Pretty Woman

Starring Richard Gere (oohs) and Julia Roberts, Pretty Woman strikes a chord everytime you watch it. The chemistry between the pair sizzles. Edward Lewis (Gere) is a hard and ruthless businessman who buys companies only to tear them apart and sell piece by piece. The ruthlessness takes its toll on him, in form of loneliness, a mundane colourless life that he leads. Along comes a hooker for a week as an escort for Lewis, Vivian (Roberts), who brings out the best in Edward he himself didn't know existed. Ironically, he hired Vivian so that there would be no romantic hassles to distract him from a major business deal during the week, but at the end of the week, as he notices the changes in himself, he realises , that love has a way of surprising everybody.

The characters are believeable. Acting is natural. It's a very simple movie. Nothing too flashy. Yet when you watch the movie, you're on cloud 9 without a worry or care in the world. You can watch it n number of times, each time discovering something new, maybe a goof or maybe an expression. The point is, Pretty Woman is like a gift wrapped in many layers of wrappings.

Julia Roberts's fits in as easily as though it were her own skin. Richard Gere looks so HANDSOME!! (drools..). Especially when they're riding horses and he's wearing this open collar causal black shirt, with the top buttons left open. OH!! Would I melt on the couch or what...




He is SO HOT!! Have run out of words to describe Richard Gere

However my favourite scene is the one in which both of them are getting ready to go to the opera. There's an interesting trivia here that I found on one of the movies databases. When Edward snaps the jewellery box on Vivian's hand, (improvised by Gere). Vivian reaction was so natural that the filmmakers decided to leave it just as it is!




Edward and Vivian getting ready to go to the opera.

Pretty Woman is a wonderfully warm movie, simple in its expression and innocent in its romance. All in all, it's one of the cutest romantic movies that one hardly gets to see these days.