Legally Blonde

Film Information

Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic in his feature-length directorial debut, and scripted by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith from Amanda Brown’s 2001 novel of the same name. It stars Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, and Jennifer Coolidge. The story follows Elle Woods (Witherspoon), a sorority girl who attempts to win back her ex-boyfriend Warner Huntington III (Davis) by getting a Juris Doctor degree at Harvard Law School, and in the process, overcomes stereotypes against blondes and triumphs as a successful lawyer.

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Clip Information

Elle, a young female lawyer, takes over the case of Brooke Windham, who is accused of murdering her husband, Hayworth Windham. Elle is questioning Chutney, the daughter of the deceased man.

Abbrev Film Clip Start Clip Stop Duration
LegallyBlonde Legally Blonde (2001) 01:20:26.900 01:27:20.900 414
Characteristic Value
Format MPEG-4
File Size 108.0 MiB
Duration 414.039
Frame Rate 23.976
Video Width 1920
Video Height 816
Video BitRate 2.1 MB/s
Audio Channels 2
Audio SamplingRate 48000
Audio BitRate 129.2 kB/s

Subtitles

The following wordcloud shows the words used in this clip, scaled by number of occurrences and colored by sentiment (orange = negative, green = positive, grey = neutral or unsure). Note that the words have been stemmed and lemmatized and stopwords have been removed.

The table below shows all subtitles in this clip with the start and stop time of each subtitle’s appearance in seconds.

Start End Subtitle
4.46 8.909 - Excuse you. You're in my way. - She's a student. She can't defend you.
9.06 13.668 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Ruling 3.03.
13.98 14.981 See?
15.90 19.700 - Thank you, David. - Counselors, approach the bench.
20.54 22.827 - You're not going up there. - Oh, yes, I am.
22.98 25.824 I'm sorry. Maybe you didn't hear me. You're fired.
26.18 29.627 Counselors, now! All of you.
34.22 35.585 Elle Woods, Your Honor.
35.74 39.426 Rule 3.03 of Supreme Judicial Court states that a law student
39.58 41.981 may appear on behalf of a defendant in criminal proceedings
42.14 44.507 Your Honor, I have no problem with this.
44.66 47.982 - I do. I'm not allowing it. - But you agreed last night.
48.14 50.347 In your office, when we were discussing my career?
51.70 56.945 The ruling also states that you need a licensed attorney to supervise you.
57.10 60.149 - Mr. Callahan? - That I won't agree to.
60.30 62.667 I'll supervise, Your Honor.
63.70 66.180 Well, then, Ms. Woods, proceed.
66.62 68.304 Thank you, Your Honor.
69.10 70.909 (chuckling)
73.66 76.391 - Hi. - Hi.
82.42 83.831 Enjoy prison.
84.98 88.780 Mrs. Windham, you do realize what you're doing?
88.94 90.271 Absolutely.
92.98 97.622 - Oh, my God. There she is. Elle! - Elle, we came to see your trial.
97.78 102.627 Oh, look, how cute! There's, like, a judge and everything. And jury people.
103.66 106.311 - Vote for Elle! - Ladies, take a seat.
107.26 109.388 Go, girl.
113.46 116.623 Do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
116.78 118.464 - I do. - Be seated.
120.66 122.901 Ms. Woods, you may begin your questioning.
128.02 130.591 First of all, I would like to point out that,
130.78 132.623 not only is there no proof in this case,
132.82 137.030 but there's a complete lack of mens rea,
137.18 140.901 which, by definition, tells us that there can be no crime
141.06 143.267 without a... vicious will.
144.34 147.025 I am aware of the meaning of mens rea.
147.18 150.662 What I'm unaware of is why you're giving me a vocabulary lesson
150.82 153.266 when you should be questioning your witness.
155.46 157.030 Yes, Your Honor.
160.46 161.666 Ms. Windham...
162.38 164.508 When you arrived back at the house...
165.94 167.066 ...was your father there?
167.78 169.862 Not that I saw. But like I said,
170.02 172.227 I went straight upstairs to take a shower.
173.50 177.903 And... when you came downstairs, what happened?
178.30 181.543 I saw Brooke standing over his body...
182.14 184.142 ...drenched in his blood.
189.78 194.422 - But Mrs. Windham didn't have a gun? - No, she'd stashed it by then.
194.58 196.389 Move to strike that from the record, Your Honor.
196.54 198.542 - It's speculation. - So stricken.
201.34 202.341 Go ahead.
207.62 210.510 Ms. Windham, did you hear a shot fired?
211.06 212.983 No. I was in the shower.
214.38 215.461 OK.
215.62 219.227 So... sometime in the 20 minutes
219.38 221.064 that you were in the shower...
221.90 223.061 ...your father was shot?
223.82 224.901 I guess.
226.22 229.030 Your father was shot while you were in the shower...
229.70 232.783 ...but you didn't hear the shot because...
236.62 238.543 ...because you were in the shower?
239.78 243.580 Yes. I was washing my hair.
244.94 246.510 - (barks)
246.66 250.346 - Where is she going with this? - Have a little faith, Gerard.
258.82 262.666 Ms. Windham, what had you done earlier that day?
263.66 266.106 I got up, got a latte,
266.26 269.389 went to the gym, got a perm and came home.
271.78 273.987 Where you got in the shower?
274.70 278.864 I believe the witness has made it clear that she was "in the shower."
279.02 281.307 (all chuckling)
284.98 286.789 Yes, Your Honor.
286.94 290.547 Ms. Windham, had you ever gotten a perm before?
290.98 293.950 - Yes. - How many, would you say?
295.06 297.301 Two a year since I was 12.
298.10 299.511 You do the math.
300.38 303.509 You know, a girl in my sorority, Tracy Marcinko, got a perm once.
303.70 306.909 We all tried to talk her out of it. Curls weren't a good look for her.
307.46 309.030 She didn't have your bone structure.
309.18 310.181 Aww.
310.34 312.661 But thankfully, that same day,
312.82 314.822 she entered the Beta Delta Pi wet T-shirt contest,
314.98 316.823 where she was completely hosed down from head to toe.
316.98 319.950 Objection! Why is this relevant?
320.10 323.229 - I have a point. I promise. - Then make it.
324.02 325.670 Yes, ma'am.
326.42 330.106 Chutney, why were Tracy Marcinko's curls ruined when she got hosed down?
331.86 333.749 - Because they got wet. - Exactly.
333.94 336.511 Because isn't it the first cardinal rule of perm maintenance
336.66 338.867 that you're forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours
339.02 340.988 after getting a perm at the risk of deactivating
341.14 345.270 -the ammonium thioglycolate? - Yes...
345.42 348.549 And wouldn't somebody who's had, say 30 perms before in their life
348.70 350.702 be well aware of this rule?
350.86 353.750 And if you weren't washing your hair, as I suspect you weren't,
353.90 357.109 because your curls are still intact, wouldn't you have heard the gunshot?
357.26 359.911 And if, in fact, you had heard the gunshot, Brooke Windham
360.06 363.064 wouldn't have had time to hide the gun before you got downstairs,
363.26 365.945 which would mean that you would've had to have found Mrs. Windham
366.14 369.622 with a gun in her hand to make your story plausible. Isn't that right?
369.78 372.147 She's my age, did she tell you that?
372.30 374.621 How would you feel if your father married someone your age?
374.78 377.306 You, however, had time to hide the gun, didn't you, Chutney?
377.46 379.940 - After you shot your father. - I didn't mean to shoot him!
380.10 382.307 I thought it was you walking through the door!
382.46 384.428 (crowd exclaiming)
385.66 388.982 Order! Order! Order.
390.70 392.941 - Oh, my God. - Oh, my God.
393.10 394.909 Oh, my God.
396.66 398.788 Bailiff, take the witness into custody,
398.94 402.069 where she will be charged for the murder of Heyworth Windham.
402.90 405.506 In the matter of The State v. Brooke Windham,
405.66 407.344 this case is dismissed.
407.50 409.582 Mrs. Windham, you are free to go.
409.74 410.741 Yes!
410.90 413.471 (all cheering)

