Elle Woods for President 2016

If you've never seen Legally Blonde Im going to need you to get off this post right now, get on Netflix and watch it immediately. And then since you're there you may as well watch the second one too. Reese Witherspoon plays the incredibly intelligent and energetic Elle Woods in this beloved film. The film starts off portraying her as an unintelligent, crazy, sorority girl who does nothing but obsess over her boyfriend. After her boyfriend breaks up with her (she thought he was going to propose, ouch) she decides to become what she thinks he wants in a woman: a law student. Elle then throws herself into her final semester of college studying and skipping Greek Week to study for the LSATs and trying to get into Harvard Law School to follow her boyfriend. She manages to make into Harvard and heads off to the biggest wake up call of her life.

One thing everyone in this film seems to take for granted at the beginning is how intelligent Elle Woods truly is. She is constantly looked down upon because she likes to party, likes shopping, and wears a lot of pink. What they forget though, is this girl got into Harvard Law School, one of the most prestigious law schools in the country. You have to be pretty smart to make it there, and unlike her former boyfriend she got in all on her own and wasn't wait listed. Even though she is constantly looked down upon and often times humiliated by classmates and professors she is always true to herself. Her bright pink wardrobe and natural blonde hair isn't exactly the norm for the law profession, but she doesn't care. She is very driven and knows what she wants and will always go after it. Elle is the prime example of how just because you don't fit people's expectations doesn't mean that you don't belong there.

Lets talk the what people think of as intelligence for a minute. The people at Harvard looked down on her because she was fashion major in college and they believed her to be lesser than them because she didn't study history or law instead. They believed fashion and hair care maintenance to be useless information not worthy of them to know,; however, this information ends up helping Elle solve her first case, save an innocent woman from prison, and shock everyone in the process. Most girls like her are seen as shallow, vain, and stupid for knowing things like this, but Elle proves that this information is useful and not to mention, difficult to learn. She rattles off fashion information about stitches and fabrics like its everyday knowledge and stops a worker from thinking she can take advantage of her simply because she's a blonde. Elle Woods is intelligent and if she wasn't she never would've made it to Harvard.

She goes through a transformation throughout the film and her motivations change as she matures and discovers who she is. She goes from wanting to win back her boyfriend, who she later turns down at the end of the film, to wanting to work at a law firm and become a lawyer. She also helps change one of the characters (her ex boyfriends new fiance) and they both ditch the guy and become best friends. This act is rare in Hollywood is probably one of the reasons that this movie is still so popular among women.

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