Pretty Woman starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts
Another story that has little interest in the realities of being a woman of the street. But it is one of my favorites, from the hotel manager who shows kindness to Vivian, to the snotty shop-keepers who eventually regret they didn't. She does have a grand entrance with a gorgeous dress, but he is the only one in the hotel ballroom, playing the piano. Yes, the piano scene.
He treats her for most of the story as rental equipment for evading his loneliness. But he comes around and starts seeing her as a person whose dignity is worth defending (my favorite scene is when he punches his friend in outrage for treating her like a whore.) Eventually he recognizes her as the person with whom he has had his first meaningful relationship, and Vivian ends up getting to be Cinderella for more than a week.
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