Do you think a small dose of comedy movie is a perfect idea to lighten up your mood on your gloomy days? If yes, then here is Robert Luketic directed American comedy film: Legally Blonde.
It is about a Witherspoon that portrays Elle Woods, a sorority girl who goes to Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend Warner Huntington III, and in the process, she overcomes preconceptions about blondes and wins as a brilliant lawyer via unflappable self-confidence and fashion/beauty know-how.
Brown's experiences as a blonde attending Stanford Law School while fascinated with fashion and beauty, reading Elle magazine, and regularly clashing with the personalities of her peers inspired the plot of Legally Blonde. Brown met producer Marc Platt in 2000, who assisted her in turning her book into a novel.
Platt recruited the aid of screenwriters McCullah Lutz and Smith to adapt the story into a film. The premise drew director Luketic, an Australian newcomer who came to Hollywood after the popularity of his quirky debut short film Titsiana Booberini,”I'd been reading screenplays for two years and hadn't found anything I could personalise until Leg.”
All About Legally Blond
On July 13, 2001, the picture was released and was a box office triumph, crossing $141 million worldwide on an $18 million budget. It also received generally favourable reviews from reviewers, with Witherspoon's acting garnering special attention.
For Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy, it received a Golden Globe nomination. Witherspoon won the 2002 MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
The film's box office success spawned a sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, in 2003, as well as a 2009 direct-to-DVD spin-off, Legally Blondes. In addition, Laura Bell Bundy starred in Legally Blonde: The Musical, which premiered on January 23, 2007, in San Francisco and opened on April 29, 2007, at the Palace Theatre on Broadway in New York City.
Filming of Legally Blonde
On his first day of filming, Luketic claimed he was “terrified.” “I went from a ten-person team to a 200-person team with enough trucks and trailers to wrap around a city block in ten minutes.”
“The makers of the film requested if they could place the film at USC, but the pictures of her as an undergraduate and being in a sorority… we felt there was too much stereotyping going on,” says Elijah May, USC's campus filming coordinator. So instead, Elle will attend CULA, a fictitious college created by the producers.
Although the film was largely shot at Harvard University, sequences were also shot at USC, the University of California, Los Angeles, the California Institute of Technology, and Rose City High School in Pasadena, California.
What Critics have to Say About Legally Blonde
The film has a 70% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 145 critic reviews with an average rating of 6.23/10. “Despite the predictable and conventional storyline, Reese Witherspoon's hilarious, nuanced performance elevates the film above what it would have been otherwise.” says the site's consensus. The film has a Metacritic score of 59 out of 100, based on 32 reviews, indicating “mixed or average reviews.”Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an “A-” on a scale of A to F.
Roger Ebert rated it three out of four stars, stating it was “hard to hate” and that “Witherspoon easily enlivened this material with brightness and sharp wit.”[37] Variety's Todd McCarthy called it a “great and winning” performance by Witherspoon. “Witherspoon once again shows herself a comedienne worthy of comparison to such golden period greats as Carole Lombard and Ginger Rogers, beaming star wattage out of every pore, not to mention her hair.”
Wrapping Up
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