In 2001, the movie Legally Blonde was released and was quickly welcomed with good reviews. It is about a girl called Elle Woods and her journey at Harvard Law School, alongside some huge ups and downs in her love life and her social life as well.
In the movie, Elle Woods, the protagonist, decides to go to Harvard Law School to win back her fiance, Warner, after he dumped her on their engagement night due to her not being “serious enough”. At first, nobody thought she would make it in because her major was fashion, and she was the stereotypical popular girl who didn’t seem very smart. However, Elle studied extremely hard with the help of her best friends to get into Harvard, eventually receiving a score of 179 on her LSAT exams, resulting in her getting accepted. This proved that she wasn’t a typical “dumb blonde”.
Elle traveled to Harvard with her dog Bruiser and said hello to Warner, who didn’t believe that she got in. She went to her first class, only to be humiliated by a classmate and kicked out by her teacher, Professor Stromwell, because she didn’t know there was an assignment.
While Elle sat down outside, she met a boy called Emmett, who comforted her and gave her advice on dealing with each one of her teachers. After she calmed down, Elle saw Warner and told him everything that happened. Unfortunately, that was when she realized Warner was already engaged to the girl who had humiliated her earlier in class, Vivienne Kensington. Elle had a breakdown and decided to go to the local nail salon to cheer herself up, where she became good friends with the nail lady, Paulette. Eventually, she also helped Paulette get her dog back from her ex. A few days later, one of Elle’s professors, Professor Callahan, announced an internship where four law students would be able to represent a client in a real court case. Elle told Warner that she would take the opportunity and try for it, but he shut her down, saying she wasn’t good enough.
Once again, Elle proved Warner wrong by getting the internship along with him, as well as Vivienne and Enid, another girl. Emmett went along as Callahan’s assistant. She learned that she would be representing Brooke Windham, a fitness instructor who was accused of murdering her husband. The other witnesses were Chutney Windham (Brooke’s stepdaughter) and the pool boy. However, Brooke refused to give an alibi, which made Callahan think she was guilty.
Later, Elle visited Brooke in prison, where she confessed that she was secretly having a liposuction during the murder of her husband. Elle rushed back to Callahan, stating that she finally got an alibi, but refused to tell him what it was because it would break the “bonds of sisterhood.” This made Vivienne gain respect for Elle, and they became good friends. Elle learned that the only reason Warner got into Harvard was because he had a very rich father.
The next day, Elle questioned Enrique, who claimed to be having an affair with Brooke, but soon, Elle realized Enrique was gay. Emmett tricked him into telling the court who his boyfriend was.
Professor Callahan, proud of Elle’s accomplishments, had a conversation with her after Enrique left. Unfortunately, Callahan tried to hit on Elle, which made her quit the internship immediately. Vivienne, who overheard the conversation while bring Callahan a cup of coffee, stopped being friends with Elle because she believed that she only got the internship because the professor thought she was pretty.
Elle decided that she would go back to her home in California and went to the nail salon to say goodbye to Paulette. In a lucky moment, Professor Stromwell, who was in the same salon, convinced Elle that she was still more than a “dumb blonde”, and if she quit, she wouldn’t be the girl she thought she was.
This made Elle return to the trial, telling Emmett and Brooke what happened. Brooke was disgusted and fired Callahan, putting Emmett in his place. The last witness, Chutney, had her trial that day. All of Elle’s supporters (Paulette, the postman, and her three best friends from home), showed up to support her. Elle asked Chutney what she had done before the murder happened that day, and Chutney stated that she went to the gym, got her hair permed, and went home to shower. She also insisted that she didn’t hear the gunshot due to the fact that she was washing her hair and that when she went downstairs, her father was already dead and Brooke didn’t have a weapon on her.
Elle found this suspicious for one reason: If Chutney washed her hair within 24 hours of getting a perm, the ammonium thioglycolate used during the perm would deactivate, and the curls would fall out. However, Chutney’s curls had not been ruined, which meant she couldn’t have washed her hair. Chutney tried to make an excuse, but Elle continued to speak. If Chutney hadn’t been washing her hair during the murder, she would have heard the gunshot and rushed downstairs. This wouldn’t give Brooke time to hide the weapon, so it meant that the only theory that made sense was that Chutney was the murderer.
Knowing that she had no way out of it, Chutney admitted that she believed Brooke was the person in the doorway. Chutney was upset about the fact that her stepmother was so much younger than her father (Brooke and Chutney were about the same age). In turn, she shot whom she thought was Brooke, but turned out to be her father.
Brooke was freed and Chutney was arrested. Warner discovered that Elle was more than he assumed she was and asked her out, but Elle said “If I’m going to be a partner in a law firm by the time I’m 30, I need a boyfriend who’s not such a complete bonehead” and rejected him. Soon, Vivienne broke up with Warner and became best friends with Elle. Eventually, Elle graduated from Harvard Law School as valedictorian and found her true love with Emmett.
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