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Gigi

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Gigi	label	Gigi
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Gigi	comment	A 1958 MGM musical film based on the 1944 novella by French author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Gigi was directed by Vincente Minnelli and written by Lerner and Loewe, following their success with My Fair Lady. Starring Leslie Caron as the eponymous Gigi, Louis Jourdan as Gaston, and Maurice Chevalier as the narrator HonorÃ©, the film won all of its nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, breaking the record set by Gone with the Wind.note Not counting the latter's two special awards.In Paris during The Gay '90s, Gaston Lachaille is a rich young playboy who wants to break free from the stultifying traditions of his family. He finds refuge in his time with Madame Alvarez (Hermione Gingold) and her tomboyish granddaughter Gilberte, or "Gigi" for short; a sincere and happy teen being raised by her refined great-aunt Alicia and grandmother to be a wealthy man's courtesan. For quite a while, the two see each other as nothing more than good friends. Over time, however, Gaston comes to the realization that Gigi has grown up. Can he really bear to take her as his mistress in a transactional relationship?Betty Wand filled in for most of Leslie Caron's singing.Not to be confused with Gigli.
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Gigi / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
Gigi / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: The role Gigi is being groomed for. Mamita prefers the term "courtesan."
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Gigi / int_1562fc00	type	Lessons in Sophistication
Gigi / int_1562fc00	comment	Lessons in Sophistication: Aunt Alicia spends hours teaching Gigi such things as the proper way to eat lobster, and how to recognize the most expensive jewels.
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Gigi / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Gigi / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: HonorÃ©.
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Gigi / int_1c77ec26	type	The Voice
Gigi / int_1c77ec26	comment	The Voice: As noted, Gigi's mother is just a voice practicing her scales off-camera.
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Gigi / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Gigi / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: HonorÃ© addressing the camera on multiple occasions.
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Gigi / int_25f0ed12	type	Hollywood Tone-Deaf
Gigi / int_25f0ed12	comment	Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Gigiâ€™s mother. Periodically throughout the movie Gigiâ€™s mother is heard rehearsing for her shows and itâ€™s clear that she cannot carry a tune.
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Gigi / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Gigi / int_2740531a	comment	Gastonâ€™s surprise at Gigi's new dress scene is revelatory, in that heâ€™d never thought of her as grown-up until that moment. Leslie Caron was in her mid-twenties, clearly older than the character, so that's no help. In the original source novel, she's about sixteen.
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Gigi / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Gigi / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Gigi's father, never even mentioned. Given her mother and grandmother's professions his identity is probably dubious.
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Gigi / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Gigi / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Gigi's father is never mentioned—unless he is the "young man with all those flour mills" who her grandmother almost implies to be him (especially given Gigi's reaction when she says this)—and her mother "has neither the mind nor the inclination to take care of her," being absorbed by being a second-rate opera singer. Gigi was raised by her grandmother.
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Gigi / int_2cf282ea	type	She Is All Grown Up
Gigi / int_2cf282ea	comment	She Is All Grown Up: The whole point of the plot, basically lampshaded in its title number.
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Gigi / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
Gigi / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: Averted. While Gaston and Gigi go on maybe one date before the proposal, they've known each other for most of their lives, and have gone on several non-dates.
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Gigi / int_38b33e8d	type	Love Epiphany
Gigi / int_38b33e8d	comment	This further deepens Gastonâ€™s Love Epiphany as he realizes his affection for Gigi is significantly deeper than a shallow transactional relationship of courtesan and benefactor. Not to mention, something similar to a Berserk Button goes off here as he canâ€™t stand other people thinking so flippantly of, and meeting at, Gigi. Perhaps Green-Eyed Monster?
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Gigi / int_3a3489f	type	Fourth-Wall Observer
Gigi / int_3a3489f	comment	Fourth-Wall Observer: HonorÃ© starts the film introducing the ins and outs of Parisian society and talks to the audience on several occasions; "I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore" is sung as much for our benefit as his.
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Gigi / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
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Gigi / int_43964f3	type	Worst News Judgment Ever
Gigi / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: When Liane dramatically tries to kill herself for attention after Gaston dumps her, it's front-page news. According to Aunt Alicia, this attention ploy is ridiculously common.
