In the end she should have sat alone and abandoned on a dark street. Dollar bills flutter across the wet asphalt around them. Forgotten and rejected by her millionaire prince. Luckily it’s a cult cinema hit „Pretty Woman“ didn’t turn out like that…
Julia Roberts (56) as prostitute Vivian almost got it like that in the finale of the mega-hit. And the title “Pretty Woman” – hardly anyone would have that on their radar these days.
First take a bath: Vivian (Julia Roberts) and Edward (Richard Gere) make themselves comfortable in the hotel
In 1990, a new Hollywood dream couple conquered cinemas worldwide at a speed that had only been achieved by Patrick Swayze († 57) and Jennifer Gray (63) in the dance classic “Dirty Dancing” a good three years earlier.
Richard Gere (74) rumbles through Hollywood in his borrowed Lotus sports car and gets lost. The prostitute Vivian (Julia Roberts) can help, first with the gears in the car, and later with nice company.
Actually, the successful businessman “Edward Lewis” (Gere) doesn’t want to use the services of the sex worker. But then the two fall for each other.
First on the road together in the car, then together at full speed into happiness in love: “Edward” (Richard Gere) and “Vivian” (Julia Roberts)
After a lot of back and forth, there is a nice happy ending to the music of Roxette „It must have been love“ (actually written as a Christmas song) the couple will probably still be very happy together.
▶︎ If the early plans for the film had gone according to, everything would have looked completely different. Roberts has now told this to an illustrious group on the British “Graham Norton Show” (BBC).
The American came alongside the Irish presenter Norton Cher (77) and Tom Hanks (67) to talk again about the film that was her absolute breakthrough and grossed around $500 million at the box office. Roberts talked about how boring the title was supposed to be. Namely: “3000”.
▶︎ The dark ending and the alternative boring title were also reported in the Netflix documentary series “The movies that made us” (2021).
In 1990 the absolute cinema hit: “Pretty Woman” with Richard Gere and Julia Roberts
Roberts: “It was planned to be much darker and should have been called ‘3000’. The sum for the night with Vivian. She was a drug addict and the way it was supposed to end was him leaving her on a side street, throwing her the money and driving away.”
Then Disney got involved and the script was revised. At the time, Roberts asked, “Oh, Disney? Should it be an animated film now?”
But no! The story was just changed to one of cinema’s greatest love stories of the last few decades.
The good news for fans of the classic: It can be seen on many streaming platforms. On December 25th again on VOX at 8:15 p.m.
2023-12-02 19:24:54
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