Holistic Ratings

A total of 75 participants watched this film clip and then provided holistic ratings on how the entire clip made them feel. These holistic ratings were completed using five Positive Affect items (i.e., alert, determined, enthusiastic, excited, inspired) and five Negative Affect items (i.e., afraid, distressed, nervous, scared, upset), each rated on an ordinal scale from 0 to 4. The plot below shows the

Dynamic Ratings

A total of 75 participants watched this film clip and used the CARMA software to provide continuous (i.e., second-by-second) ratings of how it made them feel. These continuous ratings were made on a single emotional valence scale ranging from -4 (very negative) to 4 (very positive).

Time Series

We can plot the distribution of all valence ratings per second of the film clip to get a sense of how its emotional tone changes over time. The solid black line represents the mean of all ratings and the yellow, green, and purple ribbons represent the central 50%, 70%, and 90% of the ratings, respectively.

Inter-Rater Reliability

A Bayesian generalizability study was used to decompose the variance in ratings of this video clip into the following components: timepoint variance (in average ratings of each second, across raters), rater variance (in average ratings from each rater, across seconds), and residual variance (including second-by-rater interactions and measurement error). The lower and upper columns in the table below represent the boundaries of the 95% equal-tail credible interval. Note that we dropped the first 10 seconds of each clip (as rater “warmup” time).

Component Term Estimate Lower Upper Percent
Rater Variance 0.897 0.685 1.313 0.410
Timepoint Variance 0.407 0.360 0.479 0.186
Residual Variance 0.881 0.867 0.895 0.403

From these variance components, we can estimate inter-rater reliability of the ratings. There are many formulations of the two-way intraclass correlation (ICC), but the most relevant to our purposes here is the balanced average-measures consistency formulation or ICC(C,k).

Term Estimate Lower Upper Raters Error
ICC(C,k) 0.973 0.968 0.976 75 Relative

Below, we can also visualize the posterior distributions of each of these parameters. Values with higher posterior density are more probable.