Look, the cannon timeline doesn't support it but I just think it would be hilarious if in the Phoenix Wright Universe Phoenix inspired Legally Blonde rather than the other way around.
I mean listen. Imagine you are a film student and you were classmates with this guy who was studying art. You don't know he's taking law classes on the side. You aren't that close. But then, one day, he isn't in class anymore. You miss the guy because he was fun and well that pink sweater is hard to not to miss. So you ask someone in class, and they tell you they heard from someone who heard from that one kid's roommate that he swapped to law.
You are stunned. How does he plan to do that. They shrug and say they asked the same thing but the roommate apparently wasn't worried about it because "nick" had a perfect 4.0 in fucking art so of course law should be a breeze. Then they drop the bombshell that when asking why, the response was apparently for some guy.
No. Way. This is some rom com shit. You cannot believe it and the incident sticks with you as you get out of film school and start trying to make a name for yourself. And along the way that story sits in your brain before percolating out into a movie. Definitely with large liberties taken, but at its heart and soul the story of going to fucking law school for a man.
And its a hit. Holy shit. Your first big hit and you can't even thank the guy that made it possible. You hope he is doing good and got the happy ending you gave Elle. But you think probably not as you breeze over a brief article describing some corrupt defense attorney's disbarment. The law in this town has never been squeaky clean but these days its down right dark. You close the paper and send you best wishes out to Nick Woods. (you think? the name is a little blurry after so many years. You think it at least started with a W given how he signed his work. or maybe an R? Oh well. You hope whatever-his-name-is well and move on)
