Response/Critique Paper on my fair lady

After his arrival in London in 1876 he became an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He wrote on many social aspects of the day. He also undertook his own education at the British Museum and consequently became keenly interested in cultural subjects. In 1914 he wrote the play Pygmalion which later on was adapted to the more popularly known My Fair Lady.

The place is London; the time, 1912. It is a blustery March evening outside Covent Garden, where street-entertainers are performing for the arrival of opera patrons. Flower girls are selling bouquets. Dapper young Freddy Eynsford-Hill upsets the flowers of Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower merchant. As she protests volubly, and later as she tries to sell some flowers to Colonel Pickering, Professor Henry Higgins from a distance is painstakingly writing down her speech in a little notebook, for he is a distinguished phoneti

At his home, at dusk, Higgins recalls Liza and realizes how much she has come to mean to him ("I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"). Without her, he is lost and lonely. Liza slips silently in as he is thus musing. When he finally notices her he barks: "Liza! Where the devil are my slippers?!" Which I believe to be the most amusing last line of a musical I've ever seen.

The American Dream aspect and downfall of the message can be shown in the glamorous costumes worn by everyone in the scene. This downside is demonstrated by Eliza because she knows that the bet is over and now she does not know what will happen to her. This is typical because if one loses their livelihood what will happen to them. Eliza is treated like something that is being used for a show piece and something that is disgarded when Higgins is done with her.

At Ascot Pickering informs Mrs. Higgins that her son will soon make his appearance with the transformed Liza. Within the enclosure, elegant gentlemen and ladies are watching the races -- their reactions reflected in the ballet, "Ascot Gavotte". Eliza now appears under Higgins' arm. Beautifully gowned, and very much the lady, she instantly captures the heart of young Freddy Eynsford-Hill. Smitten, Freddy later haunts Higgins' house for a sight of Liza ("On the Street Where You Live").

The genre of this film is a musical. The conventions this genre follows is content and form. The conventions of content follow the meeting of the two protagonists. The initial meeting is one of hostility. For example, the marketplace scene in the opening scene have Eliza and Higgins arguing about how she is uneducated. Another example of content is when Eliza first goes to Higgins house and is insulted by both Mr. Higgins and Pickering. The second convention has to do with form. The two stars singing together in a duet and a bond forming between the two actors. There seems to be a love story forming between the two actors. Another convention is the use of long takes and editing to show the grace and fluidity of the dance. Two good examples of this is the palace ball sequence in the dance between the Prince and Eliza. This sequence has seamless editing with takes to show the beauty and grace of the two actors. The second example of this is the bar scene with Alfred Doolittle. Mr. Doolittle is doing his last dance before he is top get married. The use of long takes and seamless editing shows the dance of a man and his last night of batchlorhood.

Meanwhile, Higgins is upset to discover Liza has left him and is led to wonder why women behave the way they do ("A Hymn to Him"). When next he does see Liza, it is at his mother's house, where Liza has come for a brief visit. He would like her to come back to him, but whe

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