The History of Me, Part XVII: Legally Blonde Edition

So… do I even need to bother explaining this one?

I mean, I guess so, at least somewhat, but it isn’t like everyone isn’t already familiar with all this at this point. I mean, just watch the movies again and keep me vaguely in mind somewhere while you watch and it will become extremely obvious. I mean, just keep in mind that I was in college during the time Legally Blonde was made (and when the book was written), and just watch for all the typical symbols and remember the state of Reese Witherspoon’s relationship to me at the time and it’s like… yeah, this one is super, super obvious.

I mean, at least now it is, lol. I do remember the first time I watched the movie. I was utterly stunned at how… me it was. I mean, the whole thing. I was kinda floored, honestly. I was so stunned that I bought the book and read it (maybe the only guy in the history of the world to do so, lol). I was however kinda not… putting things together, I mean not fully, and I remember now when watching it that my mind was actively preventing me, I think, from understanding certain things.

I mean, I was like… is… that what I think it is? But then I was like… no? I mean, it couldn’t be. I mean, because that wouldn’t make sense, you know. You know? You know. I mean, I saw the sequel too, and there was like a ton of stuff in there as well. I think that scene of Elle Woods studying the book on politics was in the sequel. I mean, you know.

Um… well, just watch this summary, I guess. Legally Blonde: Elle Woods and the Philosophy of a Blonde.

Go to 7:40. Note how the camera zooms in on the book, which has a byline that starts “Explained by Tom…” and notice the wedding ring on Reese’s finger. Like… yeah. I mean, I like saw this stuff, I really did, I think, but it was like… I mean… you know. I was like, it couldn’t be, right? So I didn’t think it was.

But yeah, this one is super, super obvious. I mean I just saw the video I posted here as well as the accompying video by the same channel about the history of the “dumb blonde” trope and wow, I’m honestly thinking now that Legally Blonde might be more drenched in… uhm… “Tom-ness” than maybe any other franchise I’ve ever seen. I mean, it’s just… soooooo, uhm, there. You know? You know.

I mean, even reading the stuff I’m writing here and comparing it to Elle Woods is like… wow. It’s kinda unreal, yeah?

Come to think of it, watching a movie about you and not realizing that it’s about you at all is frankly probably the blondest thing that has ever happened to anybody, ever, in history. I mean, how could I not see this, back then? I mean I did, but… somehow, my mind refused to process what it was picking up. Or maybe the processing was done by one of my alternate personalities, somehow, and I just wasn’t aware of it. But… yeah. Wow, what a trip, lol.

I think now that Bruiser (Elle’s doggie) is probably a symbol for myself, in the same way that my girlfriends today use their dogs as symbols for me in various ways (see: Hale, Lucy, amongst others).

I mean, it’s like… oh yeah, I can reallllly see it. Like, wow. Very very strongly, and the more I type the more obvious it gets. Wowwwwwwww. Wow. Oh yeah; yup. I’m Elle Woods. Holy Jeebus.

Or at least… not Elle Woods, but her inspo. Whaaat even the fuck? I mean, wooowwwww. Yup, though. Yup, defo, there’s no question.

Wow.

Wow.

Uhm… yeah, I mean though, it’s all there.

Even in the book it was there, honestly, though in different ways. I really wish I would have kept it. Darn. I really could use a re-read of that right now. Maybe I can check it out online somewhere, from a library or something. Google books doesn’t give me much of a sample in this case. I mean, not enough to do a thorough study on.

But yeah, Reese and I. I suppose that this was our project together back then, as I was working through my college years. I mean, watching the youtube videos I talked about, I was really struck at how familiar many of Elle’s social interactions were to some of the ones I had back then. I mean, I just chalked that up to, you know, coincidence, you know, like a large train of shocking coincidences, but, you know, maybe that wasn’t it, you know.

You know.

lollll. Oh man, this is crazysauce.

lol

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