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The history of mermaids in film

Bloody hell your videos are always good... but this was exceptional! I just completed a course on project and corporate management and the description of Edward... that was like half of my lecturers in a nutshell. It's kind of scary actually. I wonder how many of them have transcational marriages. Anyway wow and thanks.

No. Makes no difference.

linchen008 Bullshit!

Agreed. Money may not buy you happiness, but it’ll buy you the things that make you happy.

linchen008 a banana seat makes a big difference

@BLAIR M Schirmer Happiness isn't always defined by comfort.

Hence the prevalent concept of nouveau riche in England. They are not just rich, they are new rich so an undervalued rich

There is a concept of "old money" in the US but it is def not as prevalent here as it is in England

Yep, you’re “born in”, not bought in!

I think it’s because England has that history of very strict class divisions- the United States became a country after feudalism gave way to capitalism. It doesn’t have that history of class division in the same way that Europe does. Australia is the same as America in that. Our “classes” are based purely on money. There still a “working class” that refers to more than just money.

Money is not the universal language, Music is the universal language.

Its not "sold to us", it is the way life is. Everyone wants a pretty girl and everyone wants a wealthy man.

And both are considered to be socially acceptable reasons to have horrible people as partners.

@@Justadisciple502 Yeah, you may be right in parts, but, PERSONALLY, I don't think that everyone wants JUST that. Some people just wanna be loved, in addition, I'm not denying that most people put money/beauty -or both- first because it gives power, comfort, and status. And I don't know about you, but, my grandma, my mom, and aunties always told me that money >>>> love. Like, yeah you can be with someone you love and not be wealthy (my mom's part of the family is a portrait of that. None of them "mary rich", they were okay with that at some extent, but hey: "if only we had more money if only I had mary someone rich".) but money sure as hell was something I must prioritize when meeting someone! that was what I grew up hearing. So yeah, it was kind of sold to me that a rich man would solve all my problems (but never that I could "be" this man because I was supposed to be -just- pretty, but let's not dive into that). I recognize what you mean, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just sharing my view! also, sorry if there's any mistake or incoherences English is not my first language.

@@anitaabage7570 of course it's not uni-dimensional on how we choose each other as mates. You got to think though that our preferences are rank ordered and what happens is men put a higher value on attractiveness over other attributes. Women put a higher value on male competency in something and money is a good proxy for that.

We had a discussion about this in my Feminist Theory class! Heterosexual men are socialized to seek an attractive partner while heterosexual women are socialized to find a rich husband, because in a patriarchal society men provide and women bear children as well as act as a sort of trophy of their husband’s success

How do you know that?

Lol the irony.

Rob Chuk well, your comment almost gave me an anxiety attack. 💀

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Yup! I was sooooo young then. Just graduated college. Didn’t have a full time job yet. Fell in love with this movie. Saw it over and over that summer.

Jesus!!!! I was 14 when I watched it. Totally fantasised about Richard Gere

And Julia Roberts still looks as breathtaking

Maui- chan oh my god yes!!!

It would probably have to be done over multiple videos

Pride and prejudice the '95 BBC series!

Yesssss

@@007Julie, I've actually named my cat Mr Darcy after Collin Firth in the BBC adaptation of P&P, specifically ehen he emerges from a lake in his white shirt 😛

The sames way, Pulp Fiction is also a Disney movie 😄

Disney's attempts to be "edgy"w/o offending their "heartland" audience -who saw the films , anyway.(lmao)

Beethoven’s Fidelio “He’s a stranger, Mommy. Why did she get in the car with him” BAH! sorry, that was the first thing that popped in my head

Vera Dandiflor Sort of. Miramax is a film company that Disney bought back in 1993, whereas “Touchstone Pictures” is a “trade name”, not a film company.

