Higgins finally admits to himself that he has feeling for her, hence the listening to her voice on the grammar phone. And when she comes back, he is pleased, but is too proud to admit it. Eliza, had feeling for Higgins, but didn't like that he acted like she didn't mean anything to him. When she comes back to see him listening to the recording of her voice, it finally showed her he did care about her, sue even smerks because even though he didn't say it, she knew. It's a subtle ending, but I think it fits the tone of the film.
Agreed. In the other scenes like “and conquer it you will” where she really *looks* at him, his reaction is one of a man whose not likely had a female companion or someone he cared for, and he tries to brush off his feelings. He does that again in their final argument where Eliza has come to care for him and wants them to be more friendly like and Henry responds with “well, that’s how I feel” and is happy, but quickly shakes it off again. So, in the final scene I love that they show his happiness at hearing her, he quickly, awkwardly hides his embarrassment with a little smirk, and slumps in the chair hiding under his hat(did this at the races when embarrassed). A lot of people hate the ending bc they think he’s stuck in his old ways-maybe he still is (he’s never allowed himself a female friend/lover/companion), so he doesn’t know how to react except in sort of of goofy manner. But Eliza knows it and understands, which is why she has that knowing smile as she walks towards him. I always imagine that she either takes his hat off and teases him and they go back to being good friends or lovers, or she’s throws his slippers at him again for good fun which gets them both yelling and eventually embracing (hilarious alternate ending): whooooo sorry had to get my feelings out, hope you don’t mind 😅.
The ending is clear.,,, he knows he screwed up but at that moment he can’t admit it, yet she can’t ever forget how depressed he sat listening to her recorded voice... that’s love....
The way he listened to her voice speaking in her own accent showed he really loved her for herself….She caught him exposing his true feelings as she walked in. The smirk on her face at the end means “I won”. Him saying “where are my slippers “ means, “yeah…“.
Here is why I like this ending. 1) Freddy is a wet simp and would as soon as Mother found out that Eliza was a flower girl there is no way that Freddy would be able to marry her, and even if they did his personality isn't strong enough to handle Eliza. 2) Higgins running to his momma when Eliza left is a telling about how he feels, 3) when Eliza stands up to him Higgins says "I like you this way." She is strong and so is he, she is strong enough for him. 4) It may not be a sweep you off you feet romance for them but it is one that will work for them in that time. We can't put our twenty-first century ideals on these two. Class was VERY important back then and gender rolls too. Eliza has the wisdom to see this in coming back to him, in her words what has he left her fit for other then this? 5) She has become instrumental in the running of Higgins life (watch the movie again listen to what the people say about her) She very slowly and quietly has become the lady of the house. 6) In the song "I've grown accustom to her face" Higgins is coming to the slow realization that he loves and needs her, Eliza has become apart of his life and he doesn't know how to handle both loving and loosing her all in one day. 7) last but not least as I said Eliza was wise, well I think she knows a thing or two about men she had to make him afraid of loosing her, make him confront his feelings and realize that she was a women with strength, and when she thought he was punished enough she came back. Like I said don't let our modern sensibilities get in the way of what was a very sensible Edwardian/Victorian ending
Agreed about Freddy. He is a dreamer without any ambition. He doesn't have a forceful enough personality to be a good match for Eliza. Higgins' personality is way closer to Eliza's than Freddy's is. Higgins carved out the life that he wanted, and achieved scholastic excellence through hard work. He is not a slave to the society's expectation in manners, marriage, or the way he spends his days. Eliza too is ambitious and hard working, looking to better her life from street flower seller to shop girl. Eliza and Higgins also have matching temperaments. Eliza's songs "Just You Wait" and "I Could Have Danced All Night" nicely align to "Accustomed to her face." They drive each other crazy sometimes, but ultimately they love each other. I don't think Eliza's leaving was part of a plan on her part. After she left, she met up with Freddy and being with him wasn't the life she wanted. She had learned she could survive w/o Higgins if she had to and also that she is emotionally important to him. That was all she wanted. Even if Higgins can't say with words, she knows through his actions and that is enough.
I wish he had apologized to her at least. Earlier scenes suggest he has a tendency to be physically abusive (and has emotionally abused her the entire time). Or maybe if he had asked her what he could do rather than asking her yet another favor. He just really rubs me the wrong way. I wish we could see more actual change in him.
@@rachelhansen2417 rubbed me the wrong way too. this happens a lot in relationships. she finally had the courage to stand her ground, after he gaslighted her...she felt bad and went back to him only for him to continue treating her the way he had been. her smile at the end confirms she’s just gonna deal with it. very sad.
@@GoddessANAT I don’t think the ending intends for us to believe he’s going to stay the same. Notice how she _doesn’t_ fetch his slippers for him and he isn’t being fussy about it. By saying that line he said earlier and her reacting differently this time, there seems to be an new understanding between the two of them.
@@GoddessANAT 99/100 times girls go for the slightly A-hole guys over the nice ones. She could have just as easily had the Hungarian, who was head over heels for her, but she didnt.
Watched this movie after yrs….old memories came back….this movie hasn’t lost its charm one bit… in fact loved it more than ever….we used to sing all these songs when in school! …. Truely a master piece!!
