Response to Christy

Christy, I have to say that when I was in high school I was forced to watch Legally Blonde. But my best friend was practically obsessed with it, and I hadn’t seen a real chick flick in awhile, so I acquiesced. It was a decent movie, and so I told my friend that I stood corrected. Not one that I’d watch over and over again, but it had all the things a good American movie should have: humor, romance, action… Okay, I really did think the movie was cute.

Anyway, as for your speech – it created all kinds of thoughts for me! That speech was never intended to be heard by the audience it was addressed to, and so in the movie the speech is rhetorical, but to us, then, it isn’t because it isn’t real. We aren’t the audience of the speech, but rather of the movie, and so even if we are called to action is it because of what Reese Witherspoon said, or because of what the producers and playwright told her to say? Even if the speech is rhetorical, then, the speaker and the audience are not; if this is the case, can the speech be rhetorical at all? Once again, good choice – I might go rent the movie now, for old time’s sake.