Rewatchables Reference

• The Harvard admissions video essay montage (Amanda's pick).
• Elle nailing the evidentiary hearing / the courtroom murder confession (Juliet's pick).
• The breakup scene – 'I got to marry a Jackie, not a Marilyn'.
• The one-woman costume party (Bunny costume scene).
• Vivian and Elle finally bonding.

• 'Legally Blonde' is just a great title.
• The tone – makes fun of the right things (blondes, Harvard, sexism) and the jokes land in the right place.
• The friendships – Elle's friends support her, she supports Jennifer Coolidge.
• All of the garish early 2000s fashion as a time capsule.
• The movie as a courtroom drama – should be up there with 'A Few Good Men' and 'My Cousin Vinny'.
• 'Perfect Day' as the intro/opening song.
• Good helicopter shots of Boston.

• The pool boy and all the gay stereotyping – 'really, really weirdly stereotypical,' even a flaw in 2001.
• The bend and snap / nail salon scene – feels like it's from a different movie.
• The lecherous law professor plotline – predictable trope from that era.
• The refilmed ending – Reese is obviously wearing a wig, the speech is bad, long awkward close-up with a crazed smile.
• 'Legally Blonde' 2 and the direct-to-DVD Legally Blondes sequel.

• Christina Applegate turned down the role of Elle Woods.
• Reese almost didn't get it because Tracy Flick from Election was such a shadow; she had to do several auditions.
• Emma Stone discussed as the closest modern equivalent to what Reese did.

• Selma Blair as Vivian (Bill's pick).
• Jennifer Coolidge – the ticks, the bend and snap involvement (Juliet's pick).
• The bend and snap scene itself – everyone in it is overacting (Amanda's pick).

• The UPS guy (Valerie's lecherous stepdad from 90210) – Bill's winner.
• The janitor from 'The Breakfast Club' plays Jennifer Coolidge's ex-boyfriend in the trailer park.
• One of Elle's sorority friends who was also in The Brady Bunch Movie.

• Jennifer Coolidge – became a big piece of the story about this movie (Bill's pick).
• Ali Larter – awesome performance, great chemistry with Reese, leaves a big mark in very little screen time (Juliet's pick).
• Luke Wilson – has nothing to do, no character, but is very charming (Amanda's pick).

• Vivian Kensington: Jennifer Garner (Bill – Alias hadn't started yet but she could have played more villains).
• Warner: Ryan Phillippe (Bill – Reese's real husband, good at playing rich guys) or Josh Duhamel.
• Emmett: Patrick Dempsey (Bill – before Sweet Home Alabama and Grey's Anatomy).

• Reese researched by studying sorority girls on campuses, doing real recon.
• Reese sported 40 different hairstyles in the movie; in her contract she was allowed to keep all costumes.
• USC, Stanford, and University of Chicago all refused to allow their names to be used.
• The original ending had Elle kissing Luke Wilson and starting a 'Blonde Legal Defense Club'; audiences hated it.
• The Chihuahua who played Bruiser was named Mooney; died in 2016 at age 18.

• Robert Luketic (the Australian director) – yes, this is his apex mountain.
• Pink scented resumes – yes, this is their apex mountain.
• Reese Witherspoon – no, her apex is the Oscar (Walk the Line, 4 years later).
• Jennifer Coolidge – 'American Pie' gets the nod over this.
• Luke Wilson – no, 'Old School' or Royal Tenenbaums.
• Harvard (in movies) – no, Social Network is its apex.
• Ali Larter – whipped cream bikini in 'Varsity Blues' or Heroes.

• Elle not getting any dates during first year at Harvard Law is unrealistic.
• Elle getting a 179 on the LSAT seems too high – they could have said 171.
• Elle had no legal authority to act as a lawyer (unauthorized practice of law in Massachusetts).
• The murder confession from Chutney came really fast / too easily.
• The video essay in the Harvard Law application was not actually possible.
• The diversity – Harvard in the movie looks like Melrose Place; everyone is white.

Juliet: Reese should play Elle at her current age running a law firm as a legal procedural, like The Good Wife but blonde.

Did Bruiser invent dog television? (Bill notes DIRECTV has a channel for dogs – Channel 562).

• The orange MacBook – it's a relic, you could sell it for a lot (Juliet and Bill).
• The internship wardrobe / the suits; also Elle's car (Amanda).

Reese Witherspoon – 'Reese wins the movie. Who wins the movie doesn't really need to be debated'.