Film: Legally Blonde (2001)
Written by: Amanda Brown, Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith
Directed by: Robert Luketic
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair
This SuperBowl Sunday is usually focused on football, but if you need a break from the festivities, you can listen to the Ms. Wonderful Film Club podcast/video-cast discuss the film Legally Blonde (2001).
We talk about women and expectations of women—what is fun and not so fun.
Listen through our conversation and toward the end, hear us read this original short script about what might happen after the film ends—and how Elle might help women—in Ms. Wonderful Film World imagination.
If you don’t have time to listen to the reading, the funny short script is here.
Enjoy, Go Birds, and please stay safe!
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Legally Green
(©Copyright Jana Marie Rose, All Rights Reserved )
Characters:
Elle
Sad Mom
Setting:
Philadelphia, at a party for the SuperBowl with The Eagles vs. The Chiefs on February 9, 2025
INT. Elle sees a sad-looking woman by the potato chips and pretzels. The woman is sadly drinking her punch out of a plastic cup.
Elle: Hi, I’m Elle Woods. What’s your name?
Sad Mom: I’d prefer not to give my name. I am in the witness protection program.
Elle: You are? Oh. Well didn’t they give you a fake name then? Something to tell people at SuperBowl parties?
Sad Mom: Yes. I just…it just doesn’t feel like my real name so I haven’t been using it.
Elle: Well, do you want me to just call you Sad Mom? Sad Mom is what you look like.
Sad Mom: Yes, yes, please call me “sad mom.” That would be the truth.
Elle: Well, why are you sad? The Eagles are going to win the SuperBowl and we are in this great city of Philadelphia where magic happens every day, and where the Declaration of Independence was signed!
Sad Mom: I don’t think we’re going to have a constitution much longer. I am just really discouraged about this world. Men always seem to win. That’s why I’m so sad.
Elle: Sad Mom, I am Elle Woods, and I am an attorney who went to Harvard Law School. I strongly believe that I can turn you into Happy Mom within minutes!
Sad Mom: Really? How?
Elle: Well, first, we’re going to eat pizza. And you’re going to tell me two stories in your life where men won, and I’m going to help you see things differently.
Sad Mom: Elle, you seem nice and all, but you have no body fat, you’re going to eat pizza, your teeth are perfectly straight, and I just don’t think one woman can change much for me, or for any of us for that matter. This masculine-dominated world has been going on for centuries.
Elle: Well, my hairdresser always says, “Men are the head, but women are the neck.” Do you know what that means?
Sad Mom: No. I don’t know what it means to be a neck. I feel bad about my neck. Aren’t women everywhere getting surgery to fix their necks?
Elle: You’re a tough one, sad mom.
Sad Mom: So it’s been said.
Elle: I know what. I’ll make a bet with you. If the Eagles win this SuperBowl title, all of your problems will be solved. You’ll be happy mom. And if we cheer loud enough, they’ll win.
Sad Mom: You are weird, and your logic seems very different from mine, but I have nothing to lose. Still, what happens if the Eagles lose? Will I be Sad Mom tomorrow again, too?
Elle: No. Because this is a double-edged bet. If the Eagles win, you’ll be happy mom. And if the Eagles lose, we’re moving you to New Orleans, and I’m going to set you up in a hot pad with a pool-man. Deal?
Sad Mom: You can do that? You would do that…for me?
Elle: I sure would. I have a law degree.
Sad Mom: Okay. Just make sure the pool-man is straight because there’s no point in having a gay pool-man.
Elle: Sure thing! And you’ll have to marry him so he can stay in the United States.
Sad Mom: Works for me.
End scene
We selected this movie because it has themes that are similar to my book Letters to a Young Woman, from Paris. Buy the book Letters to a Young Woman, from Paris here.
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