Interesting

valar Pretty much! 😂

I guess the phone would have had to go dead in these days

XD

True. Just like "Romeo and Juliet" never happens with cell phones 😉

"I'm heading right for the hookers, Richard."

ruzzell907 Unless paid by commission or tips, those minimum wage workers in retail don’t give a fuck how much you spend. They’re there to collect the pay check. Which is entirely valid. It’s the higher ups who only care about making profit off you.

Not literally true. Every customers are treated like people while customers treat us workers as dirt. Like we owe them something.

This was back in the day now. Nowadays the average store has friendly staff who don't discriminate. Not that I've seen anyways and I've shopped in designer stores (mainly browsing though lol)

Some dreams just arent worth sacrificing your income for.. Change the dream, keep the money, be happy

yasmin7903 I didn’t even catch that lol

😂😂

And 👏🏾thats 👏🏾the 👏🏾answer

Lol the irony

BlairWaldorf2013 it’s an eighties movie

Dancestar1981 no it’s not... it was released on 1st of June 1990

@@mars-nf9cj It would have been wrote and filmed in the 80s. It's more 80s than 90s. The fashion, the music, the cars, the interior design etc, super late 80s

I agree-- every time I see the Big mistake HUGE scene I have to rewatch

just checked...its not on my 3 streaming services. UGH :(

So true.. and i love this movie

Alien Princess Well I lived both and it’s very relative and searching freely for your next meal isn’t that damn bad compared to a life of f*kin misery. Think outside the box.

22PoeticImpact At least rich people can afford therapy.

@@beethovensfidelio true that

Beethoven’s Fidelio Ha, good point actually.

Im sure Kate Spade would agree with you. I think being rich and miserable would make a lot of your problems worse because you'd be so accustomed to buying your problems away that you wouldnt know how to solve the problems you cant buy away. Plus money tends to isolate you from others. Lots of successful people have said that their biggest breakthrough or biggest revelations happened when they hit rock bottom or were at their darkest moment. At least if you're poor, you've got nowhere to go but up. but of you're rich, theres nowhere left to go but off the deep end if you cant face your demons.

Katie_pol True. The film also avoids the “disposable sex worker” trope (that is, Vivian doesn’t get killed off for being a sex worker).

as a sex worker, I thank you. (No, not a prostitute-there's a lot of different types of sex work)

Nekid Snek9000 Not every sex worker is in the business due to sex trafficking. Some of them do it because they CHOOSE to do it (whether for intrinsic pleasure or because they need the cash)

Our society is so hypocritical everyone watches and enjoys porn it's a huge business. But porn stars are treated like lepers in society and people laugh when they get aids saying they knew the risks. I wonder if they would laugh at a burned fireman they knew the risks right?

@Nekid Snek9000 You're really comparing those that choose to have sex for their job the same as those who steal away others to force into the sex industry? How hard is it to understand that those that have sex for work don't deserve to be harmed and deserve equal respect? They're still human.

Luboman411 I would rather be miserable and rich, than miserable and poor.

@@beethovensfidelio For what?? To be a corrupt monster who steals money from people???

PLEASE

yes please

Actually... Yes

YES PLEASE!!!

yes gossip girl characters please

I had a balance of 7,120 on my credit card, and could not even pay a dollar to it . I later found brian who helped me out, he paid it in full. Text 2 6 7 5 7 8 4 8 6 2 for help with your debts

I love that kind of moments haha

I loved that scene♥️

Luna agreed!

@Luna it says that life is a wheel of fortune so don't look down at anyone...because lives can change - dramatically. It also says that you have got to leave your comfort zone, cause you don't know who you'll meet, how someone from a completely different walk of life can make you evolve for the better. You need to break those social status lines in order for this to happen. That's why it's a classic. It's against the mantra of greed and decadence and for the mantra of spirituality, good karma and kindness :)

Well, it was a huge hit back in the day and made Julia Robert's career. But it is also simply a really well made movie, especially in the way it uses music. The scene at the shop is most likely the most popular though, because most of us have experienced this at one point, that we are in a shop and just getting overlooked for a supposedly better customer...and then having to made the decision to really go through with you buy or not. Which is a little bit easier of a decision to make when the sales person doesn't work on provisions, btw, because then you can teach them a lesson without giving them a bunch of money, too.

