i don’t believe jo was ever in love with laurie. she wanted so badly to be loved that she regretted turning him down and was willing to settle. she was definitely right when she said they would be miserable because the things they wanted in life were completely different.
It seemed to me that she did love him but the idea about marriage and what happens to women (giving up all personal ambition) in their time was so sad and gloomy for her that she was actively against feeling those things for him. Same way she was trying to steer Meg from love and marriage. His absence and seeing Meg and Brooke later on fighting for each other and still finding happiness in each other seemed to add to her changing view of marriage and a wife. I think if they married and he didn't stand in the way of her dream to being a writer, it could've been successful. I also think that she saw him as a best friend but people feel that way about their partners a lot of the times. I think in the end, when they're grown up, she wasn't right for him. Amy was. But he could've been right for her.
Jo represents the author and it's believed the author was actually gay in real life which makes sense as to why she wouldn't want to marry Lauri or at all.
jo marries frederick in the book and in the 90's movie. he's an older guy who is really good for her, but they changed that story in this version.. because they believed that the author had those original intentions. but like Jo, she was forced to write an ending with marriage. so they mirror that in this movie to honor the author.
Yeah, well they were wrong. LMA wrote the professor as Jo’s equal. He loved Jo for the feminist she was … and if LMA didn’t want that, she would not have written Little Men!
@@rachel-in-the-208 She did want Jo to remain single. Book readers wrote letters wanting Jo to marry Laurie. LMA said she wouldn't marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone and created Professor Bhaer for her. The character of Nan in Jo's Boys (third--or fourth, technically, as Little Women was originally two books--hence the ability for girls to weigh in on Jo and Laurie) rejects the suitor who crushes on her from childhood and is a happily single doctor.
Alcott based Bhaer on a man who she loved and lost in her real life. Whether she originally wanted Jo to end up single or not, she definitely in the end wanted her to be with Bhaer, giving Jo the wish fulfillment that she herself would never get because her beloved died. Contrary to popular belief, she did NOT create Bhaer just to spite readers.
So Laurie is unhappy in his home life and that’s why he’s so in love with the March Sisters as a unit. His parents are dead and while his grandfather is a good person, they weren’t close for the longest of time, because he had disapproved of his Italian mother. He wants that warm family. Jo is his best friend and as such, he transferred feelings of love onto her at a young age. Now, he’s realized romantically, he’s fallen in love with Amy. But honestly, I don’t think he could fall in love with anyone but a March sister.
That's the impression I got, too. He really only 'saw' the March sisters, it was only a matter of who he connected with, but he mistakenly believed it was Jo because she is the 'bridge' that brought him into that family. Man was seriously lost in Europe without the girls' presence and influence.
Boy and girls can be childhood friends without it being romantic. Laurie treats the girls the way he does because he knows them. And the girls know him too. He loves all of them, but not all of them romantically. He likes the idea of him and Jo, and he loves Jo, but he doesn't *love* Jo. Not truly fully romantically. Amy is who he catches true feelings for.
I think he loved Jo romantically but it changed later. This is what he says in the book, I think, basically, in the "love is altered" scene. I don't remember how they do it in this adaptation, though.
i think the thing about this version is that it goes back and forth so much between the past & present, that it makes it seem like laurie goes back and forth a lot between amy and jo (so he seems like he's playing them both). but the actual chronological timeline in the film is basically him falling in love with jo (while amy's a few years younger so he doesnt see her that way), then jo turns him down so he's heartbroken in paris, and that's when he starts to get over it and fall for amy (quite a few years later & he sees her in a new way now she's grown up) and realise that jo was right. (although in the 1994 version it more seemed like laurie and amy came out of nowhere, so i do actually prefer this version its just kind of confusing when you first see it and the timeline jumps forwards & backwards so much)
Yeah I only completely understood both of Laurie’s relationship storylines after watching the movie a few times over. For me it didn’t come across that well in the first watch
I know some people like the guy Jo ends up with but to me it was very obviously the ending she was forced to add by the publisher and real Jo ends up alone.
I read somewhere years ago that since she was forced to add Frederick, at least she created someone that could meet her expectations, so he is an older and not goodlooking teacher who defies her intellectually and I think that is so dope of Alcott to do.
It never seemed to me that Frederich was written as an afterthought. He came to visit Jo and gradually makes friends with the whole family, who like him very much. The readers are given a hint as to why he is visiting Jo, and it's no surprise.
I'm so glad you all enjoyed and appreciated this so much, being 3 male reactors and this being "Little Women". You're all thoughtful and insightful and funny and bring a unique perspective!
