大学英语新理念综合教程unit1

大学英语新理念综合教程Book I

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Cinema Time (Or listen to the tape ) Legally Blonde

Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and produced by Marc E. Platt. It stars Reese Witherspoon as a bubbly, outgoing sorority girl who struggles to win back her ex-boyfriend by proving that she is "serious" enough to earn a law degree, along with Luke Wilson as a young attorney she meets during her studies, Matthew Davis as the ex-boyfriend, and Selma Blair as his new fiancée. The screenplay is based on the novel of the same name by Amanda Brown. Lutz based the film's sorority([美] [səˈrɔrɪti, -ˈrɑr-]妇女联谊会,女学生联谊会)culture on her own experiences at James Madison University.

The film was released on July 13, 2001 and received generally positive reviews. It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy[2] (最佳音乐/喜剧片)and ranks 29th on Bravo's 2007 list of "100 Funniest Movies". For her performance, Witherspoon was nominated for Best Actress –Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the 2002 MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance.

The film's box-office success led to a 2003 sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, and a 2009 direct-to-DVD spin-off, Legally Blondes.

Plot

In her senior year as a Southern California college student, girlish sorority president Elle Woods (Witherspoon) majors in fashion merchandising and is seriously in love with her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III (Davis), who will attend Harvard Law School next year. She excitedly expects him to ask her to marry him, but instead he breaks up with her, saying he needs a more "serious" girlfriend for his legal and political career.

Desperate to win Warner back, Elle studies for and passes the law-school entrance exam, applies to Harvard, and is accepted. At Harvard, her fellow students look down on her and Warner is engaged to another student, Vivian Kensington (Blair). The only friend Elle makes is Paulette (Coolidge), her divorced manicurist.([美] [ˈmænɪˈkjʊrɪst]指甲修饰师)When Vivian tricks Elle into attending a party in a Playboy Bunny costume, Elle has a discussion with Warner and finally realizes he will never respect her. Now determined to succeed on her own, Elle studies hard and wins an internship with Professor Callahan (Garber), as do Warner and Vivian. They will work with Callahan and an associate, attorney Emmett Richmond (Wilson), to defend Brooke Taylor-Wyndham (Larter), a famous fitness instructor