Some precise genius on the market spliced collectively Elle Woods grilling the witness about perm upkeep with Col. Jessup lastly admitting he ordered the Code Purple and it’s pure poetry.
Whereas the comedy comes from mashing up two movies that couldn’t be extra totally different in tone, it additionally says one thing in regards to the lack of creativity in Hollywood’s method to the courtroom. You would most likely get Jack McCoy to crack Wilma Flintsone on the stand should you have been so inclined. Grandstanding monologue, possibly win a couple of objections, elicit dramatic confession. Rinse and repeat. Delete a couple of of the extra particular factual references and all the pieces’s interchangeable.
However I digress. It’s fairly humorous.
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