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Producers originally wanted to set the film at The University of Chicago. School administrators declined, however, because of a scene toward the end of the movie where a professor places his hand on Elle's leg. Filmmakers subsequently decided to have the story take place at Harvard University.
To prepare for her role as Elle, Reese Witherspoon spent two weeks studying the behavior of sorority girls, as she did not wish to portray a stereotypical airhead sorority image. She states on the DVD commentary that they were all very kind and polite, and she enjoyed her time with them. She also observed women shopping from the cafe at Neiman Marcus, and attended law school for a day.
Reese Witherspoon's character wears 40 different hairstyles throughout the film.
In the final two scenes (Elle and Warner outside the courtroom, and Elle making the graduation speech), which were filmed after test audiences expressed a wish to find out what happened to Elle after the trial, both Reese Witherspoon and Luke Wilson are wearing wigs. Witherspoon had cut her hair short since finishing filming (although the rest of the film features her natural hair), and had to wear a wig to recreate her courtroom look - you can see her makeup is different, too, as she is much paler than she was in court. Luke Wilson had shaved his head for the Royal Tenenbaums, and got a much deeper tan, resulting in quite a different look for him in the graduation scene. However, since two years have elapsed in the film, this is more understandable.
The Delta Nu house where the beginning scenes were filmed was actually a Delta Gamma sorority house, the same sorority that the character in the book was in.
When Elle is in the beauty parlour near the beginning of the movie (just before she spots the picture of Warner's brother and the Vanderbilt girl), the old woman next to her is reading Seventeen. On the cover, although you can't see them too well, are Rosario Dawson, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Tara Reid, the stars of Josie And The Pussycats. This is an in-joke from producer Marc Platt, who produced both movies.
As agreed in her contract, Reese Witherspoon kept all of her costumes after filming.
There is a quick shot of a TV truck from WAJB, Channel 3 in Boston. This fictional channel is a reference to the author of the novel on which the script is based, Amanda Brown.
We see Elle Woods brushing her hair behind the opening credits. This is not Reese Witherspoon, as she was in England finishing The Importance of Being Earnest (2002).
Neither the confrontation with Warner outside the courtroom nor the final graduation scene was a part of the original script. When the movie was tested, audiences were so wrapped up in Elle's story they were disappointed that she never got her revenge on Warner, and they also wanted to know what happened to her in the end (did she become a lawyer after all?). The two scenes had to be shot in England because Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Davis were both filming there (on separate projects) at the time. During the graduation scene, only Witherspoon and Davis are actually present. Shots of Jennifer Coolidge, Selma Blair, Luke Wilson and various other supporting cast members were filmed in LA and the whole thing was edited together later.
In the novel, Elle is a member of Delta Gamma, an international sorority which is part of the National Panhellenic Conference. It was changed to Delta Nu to avoid problems with the real organization.
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