Pretty woman
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Pretty woman |
| Original title | Pretty woman |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Garry Marshall |
| script | JF Lawton |
| production |
Arnon Milchan , Steven Reuther |
| music | James Newton Howard |
| camera | Charles Minsky |
| cut |
Raja Gosnell , Priscilla Nedd-Friendly |
| occupation | |
| |
Pretty Woman is an American romantic comedy directed by Garry Marshall from 1990. It is about a businessman and a prostitute who fall in love. The title song of the same name was sung by Roy Orbison in 1964 and was a number one hit at the time.
action
The corporate raider Edward Lewis, whose lover has just left him, drives through Hollywood in the Lotus Esprit of his friend and lawyer Phil to stay in Beverly Hills in the highly elegant Regent Beverly Wilshire . Since he is usually chauffeured and therefore gets lost, he stops on Hollywood Boulevard and asks the prostitute Vivian Ward for directions. She believes she has found a wealthy customer and shows him the way for money. Finally, Lewis, who is overwhelmed with the sports car's manual transmission , even lets Vivian drive him to the hotel . Once there, he spontaneously takes her to his room.
The next morning he decides to hire her as a companion for a week . The fun-loving but socially completely inexperienced Vivian, who initially has her difficulties in the elegant world of Beverly Hills, receives unexpected help from the hotel manager, who is quickly impressed by Vivian after the first refusal. Thanks to this help and her natural charm, Vivian masters the first challenges.
The following week turns into an adventure for both Vivian and Edward. Vivian plunges into a completely new world full of luxury, while Edward begins to question his professional activity and his motivation for it in the mirror of Vivian's point of view. At the same time, the relationship between the two is growing in depth and romance. While playing polo , Edward notices that he becomes jealous when Vivian has a brief chat with young David Morse, the grandson of his current business “victim,” James Morse. At the same time he offends her by revealing her work as a prostitute to his lawyer Phil.
Finally, Edward decides to take over the family company Morse , but no longer with the original aim of breaking it up, but to invest and renovate it. The money- and power-hungry Phil is furious and tries to take revenge on Vivian. When she rejects him, he beats her. Edward suddenly arrives, breaks Phil's nose with a punch, throws him out and declares the business relationship over.
Edward, in view of his feelings, offers Vivian to hold her as his lover. Vivian, hurt in her feelings, declines this offer. Edward cannot bring himself to take one more step yet, and so she leaves him after her agreement is fulfilled.
Left alone, Edward questions his decision and, thanks to a subtle hint from the hotel manager, comes to the conclusion that Vivian has become too valuable to him to let her go. He finds her again with the help of the hotel chauffeur , and both find a happy ending .
History of origin
The working title of the film project was $ 3,000 for the sum of 3,000 US dollars , the Vivian for her love services of Edward Lewis should get. It wasn't until later that the film was named after its theme song Oh, Pretty Woman , the song by Roy Orbison .
Originally no happy ending was planned, Vivian was supposed to return to her previous occupation after a week. JF Lawton was later hired to make script changes; it had been considered, among other things, that Vivian should be employed in the hotel or find another lover. In further versions, the story should find the known ending. The authors Stephen Metcalfe, Robert Garland and Barbara Benedek have made some revisions.
Filming began in July 1989 and was completed on October 18 of the same year. Because of the uncertainties about the course of the plot, the director had shot many more scenes than were necessary; of around 115,000 meters of film material, only around 19,000 meters were used. The premiere in the USA took place on March 23, 1990. In Germany, the film was released on July 5, 1990 and was the most viewed film of the year.
The successful story of Pretty Woman was also processed as a musical. In addition to some Broadway performances, the musical celebrated its European premiere in Hamburg in September 2019.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was released on February 14, 1990.
- Wild Women Do by Natalie Cole
- Fame of David Bowie
- King of Wishful Thinking from Go West
- Tangled by Jane Wiedlin
- It Must Have Been Love by Roxette
- Life in Detail by Robert Palmer
- Kiss from Prince
- No Explanation by Peter Cetera
- Real Wild Child (Wild One) by Christopher Otcasek
- Fall of Lauren Wood
- Oh, Pretty Woman from Roy Orbison
- Show Me Your Soul by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Total length: 43 minutes and 36 seconds
Awards for music sales
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
||
 Australia (ARIA)
|
 2 × platinum
|
140,000 |
 Germany (BVMI)
|
platinum
|
500,000 |
 France (SNEP)
|
 gold
|
100,000 |
 Japan (RIAJ)
|
gold
|
100,000 |
 Canada (MC)
|
5 × platinum
|
500,000 |
 Austria (IFPI)
|
2 × platinum
|
100,000 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
2 × platinum
|
100,000 |
 United States (RIAA)
|
3 × platinum
|
3,000,000 |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
|
2 × platinum
|
600,000 |
| All in all |
2 × gold 17 × platinum |
5,140,000 |
Trivia
- In one scene, Edward Lewis takes the prostitute Vivian "Viv" Ward to the opera . The piece, La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi , is about the love between a courtesan and a young man from a wealthy, middle-class family that fails because of social conventions .
- Vivian Ward watches Charade in one scene before going down the stairs to find Edward Lewis.
- When Vivian first stayed at Edward's, the famous Italian episode of the American show I Love Lucy was on TV .
- Pretty Woman was the last film that actor Ralph Bellamy starred in. He died on November 29, 1991 in Santa Monica , California .
- Actors Christopher Reeve and Al Pacino were suggested for the role of Edward Lewis prior to filming .
