[ SECRET POST #2521 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2521 ⌋

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Comments

[tweedisgood]

I thought the implication of My Fair Lady was that Freddie did in the end marry Eliza?


/disclaimer, haven't seen this for years.

[(Anonymous)]

I believe she does in the play, but in the movie she marries the professor.

[tweedisgood]

Ah, OK. No accounting for taste ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

No, in the movie she comes back to the professor and it just cuts out. It was meant to imply those two ended up together, but...fuck that.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure they married in the original play/whatever it was (called Pygmalion). In the movie My Fair Lady, she goes back to Prof Higgins and I think the implication is she stays with him.

[(Anonymous)]

She also went back to Higgins in Pygmalion (the Wendy Hiller film, that is).

[misty_anon]

In the play, Eliza ended up with Freddie as Shaw didn't want there to be a romance between Eliza and Prof. Higgins. The film ends with Eliza going back to Prof. Higgins.

[tweedisgood]

But Freddie is so pretty, because Jeremy. Movie!Eliza is clearly cracked.

[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha this was my exact opinion when I first saw the movie when I was a kid ;) Of course later, I realized that a big part of the movie was Eliza realizing the childishness and fleetingness of romanticized notions like a young man who professes to be madly in love with a woman he barely knows based mainly on the fact that she made him laugh.

(OTOH, I didn't think the ending was supposed to be explicitly Eliza coming back to Higgins in a romantic sense? I kind of just saw it as her coming back to forgive and make up with him, with a bit of a possibly-romantic hinting. But it's been a while since I saw the movie so my perception might be weird.)

[misty_anon]

Tell me about it! I kept on thinking she had to be mad to turn down Freddie.

[hwc]

Originally the play ended with her saying she'd marry Freddie as soon as she could support him financially, but Shaw wrote an addendum when the musical adaption had an Eliza/Higgins ending. Shaw did not appreaciate Broadway interrogating the text from the wrong perspective.

The movie ending left things a bit more ambigious than the musical. Eliza does return to Higgins' house, but IIRC it didn't malign Eliza/Freddie either, IIRC.

[blueonblue]

"This being the state of human affairs, what is Eliza fairly sure to do when she is placed between Freddy and Higgins? Will she look forward to a lifetime of fetching Higgins's slippers or to a lifetime of Freddy fetching hers? There can be no doubt about the answer. Unless Freddy is biologically repulsive to her, and Higgins biologically attractive to a degree that overwhelms all her other instincts, she will, if she marries either of them, marry Freddy."


http://www.bartleby.com/138/6.html

[(Anonymous)]

All good and well...until you consider the addendum to the play that makes it fairly clear that she does go back to Higgins.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, well, creators have been known to cave under fan pressure for shippings.

See Andrew Lloyd Webber.

[blueonblue]

The link is to Shaw's sequel to the play. She marries Freddy and they sponge off the Colonel for a while.