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| Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde |
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| POSTED Wednesday, February 27, 2002 06:14:08 PM |
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| REPLIED Tuesday, March 05, 2002 08:20:41 AM |
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| REPLIED Saturday, March 09, 2002 06:27:42 PM |
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| REPLIED Saturday, March 23, 2002 04:09:41 PM |
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I can't believe what I'm hearing... Legally Blonde was, by definition, a terrible movie. Not a hint of originality in the entire 90 minute production, the movie scraped the girl-power barrel to come up with a tired, well-used "believe in yourself" message. Witherspoon's character is entirely devoid of charm or charisma - are we supposed to support a pretty rich girl who's making a mockery of everything she gets herself involved in (including the American legal system, as if we needed any more convincing that it was totally screwed) because she's foolish enough to believe that her equally ignorant ex boyfriend is her one true love? There is no reason why this character should conquer, or why we should want her to. A more satisfying ending would have eventuated if Elle completely failed at law school, and realised that her outdated notions of love and herself were indeed redundant! Her "skills" as a lawyer are based entirely on her knowledge of beauty products - would that really be enough to see her through law skill? It is a symptom of our automaton society that mass hype can convince audiences to side with a character that, in real life, we would all rightfully detest.
Although, if one was to take a postmodernist view, Legally Blonde could be seen as a scathing satire on American education system's "Old Boy" psyche, and the American legal system's (and, indeed, American society as a whole) favouring of style over substance. We all go a little mad sometimes. |
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| REPLIED Sunday , May 26, 2002 06:37:13 PM |
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| REPLIED Wednesday, July 17, 2002 10:27:05 AM |
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| REPLIED Sunday , August 11, 2002 04:50:22 PM |
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| REPLIED Tuesday, October 15, 2002 09:25:01 PM |
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| REPLIED Friday , October 18, 2002 08:16:15 AM |
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| REPLIED Saturday, November 23, 2002 01:12:18 PM |
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| REPLIED Saturday, February 15, 2003 12:27:57 AM |
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| REPLIED Wednesday, July 02, 2003 01:14:27 PM |
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| REPLIED Friday , July 04, 2003 02:40:39 PM |
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| REPLIED Monday , July 07, 2003 10:20:26 AM |
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sixfootmonkey said: I can't believe what I'm hearing... Legally Blonde was, by definition, a terrible movie. Not a hint of originality in the entire 90 minute production, the movie scraped the girl-power barrel to come up with a tired, well-used "believe in yourself" message. Witherspoon's character is entirely devoid of charm or charisma - are we supposed to support a pretty rich girl who's making a mockery of everything she gets herself involved in (including the American legal system, as if we needed any more convincing that it was totally screwed) because she's foolish enough to believe that her equally ignorant ex boyfriend is her one true love? There is no reason why this character should conquer, or why we should want her to. A more satisfying ending would have eventuated if Elle completely failed at law school, and realised that her outdated notions of love and herself were indeed redundant! Her "skills" as a lawyer are based entirely on her knowledge of beauty products - would that really be enough to see her through law skill? It is a symptom of our automaton society that mass hype can convince audiences to side with a character that, in real life, we would all rightfully detest.
Although, if one was to take a postmodernist view, Legally Blonde could be seen as a scathing satire on American education system's "Old Boy" psyche, and the American legal system's (and, indeed, American society as a whole) favouring of style over substance.
you have got to lighten up. not all movies are going to be the kind that leave you scratching your chin on the way out of the theater, contemplating the deep and powerful meanings. just enjoy those ninty minutes as time that you don't have to be doing something worse. chin sratching is not the only sign of a good movie. "Children in the backseat cause accidents, accidents in the backseat cause...children."
"One knows the world has gone crazy when the best rapper is white, the greatest golfer is black, the swiss win the American's cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war." |
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| REPLIED Monday , February 09, 2004 06:52:38 PM |
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