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Legally Blonde
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Theatrical release affiche
Directed by Robert Luketic
Screenplay past
  • Karen McCullah Lutz
  • Kirsten Smith
Based on Legally Blonde
by Amanda Brown
Produced past
  • Marc Platt
  • Ric Kidney
Starring
  • Reese Witherspoon
  • Luke Wilson
  • Selma Blair
  • Matthew Davis
  • Victor Garber
  • Jennifer Coolidge
Cinematography Anthony B. Richmond
Edited by Anita Brandt-Burgoyne
Music by Rolfe Kent

Production
companies
  • Type A Films
  • Marc Platt Productions
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by MGM Distribution Co. (United States)
20th Century Fox (International)[1]

Release engagement
  • July 13, 2001 (2001-07-13)

Running time

 96 minutes[ane]
State Us
Language English
Upkeep $18 one thousand thousand
Box function $141.eight million[2]

Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic in his characteristic-length directorial debut. Written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith from Amanda Brown'due south 2001 novel of the aforementioned name, it stars Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, and Jennifer Coolidge. Witherspoon plays Elle Woods, a sorority daughter who attempts to win dorsum her ex-boyfriend Warner Huntington III by getting a Juris Doctor degree at Harvard Police School, and in the process, overcomes stereotypes against blondes and triumphs equally a successful lawyer through unflappable self-confidence and fashion/dazzler knowhow.

The outline of Legally Blonde originated from Brownish'due south experiences as a blonde going to Stanford Law Schoolhouse while beingness obsessed with fashion and beauty, reading Elle mag, and frequently clashing with the personalities of her peers. In 2000, Chocolate-brown met producer Marc Platt, who helped her develop her manuscript into a novel. Platt brought in screenwriters McCullah Lutz and Smith to adjust the book into a move picture. The projection caught the attending of managing director Luketic, an Australian newcomer who came to Hollywood on the success of his quirky debut short film Titsiana Booberini. "I had been reading scripts for two years, non finding anything I could put my own personal marker on, until Legally Blonde came around," Luketic said.

The film was released on July 13, 2001, and was a hit with audiences, grossing $141 meg worldwide on an $xviii million budget, too as receiving moderately positive reviews from critics, with particular praise going to Witherspoon'southward performance. Information technology was nominated for a Golden Earth Award for Best Motion Motion-picture show: Musical or Comedy. Witherspoon received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Motion Moving-picture show Musical or Comedy, and the 2002 MTV Picture Honour for Best Female Operation.

The box part success led to a series of films: a 2003 sequel, Legally Blonde two: Red, White & Blonde, and a 2009 directly-to-DVD spin-off, Legally Blondes. Additionally, Legally Blonde: The Musical premiered on January 23, 2007, in San Francisco and opened in New York Urban center at the Palace Theatre on Broadway on April 29, 2007, starring Laura Bell Bundy.

In May 2020, it was announced that Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor were signed to write a third film.[3] In October 2020, MGM Studios confirmed via their official social media that Legally Blonde 3 is planned for release in May 2022.[4]

Plot [edit]

Fashion merchandising pupil and sorority daughter Elle Woods is taken to an expensive eatery by her swain, Warner Huntington III. She expects Warner to propose, only he breaks upward with her instead. He intends to go to Harvard Law School and become a successful pol and believes that Elle is not "serious" enough for that kind of life. Elle believes she can win Warner back if she shows herself capable of achieving the same things. Afterwards months of studying, Elle scores a 179 on the Police force School Admission Test[5] and, combined with her 4.0 GPA, is accepted to Harvard Constabulary School.

Upon arriving at Harvard, Elle'southward SoCal personality is a consummate contrast to her East Coast classmates, who frequently distrust her. Elle shortly encounters Warner, just discovers he is engaged to his one-time girlfriend, Vivian Kensington, who considers Elle a fool. Later, Elle tells Warner that she intends to apply for one of her professor's internships, just Warner tells her that she is wasting her time because she is not intelligent plenty. Realizing that Warner will never take her back or take her seriously, Elle finds motivation to testify herself by working hard and demonstrating her understanding of the field of study.

