The message is: Roger Ebert will give three and a half stars to a bowel movement.
It’s Cinderella. Only in this one, “ball” is a verb instead of a noun.
And that movie might have been a critical success but certainly a box office failure. The message of Pretty Woman, therefore, is that focus groups are a worthwhile investment.
Whores and millionaires are the best people and who fall in love for the right reasons.
It’s clearly a corallary to the great Beatle’s hit, proving that you can actually buy love.
Rich guys like prostitutes
Seriously…
“You and I are a lot alike Vivian, we both screw people for money.”
In the end, they both stop screwing people for money.
I always thought the message was: You’re a pretty woman but you’re not hot enough so bring on the body double.
The message is with enough promotion you can convince the american public that Julia Roberts is even the slightest bit attractive.
Hey, you can’t buy me love. Girls just want to have fun, you know. It’ just a prelude to a kiss. I’m going to go blow out sixteen candles, now, and shat out a screenplay about this girl who meets a guy, only she’s engaged to some other guy, but the complications ensue and he turns out to be a serial killer with multiple personalities, one of which is actually a record-breaking racehorse. I’m sure to get middle fives advance on a six figure payout.
Stranger
Ok, how much did you have to pay don’t ask to set you up with such a perfect straight line? 
Yes, the message is that John David Carson needs a better agent. That movie was his last appearance on film - this scene - and he hasn’t been in a single production since.
Nothing I can say but
win
It only appears that way because they never made the sequel: Pretty Woman: The Divorce.
The message is: Don’t worry, you are not a sleezebag if you…
- are a guy who goes for hookers
Instead, you are a “prince” in a “Cinderella story” - are a woman who goes after flashy rich guys
Instead you are a “Cinderella” and you are good for him and “saving him” from his empty life.
And hookers are not drug addicts. Instead they are nice girls. And they’re not being exploited by pimps. Instead they are independent and empowered, and support their sisters on the street with little pep talks like “work it, girl!”
And the REAL message is that the movie-going public has a totally screwed up idea of what is “romantic”.
Well, considering the title the movie bears today is NOT the one it was written under…
No, no, no. It isn’t even a very original story, not by a long shot.
It is a re-write of My Fair Lady, which in turn was a re-write of Pygmalion. Old story.
Which Shaw based on a Greek myth.
Just curious about this. Why would she need a body double? Julia Roberts has a nice body albeit on the thin side. Now if you’re talking about the scene where she is walking through the lobby in the new dress after shopping and the hotel manager is admiring her backside, yeah I don’t think her ass is that well formed.
And Cinderella ends before she finds out about the royal mistress and the royal bastards. Fairytales end with “happily ever after” - we know that reality seldom does.