It’s my moms favorite part of the movie and sometimes she watches it just for that scene

Same reason people like physically attractive women.

María Txc Look at Christian Grey from “Fifty Shades of Grey”. He’s a creepy, abusive stalker, but because he’s rich and hot, his behavior is seen as “romantic”. If Christian were ugly, poor, and living in a trailer park, it would be another episode of “Criminal Minds”.

I remember it coming out in the early 90's people were raving about it. I remember reading a screen publication about the original idea for the film. I was really disappointed in this film. I would have really loved the original screen play where it concentrates more on the whole relationship being nothing more than a transaction. I think in the original screen play he tosses her out onto the curb and she swears at him and goes back to her work as a prostitute. She is a dug addict in the film. The original screenplay was gritter and was a drama. No romanticizing anything. It is a pity they didn't speak about that a bit more.

Yes. But most people go through life operating on an unconscious level. They accept the easy way of choosing a mate. (Like we're still primates in mud huts). Men: bad boy, aggressive, athletic, emotionally distant (hunter type, stoic, leader) Women: girly, passive/compassionate, sweet, pretty and/or hot (young enough to be of optimal fertility, old enough to take care of proposed kids as a consequence of sex) I see this everywhere. Pretty people end up with pretty people. No madder liberal cities or conservative small towns. Others scrounge around, and settle for almost anyone when they get desperate enough. Scarlett Johanson is a great example of someone who LOOKS like the ideal mate for a man. She has a youthful face and womanly body, athletic and strong; but obviously fertile and feminine. Brad Pitt... any explanation necessary? He screams Alpha.

Tbh, whenever I watch Pretty Woman I'm sold because of Julia Roberts' captivatingly charming performance. Richard Gere is ok, he is an attractive man, but Julia Roberts shines like a diamond in this movie. I think that's true for most romcoms. It's more about wanting to be like the female lead and less about wanting the specific guy, although he has to be attractive enough to be considered a good reward for the evolution of the protagonist.

I've just found pretty much the same rant in one of your older videos: Rom Cons: Problematic Movie Romance Lessons (2017). Did the editors change or something?

Dooo!!! It's a nineties movie but there is something magical about it. I have never been a huge rom com gal but Pretty Woman is special.

@@FireFairy1994 I'm a 90's kid but would've definitely been too young to know what was going on in this film lol

Do it. It's SO GOOD

So true

Poor people dream of love too.

@@ayandak47 I hope so

@@TheBreezus i'm poor and i have.. though i think at this point its best to throw it out, make money and live in the mountains.

Soo true

It aged well because our culture hasn't advanced as much as we like to think it has when it come to gender roles. The day that Marilyn Monroe clip starts sounding ridiculously outdated is the day you'll know we achieved real gender equality.

I saw a post about some similarities between Pretty woman and the princess diaries movie .

clover They were directed by the same man: Garry Marshall.

Olatoye Gureje It was released through Disney’s adult banner *“Touchstone Pictures”,* which was created so Disney could release mature content without undermining the wholesome “Disney name”. Think of “Touchstone Pictures” as Disney’s “pseudonym”. If “Pretty Woman” were labeled as a DISNEY film, parents would assume that it was a “family picture” and therefore they can take their children to see it. 😂 I can only imagine Disney didn’t like the original ending, since hookers taking a bus to *Disneyland* would harm the company’s image. 😝

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I consider it the good 50 Shades.

