Pretty Woman

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Pretty WomanA Whenever i hear the words Pretty Woman i can't helpthinking of the old song "Pretty Woman". This movie gives anall new meaning to these words. Now it isn't "just" the titleof a song, from when our parents were born. The film has mademe understand these words as being something as American as canbe. So, from now on, whenever i hear the song, i will think ofthe film and maybe say to myself: "My god, that+__+s just typicalfor those Americans". The film and it+__+s characters gives me anexcellent picture (maybe a lit tle exaggarated) of today+__+sAmerica. The film isnA__At a new story. It is a rewrite of the famousadventure about Cinderella. It has been used agian in thisfilm, where the poor princes (Vivian), whom was doomed to livea life in poverty, is rescued by the beautiful and handsomeprince (Edward). By this i don+__+t mean to say that the film isnothing but a 1990 versio n of Cinderella, but it+__+s very close. - AThe characters in Pretty Woman pretty much resemblesthose in Cinderella. Viv ian Ward, the poor hooker, who untilnow, have lived a life as a prostitute on Hollywood Boulevard,where she earned just enough money to pay her bills if itwasn+__+t for her roommate Kit. Kit is also a prostitute. Sheusually buys dope for the rent money , which leaves Vivian towork extra. To draw parralels to Cinderella, Vivian would (offcourse) be Cinderella, and Kit would be the exploitingstepsister. They have lived like this for a long time, andcontinues living like that, until one day, when Vivian ispicked up byu mr. Edward Levis, a businessman from New York,trying to find his way back to Beverly Hills. Edward Lewis is aE _ _~+_ ------ _ __ O very rich man, who has earned his money by buying companies,and then selling them again in small parts. In doing this he isassisted by his lawyer mr. Philip Stuckey, whom more thananything wants to takeover other companies, if nothing else,just to hurt other people. Mr. Lewis has just got divorced fromhis wife, and now he lives in a flat on Man hatten. If we onceagain tries to compare Pretty Woman to Cinderella, Edward Lewisresembles the Prince, who first neglects Cind erella, but latercomes to fetch her. Philip Stuckey is hard to place in thestory of Cinderella, but i think of him as something like thePrince+__+s servant. - b_AThe next important character is mr. Morse, who owns thecompany that Edward is currently trying to take over. He is anold man, who rapidly fights back, just to save his workers. Hiscompany is saved in the end of the film, where Edward decidesthat he will rather be part of the firm, instead of taking itover, just to sell it again. I have n+__+t been able to place mr.Morse in Cinderella like all the others, but (r) anything to makea film better. In Cinderella you w ill also, like in all fairytales, find "The Good Fairy". Pretty Woman also got one ofthese. It is the employees of the hotel, who helps Vivianbuying clothes, teaching her manners etc. - b_APretty Woman is a film about love and live values, mixedup with a little bit of everything contributing to "TheAmerican Way Of Life". The primary theme of the film is love (r)the love be tween rich and poor, which is shown in the lovebetween Vivian and Edward. The secondary themes are things suchas: prositution, drug addiction, social classes in the U.S. andfinally how the rich people of the U.S. see themselves assuperior to the remain ing U.S. population.E _ _~+ ------ _ __ O (TM)A b_b__ ASome of the typical American things in this film is:Prostitution (although this is also found in the rest of theworld), Beverly Hills (90210) and the story about the lovebetween "the rich pr ince, who comes to fecth his beloved, whomunfortunately is living as a prostitute in Hollywood. Anothervery American thing abo ut this film is the enviroment, in whichEdward lives his life. The U.S. business live is different fromthat in Europe. It moves much faster compared to the rest ofthe world. It+__+s difficult to tell one+__+s opinion about this film. To speakfor mysel f i can only say, that it+__+s a film, which i both loveand hate. I love it because of the fabulous actors and thetouching scenes with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. But Ican+__+t help hating it because of it being that imitation ofCinderella that it is. Isee it as blasphemous to the oldadventure to make such an imitation. I+__+m sure the Grimbrothers, or who ever wrote it, aren+__+t happy either. It+__+s funny how you, in every single TV serie, can+__+t avoid tosee how good america is. How well the children are living, allbrought up in nice rich families with no problems. It+__+s just,that it+__+s perhaps only about 5% of the U.S. citizens that livea life like in the TV series. The rest live+__+s like the rest ofus Europeans, or below the limit of poverty. It+__+s typical forthe U.S. to try to make themselves look like such a glamouruscountry, with no problems at all. To me America is nothing buta big fake, the uncle, to whom everoby look up (r) only to thehis live from the outside, not noticing all the inside problemshe might have.