"Making Mr Right", a TV-movie starring Christina Cox and Dean Cain "The Shape of Things", a movie (based on a play?) starring Rachel Weisz
Those are the ones I can think of, but I haven't seen more than a few minutes of them (in passing, on TV) and they seriously did *not* strike me as feminist re-envisionings of the subject.
Making Mr. Right might fit the formula, actually. The Shape of Things probably doesn't - I was thinking way too much about this (of course), and it occurred to me that it's a different sort of trope for a woman to force a man to change in various ways, clean up his act, grow up, whatever, and that's not really how Pygmalion stories play out. In the classic Pygmalion retellings, there are certain hallmarks: The woman is cooperative and eager to please, but the idea to change wasn't hers - she's doing it because a man urged her to. She may make mistakes along the way and behave crudely in public, but it's by accident, not out of defiance. And she develops a hero-worship crush on the Pygmalion figure.
...hm. "Shadowboxer" might also very loosely fit. It's a movie in which Cuba Gooding Jr plays an assassin who was raised and trained by Helen Mirren (playing a hired killer years before her much-hyped role in RED). Very violent & triggery content warning for that one.
It's totally different violence from the rather light-hearted RED. Shadowboxer was directed by Lee Daniels; it was his first feature as a director, before Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, and it's in a similar vein, minus the nice schoolteacher and salvation through education. The Pygmalionesque element is mostly backstory.
Well, these Pygmalion reimaginings have certain hallmarks. Among them, Galatea wants to change - she cooperates - but it wasn't her idea, a man pulled her into it. And she usually develops a hero-worship crush on Pygmalion.
There is not enough money in the world that would get me to see a Judd Apatow movie, but I don't think that's the formula :-).
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Date: 2011-02-10 05:55 am (UTC)"The Shape of Things", a movie (based on a play?) starring Rachel Weisz
Those are the ones I can think of, but I haven't seen more than a few minutes of them (in passing, on TV) and they seriously did *not* strike me as feminist re-envisionings of the subject.
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Date: 2011-02-10 09:18 am (UTC)Now I kind of want to see Making Mr. Right....
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Date: 2011-02-10 09:07 am (UTC)There is not enough money in the world that would get me to see a Judd Apatow movie, but I don't think that's the formula :-).