She also told The Hollywood Reporter, "Fans of the original won't want another one to be made -- and honestly, one has to just cope with that. The central relationship between Eliza and Higgins is a fascinating one: Do we have a man who is fantastically dysfunctional and hasn't been able to create a relationship with any woman except this one? Or is it, as I suspect, that she, actually, is the one who turns around and creates him, in the sense that she excavates in him an emotional center?""I find it chocolate-boxy, clunky and deeply theatrical," she begins. "I don't think that it's a film. It's this theater piece put onto film. It was Cecil Beaton's designs and Rex Harrison that gave it its extraordinary quality. I don't do Audrey Hepburn. I think that she's a guy thing. I'm sure she was this charming lady, but I didn't think she was a very good actress. It's high time that the extraordinary role of Eliza was reinterpreted, because it's a very fantastic part for a woman."
... Can we expect more songs -- new songs -- in the revise?
"No, God almighty," Thompson snaps back. "It's so-o-o-o long. It's incredibly long. The audience can expect less songs!"
Monday, August 9, 2010
LOOK AT HER, A PRISONER OF THE GUTTER: Academy Award-winning screenwriter Emma Thompson has much to say about the My Fair Lady remake starring Carey Mulligan which she has penned, calling it a story about sexual slavery and "a very serious story about the usage of women at a particular time in our history. And it's still going on today." On the original film, which did win for Best Picture:
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