Laurie genuinely cares about all the sisters and he's known them so long that he's very honest about his thoughts and comfortable with them. But his real love was Jo and Jo turned him down. Years later seeing Amy all grown up, he is now attracted to her. He really ever like only 2 of the sisters. Jo first and later Amy. But he happens to be very charming which looks like he's flirting with all of them but really he's just a friend to the family and cares about the sisters.
I don't think Laurie would get with Jo if he saw the letter, because of how he says to Jo that he realised the way he loves Amy is different but I get why you'd think that
Laurie loved the Marsh because he doesn’t get that sorry of warmth and liveliness from his life. He needed them. It’s beautiful, Joe needed him but for different reasons. She needed to know someone could love her, even if she didn’t love him back.
In the book and previous movies, Amy could be seen as the villian, the spoiled little sister who burned Jo's book, got the trip to Europe that was promised to Jo, and married Laurie. This is the first movie to make Amy likeable. Maybe you shoukd watch the episode of Friends where Joey reads Little Women.
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I empathize with Jo, in real life and in little women. I also gave up someone who truly, unconditionally loved me for similar reasons as she expresses in this film. However over a decade later, I deeply regret my decision. Maybe unlike Jo, I believe I was wrong & that I chose wrong.
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I think it's interesting how 'present' is blue tinted and 'past' is yellow tinted, except at the end with the school is also yellow tinted, and Fredrich is in that future... it makes me think that the yellow-tinted scenes are what she wrote about and in reality, she didn't chase Fredrich, only wrote him into the end so it could be published.
Jane had the same problem as Jo, to publish her books she had to marry the female lead, so Jo doesn't actually marry anyone this is just Jane doing what "Jo did" which is writing an ending to please the publisher.
It’s such a refreshing joy to watch you guys. It shouldn’t be rare for young men to be so considerate and respectful and supportive of women and media that some people would consider merely feminine. I’m not expressing myself very well. I don’t mean to imply that most men are bad. I just want you to know that I really appreciate you three and I love watching your reactions.
Awesome video!! Love the story Little Women. Jo is my favorite character from the book\movie. I will have to watch more of your reaction videos for other movies!!🙂👍🔥
I haven't see the '49 movie yet but I love both this one and '94 for completely different reasons! I love this one as a movie or stand alone, it is just an impeccable piece of film making. I love '94 because it is so warm and goes perfectly with the book. It is just so comforting.
I am so glad I found another Little Women reaction, cause it's very rare to find one. I just.... Why were 2 of the best speeches in this movie cut out 😭😭😭😭
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Zach you did not just stick up for Amy for burning Jo’s work? Amy was such a whiney little brat and jealous of Jo when she was younger, her burning her work was cruel, she could have burned a favorite pair of socks rather than her work even though during war times I’m sure clothing was tough to come by. But I’m sure she could of paid her back in a different way
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Aunt March is a widow in the book, not a spinster. She was married to Uncle March. Not sure why this was changed. Aunt March was loosely based on LMA's mother's relative, Aunt Hancock.
Please react to the 1994 version! I would love to hear your comparisons! The 1994 version never fails to make me cry I grew up watching it every Christmas it is so good and amazing cast.
I think Laurie would have went back to Jo for sure! But it’s clear that Amy loves him more and would be a better wife for him! The proper decision to make! Laurie and Jo would fight often and not get along! Love isn’t everything!
It’s pronounced Sear-sha Ronan. This film has the best Amy/Laurie interpretation, but the 90s version did the Beth storyline so much better. Claire Danes leaves me wrecked every time. She’s just so damn endearing. I think both Jos and Megs are equally as good.
I think Laurie is more protective brotherly to Meg, so he doesn't like the rich girls turning her head. Though, really, there is definitely an alternate universe for each of the March sisters to marry that Laurence boy.
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And Jo and L. Were never meant to fall for each other because they were the same temperaments , while Amy doesn’t put up with L’a laziness Also there is a lot nods to the author who wrote little women, her queerness , being able to write with two hands and etc It’s a great novel happy it’s the first modern feminist book Also in the book they more an emphasis on why the March family had to move so much - because the father use to teach slave children how to read they would be exiled or forced to move to another place , that’s why they always help the German immigrants, the father who lost all his sons and the European boy next door .
I love all Little Women's adaptations, but I recommend 1994's movie in my opinion is a better adaptation of the novel, this last one is great to understand Louisa May Alcott and her intentions and the back and forward storytelling is interesting but It doesn't go into the novel at all. Also the BBC adaptation in 2017 is great✌🏾
I actually enjoyed the flashbacks and the present day mix. It was different. Otherwise she would have just made the same movie we have been watching since years ago.
