Pretty Woman
- Szczegóły
- Nadrzędna kategoria: Filmy
- Kategoria: Recenzje filmowe z Guardiana
Twenty years on, Julia Roberts' career-defining movie has lost something of its high-gloss appeal, says Peter Bradshaw
- Peter Bradshaw
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 February 2010 23.30 GMT
It's a big week for Garry Marshall, whose classic romcom, now 20 years old, is getting a big-screen runout for Valentine's Day opposite his new attempt to capture the same dewy-eyed demographic. It consolidated Julia Roberts's mega-career, put Richard Gere on the fast-track to silvery-haired distinction and gave us our first look at Jason Alexander, later to become the legendary, morose George in Seinfeld. At the time this neo-Cinderella was the ultimate guilty pleasure, though both the guilt and the pleasure have receded a little in the past two decades. LA prostitutes never looked more romantically glamorous or innocent. Nowadays, romcom heroines tend to be "working girls" in a more upscale setting, largely glimpsed over the credit sequence scuttling to work in their Manhattan office clutching their mobile phones and their Starbucks. The movie's most outrageous high-concept moment – the stretch limo, private jet, opera – is pure camp.
capture - przyciągać, zawładnąć
clutch - kurczowo ściskać
dewy-eyed - niewinny, naiwny
distinction - wyróżnianie się; odznaka
limo - limuzyna
recede - oddalać się, słabnąć
romcom - komedia romantyczna
runout - niewyświetlona końcówka taśmy filmowej
scuttle - biec małymi kroczkami
stretch - rozciągliwy, elastyczny
upscale - ekskluzywny