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Gigi / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Gigi / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Gaston sees one of his girlfriends with another man. The girlfriend is wearing a gray fur wrap and hat.
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Gigi / int_4bfd4dd0	type	Fashion Show
Gigi / int_4bfd4dd0	comment	Fashion Show
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Gigi / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Gigi / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "She'll keep you amused for months!" This further deepens Gastonâ€™s Love Epiphany as he realizes his affection for Gigi is significantly deeper than a shallow transactional relationship of courtesan and benefactor. Not to mention, something similar to a Berserk Button goes off here as he canâ€™t stand other people thinking so flippantly of, and meeting at, Gigi. Perhaps Green-Eyed Monster?
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Gigi / int_642594ea	type	Pygmalion Plot
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Gigi / int_6836fbcb	type	All Musicals Are Adaptations
Gigi / int_6836fbcb	comment	All Musicals Are Adaptations: Based on the eponymous novel by Colette, which had previously been adapted as a non-musical 1951 play starring a then-unknown Audrey Hepburn in the title role.
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Gigi / int_7e95adeb	type	High-Class Call Girl
Gigi / int_7e95adeb	comment	High-Class Call Girl: Calling her a "courtesan" makes it sound nicer. What's amazing is that Gigi's grandmother and aunt look down on Gigi's mother for getting a job instead of following family tradition and becoming a fancy prostitute, though admittedly they're probably more condemning of the fact that said job brings in so little money. Remember that courtesans were a high step above ordinary prostitutes: they moved in distinguished circles, chose their own clients, maintained their own flats and could rake in a considerable fortune. Gigi's mother, by contrast, is "slaving away at the OpÃ©ra Comique in ridiculous little roles." Who can blame Grandmama for being annoyed?
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Gigi / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
Gigi / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: It's never clear how old Gigi is meant to be. She dresses like a young girl (in particular she wears her hair down, which girls generally did until they were fifteen or sixteen), at times she seems remarkably childlike, and she's initially treated like a child by the other characters, but over the course of the film they gradually come to realize that Gigi has grown up and is more mature than they realized. Gastonâ€™s surprise at Gigi's new dress scene is revelatory, in that heâ€™d never thought of her as grown-up until that moment. Leslie Caron was in her mid-twenties, clearly older than the character, so that's no help. In the original source novel, she's about sixteen.
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Gigi / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Gigi / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The film's symbolism is not exactly the most subtle usage in film. Birds are everywhere in the film as a classic symbol of personal freedom and independence. In one significant appearance, Gigi's at lunch at Aunt Alicia's eating a poor tiny ortolan: a bird's been reduced to fodder for lessons on proper table manners, the same way Gigi's plucked from the beautiful park only to end up in her aunt's stuffy chambers getting ready to be eaten alive by society's plans for her. In another notable role, Gigi's delivering her angry screed against romance with "I Don't Understand the Parisians," and she throws herself against a wrought-iron park gate. Beyond her, a flock of birds fly across the sky. How's that for a cage-versus-freedom image? And for a third example, as Gaston begins to understand that he's falling for Gigi, he glides through the park, singing, "You're not at all the funny, awkward little girl I knew." In point, swans float by in a pond behind him. Plus swans partially mate for life. The film's characters are constantly dashing up and down stairs. With each climb, the characters (Gaston, most of the time) go upstairs fueled by passion and go downstairs in anger or sadness. There's Gigi, red-faced after playing too long at the park, running up the steps up to her own apartment. There's Gaston, up and down constantly on the stairs to Madame Alvarez's, whether it's a regular social call or in some whipped-up love-fury. Even Aunt Alicia leaves her apartment (a rare occurrence), and charges up her sister's stairs after hearing about Gigi's unthinkable refusal of Gaston. Usage of lush color is everywhere. The green of the Bois de Boulogne, deep reds of Mamita's house, Gigi's brightly-colored schoolgirl clothes, colorful dresses on the ladies at Maxim's all convey excitement and delight, even though they bore Gaston to death. You'll notice that the less sophisticated women and ladies of the demimonde dress in the brightest colors, while the haut monde (fashionable, respectable women) are more subdued. The women in the park are in white and pale pinks, while Gigi's first glam dress is elegant white. Liane's dress at Maxim's is garish, definitely a comment on what Gaston thinks of herâ€”common and crass. Gigi's simple but gorgeous white gown lets us know that she's different from the other mistresses.