I’m not a fan of this version except for a few speeches here and there and the most atrocious part of it is trying to pass off Florence Pugh as a 12yr old 😂. The 95 version is superior except I agree with Jo not getting married. But I really agree with Rob’s perspective on most things and Bryce brings some interesting points. Keep up the good work!
Amy’s the youngest, she can’t go everywhere her oldest sisters go to and she was horrible burning the manuscript! She was so wrong here… That doesn’t make her a horrible person tho, she was a child
I have to say, the 90s Little Women was SO much better than this remake. I'd love for you guys to watch that too, because you'll get a better sense of the story, including the sense of the norms of the time, from it. This movie really took all the themes from Little Women, like the family's transcendence mission, and just yeeted it from the story.
Laurie to me came across desperate and pathetic but I’m glad he went for who truly loved him in the end bc him and Jo had more of a bestie/sibling type relationship but yea he was icky in some parts, he’s just a lonely kid who came across this lovely family of little women and Amy just didn’t love Frank so they married who the right one imo
I don't love the whole her family deciding her feelings for her and the stereotypical run to the airport (so to speak), and it does seem like that happens in Jo's book, so does Jo herself not marry?
I think when Laurie meets Amy in Paris, he's shaken a bit by how much she's grown up and by comparison how much he hasn't. He's always been a bit of a flirt and very swayed by his emotions. So when he told her not to marry Fred it was half his indulgent side stroking his own ego and half genuinely knowing that she wouldn't be happy with Fred if she didn't really love him. So he really took her rant to heart and I think after that he truly did love her. A big part of the book is all the characters striving to better themselves and overcome their vices, so each of the marriages reflect that. Meg marries a poor man which is a challenge to her vanity. Jo marries instead of pursuing the fame she wanted from a writing career. Amy is determined so gives Laurie purpose and direction, and Laurie provides passion and silliness. Jo and Laurie don't complement each other's vices in the same way, so they wouldn't have worked together. And Beth is already perfect so she dies lmao
Agree except for Jo "settling" with Frederick, she changes her dream of success for one more down to earth, opening a school and helping tons of young boys and girls as we see later in Little Men. I think it is a nice touch by the author.
Jo does continue with her writing career in the books and is plagued by autograph hunters in Jo's Boys, who often wrote for autographs more than once and sold them.
I honest relate to Jo a lot. I have always hated the idea of marriage and i was so sure that i won't ever get married. But as the time flew and all my friends and cousins got married and started their own family, it's started to get a little lonely. It got to the point where i somewhat considered marrying. I don't think Jo really loved Laurie. She was just feeling lonely.
Loved this reaction but was slightly disappointed that you didn’t show your reaction to Amy’s speech about what it means to be a woman in that time. It was the part that made me love her as a character.
I absolutely love this film, it’s so beautifully executed. Definitely one of the best period films. And Florence was incredible. I don’t think Laurie would have gotten together with Jo though. They grew up together being best friends and so he thought he was in love with her. But he said it himself, it’s different with Amy. His feelings for Amy probably made him realise that while he definitely loved Jo he wasn’t in love with her. It was probably just a weird boyish fixation. And even if he did, you can fall out of love with people. I mean it took Laurie a long time to figure out his feelings for Amy which I think just shows that his feelings really are genuine. Side note, it’s pronounced Saoirse like inertia. :D
Gah. You left out my favorite parts, the two monologues delivered by Amy and Jo. I love when Amy reads Laurie the riot act about his scorn for her pursuing a loveless marriage; I appreciate that she has the confidence to confront his poor attitude and make it quite clear exactly what the world is like for women compared with men. And then I feel for Jo so much when she's talking with her mother and crying about how tired she is of seeing women thought of and portrayed as good for nothing more than romance, because I feel that every day. I'm aspec and very happily single, and I get so tired of every piece of media available to me ensuring that women end up in some variety of relationship with no allowance for representation of people who very passionately do not want such a path in life.
I love that the flashback has that golden orange bright color to it. Not just to show that when you’re young everything is brighter, but also to show that was when Beth was alive. She definitely was a light in all of their lives. And then when she’s gone they are in the present and it’s more dull and blue in color. Because their light is gone. 😢but at the very end when they’re all together at this new school it’s bright golden orange again which is moving on after Beth and welcoming a more brighter future
one thing i will never get over is how they never told amy that beth got worse and she never got to say goodbye, and later on jo is mad about it even though it was not amy’s fault.
