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“W<\/span>hat, like it\u2019s hard?\u201d\n\n<\/p>\u2013 <\/span>Elle Woods, Legally\u00a0 Blonde<\/span><\/i>\n\nBefore she became the Oscar-wielding star <\/span>Walk the Line <\/span><\/i>and co-starred, co-produced, got Meryl Streep back on TV, and co-won eight Emmys for <\/span>Big Little Lies<\/span><\/i><\/a>, Reese Witherspoon was synonymous with <\/span>Legally Blonde<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>In her speech during the Emmys win, the actress spoke of how important it was to \u201cbring women to the front of their own stories and make them the heroes of their own stories.\u201d Eighteen years ago, that\u2019s exactly what she did in <\/span>Legally Blonde<\/span><\/i>.<\/span> Playing a ditzy pink-clad sorority girl whose <\/span>boyfriend<\/span><\/a> dumps her because she is not \u201cserious\u201d enough, Witherspoon brought equal parts vulnerability and relentless charm to Elle Woods, who went down in the annals of pop-culture history as one of its most beloved characters.<\/span>\n\nLegally Blonde <\/span><\/i>\u2013 adapted from Amanda Brown\u2019s eponymous autobiographical novel \u2013 is still a <\/span>cult classic<\/span><\/a>, so much so that it\u2019s spawned a bad sequel, a worse spin-off, and an acclaimed and long-running musical on Broadway and the West End. And, come next year, Witherspooon will be back reprising her role in <\/span>Legally Blonde 3<\/span><\/i>. It\u2019s a 20th century cinematic cottage industry. Like <\/span>Mean Girls<\/span><\/i>, it is endlessly quotable, right from Elle\u2019s famous courtroom speech about perms (<\/span>\u201c<\/span>The rules of hair care are simple and finite. Any Cosmo girl would have known.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>) to the moment when she introduces herself and her pet chihuahua to her Harvard classmates (\u201cWe\u2019re both Gemini vegetarians!\u201d). The story of Elle, who slogs her way into Harvard Law to prove her boyfriend wrong only to realise that he was never good enough for her, is timeless, despite being told through a pastiche of noughties tropes.\u00a0<\/span>\n\nAnd yet, it\u2019s this precise quality that makes rewatching <\/span>Legally Blonde<\/span><\/i> so enjoyable even today. It not only accurately captures a specific cultural moment but also portrays an evergreen anxiety women have of being perceived as stupid or frivolous. The film is loaded with hilarious character studies and satirical takes on both the bastardised genre of <\/span>chick flicks<\/span><\/a>, and the society in which they exist. Elle is the perfect subversion of Paris Hilton, a \u201cblonde\u201d who is constantly being judged as vacuous even when she achieves more than her stuffy law school peers.<\/span>\n\nIt\u2019s a testament to Witherspoon\u2019s dedication to her character in <\/span>Legally Blonde<\/span><\/i> that she spent time with real sorority girls and Beverly Hills socialites, and found that these women who were perceived as hopelessly vapid were actually supportive, polite, and placed a high value on their female friendships. Through Elle, Witherspoon embodies these unspoken rules of <\/span>sisterhood<\/span><\/a>, bringing nuance to a character which could so easily be dismissed as a caricature.\u00a0<\/span>\n

It not only accurately captures a specific cultural moment but also portrays an evergreen anxiety women have of being perceived as stupid or frivolous.<\/blockquote>\nAs a pretty, blonde teen idol herself, Witherspoon was certainly no stranger to being judged as eye candy instead of being respected as a \u201cprestige\u201d actress. She became stereotyped as the bubbly rom-com actress. And now almost two decades later, it\u2019s deliciously ironic that she has managed to gain praise for her bright, witty comic timing by crushing the <\/span>stereotype<\/span><\/a> she has been victim to, and has gone back to playing a similar, albeit older version of Elle, in <\/span>Big Little Lies<\/span><\/i> \u2013 the endlessly watchable Madeline McKenzie is a controlling mom and Monterey\u2019s chief shit-stirrer. Like Elle, Madeline is determined and wants to stay ahead of her game. And that <\/span>feminist<\/span><\/a> in her is still alive, in fact she has more rigour today.\u00a0<\/span>\n\nYet, the most fascinating part about <\/span>Big Little Lies<\/span><\/i>, that accomplishes a coup by getting Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, Zoe Kravitz, and Streep in the same frame, is how Witherspoon made it happen. In a <\/span>Guardian<\/span><\/i> piece<\/span><\/a>, she admitted that the show was birthed because of the <\/span>paucity of well-written roles for women. \u201cFor 25 years I have been the only woman on set, with no other women to talk to, and it\u2019s been so refreshing to finally get to spend time with some. We nurtured each other\u2019s performance. We sent each other articles and said, \u2018Did you see this?\u2019 I really feel strongly that this is the greatest ensemble experience I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d As the author observes, \u201cThe fact that she went out and created that experience rather than waiting for it to fall into her lap should come as no surprise: Witherspoon has always determined her own path.\u201d<\/span>\n\nToday, sisterhood drives a growing number of shows and movies. But the thing we often forget is that, as Elle, Witherspoon walked so her successors in films like <\/span>Mean Girls<\/span><\/i> could run. <\/span>Legally Blonde<\/span><\/i> is littered with instances of the joys of women not resisting the idea of sisterhood: Elle befriends her manicurist, helping her attract a cute delivery guy with the time-honoured \u201cbend and snap\u201d move, and in another scene, when Elle is chosen for a prestigious team of student <\/span>interns<\/span><\/a> who assist their professor with a criminal case, she refuses to reveal her client\u2019s alibi to them, sticking to the girl code of keeping secrets. It\u2019s what makes <\/span>Legally Blonde, <\/span><\/i>a feel-good beacon of female cooperation in a genre that usually focuses on the exact opposite, stand out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n
In the moment when Elle lacks faith in herself, another woman is there to make sure it\u2019s restored.<\/blockquote>\nThere\u2019s also a rewarding scene in <\/span>Legally Blonde<\/span><\/i> that captures the dichotomy of a woman\u2019s appearance and her self-worth, that feels in line with this idea of sisterhood: When her supervising professor makes a pass at her, Elle wonders whether she was ever really talented enough to be a part of his select group of interns or if she was picked for her looks. For once, her almost pathological positivity is shattered and she is plagued by self-doubt, quitting law school to return home and lick her wounds. But then, she is called back by her client, who insists on firing the creepy professor and replacing him with Elle. You know what happens next: She goes on to make the argument that wins the case. In the moment when Elle lacks faith in herself, another woman is there to make sure it\u2019s restored. Come to think of it, it\u2019s a classic Witherspoon move.<\/span>\n\nSuch is the power of Elle and Witherspoon\u2019s superhuman conviction that no matter how many people try to <\/span>label<\/span><\/a> them into boxes and convince them of their inadequacy, they are not the ones to sit back and watch. Perhaps that\u2019s the legacy of Reese Witherspoon and <\/span>Legally Blonde<\/span><\/i>: It makes us greet every challenge by asking ourselves, \u201cWhat, like it\u2019s hard?\u201d<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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