Legally Blonde: Reese Witherspoon Review

Amanda Brown was an Arizona State University Alumni who strived to obtain a law degree from Stanford University. While there, she realized something about herself that made her different from many of the other law students-- she was a blonde. Though she never completed her law degree, she did obtain a lot of content for something else while enrolled there. All of those bits and pieces of her feeling like an outcast turned into "Legally Blonde," a book released only a month and a half before the popular movie starring Reese Witherspoon by the same name was premiered in theaters across the nation. Legally Blonde was an instant hit, but not for the reason of the attractive sorority girl flaunting off her appealing looks, but rather because an ambitious young woman found herself in a situation she did not intend to be in and ended up finding her true passion. Elle Woods, the aforementioned beauty queen, was the President of her sorority, the daughter of wealthy Bel-Air residents, and the girlfriend of Warner Hunnington III, the son from a politically influential and wealthy family. When Warner breaks up with her because he’s headed to Harvard Law School and needs a more serious girlfriend, Elle studies endlessly to make the grades and LSAT score necessary to attend Harvard Law as well. When Elle receives her acceptance letter and begins to attend Harvard Law, she is faced with obstacles in her romantic and professional life. Nonetheless, Elle is able to navigate through the complicated world of East Coast mentality and find her true passion without Warner by her side.

Now many people think this story would be the anti-power woman film, but I see it as the complete opposite. Though Elles initial intent is not to obtain a law degree from Harvard, but to win back her boyfriend, Elle finds her power through her studies at Harvard once she finds out that Warner is engaged to a fellow Harvard classmate. Elle receives an internship on a prominent Massachusetts murder case and is able to use her knowledge of beauty products and processes to solve the case. When she has won the case and her ex-beau comes back begging for her Elle realizes that all along she did not need Warner to be with her, but she needed to find a passion of her own. There are many plot twists and turns, as well as comedy hits and cute subplots that all contribute to the overall success of this film.

Elle learns that not everything turns out the way you intend it to be, and that is ok. Sometimes we truly believe we are destined for one thing, but fail to realize that it may not be our true calling. Elle truly believed she was meant to be Warners wife, so when she did everything she could to try to control the outcome of that, she was devastated to find he was already engaged. But Elle still did not quit. She sucked up her pride and studied a lot so she could nail an internship and become a successful lawyer the type of person Warner wanted to marry. But when Elle actually achieved that, she realized that she did not need him in her life and found her passion for law. Elle teaches us to work hard to be whatever we wish, and know that our work is going somewhere, even if it is not what we originally intended. This movie is my favorite movie because it shows a reality of life that we often forget about change. Elle was a fashion major in her undergraduate, and before the Warner situation, she likely had no intentions of becoming a lawyer. But her relationship with Warner led her to change her ways and find her true calling as a successful lawyer. None of it would have been possible if she had not decided to make a change in her life.

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