If you notice the last few scenes with the umbrella and the school are in the warmer filter, so they have that idyllic feel and I think it implies that Jo did not marry, that was just the ending she wrote for the publisher. The real ending of the film imo is her as an unmarried "spinster" writer. I actually liked Friedrich in the book though and it develops him a lot as her equal in mind and philosophy, though he's described as not attractive and much older (like 40ish) and he also deters her from making a living through writing... which is a whole complicated thing to really dissect because of the religious overtones of the book. Laurie is more brotherly and yearns to be part of the family, he really loves all of them. I love him and Jo as friends so I like the Amy romance. This film did a great job of prepping the audience for the romances, because other versions and the book really would make you think Jo and Laurie would definitely get together 😄
Well said! I would also like to add that I believe the play with the color grading is meant to symbolize how we see life as children compared with adulthood, and how the added responsabilities of life, tragedy, disappointments etc can sometimes make adult life seem cold, dreary, and devoid from that happiness and hope that seemed to color every moment of our childhood. And I feel like the beauty in the message of this film, lies in the ending: we see the color of childhood come back now that they're adults, perhaps telling us that even though adulthood is full of disappointments and hardships, if we find a way to persevere through our pain, we'll see that that warmth is not lost and it CAN come back to our lives, in a different way, if we keep the people that we love close to us and support one another through our respective hardships.
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i don’t believe jo was ever in love with laurie. she wanted so badly to be loved that she regretted turning him down and was willing to settle. she was definitely right when she said they would be miserable because the things they wanted in life were completely different.
Yes, 100% agree
I think she saw him as a best friend or brother since she didn't have any brothers and only sisters.
@@wowso4 i agree!!
It seemed to me that she did love him but the idea about marriage and what happens to women (giving up all personal ambition) in their time was so sad and gloomy for her that she was actively against feeling those things for him. Same way she was trying to steer Meg from love and marriage. His absence and seeing Meg and Brooke later on fighting for each other and still finding happiness in each other seemed to add to her changing view of marriage and a wife. I think if they married and he didn't stand in the way of her dream to being a writer, it could've been successful. I also think that she saw him as a best friend but people feel that way about their partners a lot of the times. I think in the end, when they're grown up, she wasn't right for him. Amy was. But he could've been right for her.
Jo represents the author and it's believed the author was actually gay in real life which makes sense as to why she wouldn't want to marry Lauri or at all.
jo marries frederick in the book and in the 90's movie. he's an older guy who is really good for her, but they changed that story in this version.. because they believed that the author had those original intentions. but like Jo, she was forced to write an ending with marriage. so they mirror that in this movie to honor the author.
Yeah, well they were wrong. LMA wrote the professor as Jo’s equal. He loved Jo for the feminist she was … and if LMA didn’t want that, she would not have written Little Men!
@@rachel-in-the-208 She did want Jo to remain single. Book readers wrote letters wanting Jo to marry Laurie. LMA said she wouldn't marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone and created Professor Bhaer for her. The character of Nan in Jo's Boys (third--or fourth, technically, as Little Women was originally two books--hence the ability for girls to weigh in on Jo and Laurie) rejects the suitor who crushes on her from childhood and is a happily single doctor.
But Alcott really thought little of the March family chronicles and preferred her thrillers, which I recommend reading also.
Alcott based Bhaer on a man who she loved and lost in her real life. Whether she originally wanted Jo to end up single or not, she definitely in the end wanted her to be with Bhaer, giving Jo the wish fulfillment that she herself would never get because her beloved died. Contrary to popular belief, she did NOT create Bhaer just to spite readers.
The fact that they cut out Amy’s speech is a crime
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True!!!!!!
Came here just to make sure someone pointed this out.
no LITERALLY I got so mad like shhhh and LISTEN TO THE MONOLOGUE.
I WAS SO LOOKING FORWARD TO IT
So Laurie is unhappy in his home life and that’s why he’s so in love with the March Sisters as a unit. His parents are dead and while his grandfather is a good person, they weren’t close for the longest of time, because he had disapproved of his Italian mother. He wants that warm family. Jo is his best friend and as such, he transferred feelings of love onto her at a young age. Now, he’s realized romantically, he’s fallen in love with Amy. But honestly, I don’t think he could fall in love with anyone but a March sister.
Yeap, that was his standard lol
Yup thinking bout that one like in the trilogy where they said something like if Beth hadnt died he probably wouldve married her-
That's the impression I got, too. He really only 'saw' the March sisters, it was only a matter of who he connected with, but he mistakenly believed it was Jo because she is the 'bridge' that brought him into that family. Man was seriously lost in Europe without the girls' presence
and influence.