According to one of Sir Rex Harrison's biographers, Alexander Walker, the song "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" held special memories for the actor, as during the original Broadway run he used to sing the song to his third wife Kay Kendall, who would stand in the wings watching his performance. Harrison later admitted that when he sang the song in this movie, he was thinking all the time about Kendall, who had died a few years before from leukemia. Source: Internet Movie Database Trivia
What I love about the ending is how they each quote their past selves from before they met. Before him, she still had her lowly Cockney accent and didn’t know how to fit into society. Before her, he was the kind of guy who expected women to “find his slippers,” i.e. looked down on them. By speaking in the way they used to, they each are saying to the other “I’m not that person anymore because of you.” Higgins’ words aren’t the equivalent of him regressing to his old ways; he’s finally grown out of those ways and is putting himself out there in his own way by letting her know she’s not the only one emerging unchanged from the previous events. Whether they stay together or not is irrelevant. They don’t even HAVE to stay together. Sometimes people change us for the better but aren’t meant to be in our lives forever. What matters is that they finally acknowledge that they’re both better off from having met.
He became her friend, than Mentor/father figure and then he fell in love with her. It’s a true love story. Opposites attract sometimes positive negative.
I just saw this movie yesterday for the first time and I'm so confused. I'm glad the Professor realized he treated her terribly, but it feels like he's going to keep treating her that way because he's too prideful to admit he messed up. Perhaps I am an uncultured guttersnipe, but I really do wish the film just ended with him saying sorry or something. That's honestly all I would've needed, for him to earnestly say sorry and smile and the scene would fade to black. Because as is, the Professor never changed his _behavior_ and I think that's what needed to change for him to deserve having Eliza back in his life.
There are a considerable number of students of this story that believe Eliza did not stay with Professor Higgins, but married Freddie and lived happily ever after with him, not Higgins. I like to think that would be a more satisfying next chapter.
I see 2 decent people who have fallen in love. Higgins is self-centered and insensitive but not evil, mean or cruel. He is generous, responsible, moral and brutally honest. Eliza doesn't like his bad traits but she does respect, admire and love his good traits. She won't be happy with Freddie as she does not love, respect nor admire him. Higgins realizes he loves the new Eliza. But love is new to him, which demonstrates he is capable of change. When he is caught listening to Eliza's voice, his embarrassed reaction is to hide and distract initially. But we get the impression she knows he loves her, he knows she knows this too and they will work it out. I like both characters, see good in both, and therefore want them to be happy. And I don't think they will be find happiness if they don't stay together.
I loved this movie. Watch it many times. Beautiful dresses. Great ending. I thing like many, he did care for her & she did too. They do not make movie like this.
In the straight play from which "My Fair Lady" was adapted, George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," Eliza left and presumably did not come back. She said she was going to marry Freddy and said she might take up teaching phonetics as an assistant to Higgins' rival. Higgins was derisive of the first statement, enraged by the second.
Most women, perhaps. Eliza is not returning in weakness but in great strength due to her insight. She has communicated her strength to Henry and is setting some terms. She admires him and has some confidence in his character.
I'm a man and I wouldn't have written this ending either. She maries Freddie and lives happily, teaching elocution to the working classes. Higgins goes broke because of the competition, becomes an alcoholic and has to borrow money from Eliza's father.
Its one of the most perfect romantic endings ever. Eliza knew she didn't want a simp like Freddie however sweet he was. And Henry realised he loved Eliza for all her faults. Says it all in the song...her highs, her lows are second nature to me now...like breathing out and breathing in. Thats love right there. Just perfect.
It's difficult. Religion not is a movie. Although this one has a script, actors and "budgets" (one of money and other of faith). Today is condemned but we should not forget its civilizing efforts through history either.
@@325Bertie I think it's terribly funny how much they made out of such a simple plot. I mean the plot is turning a untaught lady on the streets into a proper lady and that's it.
I kinda wish they changed the ending where he mets her agin years later and see her an owner of a flower shop with a husband and kids. And they both just acknowledge each other’s existence, like in Lalaland.
@@filmfreak11 When my children and their father have a fight and he finds he has gone too far, he goes out , after a while he comes back with the food or something else which the children are most fond of. Well, it costs him,but we enjoy it.
I hate this ending. I hope she did not come back whether she liked him as a lover or as a friend. He was such a dick. I hope eliza married freddy and lived happily.
Oscar Wilde wrote Pygmalion, the play that this movie comes from. When asked why he didn't give a romantic ending, Wilde replied that he never thought of them being a couple and it never occurred to him.
I agree with you. It's an intelligent ending with two intelligent characters. He wouldn't have been the man she knew and admired if he'd have just jumped up and said sorry. Their connection is way past that. They're playing the game at a high level.
I think she chose Higgins cuz of her father issues, his cruelty was what she’d known. Freddy’s the better choice, but she’s a strong woman and likes a challenge. I just wish she hadn’t IMMEDIATELY run back to Higgins without letting him stew a bit…
It is so sad to see that the comment section is ignorant of the orginal ending from George Bernard Shaw. One would realise he was really ahead of his time with his ending of Eliza running away to marry Freddie and open her flower shop, especially when one reads the rationale Shaw had for his ending.
It is so sad to see that you can be so dumb that you can't see how Bernard Shaw was delusional. He's a sad communist propagandist who lacks the correct worldview on reality and you have to move on from it, darling. She's a low class guttersnipe, nothing more, a few months of detailed preparation by Higgins can not change that fact. Freddie will dump her the moment he realize that she's a fraud and she has no money to open anything, she also has no skills, a few months can't make you a phonetic expert she'll be exposed. What's her plan? Beg Freddie for money? So much independence. This is the more realistic ending, even though she's a low class guttersnipe, Higgins still came to adore her, that's the point. She's literally a fraud, she's not a princess nor a duchess, she's a fraud that Higgins successfully hid from people, nothing more, but Higgins adored her despite she being a fraud and he realizes that he shouldn't have been so mean to somebody he cares for, that's the point of the ending.
