Pygmalion Page #10

Synopsis: The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Production: Criterion Collection
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
NOT RATED
Year:
1938
89 min
2,354 Views


to kick you with.

If you can't appreciate what you've got,

you better get what you can appreciate.

- I won't care for anyone who doesn't care for me.

- Oh, Eliza, you're an idiot!

I waste the treasures of my Miltonic

mind by spreading them before you.

Oh, I can't talk to you.

You turn everything against me.

You know very well that I can't

go back to the gutter, as you call it,

and that I have no real friends

in the world but you and the Colonel.

You think I must go back to Wimpole Street

because I have nowhere to go but Father's.

But don't be too sure that you have me under

your feet to be bullied and talked down.

I'll marry Freddy, I will,

as soon as I'm able to support him!

What, that young fool?

You shall marry an ambassador.

You shall marry

the viceroy of India.

I won't have my masterpiece

thrown away on Freddy.

You think I like you to say that, but I

haven't forgotten what you said a minute ago.

If I can't have kindness,

I'll have independence.

Independence-

that's middle-class blasphemy.

We're all of us dependent on

one another, every soul on Earth.

I'll let you see

whether I'm dependent on you.

If you can preach, I can teach.

I'll go and be a teacher.

Ha! What'll you teach,

in Heaven's name?

What you taught me.

I'll teach phonetics.

I'll offer myself as an assistant

to Professor Karpathy.

What, that humbug? That impostor?

That toadying ignoramus?

You take one step in his direction,

and I'll wring your neck, you hear?

Wring away! What do I care?

I knew you'd strike me one day.

- Oh!

- Now I know how to deal with you.

Oh, what a fool I was

not to think of it before.

That's done you,

'Enry 'Iggins, it has.

And I don't give that

for your bullying and your fine talk.

When I think of myself...

crawling under your feet...

and being trampled on

and talked down,

when all the time I had only to

lift my finger to be as good as you are,

oh, I could ust

kick myself.

By George, Eliza, I said I'd make

a woman of you, and I have.

I like you like this.

Yes, you make up to me now that I'm not

afraid of you and I can do without you.

Of course I do,

you little fool.

Five minutes ago,

you were a millstone around my neck.

Now you're a tower of strength,

a consort battleship.

Good-bye,

Professor Higgins.

OW, I ain't dirty.!

I Washed my face and hands

before I come, I did.

I shall make a duchess of

this draggle-tailed guttersnipe.

- Ohhh.!

- In six months, in three-

I Washed my face and hands

before I came.

I did.

Where the devil

are my slippers, Eliza?

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, Arms and the Man in 1894. Influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he sought to introduce a new realism into English-language drama, using his plays as vehicles to disseminate his political, social and religious ideas. By the early twentieth century his reputation as a dramatist was secured with a series of critical and popular successes that included Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma and Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's expressed views were often contentious; he promoted eugenics and alphabet reform, and opposed vaccination and organised religion. He courted unpopularity by denouncing both sides in the First World War as equally culpable, and although not a republican, castigated British policy on Ireland in the postwar period. These stances had no lasting effect on his standing or productivity as a dramatist; the inter-war years saw a series of often ambitious plays, which achieved varying degrees of popular success. In 1938 he provided the screenplay for a filmed version of Pygmalion for which he received an Academy Award. His appetite for politics and controversy remained undiminished; by the late 1920s he had largely renounced Fabian Society gradualism and often wrote and spoke favourably of dictatorships of the right and left—he expressed admiration for both Mussolini and Stalin. In the final decade of his life he made fewer public statements, but continued to write prolifically until shortly before his death, aged ninety-four, having refused all state honours, including the Order of Merit in 1946. Since Shaw's death scholarly and critical opinion has varied about his works, but he has regularly been rated as second only to Shakespeare among British dramatists; analysts recognise his extensive influence on generations of English-language playwrights. The word "Shavian" has entered the language as encapsulating Shaw's ideas and his means of expressing them. more…

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