Notes

SLIDE 13-Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory because his statue was so fair and realistic that he fell in love with it.
In time, Aphrodite's festival day came, and Pygmalion made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite. There—too scared to admit his desire—he quietly wished for a bride who would be "the living likeness of my ivory girl". When he returned home, he kissed his ivory statue, and found that its lips felt warm. He kissed it again, and found that the ivory had lost its hardness. Aphrodite had granted Pygmalion's wish.

SLIDE 13- Nikita as statue and Bob as Pygmalion
SLIDE 16-Loose American adaptation of Besson's film with Bridget Fonda as Nikita in this case Maggie
SLIDE 17 A more faithful adaptation of Besson's film,with Peta Wilson as Nikita and Roy Dupris as Michael. Very popular. One difference is TV Nikita is innocent and not a killer but a homeless woman at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Use of Nikita Monologue as Point of reference for Pygmalion
SLIDE 22-Nikita and Michael/Nikita and Bob/Pygmalion and his statue/Besson and Anne(James Bond-Bond Girl) illusion.
SLIDE 23- Cycle doesn't end-Alex and Nikita/Created in her own image just as she was created by Division's(State's Police/Bob/Michael) Mother-daughter
SLIDE 23-Amanda and Nikita/Armande and Nikita- mother figure "father born,mother made- How to act like a woman.-Sexual awakening-ideals of femininity.
FINAL SLIDE-Nikita is a constructed woman,she is who she is because of the men that formed her (Bob-(childhood creation) and Marco) assassin side/human side, the woman that made her (Armande),her femininity. She is now free to be a woman,be Nikita not Marie or Josephine but Nikita.She is finally free from the bounds of the male dominated world that is assassins.