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| “ | Chutney: She's my age! Did she tell you that? How would you feel if your father married someone who was your age!? Elle: You, however, had time to hide the gun! Didn't you Chutney? After you shot your father! Chutney: I didn't mean to shoot him! I thought it was you walking through the door! |
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| ~ Chutney admitting she shot her father while trying to shoot Brooke after being pressured by Elle. |
Chutney Windham is one of the two main antagonists (along with Professor Callahan) of the 2001 comedy film Legally Blonde.
She was the daughter of Hayworth Windham and his ex-wife Ms. Vandermark and the stepdaughter to his young new wife Brooke. Despising her new stepmother for being the same age as her, Chutney plotted to murder her. However, Chutney accidentally murdered her father by mistake and made it look that Brooke had killed him, forcing Brooke to hire Professor Callahan and his students, including Elle Woods, to defend her so she can avoid prison.
She was portrayed by Linda Cardellini, who also voiced Marcie Fleach in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and a disguised Shape Shifter in Gravity Falls.
Physical Appearance[]
Chutney is a beautiful young woman aged 26. She has a big frizzy Brunette perm and Brown eyes. Chutney was thin with an athletic physique, she mentioned that she went to the gym regularly. She is pale and has a nice, clear, face with ruddy cheeks and nice teeth. She tended to wear reserved outfits; though this was likely only on formal occasions and she probably wore nicer clothes usually when out.
Personality[]
Chutney is rude, selfish, shallow, spoiled, resentful, bitter, envious and troublesome. Chutney doesn’t seem to like anyone, she is rude and looks down on anyone positive. She despised her stepmother Brooke because she married her father despite being the same age as Chutney. Chutney showed no remorse for accidentally killing her father and was more concerned about staying out of prison. Chutney was shown to complain a lot, according to her mother, she complained very often about Brooke, which her mother enjoyed hearing about due to despising her ex-husband. Chutney was a good liar but didn’t think before she spoke. She didn’t think her lie about being in the shower after getting her hair permed would get past the court, or at the very least didn’t think anything of it. Chutney was also quite snobby.
Despite all of this, Chutney seems to show some redeeming qualities. Chutney cared deeply about her mother and her mother implied they were close. She also seems to have cared about her father. Though she plotted to kill Brooke, she never planned on murdering her father. She believed Brooke to be a gold digger and may have believed that her killing Brooke would save her father from heartbreak should Brooke divorce him and claim some of his money. Also shown in a deleted scene is that while Chutney was callous and sarcastic, she didn’t judge Elle’s perky attitude.
History[]
Background[]
Chutney was born to Hayworth Windham and Ms Vandermark. At some point, Chutney’s parents divorced. When she was 12 years old, Chutney began getting her hair permed twice every year. Chutney was a gifted student in High school, excelling at academics, especially Chemistry. Chutney was nicknamed “Slutty Chutty” in school. Chutney attended Yale University and graduated with a Business Major. Due to attending Yale, Chutney despised Harvard Law. Chutney was enraged by her father's marriage to Brooke Taylor, who was the same age as her and Chutney believed her to be a gold digger. Chutney wanted to get rid of her, so she planned to kill Brooke. One day, Chutney went out: she got a Latte, then went to the gym, presumably had a shower at her gyms locker room, went to a hair salon to get a perm and then went home. Chutney waited for Brooke to return home with a gun, preparing to shoot her. But instead, she ended up shooting her own father when he walked in instead. A shocked Chutney then came up with a new plan: frame Brooke for her father's murder, with pool boy Enrique Salvatore as her aid.
Legally Blonde[]
Chutney's claims to have walked in on Brooke standing over Mr. Windham's body (when she was really just discovering his corpse herself) stood up initially in court, and she and Enrique also conspired to claim Brooke was having an affair with him. However, those claims were proven false by Elle Woods (the movie's protagonist) when she deduced that Enrique was actually homosexual, which was confirmed when he accidentally admitted to having a boyfriend under cross examination.
Chutney's official villainous reveal was when she was questioned on the stand by Elle herself. When asked about her actions on the day her father was killed, Chutney claimed to have had a Latte, gone to the gym, gotten a perm, went home, taken a shower, and then went downstairs to find Brooke and her father's body. Elle, using her knowledge of hair products, determined that Chutney was lying about taking a shower, as the water would've ruined her perm as they have to stay dry for 24 hours. Now cornered, Chutney began to break down and, when accused by Elle of shooting her father, the villainess loudly confessed to her crime before shouting that she had actually intended to kill Brooke instead. Chutney was promptly arrested for her father's murder, attempted murder against Brooke, incrimination and committing perjury.
A deleted scene following the trial, showed her mother, Ms. Vandermark trying to hire Elle to be Chutney's lawyer, to which Elle lies to her that they'll keep in touch, likely because she knows she can’t represent Chutney because she framed her former client and because she has to testify against her because she's the one who exposed Chutney for being the accidental murderer.
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