Legally Blonde is a weird movie...

now i don't know how many of you were even alive in 2001 but i'll tell you right now it was a heck of a time the gamecube came out humanity survived y2k unfortunately and of course the most important event that everyone still talks about to this day legally blonde was released now i was in seventh grade at the time so i wasn't quite in my rom-com phase yet you know that lasted from when i was about 15 until 33 so it's not just a phase mom and like i don't know why it's taking me so long to get around to doing this movie but whatever here we are on the 20th anniversary so you know i figured hey why not let's take a walk but before that really quick this video was brought to you by established titles now this might be the most unique sponsorship i've ever gotten because established titles is a project in scotland that follows an old historic scottish custom where landowners are referred to as lairds or lords and ladies in like regular english and so what established titles does is allow 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question every girl wants to hear you guys are so sweet but i'm not positive it's gonna happen tonight oh hello he just had lunch with his grandmother you know he got the rock why else would she have flown in from newport it's not like she'd fedex the six carat diamond do you really think oh i can't believe you're getting engaged [Music] [Applause] oh man can you imagine being this happy about literally anything but especially about getting married at 21 are you kidding me can you even imagine doing that nowadays oh boy i can't wait to spend the rest of my life with my husband living in his mom's basement while the economy collapses for the third time in 10 years i tell you pre-911 was really just a whole different world there was just so much optimism back then instead of today you know where it's just like the best part of getting out of bed is the existential dread but anyway so for some reason ella's really excited that her boyfriend's gonna propose to her that night girls this is it in a few hours i'll be the future mrs warner huntington the third i'll shoot with a name like that you know you're in for a wild ride anyway so all the sorority sisters have her back of course and they help her with a dress hold her bag spray some chloroform just right in her mouth and this is when it finally comes to the big moment everything in her life thus far from eating only iced chips three days a week to putting up with her boyfriend repeating every talking point from every joe rogan podcast all of this has been leading up to her giving up the rest of her life to a guy who wears a suit jacket that's like 14 sizes too big one of the reasons i wanted to come here tonight was to discuss our future and i am fully amenable to that discussion well you know how we've been having all kinds of fun lately yeah well harvard is gonna be different if i'm gonna be a senator by the time i'm 30 i need to stop digging around i completely agree l pooh bear i do break up [Music] and if that wasn't bad enough then he makes this face for some reason like some kind of serial killer i think we should break up but first i want to wear your skin for a while but all the same just like that all of elle's dreams come crashing down because warner wants to be a politician and it would look bad for him to be married to a pretty blonde girl and so l takes it about as well as you'd expect sitting in a room all day eating chocolate and watching cheesy rom-coms you don't want to lose the right guys who would ever do that because you're not gonna remember anything after tonight oh you're wrong ah crap i got the one full of toenails i will remember no matter what you're part of me i love you liar but eventually she pulls herself up and goes out to get manicures with her gal pals and this is what she has a little epiphany about how she can get warner back oh my god do you know who this is no that's warner's older brother oh third year yale law student putnam bose huntington iii and his fiancee lane walker vanderbilt yale law this is the type of girl that warner wants to marry this is what i need to become to be serious what practically deformed okay well i'm just i'm just gonna leave that one right there so elle's plan is to go to harvard law school same as warner and prove to him that she's way smarter and more capable than he apparently thinks she is law school it's a perfectly respectable place daddy honey you were first runner-up at the miss hawaiian tropics contest why are you gonna throw that all away oh sweetheart you don't need law school law school's for people who are boring and ugly and serious and jew button or none of those things it was kind of weird how like a lot of people seem to think that being pretty is just like the end-all be-all to everything like if you're attractive then obviously you must be dumb and incapable of doing things why would you even bother trying to accomplish anything in your life if you're attractive basically what they're saying is if i was as pretty as you i would leverage that to do as little as possible so obviously that's what you must be doing so long story short else studies and practices spends all their free time trying to get whatever she needs to be accepted into harvard law school including making the greatest admissions essay of all time i feel comfortable using legal jargon in everyday life i object future lawyer for the class of 2004 this movie is something else but all the same thanks to the unyielding support from her sorority sisters ella actually does end up getting a 179 on her lsats and thanks to that cinematic masterpiece we all just witnessed golly gee wouldn't you know she ends up getting accepted to harvard law school and so against all odds and despite being born with an attractive face ella is now one step closer to getting back the guy of her dreams warner i totally forgot you go here i'm sorry are you here to see me no silly i go here you you go where harvard you got into harvard law what like it's hard anyway then she heads off to her very first class but as you might expect things don't quite go the way she thought they would oh um actually um i wasn't aware that we had an assignment vivian kensington do you think it's acceptable that ms woods is not prepared no i don't hey thanks for the backup girl with a blue sweater on a blue shirt with that matilda looking haircut going on there just get out of here but whatever you know elle is used to people underestimating her because of how she looks and all that i mean