Amanda Brown published Legally Blonde in 2001 and was based on her real-life experiences as a blonde who attended Stanford Law School while she was obsessed with fashion and beauty, reading Elle magazine and frequently colliding with the personalities of her peers. [6] “Nobody really knew that Legally Blonde was going to be what it was, literally [my label bosses] said, `This movie will be nothing.` And the next thing you know is like this iconic movie. And my song opens it! Hoku said in an interview with Billboard. [57] “Sitting at the premiere and hearing my song open the movie and everyone clapping — it was like, `I`ve really arrived now, guys.`” [57] Witherspoon explored the character by studying the girl sisters on her campus and associated hot spots. She went to dinner with them and joked that she was conducting an “anthropological study.” [16] “I could have gotten into it and really been hesitant and played what I thought was that character, and I would have missed a whole other side of her,” Witherspoon added. [17] “But going to Beverly Hills, hanging out at Neiman Marcus, eating in his coffee shop and seeing these women walking and talking, I got into the reality of the character. I`ve seen how polite these women are, and I`ve seen how much they value their female friendships and how important it is to support each other. [17] While the material is predictable and stereotypical, Reese Witherspoon`s funny and nuanced portrayal makes this film better than it otherwise would have been. Read reviews In LEGAL BLONDE, adorable Southern California sister Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) is about to graduate with a degree in fashion marketing. His life seems perfect. Her biggest challenge is knowing what to wear for a marriage proposal from her beau, Warner Huntington III (Matthew Davis).

But he has another idea. He decided to separate from her before going to Harvard Law School because she is not the right guy to help him in his political career. She decides that the only way to get him back is to join him at Harvard. So she studies hard, completes LSATs, and is admitted using a very unique video recording application trial. Her new classmates are skeptical and tease her. Even worse, Warner is engaged to a girl who looks like an advertisement for Town and Country magazine. They don`t let her learn with them and make her a cruel joke. But she surprises them all, and even herself, by becoming a top-notch law student and lawyer while remaining true to herself. In the end, she defends a murder suspect with whom she has a special relationship and conducts a cross-examination that would impress Perry Mason. Reese Witherspoon is hilarious in this charmer about a dirty sister from Los Angeles named Elle. She goes to Harvard Law School to win back her boyfriend and struggles to fit in with snobs and intellectuals. But she soon discovers that she may have what it takes to be a good lawyer.

Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Victor Garber, Holland Taylor. The “Bend and Snap” scene, in which Elle Paulette explains how she can get her crush`s attention, almost didn`t make it into the film. [29] “[Producer] Marc Platt wanted a B-plot for Paulette (Jennifer Coolidge),” McCullah Lutz told Entertainment Weekly. “At first, we thought, `Should we rob the store?` Co-writer Kirsten Smith said: “I think we spent a week or two figuring out what the B-plot and this big setting should be. There were criminal conspiracies. We pitched scene by scene and everything seemed very weird in terms of sound. [29] Brown wrote letters to his parents about these experiences and initially considered writing a book of essays about his experiences at law school, until a literary agent advised him to turn it into a novel. [7] Brown took a writing course at community college, compiled a manuscript, and bought the book, but did not succeed. Later, she submits her manuscript again, this time in pink, which attracts the attention of an agent[6] and “movie people go crazy”[7]. [7] Amanda`s mother, Suzanne, remembers the day of the bidding war and thought she would be lucky to get $10,000, but the final figure was much higher. The film originally ended at the courthouse, just after Woods won the case, with Elle on the steps of the courthouse sharing a kiss of victory with Emmett, then cutting a year into the future to see her with a now-blonde Vivian form their own blonde legal defense club at law school.[7] After the test audience revealed that they didn`t like the ending, McCullah Lutz and Smith consulted Luketic, Platt and other members of the production team while they were still in the lobby of the theater, and they agreed that a new conclusion was needed.

