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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THE CINEMA
13. S.H.
My Favourite Film — Pygmalion
When I went to see this film I did not know what kind of a film it was or what it was about. I knew it had been taken from the play by George Bernard Shaw and I was told that I should enjoy it.
I was lucky enough to arrive at the theatre so that I would see the film from start to finish. I was very impressed at the opening scene of a rainy night out-side the Govent Garden opera house and how Lizzy has an argument with a young gentleman who knocked over her flower basket. Professor Higgins who is soon going to be her tutor watches her very carefully and takes in all she says and does. The scene rapidly changes to the scene where Professor Higgins and his friend discuss the possibilities of training this flower girl Lizzy to become a lady and go to one of the famous balls which are held regularly in London. Professor Higgins who is a very well known and very good voice and poise educator thought he has a very good chance of training Lizzy, takes on a bet with his friend who is very pessimistic about the idea that he will be able to train her for one of the coming yearly balls.
Getting Eliza (as Higgins calls her) to come was the first difficulty Higgins had to overcome and this he manages with a little pressure on the part of Eliza. Also a little later Eliza's father comes along and demands his daughter or a payment which Higgins gives him without many questions. Straight away Higgins begins to mould Eliza's voice from a cockney slang very gradually into a good speaking voice. This is not good enough for Higgins he wants the voice to be perfect and you see him work on and gradually Eliza's voice gets to be a beautiful speaking voice.
14. P.S.
The Song of Bernadette is a film that has been classed as an epic, and although many people thought it was an extremely good film, others thought it was dull and uninteresting. Therefore there has been a lot of controversy about this film. I thought the film was excellent, and having read the book as well, I think the film was better than the book. Briefly, the story is about a young French girl, Bernadette, who has a vision of an extremely beautiful lady who is believed to be the Virgin Mary, but Bernadette always calls her 'the lady'. She has great faith in this lady, and although everyone in authority is against her she does exactly as the vision tells
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