LEGALLY BLONDE (2001) | Elle's First Day at Harvard Law | MGM
Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen, is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school. While she is there, she figures out that there is more to her than just looks.
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Legally Blonde (2001)
Directed By Robert Luketic
Screenplay by Karen McCullah Lutz & Kirsten Smith
Based on the book by Amanda Brown
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, Jennifer Coolidge
Rated PG-13 for language and sexual references.
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I love how Elle’s line “What? Like it’s hard?” kinda has a double meaning. #1, it proves how intelligent she is that she got into Harvard on her own merits THAT easily. #2, Harvard is known for taking bribes, meaning a lot of students got in because their parents paid for their acceptance (just like Warner’s did), so it actually isn’t hard to get into Harvard if you come from a wealthy family.
I never knew that line was that golden
Diversity requirements though
wow to think harvard is a place where intelligent i mean real deserving student go...i did watched that controversial netflix...its really an eye opener.
If you're black or latino it's easier to get into Harvard. If you're asian it's hard. The wealthy whites who got in because parents paid, must've held their own academically. Or else it wouldn't have flown under the radar. The statistics would show white poor performance, besides the affirmative action blacks at the bottom.
Ah, it’s not what you know, but _who_ you know.
I think the major mistake Elle did was not wearing enough pink the first day lol
Her blouse was pink. Which means she was hiding her true self to blend with others
She was trying to blend herself to the boring harvard kids 🤣
especially if it was a Wednesday
Pink is more of a Friday color --- first day of class is always a Monday so that calls for drab colors like gray or dark blue
I agree ❤️❤️
I love how as strict this teacher is shown at the beginning she's becoming the key to success for Elle at the end
That teacher was mean. But also fair. Her students need to be prepared for the real world.
She, herself, is also a blonde. I love that little detail.
@@OneWeirdDudeNah she was just strict
@@juanchoresultay2704 Or she can be both.
oh yeah
I think this professor has picked Elle not by chance; she saw that this student had no idea what's going on. She was the only one without a notebook, and her small heart shaped paper notebook would not be enough to write down a summary of even one lecture. Besides, the professor purposely shared the responsibility. She could have simply required that Elle leave; instead, she asked another girl's opinion. By doing so, she said to Elle not only: "See, we have strict rules here", but also: "See, your fellow students will show you no mercy". It was the most efficient way to deliver the message, much better than putting it all in words.
Well... Elle does stick out like a sore thumb!
At no stage did she actually ask Elle to leave. The professor asked another student if she would support her if she asked her to leave.
@@catherinekilgour2563I was just now noticing that as well. It would have made perfect sense, given what I have seen in different demonstrations of lawyers and law school, for the professor to make things even more awkward by calling on someone else to point that out as Elle approached or even opened the door.
This reminds me of my first day of college. I show up to my very first class, psych, waiting on the previous class to get done, and I meet a girl waiting on the same class as me. She’s like “have you read the first 3 chapters yet?” And I felt so lost. We also had to bring a printed and signed copy of the class syllabus, which I knew nothing about. That was my wake-up call on how different college was gonna be from high school. 😅
I KNOW RIGHT?!
I See you. But I have a different Elle Wood real life story, I quit college for an artistic career and it blossomed. Looking back to college how I could never be forced to love the subject that aren’t connected to my course of choice. I’ll say I’m proud to be that free of a thinker. But, you know, everyone has their own unique stories, so it really doesn’t matter which path you’ve chosen, if you’ve made it to the success you want, then congratulations from me.
Umm are you for real? I went to college in the early 90's and NEVER had a class where the prof expected us to read anything by the first day!
@@fredwerza3478 I went to college in the early 2010’s, so clearly different eras.
@@lilithhecataniangoddessesm187 "Looking back to college how I could never be forced to love the subject that aren’t connected to my course of choice. I’ll say I’m proud to be that free of a thinker." That's not a sign of free thinking, it's a sign of narrow thinking. You weren't willing to learn about subjects that could have enhanced your worldview and inspired your career in roundabout ways. I'm glad things worked out for you but refusal to learn is not something to be proud of
Warner's shock is even sweeter in hindsight when you know he's not only shocked Elle got into Harvard, but he realizes she got in purely on her smarts, whereas he required his parents to pull a few strings to get him out of the waitlist.
Wait really. When did they explain that
@@Spiralredd When Elle and Vivienne got closer (towards the middle of the movie), Vivienne confessed to her that Warner was waitlisted and his father "made a few calls" to get him admitted.
