(全国通用 素材)2017学年高二英语素材：+Unit+4+《Pygmalion+My+Fair+Lady》2(新人教版选修8).docVIP

My Fair Lady 2 Audrey Hepburn is radiant and touching as the poor flower seller Eliza Doolittle who challenges her mentors makeover powers, before eventually passing for a lady in London society... She is skillfully transformed into an elegant lady by a speech professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) and taught to speak properly... From first frame to last, the film is slick, graceful, gorgeous to behold, with costumes and sets richly evoking the Edwardian era... My Fair Lady begins in London, on a rainy evening outside Covent Garden, where a respectable girl is selling bouquets of violets... Professor Henry Higgins, a phonetics and linguistics expert, confronts the deliciously low so horribly dirty Eliza Doolittle for the first time... In the best tradition, their first songs reveal their characters: Wouldnt It Be Loverly? expresses Elizas own ideas of what she dreams, while in Why Cant the English Learn to Speak Higgins sings his despair over the deterioration of the English language, and displays his hard, irritable, intolerant, and elegantly arrogant nature... Lerner and Loewes songs are shear delight as the story moves from Higginss wager with sympathetic Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) that he can change the street girl with a strong cockney accent into a different human being by teaching her to speak beautifully and pass her off in an upper class lady within six months... Higgins and Pickering are both single men, and the housekeeper, Mrs. Pearce, has misgivings about the way in which they are proposing to amuse themselves without caring about the consequences for the common ignorant girl. The songs are extraordinary in their ability to enrich our knowledge of the characters... Higgins early song Im an Ordinary Man confirms that he is a quiet living man without the need for a woman... Alfred Doolittles With a Little Bit of Luck not only states his general philosophy of life, but exposes the perfect portrait of a friendly scoundrel... Elizas fath