Legally Blonde (2001) - Elle Wins! Scene (11/11) | Movieclips

While questioning her witness, Elle (Reese Witherspoon) makes a startling discovery about a perm that saves her client.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Reese Witherspoon stars in this romantic comedy, the feature film debut of award-winning Australian director Robert Luketic. As a ravishing Miss Hawaiian Tropic, sorority president, and calendar girl, Elle Woods (Witherspoon) is a big hit on the campus of her sun-drenched Los Angeles college. She's also got the perfect boyfriend in Warner Huntington III (Matthew Davis), a wealthy East Coast blue blood. Fearing that his snooty friends and family will never accept the bubble-headed Elle, however, Warner dumps her before heading off to graduate law school at Harvard University. Determined to win back her man, Elle enrolls in the same imposing institution, quickly becoming an object of scorn and ridicule, especially to Warner's old prep school flame (Selma Blair). Despite her penchant for malls, makeup, and tanning, Elle is no dummy and is soon showing elite Ivy League snobs a thing or two about class, self-confidence, and courtroom victory.

CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (2001)
Cast: Linda Cardellini, Shannon O'Hurley, Reese Witherspoon
Director: Robert Luketic
Producers: Ric Kidney, David Nicksay, Marc E. Platt, Christian McLaughlin
Screenwriters: Karen McCullah Lutz, Amanda Brown, Kirsten Smith

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[PlaystationSimmer]

I love how Elle's friends, as ditsy as they are, still showed up to support their friend despite not knowing what's going on

[LennyPepper]

“You have to go through your Elle Woods crying alone in a bunny costume scene before you can get to your Elle Woods kicking ass at law school and life scene”

[theofano_galani]

She was proving she was a murderer while complimenting her too on her bone structure and how good curls looked on her. We stan a female-supportive idol.

[andbriwaslike]

i love the creative choice to not have luke wilson’s character say “oh my god” like everyone else. it expresses that he’s not surprised by her win, because he always knew she had it in her. instead he’s just speechless, shaking his head, blown away by her.

[leoeoel]

I love how Elle's friends looks mad when people laugh at her at the beginning of the clip, go sisters

[katietaylor]

The actress playing Chutney turns in such a great performance in this scene - you can actually see tears in her eyes when she yells "I didn't mean to shoot him!"

[jesusdavila]

I absolutely love, *love* Elle's confusion at Chutney saying that she took a bath after her perm, because while the majority of the court laughs at her confusion and pretty much in their mind cement her as a "dumb blond", her confusion 100% comes from a utterly logical place because its Elle immediately noticing that Chutney's whole story *does not make any sense* whatsoever. Her confusion is the confusion of a very intelligent woman noticing the slip of the tongue of someone who knows very little of what they are talking about and its in that instant that game is over, and Elle has won.

[chotzrary]

Reese Witherspoon should have gotten an Oscar nomination for her role here. It used to be common for actors and actresses to get nominated for a comedic role, and win. This role is downright memorable, it's been 20 years and people still talk about Reese and Legally Blonde.

[coffeeaddict]

I love how you can actually see her body language change as soon as she catches the contradiction. She suddenly straightens and you can see the confidence.

[angelvity]

It’s just satisfying to watch how Chutney looks so bored in the beginning then she starts freaking out near the end lol

[ardikapradnya]

Elle's friends are actually amazing. The story made them seem as the dumb superficial people at first but they are as supportive as a best friend could get. Helping Elle to achieve her goal even though it's so far from their world.

[phrtehHDawg]

One of the best things about this is that, for the longest time, Chutney's story was taken as true because none of the officials knew about the ins and outs of hair care and didn't see the contradiction in it. Elle, who is knowledgeable about fashion and hair down to the scientific principles surrounding them, was the first one to catch on to the inconsistency and completely unwound Chutney's entire fake alibi. A quality that others brushed off as part of being a 'dumb blonde' is a strength for Elle.

[sofiavicuna]

"She didn't have your bone structure"
"Aw!"

[MagileineTopDeckToFullField]

Elle: "What did you do prior?"
Chutney: "I got a perm."
Elle: !
Prosecution: "Why do I hear boss music?"

[WanderingSorceress]

Prosecution's face gets me everytime! She couldn't even yell objection because she was too in shock. Her star witness had a huge flaw in her alibi and didn't realize because she didn't know HAIR CARE. I can only imagine what was going through her head.

[groovymovie]

I love this movie, because it shows all young women out there that being feminine and liking feminine things doesn’t mean you can’t also be smart. When she says, “any Cosmo girl would’ve known!” it’s like a direct nod to those girls saying “hey, believe in yourself! You can do anything!”

[taylorzheart]

Biggest mistake: Telling her that she got a perm 😂👏

[linyue]

What I love about this scene is that everyone doubted Elle, even she did. You can tell with her saying ‘OMG, ’ along with the judge and with the accused. Everyone except Emmett, he knew. He truly believed in her, even when she didn’t believe in herself. I always loved that little detail.

[fifabublz]

I love watching everyone’s facial expressions while Elle is going to town. They’re suddenly face to face with their own prejudices. Brooke and Emmett are satisfied because they always believed in her. And Elle’s friends were the first to realize what she had just found out. 😛

[CHOCOLATIONZ]

I like Brooke Windham's face at 1:47 as she smiled because she put all the trust in Elle and she knew she chose the right person to defend her case