Call it a modern-day Pygmalion story.
Pygmalion stories & art: "successive retellings of the Pygmalion story after Ovid's Metamorphoses"
The basic Pygmalion story has been widely transmitted and re-presented in the arts through the centuries.
The plot owes much to modern retellings of the Pygmalion story.
It constitutes a variation of the Pygmalion story.
The Pygmalion story abounds, not only with the exuberant Bill's learning the strange and mysterious ways of the upper classes.
Galatea 2.2 (1995) is a Pygmalion story, about an artificial intelligence experiment gone awry.
In Gilbert's Pygmalion story, the sculptor is a married man.
I wanted to make it more of a two-way Pygmalion story, not just the older guy helps bring the younger girl back to life.
Judging by the response to this brightly shellacked and cannily updated Pygmalion story, the answer is no.