The following semester, Professor Callahan, the schoolhouse's most respected instructor, decides to accept on some offset-year interns to help with a loftier-profile case. Among those chosen are Elle, Warner, and Vivian. Callahan is defending a prominent fitness teacher named Brooke Windham, one of Elle's office models. Accused of murdering her wealthy older husband, Brooke is unwilling to produce an excuse (she later reveals to Elle that she was having liposuction, a fact that would ruin her reputation, which Elle promises not to disclose). Vivian gains a new respect for Elle and reveals that Warner could not get into Harvard without his father's help. Emmett Richmond, Callahan's junior partner, has besides taken detect of Elle'south potential afterward she realizes that pool boy, Enrique, who claimed to be having an matter with Brooke, is a closeted homosexual, thus proving his claim imitation.

I nighttime, Callahan tries seducing Elle, who at present believes that is why she got the internship. Devastated, she quits and about returns home to California, telling Emmett what happened. When Emmett explains how Callahan's beliefs caused Elle to leave her internship, Brooke fires Callahan and replaces him with Elle (under the guidance of Emmett, as she is simply a law student, citing a Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling that police students may represent clients as long every bit they exercise and so under the supervision of a licensed attorney). Elle begins to cross-examine Brooke's stepdaughter, Chutney, and catches Chutney in a lie when she discovers a pregnant inconsistency in her story: Chutney testified that she got a perm that morning time, and was at dwelling, washing her pilus when her father was shot, and thus she did not hear the gunshot, but came down later to find Brooke leaning over his body, drenched in blood, having presumably hidden the gun. Elle calls her out on her prevarication, as washing permed pilus within the kickoff 24 hours would conciliate the ammonium thioglycolate and Chutney's curls are still intact, then she had to have heard the gunshot and constitute Brooke still holding a gun for her testimony to be accurate. With her story falling apart, Chutney confesses that she accidentally killed her father merely actually intended to kill Brooke because she hated the fact that her father married someone who was the same age as she is.

After the trial, Chutney is sent to jail, Brooke is acquitted, and Warner approaches Elle and asks her to accept him back since she has proven herself. Elle rejects him, realizing that he is shallow and a "complete bonehead." Withal, she and Vivian get good friends, especially after she dumps Warner. Elle gives the graduation spoken language two years subsequently, while Warner graduates with no honors, no job offers, and no girlfriend. Emmett has started his own law firm and has been dating Elle for ii years, with plans to suggest to her afterward that night.

Cast [edit]

  • Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods
  • Moonie as Bruiser Woods
  • Luke Wilson every bit Emmett Richmond
  • Selma Blair every bit Vivian Kensington
  • Matthew Davis as Warner Huntington III
  • Victor Garber as Professor Callahan
  • Jennifer Coolidge equally Paulette Bonafonté
  • The netherlands Taylor as Professor Elspeth Stromwell
  • Ali Larter as Brooke Taylor-Windham
  • Jessica Cauffiel as Margot
  • Alanna Ubach as Serena McGuire
  • Francesca P. Roberts every bit Judge Marina R. Bickford
  • Oz Perkins as David Kidney
  • Linda Cardellini as Chutney Windham
  • Bruce Thomas as UPS Guy
  • Meredith Scott Lynn as Enid Wexler
  • Wayne Federman as Harvard Admissions Advisor
  • Raquel Welch as Mrs Windham-Vandermark
  • Kimberly McCullough equally Amy
  • Greg Serano as Enrique Salvatore
  • Allyce Beasley as CULA Advisor

Production [edit]

Groundwork [edit]

"I wrote it all on pink paper, with my pink furry pen. I finally found an agent who picked it upward out of a slush pile because information technology was on pink paper. It went out to studios and publishing houses the same day, and overnight at that place was a behest war. MGM bought it. But it was rejected by everybody on the publishing side."
— Amanda Chocolate-brown[6]

Amanda Brownish published Legally Blonde in 2001, basing it upon her existent life experiences every bit a blonde attending Stanford Police force School, while existence obsessed with fashion and beauty, reading Elle mag, and frequently clashing with the personalities of her peers.[six]

Brown said that when she showtime arrived at Stanford, she discovered she had made a large mistake. "I was in my first week of law school, in 1993, and I saw this flyer for "The Women of Stanford Law," so I was like, 'I'll go and meet some prissy girls. Whatsoever.' I went to the meeting, and these were not women. These were actually angry people. The woman who was leading it spent three years at Stanford trying to change the proper name 'semester' to 'ovester.' I started laughing and I realized everyone in the room took it very seriously. So I didn't make whatsoever friends at that place."[6]