The slippers were brought up because the last time he asked where the devil were his slippers, she screamed and threw them at him in a rage. He asked the same question this second time, not expecting her to scurry about and actually fetch the slippers for him but to show that she was no longer angry with him. She just stood there and smiled.
That wasn't what hea meant by it. He has difficulty verbalising his feelings so instead of saying I love, I miss you it came out as Where are my slippers. I'm sure overtime he'll be more byter to verbalize his REAL feeling bit its an unspoken feeling between them about how they feel about one another
Is the audience supposed to be rooting for Higgins? He's such a narcissistic, toxic jerk. Doesn't say "sorry". Maybe it was implied. But that seems like gaslighting. The audience doesn't see much character change. Not enough for me to want to see Higgins have a relationship continue with Eliza. Why was Eliza there? Felt like a reel went missing. So to cover it up, the music was changed to make this last scene in the movie sound like this was a purposeful ending to cover up the fact that something went wrong with that last reel in the movie. 🤐
The character change was there, pal, you were just blind to it. He was happy she returned, signalling that he does care for her afterall, and she already knows it by seeing him listening to her recordings. A person can care without saying they're sorry, it was implied. Eliza is there because she needs him and she cares for him as well. He selected her and prepped for her, without any reason to do so. It was implied throughout the entire movie that he cared for her deeply, through many scenes. She thought that he didn't care but she was wrong and this final scene proves it.
Noooooooo !!! Qué final más detestable, le pide las pantuflas y se acomoda como un gran señor el pedante profesor.... que él busque sus pantuflas, y ella que se vaya y ponga su linda tienda de flores NO NECESITA a un hombre así que la tarta de esa manera, tan denigrante.
@@marcoespindolacas1370 de verdad crees éso ???? Una MUJER EMPODERADA no actúa así !!! Es un triste final, para las que realmente estamos EMPODERADAS. Saludos !!!
@@lunalunita6957 Según tú, no actúan así. No podemos cambiar a los demás y uno decide si permanece junto a alguien que tiene cierta forma de ser. Ella sabe que tiene muchas capacidades y regresa porque quiere.
he treats her as garbage for most of this film. It's not right that the movie has her come back to him. This is purely toxic and potentially abusive match. Gah. Hate this. The fact that it's not the ending of the play makes it even more infuriating.
Don't you see that zoomed in shot of sadness, that's the moment of remorse, he changed. And no, he did not abuse her for the entire movie, if you had actually paid close attention, there are numerous moments where he cares deeply for her.
Even Eliza had commented. If he had asked her to marry him she would this is the scene when she was at Henrys mothers place. Henry then mentioned what do you want out of me? you want me to be like that young strap who writes you poetry and letters every day like a love sick fool? She says no she does not care for it. If you remember that song Eliza told that young guy. If you love me show it. What eliza wants is the kind of love much the same way the professor grabs her and starts dancing as soon as she can speak properly. Eliza is a very practical woman coming from the streets and knows that type of love with letters fades and does not last that is infatuation. Although Audrey Hepburn is gorgeous she is portraying a woman in her early 30s and Henry a man around 50. That young guy I forget his name is probably 18 and still a baby in comparison to Eliza he can't even fend for himself yet. She makes a comment you are probably closer in age to me compared to him.
While I liked the movie, but that ending was "too Hollywood" . Shaw play Pygmalion was more realistic, Liza married Freddy, they started flower shop and struggled, Colonel Pickering helped them and Higgins .. well, Higgins remained old , somewhat bitter and sarcastic bachelor in Wimpole Street like he was before . Nothing changed for him, no happy endings Shaw ends his play : She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man. We all have private imaginations of that sort. But when it comes to business, to the life that she really leads as distinguished from the life of dreams and fancies, she likes Freddy and she likes the Colonel; and she does not like Higgins and Mr. Doolittle. Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.
Back in those days, love led to marriage led to a woman taking care of the man's needs. Its the opposite of romantic. Its supposed to.be a joke. But it sits very uncomfortably with any modern woman.
The original play had Eliza being emancipated from him. It was written in the early 20th century. If anyone was modern, it was George Bernard Shaw himself, who hated an ending where they got together
So I just saw the film. I had seen the music and some seens before and had a cursory understanding that the ending was gonna have them end up together. But, I get this is the 60s and this is meant to be a love story but I think this crosses the insecure asshole line too many times to come back from it. Again, clearly a product of its time and I see the appeal of it, but maybe for revivals either tone down the parts where he's oblivious to her very existence or speaks about her like an animal, or change the ending slightly to inject some semblance of progress. Eliza can come back to Higgins but maybe not immediately after she found herself.
It baffles me how so many viewers see it as ending in romance and...so mad at that. So what if they ended up, if it was mutual. So what if it the movie was different than the book. Lost adaptations are. Those two had NO romantic vibes between them and she even said it clearly near the end that she did not want to make love or get involved. She just wanted his respect. In the end, he clearly said he is who he is, and she is who she is...and that was fine. I see it as a mutual attachment as someone else mentioned. They weren't lovers, nor were they Bffs...just two people who had grown attached to the other. OR maybe that was how they loved each other. No frills. In some ways those two were alike. As for Freddie, that man was infatuated. He didn't love her. She did not love him. There was nothing there. I think no matter what decision Eliza made, she would have been perfectly fine, especially since she had a strong mind.
That's not how the world works, pal. Strong mind doesn't equal strong human being. She has a strong mind and low intellect, that's not enough. Attachment in this sense is romance, or at least that's the point. They literally wrote a song about it, "I could've danced all night", not because she finally cracked the pronunciation, but because "I only know when he, began to dance with me, I could've danced, danced, danced all night". And of course the final song, "I've grown accustomed to her face". That is adoration, it's heavily implied that they both care for each other, it's not passionate romantice love, but it is a kind of love.
