Each person has his own personal list of paintings that he can watch several times. Such reusable stories include the film Beauty. Actors Richard Gere and Julia Roberts ideally suited the main roles in this melodrama. The picture "Pretty Woman" is known to every woman on Earth, she has already passed into the category of classics, as she appeared on the screens in the early nineties. The story of the rich man Edward and the prostitute Vivian became truly immortal.
Brief description of the film Pretty Woman, cast
A merchant of bankrupt companies, rich Edward Lewis (Richard Gere), having decided to leave the party early, took his friend's car and went to the hotel without a driver, but, not knowing the city, got lost in the night streets. Show him the way for money agrees girl easy-going Vivian (Julia Roberts). The rich man invites her to his room for one night, naturally, pays her for it.
Waking up in the morning, Edward decides to leave the girl for a whole week, with the condition that she will behave as she should in a cultural society, and accompany him to all scheduled meetings. He buys her clothes and shoes, teaches manners and eventually begins to understand that he is well and calm in her company.
When the week comes to an end, Lewis has completely changed: instead of reselling the company, he wants to do construction work. Edward rethought his life values, his plans have changed radically, and everything else Lewis does not want to part with his now close Vivian.
The girl also changed for the better: she can no longer trade herself and plans to continue her abandoned college education. Vivian sincerely fell in love with Edward and does not accept his proposal to be a constant kept woman, now she needs more, she needs a real family. Lewis is ready for such changes, the story ends optimistically.
The plot of the film is based on two main characters played by famous actors - Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. The filmmakers doubted for a long time before approving them for these roles, but now it seems that no one else could play better than this beautiful couple.
The film "Pretty Woman": actors and roles
In the foreground in the film Beauty, of course, Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, but other actors are involved in the film, without which the plot would be boring. For example, the audience remembered the funny elevator, the hotel manager also played a role, revealing the image of the main character. He had the “happiness” to teach the girl to use cutlery in a restaurant. And, of course, Vivian’s girlfriend, Kit, with whom they rent an apartment and work together, also fits perfectly into the overall mood of the film. Each role has its own meaning.
Such is “Beauty” - a film, actors and roles in which the foreground is as follows:
- Julia Roberts - Vivian;
- Richard Gere - Edward Lewis;
- Laura San Giacomo - Kit (Vivian's girlfriend);
- Jason Alexander - Philip Stackie (Edward's companion);
- Hector Elisondo - Barney Thompson (hotel manager);
- Ralph Bellamy - James Morse.
Julia Roberts
A very touching love story is Beauty. Actors accepted the then-not-so-famous actress Julia Roberts. This now she belongs to the highest paid Hollywood stars, and then, when preparing to shoot the film "Pretty Woman", Disney was opposed to her candidacy for the role of Vivian. The actress was then 23 years old, she managed to convince the directors and was approved for the main role.
In order to understand her character, the actress spent all her free time with the director’s wife Harry Marshall before filming, since she was the head of a free clinic, whose clients were often “night butterflies”.
The painting "Pretty Woman" was a huge success, the actors were rewarded for their efforts. After this role, Julia Roberts became a famous and sought-after actress, was nominated for an Oscar and received a Golden Globe.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere is a famous actor who has become a symbol of gallant courtesy and male charm. I can’t even believe that this intelligent handsome man grew up on a village farm in a distant province. Richard began his career as a musician, but then discovered the talent of the actor. In the film "Pretty Woman" he plays the piano himself, without understudies. Gere composed the melody that he performs in the bar himself.
At first, the candidates for the role of Edward were Al Pacino and Christopher Leaf, but both actors refused, in the end she was given to Gere. Richard first suggested making his hero more optimistic and active. But the director categorically forbade making Lewis a merry fellow, motivating this by the fact that only Vivian should be an optimist in a pair of main characters. What they ordered, they got it: Richard Gere played a rich man who hid many complexes and needed the therapy that a happy girl arranged for him. She won the cold heart of Lewis in 7 days.