Boy and girls can be childhood friends without it being romantic. Laurie treats the girls the way he does because he knows them. And the girls know him too.
He loves all of them, but not all of them romantically. He likes the idea of him and Jo, and he loves Jo, but he doesn't *love* Jo. Not truly fully romantically. Amy is who he catches true feelings for.
I think he loved Jo romantically but it changed later. This is what he says in the book, I think, basically, in the "love is altered" scene. I don't remember how they do it in this adaptation, though.
You definitely don’t understand how boys and men think or feel.
i think the thing about this version is that it goes back and forth so much between the past & present, that it makes it seem like laurie goes back and forth a lot between amy and jo (so he seems like he's playing them both). but the actual chronological timeline in the film is basically him falling in love with jo (while amy's a few years younger so he doesnt see her that way), then jo turns him down so he's heartbroken in paris, and that's when he starts to get over it and fall for amy (quite a few years later & he sees her in a new way now she's grown up) and realise that jo was right. (although in the 1994 version it more seemed like laurie and amy came out of nowhere, so i do actually prefer this version its just kind of confusing when you first see it and the timeline jumps forwards & backwards so much)
To be fair the boom goes back and forward in time too
@@laurajaynenolan2149 The boom?
@@HuntingViolets ah! The book* damn it haha
This version was horrid for those very reasons
Yeah I only completely understood both of Laurie’s relationship storylines after watching the movie a few times over. For me it didn’t come across that well in the first watch
It hurts the way almost no one understands Jo. She’s literally like the MAIN MAIN CHARACTER. 😭
Of course Jo is the main character. The author of the little women books was Louisa May Alcott and like Jo, she was a writer.
I know some people like the guy Jo ends up with but to me it was very obviously the ending she was forced to add by the publisher and real Jo ends up alone.
I read somewhere years ago that since she was forced to add Frederick, at least she created someone that could meet her expectations, so he is an older and not goodlooking teacher who defies her intellectually and I think that is so dope of Alcott to do.
Yup!
It never seemed to me that Frederich was written as an afterthought. He came to visit Jo and gradually makes friends with the whole family, who like him very much. The readers are given a hint as to why he is visiting Jo, and it's no surprise.
Timothée Chalamet is just so charming and I love his chemistry with Saoirse Roman.
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I'm so glad you all enjoyed and appreciated this so much, being 3 male reactors and this being "Little Women". You're all thoughtful and insightful and funny and bring a unique perspective!
Laurie genuinely cares about all the sisters and he's known them so long that he's very honest about his thoughts and comfortable with them. But his real love was Jo and Jo turned him down. Years later seeing Amy all grown up, he is now attracted to her. He really ever like only 2 of the sisters. Jo first and later Amy. But he happens to be very charming which looks like he's flirting with all of them but really he's just a friend to the family and cares about the sisters.
Jo and Amy were both real loves.
I don't think Laurie would get with Jo if he saw the letter, because of how he says to Jo that he realised the way he loves Amy is different but I get why you'd think that
This is such a comfort movie for me. I think it's just so phenomenally done.
lol christopher columbus isn’t laurie’s grandfather, it’s just an expression like “oh my god” that jo says
Laurie loved the Marsh because he doesn’t get that sorry of warmth and liveliness from his life. He needed them. It’s beautiful, Joe needed him but for different reasons. She needed to know someone could love her, even if she didn’t love him back.
In the book and previous movies, Amy could be seen as the villian, the spoiled little sister who burned Jo's book, got the trip to Europe that was promised to Jo, and married Laurie. This is the first movie to make Amy likeable.
Maybe you shoukd watch the episode of Friends where Joey reads Little Women.
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I empathize with Jo, in real life and in little women. I also gave up someone who truly, unconditionally loved me for similar reasons as she expresses in this film. However over a decade later, I deeply regret my decision. Maybe unlike Jo, I believe I was wrong & that I chose wrong.
Amy’s technically not “out” in society yet. That’s why she can’t go anywhere. It’s a debutante thing.
I just appreciate y’all knowing the actress’s names I love it like yessss
Anyone with lots of sisters, knows this is so accurate. Also Tim and Saiorse have great chemistry.
Ugh I love Saoirse so much. She's resplendent in every film she's in.
Bryce's face 55:57 is priceless
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I think it's interesting how 'present' is blue tinted and 'past' is yellow tinted, except at the end with the school is also yellow tinted, and Fredrich is in that future... it makes me think that the yellow-tinted scenes are what she wrote about and in reality, she didn't chase Fredrich, only wrote him into the end so it could be published.