The recording audio played here doesnt fit the original recording from the real early scene. Does Anybody knows if they could do this audio editing in 1910? Maybe it was possible. Hard to think they didnt notice this...
The problem isn't whether Eliza should fall in love with Higgins or not - the problem is that Higgins' character arc just never feels complete. It never feels fair that Eliza has blossomed into an independent young woman but Higgins remains mostly unchanged as a person. The audience by that point has gotten to care for him as much as Eliza, and they're all craving some sign that he's also grown in some way from the experience, however small. That's what Shaw failed to give us.
Well that’s the point. In the end, Higgins won’t change for anyone just like Mr. Doolittle. Higgins arc being incomplete is the point and he shouldn’t get what he doesn’t deserve. This was George Bernard Shaw’s goal from the beginning when he wrote this play.
@@champfleury7693 Well, then this is an improved version compared to Shaw version. The last scene is Higgins arc final chapter, he showed remorse, don't you see that close-up shot of sadness? That's change, change stems from the heart within.
It's there in Christian placement where called where your heart is there your treasure also plank the beautiful girl in the flower shoppe. That what they tell me
It's a good movie, but in my opinion, "Pygmalion" with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller was a better film. "My Fair Lady" had good songs, but "Pygamalion" had better acting.
Have you read Alan Jay Lerner' s book ,"On the Street Where You Live"?(That song was almost cut from the play). He said Rodgers and Hammerstein were trying to make "Pygmalion" into a musical, tried for a whole year and they GAVE UP! I thought they could write music to anything! So Alan and Fritz, they tried for a year and gave up, but then they tried again... The "Rain in Spain" song that was written in 15 minutes!
This was a roll Harrison was born to play and he was amazing in it! Never a big Leslie Howard fan and there is no way he was better, and yes I have seen it. I would have loved to see Julie Andrews as Eliza, but I adore Audrey Hepburn and she did a wonderful job! As far as the ending, yes it was relevant to the times but Eliza loved him and I don’t think she could have ever been happy with Freddy or anyone else. He loved her also but it was something he never thought would happen to him and he didn’t quite know how to handle it. It was perfect all around!
This ending isnt even the true ending, it only happened because morons kept bitching at the og creator to change it. There have been three endings, the original where Eliza leaves and never returns(second best one), the second where she leaves and get married(the best one), and the third which is this ending. (Which is worst of the three). Posting politics is cringe.
@@datekaname2246 i hope this film ended with the first or second ending. The last minute of this movie was so frustrating. She comes back like he did not just wished her bad stuff before entering his house.
Higgins finally admits to himself that he has feeling for her, hence the listening to her voice on the grammar phone. And when she comes back, he is pleased, but is too proud to admit it. Eliza, had feeling for Higgins, but didn't like that he acted like she didn't mean anything to him. When she comes back to see him listening to the recording of her voice, it finally showed her he did care about her, sue even smerks because even though he didn't say it, she knew.
It's a subtle ending, but I think it fits the tone of the film.
♥️♥️♥️Agreed!
Agreed. In the other scenes like “and conquer it you will” where she really *looks* at him, his reaction is one of a man whose not likely had a female companion or someone he cared for, and he tries to brush off his feelings. He does that again in their final argument where Eliza has come to care for him and wants them to be more friendly like and Henry responds with “well, that’s how I feel” and is happy, but quickly shakes it off again. So, in the final scene I love that they show his happiness at hearing her, he quickly, awkwardly hides his embarrassment with a little smirk, and slumps in the chair hiding under his hat(did this at the races when embarrassed). A lot of people hate the ending bc they think he’s stuck in his old ways-maybe he still is (he’s never allowed himself a female friend/lover/companion), so he doesn’t know how to react except in sort of of goofy manner. But Eliza knows it and understands, which is why she has that knowing smile as she walks towards him.
I always imagine that she either takes his hat off and teases him and they go back to being good friends or lovers, or she’s throws his slippers at him again for good fun which gets them both yelling and eventually embracing (hilarious alternate ending): whooooo sorry had to get my feelings out, hope you don’t mind 😅.
I saw the West End production in London 2022 and Eliza LEAVES. I had to watch this clip to make sure I wasn’t crazy cuz I was mad…
@@rodentmama392 oh dear, probably to make it more 'modern' 🙄
The ending is clear.,,, he knows he screwed up but at that moment he can’t admit it, yet she can’t ever forget how depressed he sat listening to her recorded voice... that’s love....
The way he listened to her voice speaking in her own accent showed he really loved her for herself….She caught him exposing his true feelings as she walked in. The smirk on her face at the end means “I won”. Him saying “where are my slippers “ means, “yeah…“.
Here is why I like this ending. 1) Freddy is a wet simp and would as soon as Mother found out that Eliza was a flower girl there is no way that Freddy would be able to marry her, and even if they did his personality isn't strong enough to handle Eliza. 2) Higgins running to his momma when Eliza left is a telling about how he feels, 3) when Eliza stands up to him Higgins says "I like you this way." She is strong and so is he, she is strong enough for him. 4) It may not be a sweep you off you feet romance for them but it is one that will work for them in that time. We can't put our twenty-first century ideals on these two. Class was VERY important back then and gender rolls too. Eliza has the wisdom to see this in coming back to him, in her words what has he left her fit for other then this? 5) She has become instrumental in the running of Higgins life (watch the movie again listen to what the people say about her) She very slowly and quietly has become the lady of the house. 6) In the song "I've grown accustom to her face" Higgins is coming to the slow realization that he loves and needs her, Eliza has become apart of his life and he doesn't know how to handle both loving and loosing her all in one day. 7) last but not least as I said Eliza was wise, well I think she knows a thing or two about men she had to make him afraid of loosing her, make him confront his feelings and realize that she was a women with strength, and when she thought he was punished enough she came back.
