What's your favorite part of this film? I love it all, especially with Audrey Hepburn, but I've always liked the scene where she goes back to the square where she used to sell flowers, and speaks to the people there.
What I love about the ending is how they each quote their past selves from before they met. Before him, she still had her lowly Cockney accent and didn’t know how to fit into society. Before her, he was the kind of guy who expected women to “find his slippers,” i.e. looked down on them. By speaking in the way they used to, they each are saying to the other “I’m not that person anymore because of you.” Higgins’ words aren’t the equivalent of him regressing to his old ways; he’s finally grown out of those ways and is putting himself out there in his own way by letting her know she’s not the only one emerging unchanged from the previous events. Whether they stay together or not is irrelevant. They don’t even HAVE to stay together. Sometimes people change us for the better but aren’t meant to be in our lives forever. What matters is that they finally acknowledge that they’re both better off from having met.
Mi escena favorita es cuando salen de casa para el baile. El profesor se adelanta pero se detiene porque se ha dado cuenta de que no está siendo un caballero. Retrocede y coge del brazo a Eliza, haciéndola sonreír. Y ahí la película da paso a la "Intermission". Una escena maravillosa.
What's your favorite part of this film? I love it all, especially with Audrey Hepburn, but I've always liked the scene where she goes back to the square where she used to sell flowers, and speaks to the people there.
What I love about the ending is how they each quote their past selves from before they met. Before him, she still had her lowly Cockney accent and didn’t know how to fit into society. Before her, he was the kind of guy who expected women to “find his slippers,” i.e. looked down on them. By speaking in the way they used to, they each are saying to the other “I’m not that person anymore because of you.” Higgins’ words aren’t the equivalent of him regressing to his old ways; he’s finally grown out of those ways and is putting himself out there in his own way by letting her know she’s not the only one emerging unchanged from the previous events. Whether they stay together or not is irrelevant. They don’t even HAVE to stay together. Sometimes people change us for the better but aren’t meant to be in our lives forever. What matters is that they finally acknowledge that they’re both better off from having met.
Yes, I think it's a very good, intriguing, ending.
Mi escena favorita es cuando salen de casa para el baile. El profesor se adelanta pero se detiene porque se ha dado cuenta de que no está siendo un caballero. Retrocede y coge del brazo a Eliza, haciéndola sonreír. Y ahí la película da paso a la "Intermission". Una escena maravillosa.
Oh, yes, that is another great scene!
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