"...is that bob odenkirk???" literally me every time i watch this movie like it's just so unexpected xD
I love the really old version with June Allyson from 1949, but my teenage daughter enjoyed this.
Their family home in the movie is a close copy of Louisa May Alcott's family home.
Jane had the same problem as Jo, to publish her books she had to marry the female lead, so Jo doesn't actually marry anyone this is just Jane doing what "Jo did" which is writing an ending to please the publisher.
You can see May Alcott's artwork online. She was the inspiration for Amy.
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It’s such a refreshing joy to watch you guys. It shouldn’t be rare for young men to be so considerate and respectful and supportive of women and media that some people would consider merely feminine. I’m not expressing myself very well. I don’t mean to imply that most men are bad. I just want you to know that I really appreciate you three and I love watching your reactions.
Jo doesn't want her sisters to grow up and go separate ways and the family breaking up.
Awesome video!! Love the story Little Women. Jo is my favorite character from the book\movie. I will have to watch more of your reaction videos for other movies!!🙂👍🔥
This is one of my favorite movies!!!!! Thank you for doing this one it’s AMAZING!!! I so happy y’all enjoyed it!! :))
I haven't seen this one but I love the '49 and '94 movies so I'm going to watch *your reaction first to see if this one is also my cup of tea.💛
I haven't see the '49 movie yet but I love both this one and '94 for completely different reasons!
I love this one as a movie or stand alone, it is just an impeccable piece of film making.
I love '94 because it is so warm and goes perfectly with the book. It is just so comforting.
I love the 90’s version. Winona Ryder and Christian Bale are Jo and Laurie, no one can replace them.
I am still obsessed with this book and also remember being shocked by the cost of women's clothing in those times.
I am so glad I found another Little Women reaction, cause it's very rare to find one. I just.... Why were 2 of the best speeches in this movie cut out 😭😭😭😭
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the way I choked on my own air that was ridiculously funny
you guys should watch the 2005 pride and prejudice now
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Zach you did not just stick up for Amy for burning Jo’s work? Amy was such a whiney little brat and jealous of Jo when she was younger, her burning her work was cruel, she could have burned a favorite pair of socks rather than her work even though during war times I’m sure clothing was tough to come by. But I’m sure she could of paid her back in a different way
There’s currently a modern loose kdrama adaptation of little women on Netflix with the same name!! Only 6 episodes are out so far but it’s INCREDIBLE!!!! worth a watch for sure
Aunt March is a widow in the book, not a spinster. She was married to Uncle March. Not sure why this was changed. Aunt March was loosely based on LMA's mother's relative, Aunt Hancock.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeah! I can't believe you chose this movie. It's soooo good I can't even put into words
funny how you say that it could be more emotional bc i cried when beth died AND when they mentioned her when fredrich asked about the piano😭🥲
Scarlet fever is strep w/ a rash
45:08 this part is hilarious 😂
bro if amy was my sister i would help her out of the lake but that doesnt change what she did. she would still be shunned lol
Lauries grandfather really had it rough 🥺
Please react to the 1994 version! I would love to hear your comparisons! The 1994 version never fails to make me cry I grew up watching it every Christmas it is so good and amazing cast.
I feel like the non-linear storytelling in this version takes away a lot of the surprise in things.
I think Laurie would have went back to Jo for sure! But it’s clear that Amy loves him more and would be a better wife for him! The proper decision to make! Laurie and Jo would fight often and not get along! Love isn’t everything!
It’s pronounced Sear-sha Ronan.
This film has the best Amy/Laurie interpretation, but the 90s version did the Beth storyline so much better. Claire Danes leaves me wrecked every time. She’s just so damn endearing. I think both Jos and Megs are equally as good.
I think Laurie is more protective brotherly to Meg, so he doesn't like the rich girls turning her head. Though, really, there is definitely an alternate universe for each of the March sisters to marry that Laurence boy.
@Bryce why you looking like you just got back from golf my homie lmao!
Could you do the older one too as a group?