“It was just a weak ending,” said screenwriter McCullah Lutz. “The kiss didn`t feel right to me because it`s not a romantic comedy – it wasn`t about their relationship. So the test viewers said, “We want to see what happens – we want her to succeed.” That`s why we rewrote for graduation. Ubach and Jessica Cauffiel claim that the original ending also included Elle and Vivian drinking margaritas in Hawaii, implying that they were either best friends now or in love, although Smith and McCullah never wrote such an ending.[31] Other suggested endings for the film included a musical number in which She, the judge, the jury and everyone in the courthouse sang and danced. [13] Producer Marc Platt was fascinated by the character of Elle Woods when he received a manuscript of an unpublished novel. [8] “What I liked about this story is that it`s hilarious, sexy and challenging at the same time,” says Platt. “The world looks at Her and sees someone who is blond and handsome, but no more. She, on the other hand, does not judge herself or anyone else. She thinks the world is great, she`s great, everyone is great, and nothing can change that.

She truly is an irrepressible modern heroine. [8] “When I saw the film, I felt it gave me a real wave of motivation because I really identified with her,” family lawyer Layla Summers told Spectrum News.[53] “I think the film is still very relevant,” she added. “Just being a girl and being a woman, the odds are always against you. When I watch the film now, I feel like I`m part of a big club of powerful professional women, like a sisterhood. [53] One night, Callahan tries to seduce Elle, who now believes that this is the reason she got the internship. Devastated, she resigns and almost returns to California to tell Emmett what happened. When he tells Brooke, she fires Callahan and replaces him with Elle under Emmett`s direction, since she is only a law student, citing a Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling that law students can represent clients if they do so under the supervision of a licensed attorney. By choosing to verify your ticket for this film, you authorize us to match the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account with an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same film. On Rotten Tomatoes, Legally Blonde has a 70% approval rating, based on reviews from 147 critics, with an average rating of 6.20/10. The site`s consensus is as follows: “While the images are predictable and stereotypical, Reese Witherspoon`s funny and nuanced portrayal makes this film better than it otherwise would have been.” [34] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 59 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.

[35] Moviegoers surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an “A−” rating on an A-F scale.[36] Stay up to date with the latest news from Rotten Tomatoes! Tap Sign Up at the bottom to receive our weekly newsletter with updates on movies, TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes podcasts, and more. Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) is a Californian blonde with couture clothes (mostly pink), fabulous friends, and the sexiest boyfriend on campus. When Warner Huntington III suddenly drops her and goes to Harvard Law School, she takes matters into her own hands. She registers too! Now, it should be a no-brainer to get Warner back (well, maybe a turn and a snap), right? False! She is about to start the toughest fight of her life. For love, honor, justice and respect for blondes everywhere! Verified reviews are considered more reliable by other moviegoers. Witherspoon wore 40 different hairstyles in the film. [22] “Oh my God, it became known as `The hair that ate Hollywood,`” Luketic said. It was all about hair. I have this obsession with flyaways. It annoyed Reese a bit because I always had hairdressers on my face. But most of the time, the research and testing on set went in the right color, because `blonde` is open to interpretation, I thought. [12] Devin Stone, better known online as LegalEagle, an American YouTuber and lawyer, observed that the application process depicted in the film, in which Elle Woods sent a video essay to the Harvard Law School admissions committee, was not possible.

“There`s no way to upload that into the law school`s application system,” Stone noted. [45] “During orientation, Harvard Law School actually released the clip of Elle`s admissions video, where the admissions committee decided to let her in, and then they swore they didn`t make any decision that way,” explained Harvard Law School student Jameyanne Fuller. [46] Luketic explained that when the studio gave the green light to the project, he did not know that the film would be structured as a progressive wellness film to empower women. [12] “Initially, they thought it would be a lot more T-shirts and wet breasts than turned out,” Luketic said. [12] In fact, the first script of Legally Blonde was edgy and steamy like American Pie.

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