Brown wrote letters to her parents about these experiences and originally idea about writing a book of essays about her law school feel until a literary agent advised her to arrange them into a novel.[vii] Brown took a community higher writing class, put together a manuscript, and shopped the book around but was unsuccessful.[7] She later resubmitted her manuscript once more, this time in pink, which got the attention of an amanuensis,[6] and "movie people went nuts."[vii] Amanda's mother, Suzanne, remembers the solar day of the bidding war and idea she would exist lucky to go $x,000 but the final figure was considerably more than.[seven]

Producer Marc Platt was intrigued by the grapheme of Elle Woods when an unpublished novel manuscript was delivered to him.[8] "What I loved nigh this story is that information technology's hilarious, it'south sexy and, at the same time, it'south empowering," says Platt. "The earth looks at Elle and sees someone who is blonde and beautiful but zilch more than. Elle, on the other manus, doesn't judge herself or everyone else. She thinks the world'south great, she'south great, everyone'southward great and nothing can change that. She's truly an irrepressible modern heroine."[8]

Screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith spent ii days on Stanford's campus in the leap of 2000 doing enquiry for their screenplay based on Brown's novel.[9] Manager Robert Luketic, an Australian newcomer who came to Hollywood on the success of his quirky debut short motion picture Titsiana Booberini, was drawn to the project while looking for a breakthrough film. "I had been reading scripts for two years, not finding annihilation I could put my own personal mark on, until Legally Blonde came around," Luketic said.[10] [xi]

Development [edit]

Witherspoon was Luketic's start pick to play Elle Woods, but she needed to audition multiple times to convince Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Luketic explained that when the studio get-go green-lit the project, they were not enlightened that the film would be structured as a progressively feel-good, women's empowerment movie.[12] "Initially, they thought it was going to be much more wet T-shirts and boobs than it actually turned out to be", said Luketic.[12] In fact, the showtime script for Legally Blonde was edgy and raunchy in a similar vein to American Pie. The murder trial was non part of the plot and the film ended with Elle getting into a relationship with a professor. "It transformed from nonstop zingers that were very developed in nature to this universal story of overcoming adversity by being oneself," said Smith. When it was decided to change the film'south plot, McCullah and Smith finessed some details and added a few characters, like Paulette.[13]

Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alicia Silverstone, Katherine Heigl, Christina Applegate, Milla Jovovich and Jennifer Honey Hewitt were all considered for the pb role[12] but Luketic said he "knew on page five of the script that [he] wanted Reese to play Elle."[10] "I wanted someone with gravitas and brains," he explained. "There had to be more behind the face, and Reese just fit the nib."[12] Witherspoon was the first person who read the script; information technology was not sent to any other actresses; casting manager Joseph Middleton had likewise previously worked with Witherspoon in The Man in the Moon and A Far Off Place, then he strongly believed in her for the role when Platt brought upwardly Witherspoon's name. Applegate turned downwardly the office and Platt suggested at 1 point to bandage Britney Spears, only McCullah convinced him to not cast Spears after her Saturday Night Live appearance.[13] Despite Luketic'due south enthusiasm for Witherspoon to be cast as the lead, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was non convinced.[14] Witherspoon's performance equally Tracy Picture in Election put her at risk of being typecast by the studio heads.[14] "They thought I was a shrew," Witherspoon told The Hollywood Reporter. Witherspoon had been passed over for several other post-Election roles. "My managing director finally called and said, 'You've got to go come across with the studio caput because he will not corroborate you. He thinks you actually are your grapheme from Election and that you lot're repellent.' And so I was told to apparel sexy."[14] Witherspoon went through several rounds of auditions for the role, fifty-fifty meeting with executives in character with a Southern California emphasis. "I remember a room full of men who were request me questions almost existence a coed and being in a sorority," Witherspoon recalled. "Even though I had dropped out of college four years earlier and I have never been inside a sorority house."[14] Luketic remembered meeting with her to discuss how she'd approach the role. "Nosotros met at a hotel on Sunset Boulevard and discussed the film...we were both concerned near some aspects, like how tin the audience feel lamentable for a rich daughter driving a Porsche; and she had to clothes in a very item mode that wasn't distracting or off-putting...And every decision came from a certain innocence [of the character]."[x]