@@floraflowers ah I missed that part
I have Elle Woods to thank for helping me to know the readings had to be done before class when I started law school. lol
Does that go for all majors? I'll be studying medicine in few months
@@Jesuscares._._ I have no idea. You could google it or ask someone who's already in med school.
@@Jesuscares._._honestly it can be for any subject . I did that for biology and physics :)
She should have gotten a syllabus for each class.
She did. She was distracted because the social events weren't listed.
@@Kaboomboo hahahaha kaboom indeed on this comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Debra please
You get those on the first day of class though 🙄. The old crone should’ve handed them out in class day of
Your right. I’m in college and they email and some class I get one
“What like it’s hard?” GAGGED HIM
I love the professor and how she treated Elle, she was being a professor preparing Elle for the future
> I disagree. The professor might reasonably have humiliated the unprepared student and used her as an object lesson for the rest of the class, but there was no reason to do her actual damage by kicking her out of class, in my view. This is especially true since there were very likely other unprepared students who escaped that actual punishment.
your same logic applies for grooming and it‘s sickening
@@arikalamari19
I love this professor!
Disagreed
"Here you will not learn to think outside the box but inside the box." Those are the words of my professor in the very first lecture of law at university. And it was at that moment I knew for certain I had found the right place. And so it truly was :)
What does those words mean?
That’s a good thing? Sounds like at that moment I’d know I made a mistake.
That is an amazing line. I'm EU, the system is completely different, yet this is so true.
Sounds like reverse psychology. Every professor I ever had said to think outside the box LOL.
Oh wow truly inspirational words
To be fair, someone should’ve told Elle she needed to have these things instead of just letting her waltz into the classroom.
She's 22 at least at the point of grad school. A grad student should be grown enough to look up what is required of them, or at least ask if they can't find out.
@@jennifermarie3158 Didn't Elle talk about "just like senior year but more funner" in this clip? And isn't senior year just the last year of highschool? The class in this clip, Intro to Law, isn't a post-grad school level course. It's one of the many introductory courses taken by Bachelor students. Elle isn't a college grad yet in this clip. My point is, most people finish senior highschool around 16-17 years old and they enter freshman college around 17-18. Elle is around 17-18 in this clip, not 22.
@@_Just_Another_Guy In another scene where she’s introducing herself to other students she mentions where she went for her undergrad degree.
Umm no. It's University.
@@_Just_Another_Guy Wait no. Watch the beginning of the movie. She is in college and talks about having her bachelors. She is 22.
Yes. I can remember my first day at Harvard. Our teachers seemed so mean and unmalleable, but got softer by the day ❤
@@aguy1981 as a teacher, I wouldn’t enjoy seeing any of my students exiting the classroom without learning something useful or inspiring. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel”, Socrates would remind us.
@@aguy1981 I teach at medschool and i'm a scientist at a national lab. Students who neglects studying will face their reality during our daily quizes, quarterly and semestral tests, besides final exams. Sadly, I can't teach responsibility and maturity, alongside the designated subjects, we already have too many topics and complex mechanisms to review.
@@leoleony1 it's alright, not everyone can be good teacher. Some just have this Messiah complex, and don't want to recover.
@@villanelle2.0 Was this really necessary? He can teach his courses his way, and you yours. If anyone has the complex, it’s you. What kind of a teacher needs to insult someone to get their point across. It just makes you look manipulative and disrespectful. Which is ironic, given you have a chip on your shoulder over “disrespectful” students. Take your own advice
@@leoleony1 If you were my professor, I wouldn't know how to act
Elle attends Harvard law school, and she uses words like ‘funner.’ 😂
in colloquial english it sounds better than more fun, but yes, it's wrong
Oh the irony!
Not an issue - grammar is the assistants' job, not the lawyers'.
@@juliav.mcclelland2415 Still doesn't sound great if she's speaking like that at a trial. Then again she probably knows what language to use and when which is part of being a professional 😉
This is an intentional choice by the writers to show how Elle’s personality is at odds with Harvard’s culture. Elle also appeared to be deliberately playing up her perkiness to look nonchalant to Warner.
The teacher was right to ask her to leave, but notice she said Elle can return when prepared. It’s an insult to the teacher not to be prepared, even if accidental. The way she called on Vivian to give her opinion was a little shady, but in fairness she is preparing them to be lawyers 😂
Harvard lawyers for that matter.
It's a little scary how we all know someone like Vivian --- who's only purpose in life is to be cruel and manipulative to other people
The teacher was unprepared for Elle’s unpreparedness. 😂
@@tanyamoretz because she hadnt read the pages in the textbook that were to be read
I’m not sure she was. She cost Elle a lesson, and didn’t really say what Elle needed to be prepared.