it's fine whatever minor setback more importantly it's time to go talk to warner and get the ball rolling on what she actually came here to do but before warren shows up we get to meet another important character of this movie emmett excuse me are you okay did i just put you on the spot like that like all the time the professors yeah they they tend to do that socratic method and so if you don't know the answer they're just gonna kick you out so you have stromwell huh yes did she do that to you too no but she did make me cry once okay i'm sorry but can we just stop here for a second what's going on with young luke wilson here in the chattiest chat jaw i've ever seen i mean look at this thing it sticks out so far this dude looks like a goomba i'm about to head out to kb toys and get myself a luke wilson action figure now with new manly chin action but after she gets some advice from emmett on how to survive school and deal with professors and stuff warren finally shows up and here we go everybody he's gonna be so impressed with elle he's got to take her back right hi warner how was your first class oh it was good except for this horrible preppy girl who tried to make me look bad in front of the professor but no biggie so how was your summer it's good did you do anything exciting uh eva we met viv vivian kensington do you know her she's uh i'm his fiancee what this girl that that vivian what's your name from earlier really warren the girl who watched like four episodes of daria and then was like wow shoot this is my entire personality now really what she was my girlfriend in prep school and well we got back together this summer at my my grandmother's birthday party lorna told me all about you you're famous but he didn't tell me you'd be here pooh bear i didn't know she would be here pooh bear oh you're just calling everybody that now huh i thought i was special turns out it's just the herpes of pet names yeah so even after l did all that work got into harvard and everything turns out warren's been dating vivian of all people and now they're engaged so the movie continues on like this with l trying to get warner back and also do well in school to prove to everyone that you don't have to look like phoebe from the magic school bus just to be smart okay but she is a little out of her depth and vivian keeps showing her up in class and giving her these kinds of looks you know like she's just so gosh damn proud of herself so finally elves had enough and decides that she doesn't need warren anymore i mean if he wants to get with vivian fine whatever l could do better eddie white ms woods you did well today really you're applying for my internship aren't you i don't know yeah you should you have a resume [Music] it's pink oh and it's scented i think it gives it a little something extra don't you think now as you may be shocked to find out l does get picked to be one of the four students for the internship which also includes warner and freaking vivian and this is about when l realizes that yeah she originally came to harvard to get warner back but now that she's finally found the motivation to actually try turns out everyone was wrong and she doesn't have to let her attractiveness hold her back after all [Music] a warner do you remember when we spent those four amazing hours in the hot tub after winter formal what hold up four hours i mean hey a plus for stamina and all that but like i don't know four hours in a hot tub you're gonna come out looking like now this brings us to the end of the first half of the movie and the entire rest of it is about this internship thing that l got where they get to help the professor with an actual real-life murder case we're defending brook wyndham whose very wealthy husband was found shot to death in their beacon hill mansion gold digger she was rich on her own some kind of fitness empire wait are are you talking about brook taylor maiden name taylor she's a delta new she wasn't in my pledge class but she she graduated four years before me but i used to take her class at the los angeles sports club she's amazing something else i've noticed that emmett guy from earlier aka the che turns out he actually works for this professor's law firm and he'll be participating in this case along with elle and everybody else now just to summarize here al ends up becoming friends with brooke because she actually knows who she is and l is the only one who actually thinks she's innocent in all this professor callahan says we really really need your alibi you don't understand whatever it is brooke it could save you no that's just it it would ruin me how huh liposuction i know i'm a fraud like normal women can have this ass my fans knew that i bought it i would lose everything oh come on it's not that big a deal i mean if youtube's taught me anything it's that i should have been a minecraft youtuber but also you can literally swindle kids out of all their money and then all you gotta do is just come out with a fake apology where you talk about how it's not actually your fault because you have anxiety or something but whatever anyway while this case is going on vivian's starting to get a little annoyed with the whole like boys club atmosphere of this internship thing live in grab me some coffee how about you get it yourself it's just starting to realize that being one of the guys maybe isn't quite what she wanted after all i still can't believe you didn't tell callahan the alibi it's not my alibi to tell and i thought that was very of you did you ever notice how callahan never asks warner to bring him his coffee i mean he's asked me at least 10 times well men are helpless you know that i know warner doesn't even do his own laundry i know he has to have it sent out you know what always cracks me up just like how little is expected of guys like girls would be like i have the best boyfriend ever he showers semi-regularly and actually listens to me and like remembers things i say sometimes like the bar for being a decent guy is literally on the floor and some guys can't even trip over that anyway so later on there's this part where the pool boy says he was doing the old devils dingo with brooke and that's why she shot her husband i guess but elle has a couple suspicions about all that don't stomp your little last season prada shoes at me honey that's our last season that's right everybody in a crazy plot twist turns out the pool boy is [Music] he's gay enrique is gay what gay men no designers straight men don't okay wow this this movie was definitely made in 2001 no doubt about that now because she