A movie reactor who’s never heard of Meryl Streep 😂
Does this version has the blue orchid
Guys you should start reacting to House of the Dragon FAST, it will really help your channel grow bc it's what everyone is talking about right now, also I know bryce was a fan of Got too so it's a win-win situation!!
there's a korean drama that is inspired by this story and it's absolutely fantastic ( also called little women) . it's more of a thriller though ^^
The synopsis doesn't sound anything like the book. Is it really related besides using the name?
this movie makes me sob everytime
Christopher Columbus was slang back than haha
That’s why her sister told her not to say that as well as “Capitol !” Haha
And Jo and L. Were never meant to fall for each other because they were the same temperaments , while Amy doesn’t put up with L’a laziness
Also there is a lot nods to the author who wrote little women, her queerness , being able to write with two hands and etc
It’s a great novel happy it’s the first modern feminist book
Also in the book they more an emphasis on why the March family had to move so much - because the father use to teach slave children how to read they would be exiled or forced to move to another place , that’s why they always help the German immigrants, the father who lost all his sons and the European boy next door .
This movie was just fun in the theatre but I’m happy you get to watch it. I’m just waiting to see your reaction to the ‘Barbie’ Movie.
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But would Laurie gone back to Jo of he got the letter? I didn't read the books so I don't know.
I love all Little Women's adaptations, but I recommend 1994's movie in my opinion is a better adaptation of the novel, this last one is great to understand Louisa May Alcott and her intentions and the back and forward storytelling is interesting but It doesn't go into the novel at all. Also the BBC adaptation in 2017 is great✌🏾
I actually enjoyed the flashbacks and the present day mix. It was different. Otherwise she would have just made the same movie we have been watching since years ago.
I’m not a fan of this version except for a few speeches here and there and the most atrocious part of it is trying to pass off Florence Pugh as a 12yr old 😂. The 95 version is superior except I agree with Jo not getting married. But I really agree with Rob’s perspective on most things and Bryce brings some interesting points. Keep up the good work!
you should also watch shawshank redemption if you haven’t watched it yet
Amy’s the youngest, she can’t go everywhere her oldest sisters go to and she was horrible burning the manuscript! She was so wrong here…
That doesn’t make her a horrible person tho, she was a child
Team laurie and amy 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Can you react to Little Women the Korean drama on Netflix ?!
Please react to the kdrama twenty five twenty one after it’s okay not to be okay it is honestly the best kdrama ever!!!!
I have to say, the 90s Little Women was SO much better than this remake. I'd love for you guys to watch that too, because you'll get a better sense of the story, including the sense of the norms of the time, from it. This movie really took all the themes from Little Women, like the family's transcendence mission, and just yeeted it from the story.
I think you guys react to little women korean drama series on netflix
React pride and prejudice
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Pride and prejudice 2005 version please!
When will yall react to the next john wick ?
Laurie to me came across desperate and pathetic but I’m glad he went for who truly loved him in the end bc him and Jo had more of a bestie/sibling type relationship but yea he was icky in some parts, he’s just a lonely kid who came across this lovely family of little women and Amy just didn’t love Frank so they married who the right one imo
I don't love the whole her family deciding her feelings for her and the stereotypical run to the airport (so to speak), and it does seem like that happens in Jo's book, so does Jo herself not marry?
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I think when Laurie meets Amy in Paris, he's shaken a bit by how much she's grown up and by comparison how much he hasn't. He's always been a bit of a flirt and very swayed by his emotions. So when he told her not to marry Fred it was half his indulgent side stroking his own ego and half genuinely knowing that she wouldn't be happy with Fred if she didn't really love him. So he really took her rant to heart and I think after that he truly did love her.
A big part of the book is all the characters striving to better themselves and overcome their vices, so each of the marriages reflect that. Meg marries a poor man which is a challenge to her vanity. Jo marries instead of pursuing the fame she wanted from a writing career. Amy is determined so gives Laurie purpose and direction, and Laurie provides passion and silliness. Jo and Laurie don't complement each other's vices in the same way, so they wouldn't have worked together. And Beth is already perfect so she dies lmao
The perfect description of each character lol
not the beth one 😂😭💀
also in the movie it goes by quite fast but in the book it's more portrayed how laurie and amy build a relationship through letters
Agree except for Jo "settling" with Frederick, she changes her dream of success for one more down to earth, opening a school and helping tons of young boys and girls as we see later in Little Men. I think it is a nice touch by the author.
Jo does continue with her writing career in the books and is plagued by autograph hunters in Jo's Boys, who often wrote for autographs more than once and sold them.
I honest relate to Jo a lot. I have always hated the idea of marriage and i was so sure that i won't ever get married. But as the time flew and all my friends and cousins got married and started their own family, it's started to get a little lonely. It got to the point where i somewhat considered marrying. I don't think Jo really loved Laurie. She was just feeling lonely.
Loved this reaction but was slightly disappointed that you didn’t show your reaction to Amy’s speech about what it means to be a woman in that time. It was the part that made me love her as a character.