My first day at law school: "We go into law because we're no good at math." "No one will ask where you went to law school. No one will ask if you went to law school."
Really? I've always thought Law School was THE other prestigious route students go to that was on the same level of STEM programs. 2 sides of the same prestigious road. It's the Liberal Arts (writing, theater, social sciences, gender studies) programs that usually gets made fun of and ridiculed because of the stereotype that most people who graduated with a Liberal Arts degree end up working in McDonald's (implying Liberal Arts studies is worthless in the real working world).
The way she walks is iconic
I absolutely love the accuracy of everyone else’s dress. It’s so Boston. I live nearby and thought I was making it up, but see so many people in neutrals and black and dark colors on the T.
Omg this sort of happened to me too! I went to community college for five years and sometimes the professors expected you to read one or two chapters ahead of time, but not all of them. Also, you were never penalized if you didn’t read anything before the first day of classes. Then I went on to a University to get my Bachelor’s degree (which was another five years. ) Anyway, on the first day of classes everyone pulls out their syllabus!! I was so confused! And the professor gave credit to those that printed and brought their syllabus. Thankfully, I sat at the very back of the class and I just pulled out some other papers that I had to make it look like I had printed the syllabus off too. Thank goodness the professor didn’t actually go around the room and check each table individually. He just glanced around the room and gave everyone credit. We also had a reading assignment! Which I didn’t do because we had multiple novels that we were reading for the class and I had no idea where to start. AND I had no idea that there was a specific website for each class! I was SO mad at the orientation people!! Freshman went through THREE days of mandatory orientation and moved into the dorm rooms early. Yet, not one person even mentioned a syllabus or the website to access them! I thought that the professor would hand out the syllabus since I never received an email about it. I didn’t know that different colleges had different websites. I thought that there was like a universal one lol. So I went straight to the library after class and had a student worker help me set mine up. I never went to class without printing off a syllabus or doing some reading beforehand ever again. It has really saved me from having any embarrassing moments like that again!
You reminded me of a time when I half-assed my way through a class discussion about a book we were supposed to have read. I had only skimmed through it, but thankfully I was able to hit a few key points, and what's more, I lucked out in that we were at a section of the book where there was a sudden twist in the story, so I was able to get away with saying, "I wasn't really sure what was going on!" The teacher bought it. XD
Frankly, to me, I think it is unprofessional to not inform students of what you expect on the first day.
@@katepausig8562right! Like quit being so tough and guide us somewhat on the first week of school after that it’s completely our responsibility to stay on top of the class
@@Kelaiah01😂😂😂
@@erikag7334 So glad my story amuses you so. XD
I watch this everytime I am about to enter a new social situation. Elle's smile gives me so much confindence!
"What like it's hard"?
Best quote to use.
The reactions of the students sitting behind the main characters are hilarious! I've watched this clip several times but once you notice the students sitting behind you keep clicking on it! 😅😅😅
she is ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC CHARACTERS EVER !
I disliked Vivian but I do understand. I had a professor in college that if you weren't prepared he asked you to leave & come back when you were ready for class.
I agree with you. I sympathize her when she's displaced. Literally, my professor said "If anyone is not interested in studying it's about you but if you fail the exam, it won't help. Some professor doesn't displace but some professor displace, up to discretion of professor. Really every man for himself.
TBH I think if Vivian had of said that she wanted Elle to stay she would have kicked them both out
I think it’s dumb. The student is paying for the class…essentially paying the professor’s salary. The professor works for the student. If the student wasn’t able to be prepared for class then that’s on them and at least they can be there during class and not miss that…what good does making them leave do? And why should they be allowed to make them leave, when they’re paying to be there?
@@someoneyoudontknow7705 No offense but I can’t stand that whole “Oh I pay to be here so I should be able to do what I want “ entitlement. In that case everyone at any college or private school for that matter should just get As for showing up.
@@yummylemons172there’s a difference between being able to attend class and getting automatic As for showing up genius, learn it
Whenever I think of law school/Harvard. I automatically think of judge Judy (ik, she didn’t go to Harvard) lol
And I always thought she was professor McGonagall
The producers actually wanted to Judge Judy to play the courtroom judge in this movie, she later said her biggest regret was not accepting the role. She would've been perfect!
This professor reminded me so much of my mom. Lol This is how she would test me after I studied and it was because she wanted me to be sure of what I said but for that to happened I needed to know the ins and outs of all my studies. Miss you mom!
