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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 17, 2017 5:29:09 GMT
Discussion, reviews, news, pics, etc.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 7, 2017 22:34:57 GMT
This Janet Maslin NYtimes review is mostly glowing! Excerpts: - Ladies, get out your hand-hemmed handkerchiefs for the loveliest "Little Women" ever on screen.
- Gillian Armstrong's enchantingly pretty film is so potent that it prompts a rush of recognition from the opening frame. There in Concord, Mass., are the March girls and their noble Marmee, gathered around the hearth for a heart-rendingly quaint Christmas Eve. Stirring up a flurry of familial warmth, Ms. Armstrong instantly demonstrates that she has caught the essence of this book's sweetness and cast her film uncannily well, finding sparkling young actresses who are exactly right for their famous roles. The effect is magical. And for all its unimaginable innocence, the story has a touching naturalness this time.
- There are also men in "Little Women." As they were on the page, they're a bit secondary. Ms. Armstrong deals with that difficulty by casting attractive actors to breathe life into shapeless roles. So the handsome Christian Bale makes a dreamboat out of Laurie, the boy next door to the March family. (If viewers have trouble understanding why Jo wouldn't marry him, Miss Alcott's readers had the same problem.) Gabriel Byrne does his best with the thankless, tedious part of Professor Bhaer, the shy older man who courts Jo and is one of the book's nonautobiographical figures.
- The film's buoyant good looks stop just this side of trouble. One more violet painted on a teacup would have been too much.
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Post by RhodoraO on Oct 4, 2018 4:31:34 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Dec 9, 2018 14:37:48 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Jul 18, 2019 8:18:28 GMT
Robin Swicord, the screenwriter of this film and now a producer on the upcoming Greta Gerwig's version in an interview: www.google.com/amp/s/www.refinery29.com/amp/en-ca/2019/05/231868/little-women-movie-greta-gerwig-remake-vs-1994-filmQ: You said that Jo’s decision not to marry Laurie resonated with you. I remember being really upset by that decision when I was little, and now I get it. When Jo says, “I can’t just go be a wife,” I felt that. What are your personal feelings on Jo and Laurie? "Had they ended up together, there would've been something that felt incestuous, because they had literally grown up together. He had been a brother in that family — a motherless, fatherless boy who had tucked himself into the March family. Temperamentally, they were not that suited for each other. He was a little bit more of a Persian cat than she was. She was like the tomcat that's out there in the world: “I want to go to New York, and I want to see the grit, and I want to write about death.” And he's over here like, "I don't know if I want to work today, I think I'll play the piano." I mean, I adore him, and particularly the casting that was in our movie. You just kind of really want to see those two people making out. [ha ha]"
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Post by RhodoraO on Jul 18, 2019 8:31:20 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Aug 15, 2019 1:10:31 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Aug 15, 2019 1:11:27 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Sept 13, 2019 23:53:24 GMT
Oral history of the production: www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/movies/little-women.html#click=https://t.co/6Y9Jmf5AB8Bits re Bale are quoted: "RYDER I think this is a huge testament to Christian’s performance and how he captured something that was really complicated. He and I were very, very close. We had kind of that Jo and Laurie dynamic, but without romance or unspoken feelings. ARMSTRONG Because Winona and Christian were friends, Jo and Laurie’s kiss was powerful but awkward at the same time. I knew that the sun caught the saliva, and I thought that was great; you never see that sort of thing in movies. DI NOVI If fans are not a little bit torn about it, then we’ve cast Laurie wrong because it should be a tough thing for her to say no." - "ALVARADO Christian taught me the dances from “Newsies.” We would do it in our period costumes, and he would flip me in the air. Another time, we got the giggles when someone had to say the line, “Dr. Bangs is here.” He felt like a little brother."
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 2, 2020 7:11:46 GMT
Not exactly about the 1994 version, though!
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 6, 2021 7:45:35 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Apr 9, 2021 2:59:14 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on May 23, 2021 3:26:15 GMT
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