Jennifer Coolidge was cast as Elle's manicurist friend Paulette, a role which according to some rumors Coolidge heard, Courtney Love and Kathy Najimy were up for. For the role of Warner's new girlfriend Vivian, Smith suggested to cast Chloë Sevigny in the role, but such suggestion did not work out, and so Selma Blair was bandage instead; Blair and Witherspoon had previously been together in Savage Intentions, assuasive their friendship to be an anchor betwixt their characters. Ali Larter was originally wanted to play one of Elle's sorority sisters, simply upon reading the script, she brutal in love with the character of Brooke Taylor Windham, the fitness didactics on trial for murder.[13]

The screenwriters envisioned Luke Wilson as they were coming up with Elle's love involvement Emmett Richmond. "They auditioned a bunch of other guys and we're like, 'How about auditioning Luke Wilson for the Luke Wilson role?'" McCullah Lutz said.[xv] Middleton desired to cast Paul Bettany as Emmett, but the crew felt that the character should exist American whereas Bettany is British.[13]

The concluding product came after "something similar 10 drafts of the script. I worked with the writers (Kirsten Smith, Karen McCullah Lutz, working from Amanda Brown'southward novel) who stayed on after we started shooting," Luketic explained. "And we'd have re-thinks and re-writes, often in the middle of the dark."[x] An unused idea for the finished film included having a cameo appearance of Estimate Judy during Elle's Harvard video essay in which Elle and her friends chased down the prove'south host, but the scene was cut when Approximate Judy Sheindlin could not get on board. Alanna Ubach suggested instead to cast Witherspoon'southward then husband Ryan Phillippe for the office, rewritten as a male character, merely Witherspoon did non feel the thought would play out.[13]

Witherspoon researched the character by studying sorority girls on their campuses and associated hot spots. She went to dinner with them and joked she was conducting an "anthropological report".[16] "I could have gone into this and been really ditsy and played what I would take idea this character was, and I would have missed a whole other side of her," Witherspoon added.[17] "Merely by going downwardly to Beverly Hills, hanging out in Neiman Marcus, eating in their cafe and seeing how these women walk and speak, I got into the reality of the character. I saw how polite these women are, and I saw how much they value their female friendships and how important it is to support each other".[17]

The cast and coiffure also did a lot of enquiry, with McCullah and Smith visiting the Stanford Law School for a calendar week during orientation time; a scene of a grouping equanimous of new students going around in a circle was inspired on constabulary students the screenwriters eavesdropped during their visit. They likewise sat for the criminal law and ramble law classes; McCullah specially got bored during the second grade despite finding the first interesting, but this inspired her to write some scenes during that class.[13]

Y'all see so many beautiful people in this world, especially in the world that I live in and a lot of your first instincts is to disbelieve women who put a lot of effort into their looks as peradventure not serious nearly their task or maybe not serious about their relationships ... I call back everyone naturally jumps to those conclusions ... I was interested in exploring the difference between [the fashion] someone looks and how people perceive them and how they really are. I'm not necessarily perky and bubbly all the time, then it's been a lot of try to stay upwardly and the amount of care and energy she puts into a lot things has really been a claiming for me and trying to convey that lightness all the fourth dimension is hard piece of work.[18]

Costume pattern [edit]

"The take hold of phrase was: "What would Elle do?" How would a fashion-obsessed, fish out of h2o assimilate into Harvard and a police firm without compromising her personal mode? So, I took each situation and interpreted what would be appropriate in a unique fashion. Driving to Harvard? A leather driving suit. Get-go day at the law part? A riff on a 1940's romantic comedy, pencil brim and ruffle dejection, but in the greys, this time. Things like that."
— Sophie de Rakoff[19]

The picture show's costume designer, Sophie De Rakoff, became fast friends with Witherspoon on the set up, bonding over Dolly Parton. "It was that simple. We just liked each other, and geeked out on Dolly," De Rakoff said.[20] The dominant color palette for Elle's outfits in the movie is pink. "The backstory is, Reese and I, and maybe the production designers, went to visit some sororities [in downtown Los Angeles]. We knew that she needed a signature color, and we were like, 'Do nosotros really desire it to exist pink? It's so on the nose. It's so feminine. Could we do lavander? Could nosotros do light blue? Is in that location another color that we could do?' When nosotros met all the sorority girls, it had to exist pinkish."[21]

Witherspoon sported 40 different hairstyles in the film.[22] "Oh my God, it became known every bit 'The Pilus That Ate Hollywood,'" Luketic said. "It became all most the hair. I have this obsession with flyaways. It would annoy Reese a little bit because I would e'er have hairdressers in her face. But really the most fourth dimension and research and testing on the fix went into getting the color correct, considering 'blonde' is subject to interpretation, I found."[12]

Filming [edit]

The front lawn of UCLA'due south Kerckhoff Hall, as seen during the orientation scene in Legally Blonde.