Like I said don't let our modern sensibilities get in the way of what was a very sensible Edwardian/Victorian ending
Agreed about Freddy. He is a dreamer without any ambition. He doesn't have a forceful enough personality to be a good match for Eliza. Higgins' personality is way closer to Eliza's than Freddy's is. Higgins carved out the life that he wanted, and achieved scholastic excellence through hard work. He is not a slave to the society's expectation in manners, marriage, or the way he spends his days. Eliza too is ambitious and hard working, looking to better her life from street flower seller to shop girl. Eliza and Higgins also have matching temperaments. Eliza's songs "Just You Wait" and "I Could Have Danced All Night" nicely align to "Accustomed to her face." They drive each other crazy sometimes, but ultimately they love each other. I don't think Eliza's leaving was part of a plan on her part. After she left, she met up with Freddy and being with him wasn't the life she wanted. She had learned she could survive w/o Higgins if she had to and also that she is emotionally important to him. That was all she wanted. Even if Higgins can't say with words, she knows through his actions and that is enough.
Such a subtle ending! No kissing or sappy lines. Just Henry relieved that Eliza came back.
I wish he had apologized to her at least. Earlier scenes suggest he has a tendency to be physically abusive (and has emotionally abused her the entire time). Or maybe if he had asked her what he could do rather than asking her yet another favor. He just really rubs me the wrong way. I wish we could see more actual change in him.
@@rachelhansen2417 rubbed me the wrong way too. this happens a lot in relationships. she finally had the courage to stand her ground, after he gaslighted her...she felt bad and went back to him only for him to continue treating her the way he had been. her smile at the end confirms she’s just gonna deal with it. very sad.
@@GoddessANAT I don’t think the ending intends for us to believe he’s going to stay the same. Notice how she _doesn’t_ fetch his slippers for him and he isn’t being fussy about it. By saying that line he said earlier and her reacting differently this time, there seems to be an new understanding between the two of them.
exactly
@@GoddessANAT 99/100 times girls go for the slightly A-hole guys over the nice ones. She could have just as easily had the Hungarian, who was head over heels for her, but she didnt.
"Where the Devil are my slippers?"
nice ending line 😂
The beauty, the gowns, the music, the magic.......such a miracle.
Watched this movie after yrs….old memories came back….this movie hasn’t lost its charm one bit… in fact loved it more than ever….we used to sing all these songs when in school! …. Truely a master piece!!
Can we just talk about that dress 🥲 that’s the most beautiful dress I’ve ever seen
According to one of Sir Rex Harrison's biographers, Alexander Walker, the song "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" held special memories for the actor, as during the original Broadway run he used to sing the song to his third wife Kay Kendall, who would stand in the wings watching his performance. Harrison later admitted that when he sang the song in this movie, he was thinking all the time about Kendall, who had died a few years before from leukemia.
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What I love about the ending is how they each quote their past selves from before they met. Before him, she still had her lowly Cockney accent and didn’t know how to fit into society. Before her, he was the kind of guy who expected women to “find his slippers,” i.e. looked down on them. By speaking in the way they used to, they each are saying to the other “I’m not that person anymore because of you.” Higgins’ words aren’t the equivalent of him regressing to his old ways; he’s finally grown out of those ways and is putting himself out there in his own way by letting her know she’s not the only one emerging unchanged from the previous events. Whether they stay together or not is irrelevant. They don’t even HAVE to stay together. Sometimes people change us for the better but aren’t meant to be in our lives forever. What matters is that they finally acknowledge that they’re both better off from having met.
Wonderfully said! I’d rather they didn’t…
It's so fun seeing everyone's Interpretations and getting so railed up about it
I think people missed the point. Higgins ended up falling for Eliza as she is beyond the accent trading and wardrobe change.
What has always intrigued me is how on earth did she fit that large hat and gown into that tiny suitcase she carried on leaving Higgins.
I think he loved her and just had hard way to say it. They leave you work the speculation but it was love
He became her friend, than Mentor/father figure and then he fell in love with her.
It’s a true love story.
Opposites attract sometimes positive negative.
I just saw this movie yesterday for the first time and I'm so confused. I'm glad the Professor realized he treated her terribly, but it feels like he's going to keep treating her that way because he's too prideful to admit he messed up.
Perhaps I am an uncultured guttersnipe, but I really do wish the film just ended with him saying sorry or something. That's honestly all I would've needed, for him to earnestly say sorry and smile and the scene would fade to black. Because as is, the Professor never changed his _behavior_ and I think that's what needed to change for him to deserve having Eliza back in his life.
Master kenobi you disappoint me
There are a considerable number of students of this story that believe Eliza did not stay with Professor Higgins, but married Freddie and lived happily ever after with him, not Higgins. I like to think that would be a more satisfying next chapter.
@@jeanninemurray6539 So why did she go back to see the professor then?
@@femalesupremacistoverlord6800because he is hallucinating with her, is not real.
@@eizoukensan4211 holy cow
I see 2 decent people who have fallen in love. Higgins is self-centered and insensitive but not evil, mean or cruel. He is generous, responsible, moral and brutally honest. Eliza doesn't like his bad traits but she does respect, admire and love his good traits. She won't be happy with Freddie as she does not love, respect nor admire him. Higgins realizes he loves the new Eliza. But love is new to him, which demonstrates he is capable of change. When he is caught listening to Eliza's voice, his embarrassed reaction is to hide and distract initially. But we get the impression she knows he loves her, he knows she knows this too and they will work it out. I like both characters, see good in both, and therefore want them to be happy. And I don't think they will be find happiness if they don't stay together.
