Pretty Woman love: wherein I forfeit any credentials to coolness...
Here is a confession: I don't care how regressive or unfeminist it makes me, I adore the 1980s movie Pretty Woman, with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere (in case you don't know the plot by some odd chance, she is a hooker hired by icy tycoon whose heart she melts and love occurs).
Yeah, yeah, I know all the arguments. Heck, I can make them myself - from how realistic is it that a LA hooker is actually sweet, wholesome and relatively undamaged to the fact that a corporate raider will probably not have a heart of gold under the bastardy exterior. I don't care, OK? I don't watch PW for realism or a guide to gender relations.
I watch it because it hits the same note that some of those deliciously trashily irresistable romance novels do, or Bollywood movies, or some dramas. I like fairytales sometimes and I have the very old-fashioned thing for both "hero on white limousine horse to the rescue of poor woman who will now be riiiiiiich" and "icy rich jerk is actually a damaged woobie needing love of a good woman" tropes. I love them!
Plus, it has such awesomely eighties music! I love 1980s pop because it's so dramaish, if it makes sense - trashy and romantic and super-poppy. Just check out this song from PW soundtrack:
I am about to rewatch the movie, actually! I remembered my love for it because Mr. Mousie and I ended up discussing 1980s movies. Difference between 1980s and 1970s? The former have movies with cheerful consummerism and big hair, and 1970s are about gritty reality and flat hair. :D 1970s is a much better decade for movies but I love 1980s movies with their shoulder pads, pastels, and cheeriness anyway.
So, because I feel like reliving 1980s (even if I was in the USSR at the time), I am open for 1980s movie recs. I don't care if I have seen them before, I don't mind rewatching...I think I will rewatch Working Girl after Pretty Woman - even if it's 1991.
If this hasn't convinced you of my uncoolness, I love Bonnie Tyler too!
Yeah, yeah, I know all the arguments. Heck, I can make them myself - from how realistic is it that a LA hooker is actually sweet, wholesome and relatively undamaged to the fact that a corporate raider will probably not have a heart of gold under the bastardy exterior. I don't care, OK? I don't watch PW for realism or a guide to gender relations.
I watch it because it hits the same note that some of those deliciously trashily irresistable romance novels do, or Bollywood movies, or some dramas. I like fairytales sometimes and I have the very old-fashioned thing for both "hero on white limousine horse to the rescue of poor woman who will now be riiiiiiich" and "icy rich jerk is actually a damaged woobie needing love of a good woman" tropes. I love them!
Plus, it has such awesomely eighties music! I love 1980s pop because it's so dramaish, if it makes sense - trashy and romantic and super-poppy. Just check out this song from PW soundtrack:
Click to viewI am about to rewatch the movie, actually! I remembered my love for it because Mr. Mousie and I ended up discussing 1980s movies. Difference between 1980s and 1970s? The former have movies with cheerful consummerism and big hair, and 1970s are about gritty reality and flat hair. :D 1970s is a much better decade for movies but I love 1980s movies with their shoulder pads, pastels, and cheeriness anyway.
So, because I feel like reliving 1980s (even if I was in the USSR at the time), I am open for 1980s movie recs. I don't care if I have seen them before, I don't mind rewatching...I think I will rewatch Working Girl after Pretty Woman - even if it's 1991.
If this hasn't convinced you of my uncoolness, I love Bonnie Tyler too!