We settled in to watch "Legally Blonde," which they had never seen. I figured Madeleine would love it, seeing as she's obsessed with the movie "Clueless," and "Legally Blonde" has a very similar premise (ditzy chic protagonist realizes she actually has potential and taps into her inner smarts, winning the heart of the older, academically-inclined man in the end.) However, I didn't anticipate Madeleine would have as much trouble following this movie as she did. Julia seemed to totally get the whole thing, while Madeleine seemed at times as if she had somehow been watching the scenes out of order.
Some examples of this viewing experience:
1.) After Brooke, the defendant that protagonist Elle Woods is representing, appears in several jail AND trial scenes, this same defendant then walks into the courtroom on the umpteenth day of trial.
MADELEINE: Wait. Who's that BLONDE lady?
ME: Honey, that's Brooke. Remember she's on trial for murder?
MADELEINE: Huh?
2.) When Elle Wood's air-headed fashionista friends from LA come to Boston to see Elle in trial, several courtroom faux pas occur, which sparked laughter from Ethan, Julia and I.
MADELEINE: (in response to everything we laughed at) Huh? Wait. What happened?
3.) After lawyer/love-interest Emmett encourages Elle to question the daughter of the murdered victim on her own, Elle manages to catch the daughter in a lie, leading to the daughter blurting out that she, not Brooke, had in fact killed her father.
COURTROOM ON TV: (erupting into gasps and cheers)
MADELEINE: Wait. What happened??
ME: Elle won the trial.
MADELEINE: Huh? Wait. How? I don't get it.
4.) In the final scene of the movie, captions appear over each character's close-up, divulging what is in store in the near future. In a close-up of Elle's former jerk of a boyfriend, Warner, we discover that he is graduating law school without honors, without a girlfriend, and without a job. A close-up of Warner's ex-fiancee Vivian comes with a caption saying that Vivian dumped Warner and is now best friends with Elle. Then comes a close-up of the lawyer Emmett, with a caption stating that he started his own law firm and has been dating Elle for two years, and is planning to propose that evening.
MADELEINE: Huh? Who's EMMETT?
Okay. Seriously?
ME: Honey, remember? He's the guy that gave Elle advice about law school in the beginning, and he was the only one to believe in her at the trial?
MADELEINE: But I didn't ever hear them say that guy's name.
JULIA: Madeleine, they just showed a PICTURE of him!
MADELEINE: Yeah, but, there were TWO guys in the picture.
It is true that in the close-up of Emmett (Luke Wilson), you can see an older man sitting next to him in the audience of Elle's graduation. However, one would assume that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to deduce -- even without remembering Emmett's name -- that the person the caption was referring to was the one who was a MAJOR CHARACTER IN THE MOVIE and not the rando getting a cameo sitting next to him.
Anyway, I guess "Legally Blonde" was not the same level of greatness as "Clueless" for Madeleine, but Julia at least enjoyed it!
Signing off with a quick HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my TWELVE-YEAR-OLD!!! Love you, Julia!
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