Freddie was a perfect choice, although they'd be living off of past earned money.
I loved this movie. Watch it many times. Beautiful dresses. Great ending. I thing like many, he did care for her & she did too. They do not make movie like this.
He turned her into an lady an prince can marry. The love is theirs and I believe they stayed together.
わずか3分半のラストシーン見ただけでも感動して泣きそう。40年以上前の中2の頃、映画館でこの映画見て、覚えたての英語で、台詞や歌を暗記してた懐かしい思い出。半世紀以上たっても輝き続ける名作。オードリーは、たとえこの映画でアカデミー主演女優賞を取れなかったとしても永遠に人々の心に刻まれる最高の演技でした。
It's a classic of its time. But truly, he is total jerk. If it were written by a woman, she never would have returned!
In the straight play from which "My Fair Lady" was adapted, George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," Eliza left and presumably did not come back. She said she was going to marry Freddy and said she might take up teaching phonetics as an assistant to Higgins' rival.
Higgins was derisive of the first statement, enraged by the second.
Yes,Jess ; from what I’ve read , Harrison playing Higgins was perfect type casting.
She should go out the room ,come in with the slippers and hurl them at him and walk out to her new life
Most women, perhaps. Eliza is not returning in weakness but in great strength due to her insight. She has communicated her strength to Henry and is setting some terms. She admires him and has some confidence in his character.
I'm a man and I wouldn't have written this ending either. She maries Freddie and lives happily, teaching elocution to the working classes. Higgins goes broke because of the competition, becomes an alcoholic and has to borrow money from Eliza's father.
Its one of the most perfect romantic endings ever. Eliza knew she didn't want a simp like Freddie however sweet he was. And Henry realised he loved Eliza for all her faults. Says it all in the song...her highs, her lows are second nature to me now...like breathing out and breathing in. Thats love right there. Just perfect.
A 1964 film set in 1912 judged with parameters of 2021 ... why?
It's a great movie ! Enjoy it, it's all.
I wish we could apply this logic to religion.
It's difficult. Religion not is a movie.
Although this one has a script, actors and "budgets" (one of money and other of faith).
Today is condemned but we should not forget its civilizing efforts through history either.
Very valid point, though it is fun to read a 2024 Gay code into Higgins and Pickering.
They were so good together, love the ending
yessssssssssssssssss.... Audrey was 'the Babe' and still is, imo.
So many twists and turn. No one can second guess anything in that movie. A d the dresses and hats...they were astonishing!!!
@@325Bertie I think it's terribly funny how much they made out of such a simple plot. I mean the plot is turning a untaught lady on the streets into a proper lady and that's it.
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I kinda wish they changed the ending where he mets her agin years later and see her an owner of a flower shop with a husband and kids. And they both just acknowledge each other’s existence, like in Lalaland.
yeah no that sucks.
There are so many ways to say sorry without saying sorry .
Examples?
@@filmfreak11 When my children and their father have a fight and he finds he has gone too far, he goes out , after a while he comes back with the food or something else which the children are most fond of. Well, it costs him,but we enjoy it.
This isn’t one of them
The moment Rex won an Oscar.......
I hate this ending. I hope she did not come back whether she liked him as a lover or as a friend. He was such a dick. I hope eliza married freddy and lived happily.
I know there is controversy but I say they stay together in the end.
He covered his face with his hat because he didn’t want her see him tearing up....Men! .....what a classic ending 😉
You're absolutely right, Dan. Good to have you onboard!
Oscar Wilde wrote Pygmalion, the play that this movie comes from. When asked why he didn't give a romantic ending, Wilde replied that he never thought of them being a couple and it never occurred to him.
@@DodiTov The author of Pygmalion is George Bernard Shaw, not Oscar Wilde.
@@hemiolaguy My bad. was going off the top of my head as to author.
Greatest ending in musical history. No doubt
Unpopular opinion:
I prefer this ending.
I agree with you. It's an intelligent ending with two intelligent characters. He wouldn't have been the man she knew and admired if he'd have just jumped up and said sorry. Their connection is way past that. They're playing the game at a high level.
I think she chose Higgins cuz of her father issues, his cruelty was what she’d known. Freddy’s the better choice, but she’s a strong woman and likes a challenge. I just wish she hadn’t IMMEDIATELY run back to Higgins without letting him stew a bit…
Was he a narcissist?
I feel sorry for anyone married to that egotistical, selfish grouch. What a miserable life...
It is so sad to see that the comment section is ignorant of the orginal ending from George Bernard Shaw. One would realise he was really ahead of his time with his ending of Eliza running away to marry Freddie and open her flower shop, especially when one reads the rationale Shaw had for his ending.
It is so sad to see that you can be so dumb that you can't see how Bernard Shaw was delusional.
He's a sad communist propagandist who lacks the correct worldview on reality and you have to move on from it, darling. She's a low class guttersnipe, nothing more, a few months of detailed preparation by Higgins can not change that fact. Freddie will dump her the moment he realize that she's a fraud and she has no money to open anything, she also has no skills, a few months can't make you a phonetic expert she'll be exposed.
What's her plan? Beg Freddie for money? So much independence.
This is the more realistic ending, even though she's a low class guttersnipe, Higgins still came to adore her, that's the point. She's literally a fraud, she's not a princess nor a duchess, she's a fraud that Higgins successfully hid from people, nothing more, but Higgins adored her despite she being a fraud and he realizes that he shouldn't have been so mean to somebody he cares for, that's the point of the ending.
