Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
#1Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/14/10 at 10:00pmJust watched Pretty Woman on Lifetime and it was one of my all time favorite romances as a teen. Re-watching it, the premise is just deplorable on so many levels. Yes the performances are stellar and cute, but the woman is a prostitute and he falls in love with her. It just creeped me out and from a feminist perspective its just abysmal. The whole thing made me uncomfortable now. Wasn't it one of the highest grossing movies the year it came out. I remember taking my preteen cousin with me in the 90s-what was I thinking? I remember her saying the film was inspiring. Oh dear.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#2Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/14/10 at 10:03pmOld age has mellowed you.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#2Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/14/10 at 10:05pm
Fifty bucks, Grandpa. For seventy five, the wife can watch.
Fvckin' love this movie.
#3Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/14/10 at 10:05pmActually, its probably the opposite. If I were mellow, I wouldn't care. hahahaha
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#4Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 2:46amThe original ending had her committing suicide.
#5Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 8:48amwow ghostlight... i never knew that
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#6Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 8:56amProbably would have been a better movie if she had...
"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#7Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 9:59amSeriously. Granted, it was the original script, but in the end, she's bought into the fantasy, while from his POV, he's just bought her, and when their time is up and she realizes she's just going back to being a wh*re, she kills herself. Of course that would never do for most of today's "feel-good" movies, so they altered the ending to make it a happy one.
#8Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 10:18amIt used to be quite a hit. I honestly never liked the movie as I think it's quite average.
#9Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 10:22amThe suicide ending makes more sense actually, but then you would never make any money in the theatres. It's the implausibility of how does someone build a life with a prostitute. Both people must be so damaged. The movie really does alternate between some darker moments and some really light comedy stuff that as an adult doesn't work so seamlessly for me.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#10Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 10:39amI read an article once that talked about how the 'sequel' to Pretty Woman is Julia's film Sleeping With the Enemy (he's a jealous older husband, controlling all the money in the relationship, his much younger wife is his most prized possession, and this is how that kind of relationship ends up, etc.) and that is all I think of now when I see Pretty Woman.
EVIE
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#11Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 11:39am
"The original ending had her committing suicide."
Honestly? Wow, that would have been a great ending. I always thought it was a creepy story line. I remember reading somewhere that it was the modern day Cinderella story.
#12Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 11:53am
"It's the implausibility of how does someone build a life with a prostitute"
Believe me Bettyboy, it hasn't been easy....
"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"
#13Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 11:55amOh please, danmag. You can't honestly tell me miss the streets!
#14Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 2:21pmI meant my HUSBAND was a prostitute...
"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"
#15Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 2:26pm
Oh! I didn't know you two were MARRIED!
#16Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 2:30pmBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#17Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 2:54pm
She didn't kill herself in the original screenplay, but it was much much darker. I started a thread about it once, which I found, but can't link through it with the new devamped search engine.
The thread was called Pretty Woman vs 3000. Like I said, I can find it via search, but when I try to open it it gives me a blank page.
#18Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 3:56pmI like the idea of a suicide much better.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#19Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 3:59pmOriginally Vivian just jumps down off the fire escape to see Edward and lands face first on the hood of the car. Fade to black.
#20Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 4:00pmPygmalion probably had the same affect during it's day.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#21Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 4:52pm
Okay, I found the thread I started about the screenplay, but weirdly enough the link to the screenplay is no longer there. WTF BWW?
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=974527&boardname=off&dt=26&boardid=2
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#23Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 5:48pm
Why in the era of DVD, movies on demand and Netflix would you watch an R-rated sex comedy on a basic cable channel like Lifetime where it is not only severely edited for language and content, but also for length to fit in the 44/22 (content/commercials) time allotted?
If the answer has something to do with the words "easy" or "lazy" I'm not really interested.
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Updated On: 1/15/10 at 05:48 PM
#24Pretty Woman? Seriously....what was I thinking????
Posted: 1/15/10 at 6:05pm
I'll tell you why I watch PRETTY WOMAN when it's aired on TV:
The TV edit of the film is different than the actual film. It was done when scenes were actually reshot to edit out language, sex etc. If you know the film by heart as so many people do, it's really quite interesting to watch it when it airs.
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