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Gigi / int_95e7be81	type	Rich Boredom
Gigi / int_95e7be81	comment	Rich Boredom: Gaston (see Idle Rich above).
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Gigi / int_99244825	type	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation
Gigi / int_99244825	comment	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation: Got one of these in 1973.
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Gigi / int_a3b161	type	All-Knowing Singing Narrator
Gigi / int_a3b161	comment	All-Knowing Singing Narrator: HonorÃ© Lachaille.
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Gigi / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Gigi / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: In the novella Gigi has ash blonde hair and blue eyes. Both Audrey Hepburn (who played Gigi in the stage play) and Leslie Caron are brunettes, and Hepburn has brown eyes.
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Gigi / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Gigi / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Gigiâ€™s mother is an â€œaspiringâ€� opera singer, whose entire life revolves around the theatre despite the fact that she cannot carry a tune. She left Gigiâ€™s care and upbringing to Mamita, and was so involved in her own â€œcareerâ€� that she completely remains oblivious to the drama going on in her daughterâ€™s life. A poignant example being when Alicia and Mamita (great-aunt and grandmother) are discussing drama between Gigi and Baston, and Gigiâ€™s mother is in the next room singing and not at all contributing to their conversation.
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Gigi / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Gigi / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Colette was an insanely successful writer in her day, beginning with the scandalous Claudine at School, written when she was about Gigi's age. Gigi was only one of her many, many bestsellers. Today, if it weren't for this film, she might be largely forgotten, at least by English speakers.note Though thereâ€™s now a successful film about her...
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Gigi / int_c4b74656	type	One-Woman Song
Gigi / int_c4b74656	comment	One-Woman Song: "Gigi."
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Gigi / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
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Gigi / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
Gigi / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: Gaston is so bored with life as an ultra-rich man in Paris that he has a whole number on the subject: "It's a Bore". His disinterest in such shallow living is what makes him seek out the genuine, good company of Mamita and Gigi, thus giving us the setting of the film.
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Gigi / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
Gigi / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: Gigi's mother, who left the family tradition of prostitution to become an opera singer, and is occasionally heard off-stage, practicing her arpeggios.
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Gigi / int_e5448c9	type	Pimped-Out Dress
Gigi / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: Given all the upper class characters, not to mention designed by the famous Cecil Beaton, several of these are worn throughout the film.
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Gigi / int_ed7dde2c	type	Popularity Cycle
Gigi / int_ed7dde2c	comment	Popularity Cycle: Gigi tells Gaston she doesn't want to be his mistress. She knows, from the newspaper's tabloid headlines, that in such a relationship, Gaston would soon tire of her and move on to someone else, forcing Gigi to "crawl into another man's bed" to survive. She would become a permanent courtesan, just like Aunt Alicia. Later, though, she changes her mind, telling him, "I'd rather be miserable with you than without you." At the end, he realizes he wants the real, "slightly-untamed-Gigi" and asks to marry her.
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Gigi / int_f82b1ce	type	Loving Details
Gigi / int_f82b1ce	comment	Loving Details: Parodied in the song "I Remember It Well." HonorÃ© tries to convince Mamita that she's the love of his life by reciting details about their last evening together (before he cheated on her), but he gets them all wrong. She, on the other hand, remembers the details perfectly and corrects him each time he makes a mistake.
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Gigi / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Gigi / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Gigi's mother, who never appears on-screen, is a chorus member in a comic opera company. Three times in the course of the movie she's heard practicing her vocal scales in another room, and each time someone else closes the door to block out the noise.
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Gigi / int_fe7ae988	type	TheGayNineties
Gigi / int_fe7ae988	comment	The Gay '90s: This film, its predecessor film and stage adaptations, and the original novella, are all dripping with nostalgie for la Belle Epoque.
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