You know, I only just watched pretty woman today, and I started to fear that he was somehow a perverted creep only to realize that I literally only thought that because of goddamn fifty shades. The situation was, in reality, not even remotely the same. His behavior was not predatory and he showed no inherent desire to control her or go against her wishes. Yes he sometimes told her what to do but it was for social appearance reasons and not some weird screwed up desires, and this was not presented as sexy, it was presented as a mistake and a major flaw in the relationship he had to apologize for and correct. Although both stories are about a poor woman entering the world of a rich man (and them having a fair amount of sex with each other), the similarities end there. The sex scenes in pretty woman go out of their way to show enthusiastic consent, and they’re used as a way to HUMANIZE the relationship between the leads and show their inherent affection for each other, not as a way to showcase their deep screwed-up-ness. Although the movie acknowledges the power imbalance the leads start with, it keeps that power imbalance OUT of the sex and it explicitly corrects these issues by clearly stating them and having the male lead apologize when he does wrong and correct his behavior. The female lead is an intelligent person who knows her goddamn rights as a human being and fights for them if she doesn’t get them, setting an excellent example and inspiring women in any similar situations. Also, despite technically being paid to have sex, she is always shown to be very attracted to the male lead and interested in sex in any scene where the act takes place, something that should be a given for any piece of media but unfortunately isn’t. The male lead does have a sad past that causes him to behave negatively at times, but this movie makes the RIGHT FREAKING CHOICE by not having him abuse people because of that past as if that’s even remotely reasonable or excusable. Instead his past’s effect comes out through everyday social interactions which are rude but not abusive or intentionally cruel, and he explicitly grows past these issues by the end. In other words, fifty shades may have stolen the basic synopsis of pretty woman in some ways, but it took what was a positive story about two individuals finding happiness and growing as people in a NON ABUSIVE relationship with an interesting critique of capitalism, and it turned it into a disgusting story about an abusive piece of trash that claims to justify his repulsive behavior with the fact that “his family was mean to him :(“ and glamorizes his abuse, frames it as sexy, and pretends that the magic wealth scenes somehow make this nightmarish and violent relationship ok because ✨money✨. Personally, I think the two movies are almost opposites. Screw fifty shades for almost making me think this wonderful movie was about another abusive prick when really it’s pretty damn consensual and honestly very positive towards women and the way they deserve to be treated.

@@engelberthovel8566 pretty woman is classoc. It's charm never fades away.

@@oof-rr5nf You can always use more money. Making less money means less choices.

@@oof-rr5nf I said 'use' not 'need'.

@@oof-rr5nf That he might still have the money he need to keep his house, car and driver but he might not have the money to use as he please anymore.

Yes he played an asshole character lol

@Lace & Roses that happened so awkward to watch.

SEEMINGLY ☝🏻

Yep! And pretty much playing the type of guy George Costanza wish he'd been lol

Me too!

Rory Bjorkman totally,but i still wanna learn the process

Rory Bjorkman thank you so much

I AGREE

honestly yes

He looks like a foot

As much I like The Talented Mister Ripley, she really fall in the old troupe of the amoral character being sexually "depraved" aka being a homosexual, like if that was a sign of malice from part of the character, most funny thing, the people that surround Ripley are offend more amoral and hypocritical that he is.

This movie is a classic. The hate against it is just bullshit

Some people having a ton of money does not make you poorer. Period.

@@ColinTherac117 It does when they control most of the world's resources. When thanks to their greed we have companies like Nestle giving statements that 'water is not a basic human right.' When billionaires and their brands are responsible for the deforestation of our planet, when companies care more about profit for which they are ready to criminalize tribal people for protecting their land, then people with an insane amount of money do become responsible for the poverty of those whom they are willingly exploiting to earn their next billion dollars.

@@aamnahere6250 I like how Colin had nothing to say in response. You made excellent points.

@@somethingsomething922 Thanks and I will! :-)

In Audrey Hepburn's Sabrina, her transformation only happens cause her father sends her to get an education so partial wish granted? Also in a reverse of My Fair Lady, it's Sabrina who we see teaching Linus French as well as to value the little things that her modest but happy upbringing allowed her to see.