I absolutely love this film, it’s so beautifully executed. Definitely one of the best period films. And Florence was incredible.
I don’t think Laurie would have gotten together with Jo though. They grew up together being best friends and so he thought he was in love with her. But he said it himself, it’s different with Amy. His feelings for Amy probably made him realise that while he definitely loved Jo he wasn’t in love with her. It was probably just a weird boyish fixation. And even if he did, you can fall out of love with people. I mean it took Laurie a long time to figure out his feelings for Amy which I think just shows that his feelings really are genuine.
Side note, it’s pronounced Saoirse like inertia. :D
Gah. You left out my favorite parts, the two monologues delivered by Amy and Jo. I love when Amy reads Laurie the riot act about his scorn for her pursuing a loveless marriage; I appreciate that she has the confidence to confront his poor attitude and make it quite clear exactly what the world is like for women compared with men. And then I feel for Jo so much when she's talking with her mother and crying about how tired she is of seeing women thought of and portrayed as good for nothing more than romance, because I feel that every day. I'm aspec and very happily single, and I get so tired of every piece of media available to me ensuring that women end up in some variety of relationship with no allowance for representation of people who very passionately do not want such a path in life.
Completely agree, those are my two favourites speeches in the movie. I found this so annoying how they just talked Completely over Amy's speech.
@@ashleighh472 cause they are men :p (kidding).
I love that the flashback has that golden orange bright color to it. Not just to show that when you’re young everything is brighter, but also to show that was when Beth was alive. She definitely was a light in all of their lives. And then when she’s gone they are in the present and it’s more dull and blue in color. Because their light is gone. 😢but at the very end when they’re all together at this new school it’s bright golden orange again which is moving on after Beth and welcoming a more brighter future
one thing i will never get over is how they never told amy that beth got worse and she never got to say goodbye, and later on jo is mad about it even though it was not amy’s fault.
If you notice the last few scenes with the umbrella and the school are in the warmer filter, so they have that idyllic feel and I think it implies that Jo did not marry, that was just the ending she wrote for the publisher. The real ending of the film imo is her as an unmarried "spinster" writer.
I actually liked Friedrich in the book though and it develops him a lot as her equal in mind and philosophy, though he's described as not attractive and much older (like 40ish) and he also deters her from making a living through writing... which is a whole complicated thing to really dissect because of the religious overtones of the book. Laurie is more brotherly and yearns to be part of the family, he really loves all of them. I love him and Jo as friends so I like the Amy romance. This film did a great job of prepping the audience for the romances, because other versions and the book really would make you think Jo and Laurie would definitely get together 😄
Well said! I would also like to add that I believe the play with the color grading is meant to symbolize how we see life as children compared with adulthood, and how the added responsabilities of life, tragedy, disappointments etc can sometimes make adult life seem cold, dreary, and devoid from that happiness and hope that seemed to color every moment of our childhood. And I feel like the beauty in the message of this film, lies in the ending: we see the color of childhood come back now that they're adults, perhaps telling us that even though adulthood is full of disappointments and hardships, if we find a way to persevere through our pain, we'll see that that warmth is not lost and it CAN come back to our lives, in a different way, if we keep the people that we love close to us and support one another through our respective hardships.
I think the girls feel like home to Laurie. He feels comfort and warmth and joy just being in their presence so he loves them all in a way.
Amy: "I'm going to Europe!"
Me after watching Midsommar: "The Hell you are!"
Scarlet fever is still very much a thing, although rare. My brother had it as a child. It's kind of similar to strep throat but with added red rash, it's caused by bacteria. Nowadays it's easy to cure it thanks to antibiotics but back in the day not everyone had the immune system strong enough to beat it. In Beth's case she likely died from complications AFTER the scarlet fever. Even today if you don't treat infectious diseases (like flu etc.) properly you can have big problems with complications which a lot of times are heart diseases.
You must watch Emma with Anya Taylor Joy and also Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightly.
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Yes please both, but especially Pride & Prejudice with Kiera Knightley, it is a perfect film
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Wow Fleabag and Little Women in the same day ❤ Also fun fact, Jo is wearing Laurie's vest in the proposal scene, which makes it more sad!
Lmao the moment of realization on y’all’s faces when Laurie said “my wife” the way we’re all laughing through the awkwardness I can’ttt
The author of the book is an icon. She didn't marry. She was great. The book characters were changed because of editorial.
5:33 I literally said "uncultured" at the same time lmfao
Zuff: me and Rob have kissed this last new years
Rob: * absolutely no reaction *
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