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Movie Analysis : ' Legally Blonde ' And ' Fast Car ' Composed By Tracy Chapman

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Be-Ware! Be- Warned! Be-Ready! Transitions May Be Closer Than They Appear Transition and change within a person encapsulates both a progressive and undesirable result on an individual’s development. By Mariam Tohmey Be-ware! Transitions are shockingly truthful and fluctuating! Akin to this is the is the 1991 play written by Willy Russel, ‘Educating Rita’; the entertaining 2001 film ‘Legally Blonde’, direct by Robert Luketic, and the 1988 soulful song, ‘Fast Car’ composed by Tracy Chapman. Through the employment of visual and literary techniques, these texts incorporate the struggles of an individual amid worlds, and the obstacles faced as they beguile the strong to desire accomplish an identity. Be-warned! Once the transition starts it’s persevering! “I’ve been realising for years now that I was, y’ know slightly out of step....I wanna discover myself first. Do you understand that?” in Act 1 Scene 1 of Educating Rita we are introduced to the protagonist Rita who is displayed as a young woman hoping to escape her working class status. Enrolling in an Open University course as her pathway to escape she has to overcome her lack of academic knowledge which is preventing her transformation. Frank, depicted as white-collared, jaded, alcoholic, invests in Rita’s change by becoming her tutor. From their first encounter, the reader is introduced to the cultural difference amongst Rita and Frank, which is represented in their colloquialism; Rita questions “What?”, whilst

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