My Fair Lady. Poster of the 1964 movie and cover of the 1956 book, Pygmalion
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Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw, 1956
movie vs book
George Cukor, 1964

In London, Professor Henry Higgins, a scholar of phonetics, believes that the accent and tone of one’s voice determines a person’s prospects in society. He agrees to a wager that he can make Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl with a thick, unintelligible accent, presentable in high society.


He's All That. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 1956 book, Pygmalion
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Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw, 1956
movie vs book
Mark Waters, 2021

Padgett Sawyer is an Instagram influencer in her final year of high school who lives with her divorced mother, a local nurse, although she pretends to live in a wealthy condo in order to hide her actual living conditions from her followers and sponsors. One day, Padgett discovers that her boyfriend, fellow influencer and aspiring hip hop artist, ditched her for a backup dancer, and finds herself being totally humiliated when a live stream of her outburst results in her loss of followers and sponsorship deals.