TO more than 30 years since the release, pretty woman – on air tonight at 21.30 in the umpteenth step up Rai 1 – And an immortal classic of romantic comedies. Not just for the glamor of Julia Roberts and Richard Gerebut also for a clockwork screenplay, dazzling in every passage and from which sentences have always been quoted now enter the collective imagination. Let’s rediscover them together.
pretty woman: the most beautiful phrases of the film
Vivian: You are late. Edward: You are very beautiful. Vivian: You are not late
Edward: What do you want Vivian? Vivian: I want the fairy tale
Edward: You and I are so similar, Vivian. We fuck each other for the money.
Richard Gere and Julia Roberts are Edward Lewis and Vivian Ward.
Narrator: Welcome to Hollywood! What is your dream? Everyone comes here, this is Hollywood, the city of dreams! Some come true, some don’t but keep dreaming! This is Hollywood! You have to dream so keep dreaming!
“They are kind to credit cards”
Vivian: Give me just one example of someone we know who did well.
Kit: Do you want an example? Do you want me to name you? You want me to tell you a name, in short, any one.
Vivian: Yes, one. I just need one.
Kit: God, what an obsession with names…that big ass Cinderella!
Edward: They are never nice to people, they are nice to credit cards.
Vivian: Bitch snails!
Edward: I have never treated you like a prostitute. Vivian: You did it now.
Bridget: I’m sure we’ll find something your uncle will really like. She’s a 42 right? Vivian: Yes. And how does he know? Bridget: Well, it’s my job. Vivian: Bridget, he’s not my uncle. Bridget: Oh, I never am dear!
“Has he given you the money yet?”
Edward: Your name? Vivian: Which would you like?
Kit: $50 grandpa. For 75 your wife can watch
Vivian: It’s much easier to believe bad things, have you ever noticed?
Kit: Is he a pervert? Vivan: No Kit: It’s ugly? Vivian: No! He’s handsome. Kit: So what’s wrong with him? Vivian: Nothing. Kit: Has he already given you the money? Vivian: At the end of the week. Kit: Here’s what’s wrong with it.
Edward: Vivian, what is it you want? What would you like between us?
Vivian: I do not know. You know when I was a kid my mom locked me in the attic whenever I was naughty, and it happened a lot. And I pretended to be a princess imprisoned in a tower by an evil queen. Then suddenly a rider on a white horse with his plume blowing, came galloping and drew his sword. And I waved my handkerchief, he climbed the tower and saved me. But never, in all the times I had that dream, did the knight say to me: “Come on, little girl, and I’ll put you up in a nice apartment!”
Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.
“My guts are tangled”
Barney: Now I assume that she is a… relative. Vivian: Yes. Barney: I imagined. Barney: Then maybe it’s his… Vivian: Grandchild.
Edward: How is it going? Vivian: Well. Edward: And how are you? Vivian: Well. Edward: It’s been since they left that you’ve only said good things to me. Couldn’t you change your word? Vivian: Asshole. Edward: It was better “fine”.
Héctor Elizondo is Barney Thompson.
Hollister: Excuse me sir, exactly by blatant sum of money, what did you mean…nonchalant or shall we say shameless? Edward: Shameless let’s say. Hollister: How I like this man!
Edward: The reaction of people seeing the opera for the first time is very dramatic…they either love it or hate it. And if they love her, they love her forever, otherwise they’ll learn to appreciate her but never really feel her
A lady close to the stage: Did you like the opera, yes, dear?. Vivian: Oh, my guts are tangled.
Laura San Giacomo is Kit De Luca.
Edward: Do you have anything in this shop that is as beautiful as her?
Edward: Some questions? Vivian: Can I call you Eddie? Edward: No, if you want me to answer you. Vivian: I would have accepted for two thousand. Edward: I would have reached four. So see you tonight.
Vivian: Here you see, now it’s perfect. [La cravatta] Edward: Not bad. Not bad at all. Where did you learn? Vivian: Well, I fucked the Olympic team!
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