- Originally, Jennifer Connelly was Garry Marshall's 1st choice for the role of prostitute Vivian Ward . However, he found that she was too young for that. Molly Ringwald as well as Daryl Hannah turned down the role.
- Julia Roberts and Richard Gere's film wardrobe was designed by Italian fashion designer Nino Cerruti .
- Shelley Michelle is the body double for Julia Roberts.
- Pretty Woman achieved an audience rating of around 18 million viewers when it was first broadcast in Germany on First German Television . Similar audience ratings are only achieved by major sports events.
- The film was shot on a budget of $ 14 million and grossed $ 463 million worldwide.
- Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, and Garry Marshall have been thinking of a sequel since the hit movie Pretty Woman . A script for Pretty Woman 2 was even written, but it was particularly rejected by Julia Roberts. She feared that a sequel to the very successful comedy would inevitably disappoint the audience.
- Instead, they shot the 1999 film comedy The Bride Who Doesn't Dare with a similar cast. It was directed by Garry Marshall, with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in the leading roles and Hector Elizondo in the supporting role.
- In the film there is talk of a major US Navy order worth $ 350 million for destroyers, but the ships of the Arleigh Burke class , built from 1988 onwards, cost an average of about one billion dollars each. The major order would therefore be a ship's hull without propulsion, armament and electronics.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created for the cinema premiere at Deutsche Synchron Film GmbH, Berlin.
| role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Lewis | Richard Gere | Hubertus Bengsch |
| Vivian Ward | Julia Roberts | Daniela Hoffmann |
| Bernard "Barney" Thompson, hotel manager | Hector Elizondo | Friedrich G. Beckhaus |
| James Morse | Ralph Bellamy | Joachim Cadenbach |
| Philip "Phil" Stuckey | Jason Alexander | Helmut Gauss |
| Kit De Luca | Laura San Giacomo | Heike Schroetter |
| David Morse | Alex Hyde-White | Patrick Winczewski |
| Elizabeth Stuckey | Amy Yasbeck | Monica Bielenstein |
| Bridget, saleswoman | Elinor Donahue | Evelyn Marron |
| Susan | Judith Baldwin | Liane Rudolph |
Reviews
The reviews of the film were mixed to positive, with Rotten Tomatoes 61% of the critics rated it positive. The film might just be a “ yuppie fantasy”, but its soundtrack, joke and actors make up for many of its weaknesses. Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of March 23, 1990 that the film was particularly “sweet” and “openhearted”, but not particularly realistic (“it seems to be constructed out of the stuff of realism "). Ebert very much praised the portrayal of Julia Roberts, who would fill the played character with humor and whom he predicted a great future in Hollywood .
"The well-known ' Pygmalion ' theme in an entertaining new edition [...] A fable that elegantly changes from comedy to fairytale melodrama, which finds time and desire in the playful handling of the clichés to get closer to the human side of the subject, and the happy- Finally transformed into a cinema illusion par excellence. "
Awards
Julia Roberts was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Actress in 1991 . In the same year she won the Golden Globe Award in this category .
Julia Roberts, the costume designer Marilyn Vance , the film producers ( Best Picture ) and the screenwriter JF Lawton were nominated for the BAFTA Award in 1991 . Pretty Woman was nominated for the César in the category Best Foreign Film that same year .
Roxette got for her title It Must Have Been Love 1991 the Grammy for Best Soundtrack.
The film also received the following awards:
- 1991: Two BMI Film & TV Awards - James Newton Howard , Per Gessle (for the song It Must Have Been Love )
- 1991: golden canvas
- 1991: People's Choice Award
- The listeners of the British radio station Capital FM voted the film as number 4 of the must-see movies ( Must See Movie of all time ).
literature
- Lars Penning: Julia Roberts. Bertz Verlag, Berlin 2003, pp. 8-12, 39-43, 141, ISBN 3-929470-36-5
- James Spada: Julia Roberts. The biography. Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2004, pp. 155–171, ISBN 3-455-09436-8
- Meinolf Zurhorst : Julia Roberts. "Pretty Woman" . Heyne Filmbibliothek Volume 168. (3rd edition.) Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-05757-0 , pp. 58–78, 176–179, ISBN 3-453-05757-0
Web links
- Pretty Woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pretty Woman at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Pretty Woman at Metacritic (English)
- Pretty Woman in the online movie database
- Pretty Woman in the German dubbing file
- Comparison of the cinematic version and Director's Cut of Pretty Woman at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://musicalreisen.net/?p=98
- ↑ Pretty Woman Original Soundtrack. Amazon.com , 2018, accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Pretty Woman Original Soundtrack. Allmusic.com, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Award in Australia
- ↑ Award in Germany
- ^ Award in France
- ↑ Award in Japan
- ↑ Award in Canada
- ↑ Award in Austria
- ↑ Award in Switzerland
- ↑ Distinction in the United States
- ↑ Award in the United Kingdom
- ↑ Inga Backen: Theory and practice of cinema film marketing. Professional marketing by production and rental companies , doctoral thesis / dissertation, Free University of Berlin (Institute for Media and Communication Studies), Berlin 2009, p. 97.
- ↑ Pretty Woman. www.boxofficemojo.com, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Pretty Woman (1990). German synchronous index , December 22, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Pretty Woman. Rotten Tomatoes , accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Reviews: Pretty Woman. www.rogerebert.com, March 23, 1990, accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Pretty Woman. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 30, 2018 .