flack for not being conventionally beautiful, they have teeth and mouths other women get shit for not fixing. Roberts was supposed to be Corey in Say Anything... she didn't fit the bill, she looks too mature, I think she's supposed to be pretty young in this movie. I kinda joked it should be "Moderately Attractive Lady", I think that was a Harmontown joke. She's more or less infantalised by the two men who are supporting her. Jason Alexander is actually really great in this even if he gets hella rapey later, he has to work as a bone of contention between the lovers and he knew better than to lean on what he was well known for. And Julia Roberts has wrinkly as fuck toes when they're in the bath, by the way. Not up to Tarantino Toe Standards. I also had a massive issue with "80s Brow" when I was a kid because I hated my thicker brows, I still do, but I think this was more a darker brow issue with the pencil and I don't own a pencil knowing people want to give me actual brows.

I didn't see this as a kid, it was another of those "adult" movies that were out and I was a kid, it was one of those movies where the soundtrack songs were charting when I was little so again it had music on those cheap-ass compilation tapes. I liked the song from Working Girl, I don't know the movie that well. I don't even know why I'm making this post, I noticed it looked like it relies heavily on ADR. It's not a shitty movie, I think it has a decent amount of drama, Richard Gere's character has some substance to him, he's not just the romantic lead, they play off one another well, there's sufficient chemistry. I like he doesn't try to hide Vivian's purpose, it's not up for debate, but she's rightfully shitty he lets it slip. He doesn't do a heck of a lot "grooming" her and giving her deportment lessons, or elocution lessons for that matter, she can get away with her melange of a lower-class accent. I think they thought there was being a respectful depiction being made of hookers but it's clearly not when she has to admit it's not really for her, she's still actively shamed about her profession, which wouldn't work. Having seen the last Magic Mike movie, which was a Pretty Woman rip off, and a hilarious one at that, I was still confused about Mike being an actual sex worker and not just a dancer. And that didn't exactly paint sex workers in a positive light either, which is absolutely shitty. Sex work in the 90s was obviously further demonised off the back of the AIDS epidemic, hooker with a heart of gold is a trope that doesn't work now, you can't get away with it but god forbid they tried to remake it with Vivian telling him to get bent and staying on Only Fans instead. She'll do better there, anyway.