Luketic said he was "terrified" on his first twenty-four hours of filming. "I come from making a ten-infinitesimal short with a crew of ten people to a crew of 200 and having enough trucks and trailers to wrap around a city block."[10]

Both the University of Southern California and Stanford refused to allow the producers to use their college names in the film.[23] "[The producers of the film] asked if they could set the film at USC, but the images of her as an undergraduate and being in a sorority ... we felt there was too much stereotyping going on," says Elijah May, campus filming coordinator at USC. The production settled on having Elle go to a fictional college called CULA.[23]

Although the picture show was primarily set at Harvard University, campus scenes were filmed at USC,[24] University of California, Los Angeles,[25] California Institute of Technology, and Rose City High School in Pasadena, California.[26] Production initially lasted from October to December 2000.[27] [28]

The "bend and snap" scene — where Elle explains to Paulette how to get her crush'south attention — almost did not make it into the movie.[29] "[Producer] Marc Platt wanted a B plot for Paulette (Jennifer Coolidge)," McCullah Lutz told Entertainment Weekly. "At first we were similar, 'Should the store exist robbed?'" Co-writer Kirsten Smith observed, "I think we spent a week or two trying to figure out what the B plot and this big gear up piece should exist. At that place were crime plots. We were pitching scene later scene and information technology all felt very tonally weird".[29]

Later, while brainstorming at a bar in Los Angeles, McCullah Lutz came upwardly with a solution: "What if Elle shows [Paulette] a move and then she tin get the UPS guy?" On the spur of the moment, Smith invented a move, standing up and demonstrating what would get the bend and snap. Smith explains, "It was a spontaneous invention. It was a completely drunken moment in a bar." Managing director Robert Luketic later on adapted the "bend and snap" move into a dance number for the film.

"... It was a fully choreographed number by Toni Basil, and she was awesome," Witherspoon recalls. "She did the whole dance."[30] "I retrieve just reading it and thinking it was the well-nigh hysterical thing ever," she added. "That is even so the most asked asking I get from people. Even this by year, when I have been giving speeches or talking about any, they always ask me, 'Will you exercise the bend and snap?' I have a feeling I volition be doing the bend and snap until I am 95".[30] While filming the courthouse scenes, Raquel Welch requested cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond special lightning for her scenes as Mrs. Windham Vandermark due to her obsession with light and dressed on her ain accord to wait better.[thirteen]

The film originally ended at the courthouse right after Woods won the case, with Elle on the courthouse steps sharing a victory buss with Emmett, so cut ane twelvemonth into the future to her and a at present-blonde Vivian starting their own Blonde Legal Defense Society at police schoolhouse. After exam audiences revealed they did non similar this catastrophe, McCullah Lutz and Smith consulted with Luketic, Platt and other members of the production team while nevertheless in the anteroom of the movie theater and they all agreed a new conclusion was necessary. "Information technology was just kind of a weak catastrophe," explained screenwriter McCullah Lutz. "The osculation didn't feel right because it's not a rom-com — information technology wasn't near their relationship. So test audiences were saying, 'We desire to come across what happens — we desire to see her succeed.' So that'southward why we rewrote for graduation".[31] Ubach and Jessica Cauffiel merits that the original catastrophe also included Elle and Vivian drinking margaritas in Hawaii, with the implication that they were either now all-time friends or involved romantically although Smith and McCullah never wrote such ending. Other endings proposed for the film included a musical number in which Elle, the estimate, the jury and everyone in the courthouse broke into singing and dancing.[thirteen]

The screenwriters wrote a new ending taking place at graduation, which was filmed at Dulwich College in London, England since Witherspoon was in that city filming The Importance of Being Hostage. Witherspoon had also cut her hair for that film and Wilson had shaved his head for The Regal Tenenbaums. As both actors had changed their hair for their next movies, each had to vesture wigs for the scene.[32]

