Why did Eliza pick Higgins instead of Freddy?

[Temptress_1960]

I'm watching My Fair Lady.

And Freddy is just sooooo sweet.

Way sexier than Henry Higgins, too.

 

[lavender]

 

[Temptress_1960]

But Freddie was so romantic...

singing about the street she lived on...

It just makes me sad for him.

 

[MissTaken]

I think Liza was really submissive.

She needed Henry Higgins to not only love her, but to guide her and teach her. She needed his sort of "control" to help taper her wayward spirit.

She longed to please and probably wouldn't mind a bit of a spanking once in a while!

 

[Temptress_1960]

Well, I can relate to that, I guess.

 

[Lasher]

I think it was just poorly written. Henry Higgins is little more than a caricature and it's awfully difficult to believe anyone could fall in love with a caricature.

 

[MissTaken]

I may be confused, but didn't Henry have more depth of character in Pygmalian, versus the screen play for My Fair Lady?

 

[Lasher]

I'm assuming we're talking about My Fair Lady - Henry Higgins is not a very well developed character in the movie.

 

[Temptress_1960]

Lasher and MissTaken, you are so right.. Higgins is not very likeable either, in the movie.

 

[LukkyKnight]

How could anybody take a man still known as "Freddy" seriously?

 

[Dillinger]

Did you know that George Bernard Shaw also had a problem with this ending and wrote a sequel to the play in which Eliza rejects Higgins and marries Freddie?

http://eserver.org/drama/pygmalion/sequel.html

 

[MissTaken]

How could anybody take a man still known as "Lukky" seriously?

Now, LK, you shouldn't be so hard on yourself, hon!



Freddy was simply way uncool and probably thought Spain was somewhere in south of France!

 

[LukkyKnight]

Now, LK, you shouldn't be so hard on yourself, hon!



Freddy was simply way uncool and probably thought Spain was somewhere in south of France!

He was a gullible chump learning how to flirt for the first time, I think.

 

[Lasher]

Did you know that George Bernard Shaw also had a problem with this ending and wrote a sequel to the play in which Eliza rejects Higgins and marries Freddie?

I really find both of these options distasteful.

I think what Eliza needed to do was take some time to find out who she really is. It is fiction after all, lol, they could've used some plot device to get past the fact that she was hopelessly impoverished and needed to latch on to the first available man to survive.

 

[MissTaken]

One of the things that I found hard to swallow with the whole story was that Eliza wasn't attractive until she was made over and behaving in a manner which was uncomfortable for her.

She wasn't liked for who she was.

She was dressed up.
Her free spiritedness was clipped.
Then, we were expected to fall in love with the transformed Eliza.

Now, the story would have had more credibility if she kept a devilish piece of her persona regardless of what she wore and how she spoke.

As a teen, it served to emphasize the need to fit in and be one of the elitest crowd in order to be worthy.

 

[Temptress_1960]

Did you know that George Bernard Shaw also had a problem with this ending and wrote a sequel to the play in which Eliza rejects Higgins and marries Freddie?

http://eserver.org/drama/pygmalion/sequel.html

I did not know that. Now I feel vindicated *laughing*

And, yeah, there are a lot of issues with conformity in this play/movie.

But I do love the scene at Ascot, where she's very carefully and ungrammatically telling the ladies and Freddie about her aunt, who was done in. Cause "them that she lived with would have done her in for a hat pin, let alone a hat."

*giggling*

It's a lot like Cinderella, obviously, because she too was unattractive until cleaned up and dressed up magically.

But I still love musicals. I love the singing, the dancing... and in My Fair Lady, I love those big hats.