The Bet: Eliza would not have been accepted as a scholar by Higgins if it wasn't for Colonel Pickering's bet.Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: Higgins said this out loud, and Eliza certainly thought he meant it in the trope sense, too. He marches right past a famished Eliza to feed it to a mynah bird. Not to worry, says Higgins he knows somebody who loves these. Bait-and-Switch: Higgins and Pickering are too stuffed to finish the last cake tart. Anti-Love Song: "Just You Wait" and "Without You".Eliza, a Cockney girl, struggles with dropping H's and calls him 'Enry 'Iggins. He also sets a teacup on his hat, a gesture which would be funny on-stage, but looks really odd in this context. Instances of this include Higgins doing a short jig at the horse race - a Call-Back to "I Could Have Danced All Night" - but without the knowing laughter of a live audience, he merely looks like a lunatic. One peculiarity about the film is how it uses the old stage directions, even the meta jokes that don't work in a movie setting. Adaptation Deviation: Not enough, really.
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