Reception [edit]

Box part [edit]

Legally Blonde was released on July xiii, 2001 in Northward America. Its opening weekend gross of $20 million[ii] made it a sleeper striking for the struggling MGM studio, and information technology went on to gross $96.v one thousand thousand in North America and $45.two meg elsewhere, for a worldwide total of $141.7 meg.[2] The flick was released in the United kingdom on October 26, 2001, and opened on #2, backside American Pie ii.[33]

Critical response [edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes Legally Blonde has an approval rating of 70% based on reviews from 147 critics, with an average rating of 6.20/10. The site's consensus reads, "Though the material is predictable and formulaic, Reese Witherspoon's funny, nuanced performance makes this movie better than it would have been otherwise."[34] On Metacritic the film has a score of 59 out of 100, based on 32 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[35] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the picture show a course "A-" on scale of A to F.[36]

Roger Ebert gave it iii out of iv stars, saying the film was "impossible to dislike" and "Witherspoon effortlessly animated this material with sunshine and quick wit."[37] Todd McCarthy of Variety said Witherspoon gave a "wonderful and winning" functioning. "Beaming star wattage out of every pore, not to mention her hair, Witherspoon once more proves herself a comedienne worthy of comparison to such golden era greats as Carole Lombard and Ginger Rogers."[38] Michael Wilmington of Chicago Tribune also commended Witherspoon's performance, saying her "comic timing immaculate, her persona irresistible. But it's her spirit and immersion in the part that actually infuse the whole moving-picture show and make it work." He added that Witherspoon [pours] "and so much sense of humour and pizazz into Elle that she lifts upwardly the whole movie."[39] B. Red Rich of The Nation called it "the best empowerment moving picture for teenage girls to come forth in ages."[forty] CNN'south Paul Clinton lauded the film every bit a "sassy satire that retains a message: believe in yourself and follow your dreams."[41]

Others were more disquisitional of the film and its screenplay. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter described the film as "predictable, cutesy and surprisingly short on genuine humour" but "still gets by thanks to the magnetic presence of Witherspoon."[42] Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post called the pic a "Clueless redux but without the edgy, knowing wit."[43] Jessica Winter of The Hamlet Phonation panned the film every bit a "junk-food motion-picture show striving to be nutritious." "It's one of your racier Exist Yourself after-school specials crossed with Who Moved My Cheese? for Cosmo girls," Winter asserted.[44]

Legal accuracy [edit]

Legally Blonde has received mixed reviews amid legal scholars for its depiction of law schoolhouse and the accuracy of its application of the law.

Devin Stone, better known online as LegalEagle, a YouTuber and American lawyer, observed that the application process portrayed in the motion-picture show in which Elle Woods sent the Harvard Law School admissions board a video essay was non possible. "There's no way to upload that on the police force school application organisation," Stone noted.[45] "During orientation, Harvard Law School actually played the clip of Elle's admissions video with the admissions committee deciding to let her in, and then they swore that's not how they made decisions," explained Jameyanne Fuller, a student at Harvard Police Schoolhouse.[46]

Sure elements of police school are also omitted from the film. "The movie totally skipped first semester exams which is like the most stressful time in law school ever," said Fuller.[46]

Stone said Woods had no authority to act every bit a lawyer when she represented Paulette Bonafonté over custody of her dog from her ex-husband and chosen her deport a "huge ethical violation." "She hasn't finished constabulary school, she's never passed the bar and she has absolutely no right to call herself an attorney," Stone observed. "That's chosen the unauthorized exercise of law. If anyone finds out that she committed this...while she was at Harvard Law School, she'd probably exist barred from entering the bar in virtually any land in the United States."[45] Unauthorized exercise of law in Massachusetts carries a fine of $100 or imprisonment for not more than vi months.[47]

Contrary to what is shown in the film, Woods would not be able to question a witness on the stand up during a criminal trial, W. Bradley Wendel, a police force professor at Cornell Law School, explained in his book, Professional Responsibility: Examples & Explanations. [48]

"In the existent world, the guess in Legally Blonde would not have permitted the defendant to burn the Alan Dershowitz-like lawyer in the middle of trial and retain the police force educatee, never mind that no state permits first-yr police students to represent clients in court," Wendel wrote.[48] The pic cites Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rule three.03 as precedent for Woods being able to correspond a client while under the supervision of a licensed attorney,[49] but the ruling only applies to third-year police students.[46]