No, homie. It is sad to see that you still think Bernard Shaw was a smart person. Dude was a communist, meaning he's very much idiotic.
Get over it.
I wish he hadnt said "where are my slippers"...like he would be happy to keep her in her place.
Christine Wilcox totally agree . No way this would have been acceptable now a day.
The slippers were brought up because the last time he asked where the devil were his slippers, she screamed and threw them at him in a rage. He asked the same question this second time, not expecting her to scurry about and actually fetch the slippers for him but to show that she was no longer angry with him. She just stood there and smiled.
He hadn't learned a single thing. Eliza should have just walked away and found Freddy. At least he loved her.
@@LogoMan7777 for real
That wasn't what hea meant by it. He has difficulty verbalising his feelings so instead of saying I love, I miss you it came out as Where are my slippers. I'm sure overtime he'll be more byter to verbalize his REAL feeling bit its an unspoken feeling between them about how they feel about one another
Is the audience supposed to be rooting for Higgins? He's such a narcissistic, toxic jerk. Doesn't say "sorry". Maybe it was implied. But that seems like gaslighting. The audience doesn't see much character change. Not enough for me to want to see Higgins have a relationship continue with Eliza. Why was Eliza there? Felt like a reel went missing. So to cover it up, the music was changed to make this last scene in the movie sound like this was a purposeful ending to cover up the fact that something went wrong with that last reel in the movie.
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The character change was there, pal, you were just blind to it.
He was happy she returned, signalling that he does care for her afterall, and she already knows it by seeing him listening to her recordings.
A person can care without saying they're sorry, it was implied. Eliza is there because she needs him and she cares for him as well. He selected her and prepped for her, without any reason to do so. It was implied throughout the entire movie that he cared for her deeply, through many scenes. She thought that he didn't care but she was wrong and this final scene proves it.
Никто не скажет..доброе утро или добрый день и вечера чудесного не пожелает...тяжело быть одиноким и гордым,но ЛЮБОВЬ все равно возьмет свое!!
Noooooooo !!!
Qué final más detestable, le pide las pantuflas y se acomoda como un gran señor el pedante profesor.... que él busque sus pantuflas, y ella que se vaya y ponga su linda tienda de flores NO NECESITA a un hombre así que la tarta de esa manera, tan denigrante.
Deja que cada quien tome sus decisiones. Ella se siente empoderada y está con él porque quiere.
@@marcoespindolacas1370 de verdad crees éso ???? Una MUJER EMPODERADA no actúa así !!!
Es un triste final, para las que realmente estamos EMPODERADAS.
Saludos !!!
@@lunalunita6957 Según tú, no actúan así. No podemos cambiar a los demás y uno decide si permanece junto a alguien que tiene cierta forma de ser. Ella sabe que tiene muchas capacidades y regresa porque quiere.
A mi tampoco me gustó el final, yo quería que ella tuviera su final feliz y se quedó con ese pendejo que la trataba mal :(
Lo peor es que el final de la obra original ella lo deja, yo también odio el final
I fell asleep while watching end of this movie 💀
he treats her as garbage for most of this film. It's not right that the movie has her come back to him. This is purely toxic and potentially abusive match. Gah. Hate this. The fact that it's not the ending of the play makes it even more infuriating.
Read the book
Bro calm down people like romance stories like this it’s called enemies to lovers he changes in the end it’s not that deep
He fell in love with her.
So did she.
Happily ever after....
Don't you see that zoomed in shot of sadness, that's the moment of remorse, he changed.
And no, he did not abuse her for the entire movie, if you had actually paid close attention, there are numerous moments where he cares deeply for her.
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Your funny,
No kissing or sappy. Just two
Happy souls finding
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Even Eliza had commented. If he had asked her to marry him she would this is the scene when she was at Henrys mothers place. Henry then mentioned what do you want out of me? you want me to be like that young strap who writes you poetry and letters every day like a love sick fool? She says no she does not care for it. If you remember that song Eliza told that young guy. If you love me show it. What eliza wants is the kind of love much the same way the professor grabs her and starts dancing as soon as she can speak properly. Eliza is a very practical woman coming from the streets and knows that type of love with letters fades and does not last that is infatuation. Although Audrey Hepburn is gorgeous she is portraying a woman in her early 30s and Henry a man around 50. That young guy I forget his name is probably 18 and still a baby in comparison to Eliza he can't even fend for himself yet. She makes a comment you are probably closer in age to me compared to him.
While I liked the movie, but that ending was "too Hollywood" . Shaw play Pygmalion was more realistic, Liza married Freddy, they started flower shop and struggled, Colonel Pickering helped them and Higgins .. well, Higgins remained old , somewhat bitter and sarcastic bachelor in Wimpole Street like he was before . Nothing changed for him, no happy endings
Shaw ends his play :
She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man. We all have private imaginations of that sort. But when it comes to business, to the life that she really leads as distinguished from the life of dreams and fancies, she likes Freddy and she likes the Colonel; and she does not like Higgins and Mr. Doolittle. Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.
Back in those days, love led to marriage led to a woman taking care of the man's needs. Its the opposite of romantic. Its supposed to.be a joke. But it sits very uncomfortably with any modern woman.
I had no idea that an idealized movie = reality of that era.
The original play had Eliza being emancipated from him. It was written in the early 20th century. If anyone was modern, it was George Bernard Shaw himself, who hated an ending where they got together
So I just saw the film. I had seen the music and some seens before and had a cursory understanding that the ending was gonna have them end up together.
