![]() ![]() Instead of Gaston being an old creeper who preys on a little girl, it looks more like Gigi saved him from an empty life. And it helps that he was rightfully grossed out with himself after taking Gigi out as a mistress. behalf of the faculty and staff of Rochester Institute of Technology, to extend best wishes to you, the Class of 1958. He may be older than Gigi but in many ways he’s actually more immature and clueless than her when it comes to self awareness and feelings of the heart - the way he follows the old man’s bad advice like an idiot. B2 MONDAY, DECEMDAILY BUSINESS REVIEW BROWARD U.S. He has to go through a musical number to realize she’s not a kid anymore and he now sees her as a woman. Since then, the tune has become a mainstay for the season and is Lee’s signature hit. He always treated her as a kid and then one day she dresses like a lady and he’s shocked and gets mad when he realizes they can’t be platonic friends anymore. Lee was just 13 when she recorded the song and it debuted to modest acclaim in 1958. Gaston falls for Gigi who started out as a kid. He’s constantly cycling through mistresses and eschews old women so he’s saying it’s a good thing there are more young girls growing into young women to keep his supply of mistresses plenty. When the film was originally completed, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe were unsatisfied Lerner felt it was slow, and was twenty minutes too long. Gigi is a 1958 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and processed using Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers Eastmancolor film process Metrocolor. The old guy who sings about little girls isn’t being pervy about little girls. The title role was portrayed by then unknown Audrey Hepburn who won the 1952 Theatre World Award for her performance. Gigi’s character is also portrayed pitch perfect - making a very believable transition from child to woman. Gigi (1958) - (Movie Clip) The Night They Invented Champagne Leslie Caron (title character) has defeated (Louis Jourdan) at cards, whereupon he honors his bet, and they, with Madame Alvarez (Hermione Gingold) launch Lerner and Loewe's 'The Night They Invented Champagne,' in Gigi, 1958. The movie touches on some very touchy subjects: the way men kept mistresses back in 1900 (handled like a business transaction with lawyers), the way Gaston’s ex mistress commits suicide for attention and everyone laughs at her, the way Gaston falls for a girl who started out as a kid in his eyes.īut it’s all so charmingly done, but it doesn’t hold back from acknowledging the ugliness of those lifestyles, and ends with the hero choosing to abandon that mindset to do the honorable thing.
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