"A first-year law student would never be able to question witnesses in a criminal court. The most she would be doing as a 1L (offset-year student) would exist research and drafting memos or motions, perhaps," said Emma Therrien, a educatee at Lewis & Clark Law School.[46]

Accolades [edit]

Year Award Category Recipient Result
2001 Teen Choice Awards Selection Summer Motion-picture show Won
2002 Golden World Awards[50] Golden World for All-time Picture – Musical or One-act Nominated
Golden Earth for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Reese Witherspoon Nominated
MTV Movie Awards[51] All-time Movie Nominated
Best Female Performance Reese Witherspoon Nominated
Best Comedic Functioning Won
All-time Line Won
Best Dressed Won
Satellite Awards Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motility Picture Nominated
Satellite Award for Best Original Score Rolfe Kent Nominated
BMI Awards BMI Pic Music Honour Won

Legacy [edit]

More than twenty years later, the flick continues to inspire generations of filmgoers, many of them women who went on to become prospective law students. "At least once a calendar week, I have a woman come upwardly to me and say, 'I went to law school because of Legally Blonde,'" Witherspoon said. "It's incredible...You can exist unapologetically feminine but also smart and driven."[52]

"When I saw the flick I only felt it gave me like a real surge of motivation because I really identified with her," Layla Summers, a family law attorney, told Spectrum News.[53] "I remember the movie is still very relevant," she added. "Just being a daughter and being a woman, the odds are stacked against you still...When I watch the movie at present I feel similar I'm office of a great order of powerful professional women, like a sorority."[53]

"When I got to law school, on the toughest days, I would pop in the movie and go a good laugh," Shalyn Smith, a California law student and sorority president, said in an interview with People mag.[54]"Elle embodies fighting for what is right, staying truthful to yourself, and defeating the odds. It's crazy that ane movie tin can do that, yous know?"[54]

Entertainment reporter Lucy Ford revealed to Witherspoon during an interview in 2018 that she had written her higher dissertation on the moving-picture show and presented her a pink-ribbon leap copy.[55]

Soundtrack [edit]

The Legally Blonde soundtrack includes music from Vanessa Carlton, Samantha Mumba, Superchick, and Hoku, who sings the opening vocal, "Perfect Day."[56]

"No one actually knew that Legally Blonde was going to be what it was, Literally, [my label heads] were like, 'This motion-picture show's not going to become annihilation.' So the side by side thing you lot know, it's like, this iconic movie. And my song opens it!" Hoku said in an interview with Billboard.[57] "Sitting in the premiere and hearing my song open the picture, and everyone's auspicious -- it felt like, 'I've really arrived at present, folks.'"[57]

The soundtrack anthology was released July 10, 2001, by A&K Records.[58]

Franchise [edit]

The success of the film spawned a sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, a musical, one direct-to-home video release starring British twins Camilla and Rebecca Rosso, Legally Blondes, and a third theatrical pic in development, with Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor appear as writers.[59]

Musical [edit]

In April 2007, a musical adaptation premiered on Broadway to mixed reviews,[60] starring Laura Bell Bundy as Elle, Christian Borle equally Emmett, Orfeh as Paulette, Nikki Snelson as Brooke, Richard H. Blake as Warner, Kate Shindle as Vivienne, and Michael Rupert as Callahan,[61] running until October 19, 2008. The show, Bundy, Borle, and Orfeh were all nominated for Tony Awards.[62] Afterward, the Broadway show was the focus of an MTV reality-TV serial chosen Legally Blonde: The Musical – The Search for Elle Woods, in which the winner would take over the part of Elle on Broadway. Bailey Hanks from Anderson, South Carolina, won the competition.[63]

Legally Blonde likewise had a three-twelvemonth run at the Savoy Theatre in London's West End, starring Sheridan Smith, Susan McFadden, and Carley Stenson every bit Elle, and Duncan James, Richard Fleeshman, Simon Thomas, and Ben Freeman as Warner.[64] [65] During its run, the cast likewise included Alex Gaumond,[66] Denise Van Outen, and Lee Mead.[67]

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External links [edit]

  • Legally Blonde at IMDb
  • Legally Blonde at AllMovie
  • Legally Blonde at Box Office Mojo
  • 'Legally Blonde' Oral History: From Raunchy Script to Feminist Classic.

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