Little Women
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One feels like a duck, splashing around in all this wet. And when one feels like a duck, one is happy!
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But I absolutely love the book.
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I loved the book too. I did not know about the movie. Thanks for letting me know. I would definitely like to watch it.Acalcote wrote: ↑20 Dec 2019, 14:49 Is anyone looking forward to the Little Women movie coming out on Christmas? I absolutely love the book, however the trailer seems to be more about the modern feminist movement in today's society rather than the morals and lessons the four sisters were taught as they grew up. I'm curious to see how the movie is going to turn out. Honestly, I am super excited about it.
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Honestly I have such a personal connection with this story: I read the book a couple times, watched one of the former movie adaptations (I don’t remember which one), watched the mini TV series on Masterpiece, watched the play version at my university, wrote a paper about the book, and played Jo in a scene for my high school theatre class’s midterm. I’m so excited to see what direction Greta Gerwig took with this beautiful tale.
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I have read the book and it is very close to my heart. I approached this new adaption with an open mind because of all the great things I had heard about it. I was sorrowfully disappointed.
I think the way they did flashbacks to convey the past and then jumped forward to the present (over and over) was very distracting and confusing.
The casting was poorly done in my opinion. The actor for Laurie was kind of pathetic, the actress for young Amy looked too old, and (the worst casting choice) Laura Dern did not embody marmee (Mrs. March) at all. They did a terrible job of portraying Beth and as a result, I was not at all sad when she died (whereas I cried in the book).
Not only that, but the movie missed the point of the book, skimmed over things at a superficial level while missing the deep messages, and was too feminist.
I have seen four different versions of Little Women and the best thus far has been the one with Winona Ryder.
Forgive me if I have been to blunt or straightforward. This book means a lot to mean so I felt the need to explain my grievances with the movie.