No god but Allah Islam way for peace and real monotheist Search about the truth with honest heart
@@amany247Its about his/her mom not Islam.
I really felt that pencil tap. Ouch.
Yeah but if you focus on the woman's face expressions when she was looking at her before she asked her to leave, you'd know that she thought she's cute and naive and didn't do this on purpose, but she had to follow the rules and teach her to get prepared every lecture.
It turns out that they are members of the same sorority and they bond over it later in the film
Amazing movie! I'm in love with every aspect and the execution is flawless! It's refreshing to see this types of movies
Burns twice as hard for Warner since he got in on a bribe 😂
One of my favorite scenes is when she gets her client’s alibi 😂
Classes would never be 9 months long. You’d never have assigned seats. You’d never have an assignment that you weren’t actually assigned.
At my uni, we don't even have the same classroom from week to week sometimes
9 months is 2 semesters. I think that’s pretty normal for one year of class. Like law 101 and then next year she’ll be in a different class for 2 semesters like law 102.
It may have been an assignment that you needed to complete during the summer like when they prescribe summer reading and you have to an essay on the books themes on the first day of class. Just means she didn’t read the syllabus
I believe they’re filling in a register which also shows which seat they’re currently in so she can get to know them better.
Maybe not officially assigned, but try to change seats after the first week and your fellow students will gut you :) I did veterinary, not law, but yeah, we absolutely did spend 9 months in the same classroom
'I totally look the part' that's awesome.. I'm gonna tell myself that more often
" you go where" had me on the floor 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
That professor is always playing a professor or a psychiatrist 😂
do you go here? i go here. 😂😂😂😂😂
1:31 he’s not worried coz he’s going to be with an ex girlfriend who’s still not over him. He’s worried coz she might discover how he really got into Harvards Paw School in the first place, NOW THAT THEY’RE IN THE SAME UNIVERSITY.
how??
Paw School? To enter the Paw Patrol?
Paw school 😭😭😭😭😭
@@rrr441 Is that a Law School for pets?
Haha, "Let's call someone from the hot zone" 😂
I loved her professor because she called out Elle for the simple fact that she was just unprepared, not because of her physical appearance.
Prof's face when Elle says she didn't prepare for it. 😂😂😂
Why was Bruiser not nominated for an award?
The dog sat there on the bed like: "Oh, please, blond woman... please... don't look at me... don't put on those glasses looking at me! I beg you! I can't watch... I hide my face... bye."
…you go where ??” 😂😂
I love the way she walks, she's lovely at this part 😂❤
Me to my co-workers: "Well, I recommend knowing before speaking" 🙄
when she whacked that one guy on the head.....hilarious
He is black. Wokistanis would have gone mad today
@@varoonnone7159 so true, the fascist left goes nuts everytime a black guy doesn't get a million dollars compensation for the slavery past.
@@varoonnone7159yet you’re the only one mentioning his race. Hmmm 🤣🤷🏾♂️
Once I finished writing the exam at the law school sooner, and asked the professor-woman whether I could leave the exam, as the parking time for my car 🚗 was expiring. She did allow me to leave the exam earlier AND gave a bonus extra 30 minutes to everyone else in the class to finish the exam. She was also a deputy judge that law professor.
I noticed when she's going after her ex she's not on her best game...but when she prioritizes herself she excels =)
Lol. The professor's like a wolf looking at a helpless chicken when she goes up to Elle.
My last year of high school was my third year of college, due to CLEP and AP. I didn't know you had assignments before the first day of class. Ooops! Thank goodness I sat in the back of the auditorium behind some big and tall young men. I did my first assignment during class. Whew!
Don't mean to insult Elle but she looks like Rita Skeeter in this outfit.
😆true!
Actually she did it first!
So true
Charlie’s mother 😂😂
She makes going to embark in a new program seems easy!
"I go here!" lol
That's Alaric Saltzman right there 😍
This again was my favorite part in this movie that I really loved. And I really loved the 2nd "Legally Blonde" film.
🤣🤣😂😂😂you like this evil scene, actually this movie taught me the lessons of life it is from my top favorite movies i can watch it over and over i can't even get enough if it ,and the most thing i like about it this girl transformed completely she become successful lawyer after many difficulties ,that means we as humans are able to excel every major if we do our best.
Her outfit gives pyjamas vibes
This is making me want to watch it again
One of my favorite movies
Underrated movie.