But, I get this is the 60s and this is meant to be a love story but I think this crosses the insecure asshole line too many times to come back from it.
Again, clearly a product of its time and I see the appeal of it, but maybe for revivals either tone down the parts where he's oblivious to her very existence or speaks about her like an animal, or change the ending slightly to inject some semblance of progress.
Eliza can come back to Higgins but maybe not immediately after she found herself.
funny no one in the comments noticed the moving shadow on the lower right at 2:00.
@@12classics39 i thought it was Art Director Gene Allen?
It baffles me how so many viewers see it as ending in romance and...so mad at that. So what if they ended up, if it was mutual. So what if it the movie was different than the book. Lost adaptations are. Those two had NO romantic vibes between them and she even said it clearly near the end that she did not want to make love or get involved. She just wanted his respect. In the end, he clearly said he is who he is, and she is who she is...and that was fine. I see it as a mutual attachment as someone else mentioned. They weren't lovers, nor were they Bffs...just two people who had grown attached to the other. OR maybe that was how they loved each other. No frills. In some ways those two were alike.
As for Freddie, that man was infatuated. He didn't love her. She did not love him. There was nothing there. I think no matter what decision Eliza made, she would have been perfectly fine, especially since she had a strong mind.
That's not how the world works, pal. Strong mind doesn't equal strong human being. She has a strong mind and low intellect, that's not enough. Attachment in this sense is romance, or at least that's the point.
They literally wrote a song about it, "I could've danced all night", not because she finally cracked the pronunciation, but because "I only know when he, began to dance with me, I could've danced, danced, danced all night".
And of course the final song, "I've grown accustomed to her face".
That is adoration, it's heavily implied that they both care for each other, it's not passionate romantice love, but it is a kind of love.
One place told reeny where she calls for grandmother by horticulture club they have the beauty by our flower Shoppes idea
Oh, the love :)
Bellissimo film,lo guarderei molto volte se lo trasmettessero!!
Freddie the Grinch is Freddie cro magnum with his claim third stage of Man
I watched this to see the ending. The current 2022 West End production has Eliza LEAVING!!!!😢 I knew that wasn’t the ending…
The recording audio played here doesnt fit the original recording from the real early scene. Does Anybody knows if they could do this audio editing in 1910? Maybe it was possible. Hard to think they didnt notice this...
The problem isn't whether Eliza should fall in love with Higgins or not - the problem is that Higgins' character arc just never feels complete. It never feels fair that Eliza has blossomed into an independent young woman but Higgins remains mostly unchanged as a person. The audience by that point has gotten to care for him as much as Eliza, and they're all craving some sign that he's also grown in some way from the experience, however small. That's what Shaw failed to give us.
Well that’s the point. In the end, Higgins won’t change for anyone just like Mr. Doolittle. Higgins arc being incomplete is the point and he shouldn’t get what he doesn’t deserve. This was George Bernard Shaw’s goal from the beginning when he wrote this play.
@@champfleury7693 Well, then this is an improved version compared to Shaw version. The last scene is Higgins arc final chapter, he showed remorse, don't you see that close-up shot of sadness?
That's change, change stems from the heart within.
The ending is a actually a disrespect to Shaw and what he tried to achieve through Pygmalion.
Outside their bouts are evening in Paris sightings
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endingnya menurut ku kurang greget gimana gitu.ya mungkin film lawas memang begitu 😀😀tapi overall bagus bgt filmnya👍👍
It's there in Christian placement where called where your heart is there your treasure also plank the beautiful girl in the flower shoppe. That what they tell me
Yes the other Freddie went the other way by his choice of ladies re creatures of habit by shelte
Freddie cro magnum boning is wrongly applied old hickory run tent parking tickets
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It was great, until the ending “I’ve grown accustomed to her face” 🙄just wanted more person growth in the character
It's a good movie, but in my opinion, "Pygmalion" with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller was a better film. "My Fair Lady" had good songs, but "Pygamalion" had better acting.
No way
My fair lady is only a musical; Pigmalion is a play & a good one too.
Have you read Alan Jay Lerner' s book ,"On the Street Where You Live"?(That song was almost cut from the play). He said Rodgers and Hammerstein were trying to make "Pygmalion" into a musical, tried for a whole year and they GAVE UP! I thought they could write music to anything! So Alan and Fritz, they tried for a year and gave up, but then they tried again... The "Rain in Spain" song that was written in 15 minutes!
This was a roll Harrison was born to play and he was amazing in it! Never a big Leslie Howard fan and there is no way he was better, and yes I have seen it. I would have loved to see Julie Andrews as Eliza, but I adore Audrey Hepburn and she did a wonderful job! As far as the ending, yes it was relevant to the times but Eliza loved him and I don’t think she could have ever been happy with Freddy or anyone else. He loved her also but it was something he never thought would happen to him and he didn’t quite know how to handle it. It was perfect all around!
They skipped the part at the end, where she gives him a lap dance, oh! I'm sorry😢 bad thought.
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The ending is BS instead of changing his arrogant narc ways he goes exactly back to how he was and it’s supposed to be funny. Pathetic.
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Feminists be gone, best ending ever.❤️
This ending isnt even the true ending, it only happened because morons kept bitching at the og creator to change it. There have been three endings, the original where Eliza leaves and never returns(second best one), the second where she leaves and get married(the best one), and the third which is this ending. (Which is worst of the three).
Posting politics is cringe.
@@datekaname2246 cool beans
@@datekaname2246 i hope this film ended with the first or second ending. The last minute of this movie was so frustrating. She comes back like he did not just wished her bad stuff before entering his house.
what is your problem with feminists?