was able to figure all this out the professor lawyer dude guy is really impressed with al and everything she's brought to the team so far have you thought about where you might be a summer associate oh um not really i know it's very competitive well you know what competition's really about don't you knowing exactly what you want and how far you'll go together are you hitting on me now as we just saw vivian sees this happen and of course she just assumes that somehow it's elle's fault which is kind of weird because like vivian's a girl and has no doubt had to deal with like creepy weird dudes doing like creepy weird stuff you know i'm saying but still wants to assume the worst of l because people just love this idea of like exposing their shocking truth about someone who they feel is above them for some reason but then of course after this vivian realizes that l was innocent brooke fires the professor guy because of what he did and hires l instead who somehow manages to pull her eyes away from that mcdonald's apple pie crispin popeye's biscuit flake and michelangelo assistant chapel jaw from and when's the case on her own did you hear a shot fired no i was in the shower i was washing my hair what had you done earlier that day went to the gym got a perm and came home isn't it the first cardinal rule of permanence that you're forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours after getting a perm how would you feel if your father married someone who was your age you however had time to hide the gun didn't you chutney after you shot your father i didn't mean to shoot him i thought it was you walking through the door and then we skip ahead to graduation where elle gives one of those speeches we've all had to sit there you know where they're all like webster defines success as a favorable outcome which is what i call it when i eat a donut and can still fit in my skinny jeans i'm so relatable and that's pretty much where the movie ends looking back now 20 years later this movie's like really ahead of its time by having the main character be like a pretty blonde sorority girl who goes to law school works hard becomes one of the best students and all that like it's really interesting watching it in 2021 i mean if this movie haven't made in the later 2000s or in the last couple years especially it would have been about vivian being a frumpy dumpy hard-working study girl and like l would have been seen as kind of like the villain of the story until later on when they had like some sisterhood moment then vivian would realize like wow al you're just like me but one thing i really liked about this movie is that it doesn't say that being a girly girl is bad or like other girls care about makeup and designer shoes but not me i'm special and different and you can tell because of this ukulele i always have for some reason because like l enjoys all of that girly stuff but also gets into harvard and graduates top of her class which as someone who has seen a lot of these kinds of movies it's quite refreshing so having zero nostalgia for this movie i was actually quite surprised how well it holds up for the most part except the whole uh bend and snap thing okay that was that was painful to watch and guess what i have a new spanish channel that just started up recently what we're doing is we're completely localizing my videos into spanish with professional voice actors and all that so check it out subscribe all that good stuff okay back to the ship so watching this video back for like the thousandth time while i was editing it there's something that maybe people might misunderstand i mean you know explaining a joke is always makes it like 10 times funnier you know what i'm saying there's one thing i've learned being on the internet for as long as i have it's like you can never be too obvious you know you got to spell everything out um throughout the video i was making jokes about how it's like oh she's overcoming her handicap of being pretty like the the actual joke i'm making with that is how like everyone in the movie thinks that because she's pretty and girly that therefore she must be like stupid or something right like it's like for some reason people see her attractiveness as like a handicap in some way like like like somehow it's like oh she's pretty therefore she must need help and she must not understand stuff and so the the joke i'm making is about how like a lot of people in the movie and also in real life too right it's very common where it's like oh she can't play video games or like oh she she doesn't understand her oh she's just been called her whole life she must be an idiot like i don't know it's almost like a like a pejorative like derogatory way where it's like oh you know this person's a pretty this person's attractive so therefore i you know they probably need help because they're stupid you know and so the joke says making is about people's perception of her she's overcoming her handicap of being attractive like it sounds silly right but like a lot of people think that i guess it's because a lot of people they want to assume that they have something over everyone else so like if they're someone who you know thinks that they are unattractive but they study hard then it's like well you know like those people are pretty but like yeah i'm gonna get into a good school it's like the movie um what's that movie book smart right where it's like you have the two like like nerdy girls kind of social outcasts like oh yeah well we're going to iov league school at least and then they find out that like all the pretty people are also going to an ivy league school i don't know it's almost like you want to believe that like there's no way someone could be attractive and smart that's just silly you know anyway hope you enjoyed the video everybody if you did don't forget subscribe don't forget to ring that bell so you don't miss any videos from me uh let me know what movies or tv shows or whatever i should do next send me an email at alexmeyerscontact gmail.com i have a podcast with my girlfriend's called doing the devil's tango um it's like a dating advice dating story you know type of podcast so that's interesting to you check that out i have a game on the app store i have a spanish channel up if you're interested in that and above all it's everybody have a great day and i'll see you all next time

Channel: Alex Meyers

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Length: 19min 9sec (1149 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 27 2021

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