Date: 2011-02-10 09:18 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] giandujakiss
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.

Now I kind of want to see Making Mr. Right....
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