2:55 Her : What about his life ? Him:his not but yours yes 😂
Med science student here, yes the first 3wks is hard and hey I got into med school because of the TAFE (college for you Americans.) When I told I people that I am doing a diploma/bachelor med science degree, everyone's Mouth dropped. So when Ell said "what like it's hard?" It is hard but the reward of working in the pathology lab is worth it.
If you had been the student called upon to comment on the Professor's proposal to kick out the unprepared student, how would you have replied?
I would be sincere and say: I'm still not knowledgeable about what the rules and principles are here, but if you allow me to use my own opinion free of judgement, I think she should stay and learn a bit about what she didn't read.
I probably wouldn’t have been brave enough to oppose the professor, but I most likely would have stayed silent. I suspect Vivian had it in for Elle because she knew Elle was Warner’s ex and that Warner only broke up with Elle because he was too weak to stand up to peer pressure from his family and community.
You're the one who's calling the shots here. I'm not a good enough actor to pertend otherwise.
Today's Elle's first day at Harvard Law School
I think Bruiser is an awesome actor. He stole scenes
thank you
I was thinking about this same exact scene just yesterday
“Those immortal words.”
I’ve never seen legally blonde and I’ve never been to Harvard but WHY IS THIS STILL JUST HIGH SCHOOL????
Your high school must of been awesome!
Exactly what our prof did. 😂 Makes you doubt simple fact. He is good.
Great 📼
How sad , ALOT of people wear GLASSES that don't need them just to look SMART 🤣
I remember my first day at Harvard. Those toilets are still the same as anywhere else to clean.
you went to Harvard and your grammar is like that? Mmm?
@@ThomasJr im the smartest as well. Also, you did not get the joke.
@@ThomasJr What about your grammar, boyo?
I watched the movie several times but I cannot understand how it happened that Elle studied very hard, got into Harvard law school but somehow missed that the students had to get acquainted with certain materials for the 1st class and that she is the only one who missed that they had an assignment? Meaning that the assignment was clear enough, how could she miss it then?
Watsonian explanation: Her fashion merchandising classes probably didn’t require students to do readings before the first class. Doylist explanation: the writers wanted to demonstrate that Elle was very new to how things work at a prestigious law school while her classmates were already acclimated to it.
She was distracted by a lack of social events when handed all her materials.
This movie is about how blonde and pretty girls are not taken seriously but this gets me because i am overweight and many people think I am not capable of anything else than hanging around in cheap and lousy apartment eating cookies. No matter what you look like, you can still success. I have bachelor's degree, have full time job and I'm aiming for master's degree. Blondes are not dumb - neither are overweighted people 😊
I admire her so much❤
Judge Kittleson 🥰🥰🥰
I just now realized Evelyn Harper was teaching Elle 🤣
She was ready to "look the part".
awesome!
Awesomeness job
Poor WAITLISTED Warner!
fine i'll watch it again
It was wrong of Vivian to mock her and the teacher singled her out just because of her looks even if she should’ve done the work
Yes you go girl❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Corrupt guy left her just because he was so superficial
Impressed that the professor knew Elle's name without a roll-call or seating plan... (maybe she met her earlier in the film? I've not watched it yet)
At the beginning of the scene the seating plan was reached to Elle from the guy on her right site. The professor later takes it from Elle and looks at it - I assume Elle wrote her name on it while the others discussed the Aristoteles question.
Likely she added hearts & used a pink inked pen, lol.
I love how it didn't even go around the whole classroom.
@@katepausig8562it’s just a movie
Her outfit is so cute 🥰
What a queen also so me coded
"Like its hard?"😂😂
Being a law school after all, maybe she should have reminded the teacher who pays whom.
Our topic is BLOOD IN THE WATER!!!
She is looking at someone in this movie for food and support I would've held a riot if I knew on this day...
Bahahahahahah she looks geeky in those glasses but she is beautiful ❤
Crazy how this was made decades ago
great movie in 90 but still good today
It's 2001
Say whatever but I love this movie and must have watched x30. 😊
Hey, I'm not leaving the classroom. I paid to be here. "How else am I going to bask in the wonder of your knowledge?"
Agree!!! 💯😂
Same. I wouldn't leave the classroom. Noticed how the professor didn't directly ask Elle to leave the classroom, so I think maybe she could've stayed.
@@marybrown375 Usually law professors would have some other form of punishment if you weren't prepared. One of my law school professors refused to admit one of the students after he came back late to class from the break.
In the old days, when this move was made, they would throw something at you.
I'm watching all these law students open up their big think laptops on my slim sleek laptop...
Omg... That's Alaric from tvd
She calls the dog bruiser. Tat thing must have been giving her bruises😂