It actually really bothers me lol, love all these actresses but this is such an American tale, I wish it was being told by Americans. Not to mention Emma Watsons very bad American accent which is pretty distracting lol
The way he kept thinking that Meg and Jo liked Laurie romantically when it was never the case (because only Amy was in love with him) was quite funny ngl lol
the story of little women is a semi autobiographical story by louisa may alcott, who was probably queer in one way or another, which i think makes jo's reaction to laurie's confession make even more sense 28:56 she herself never married louisa may alcott said in an interview once, that "I am more than half-persuaded that I am a man's soul put by some freak of nature into a woman's body.... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man."
@@MoviesinDepththey made Alcott Mary Jo off or they wouldn't print the book. She did argue for the right to own her book and for her wages. When your reading the book the professor comes out of nowhere and your left confused and mad over Laurie. They made the professor an inside joke if you read the book you laugh at under the umbrella bit. They established Amy and Laurie's relationship really well in this adaptation that you don't hate Amy and Laurie for getting married. Amy gets too much hate when she and Jo are two different sides of the same coin. Both want to be brilliant artists Jo a writer Amy a painter. Difference is Jo wants to be independent and not play by societal rules while Amy does she wants to marry rich. It makes sense he would love them both. It makes sense if Alcott was gay she would reject Laurie while we are all scratching our heads. This is her real life and back then she couldn't tell Lory hey I'm gay so it's just a "no i have tried and I cant".
To be fair the implication in the movie is that potentially she did NOT marry him but she changed the ending for her book because he insisted on it and she remained unmarried. It's hard to tell for sure but I think that was an implication on purpose! we can read it any which way. They put in a lot more for Amy in this movie than in the original, I'm surprised I didn't get to see you react to her great monologue. The ship fight with Jo/Laurie and Laurie/Amy has been going on for a LONG time lol. I don't think Jo loved him, when she said "I tried and I can't" I think that meant she tried to convince herself she could love him that way and simply couldn't make herself feel romantic about him. So he did settle but maybe with the person who was better suited for him in the end.
@@MoviesinDepth Laurie in the book finds himself thinking less of Jo and more of Amy. He even tries not to, since he's kind of stubborn and he thought he would never get over Jo. There's a part where he thinks about Mozart, who first loved one sister but later the other (whom he married), and that Mozart was a great man. (Laurie also played the piano.) I do think, if you wanted to, you (the general you, I mean) could certainly write a story where Laurie ends up with any of them. Even Beth, if written to live (of course, Alcott's sister Lizzie died) had music in common with him and at one point Jo thinks Beth is in love with Laurie (she is only thinking how healthy and vital he is, while she dwindles down, really).
@@MoviesinDepthplease, it predates Team Edward vs Team Jacob! In fact the Jo/Laurie/Amy ship wars were so intense people were writing the author back then because they were angry that Jo didn’t end up with Laurie. Shipping is universal and has always existed lol
One theory of this movie is the “past” is as Jo remembers it and is writing it. I believe this is why Greta had Florence play herself younger as that’s how Jo remembers her - always a giant baby
The 1994 version has in one line the perfect encapsulation of why Jo and Laurie would never work. When Laurie asks her to marry him, Jo’s response is, “We’d kill each other!” And yes, that is absolutely correct. They were perfect friends but would have made horrible lovers.
@@miaborges3674 young Amy, but yeah, she's there 😊 it has always been my favourite version of Little Women up until the moment I saw Greta's in the movie theatre. I still think it's the best introduction to the story for newbies
What this movie does better than other adaptations I’ve seen is show that Jo and Amy are two sides of the same coin; they are both incredibly passionate about their interests, Jo writing and Amy painting, both have ambition to be the best in their chosen field, and both are fiercely independent women. I don’t see Laurie as having settled. I think his love for Jo was pure and romantic in a childish and innocent way, his love for Amy is more mature. It also makes sense that it would be those two since the qualities he loved in Jo, he’d also find in Amy. And in the end, Amy is more suited to him so he’ll arguably live a happier life with her than he and Jo would’ve had together.
@ really?? This is the first iteration of Amy I’ve liked, and the first time I’ve understood why Laurie falls in love with her. Florence Pugh was amazing in the role and Greta took what I found to previously be a one dimensional character and gave her some depth.
@ you’re not supposed to like Amy at first and you’re not supposed to consider her as a potential partner for Laurie at first. It’s all wrong. Just because you like her as a character better doesn’t mean it’s done right. I suppose you like those awful Maleficent films too.
@ I’ve actually never seen them. I don’t like Amy when she’s younger in this version, she’s a brat and I still found myself wanting to scream when she burned Jo’s transcript, but I love the woman she becomes. In the previous versions I found I had no attachment to Amy because they changed the actress and then never really focused on Amy when she was older. It always felt jarring to me that she and Laurie ended up together. While I sometimes found it distracting to see Florence Pugh playing the younger Amy, I really appreciated the focus on older Amy and understanding who she is and why Laurie would’ve fallen in love with her.
The 90's version is linear (doesn't jump back and forth). Beth got scarlet fever early in the story, and dies 4 years later from heart damage caused by the scarlet fever
I can relate so much at Jo especially when she said she's so sick of how the world treating women like we need to get married, need a man to live but at the same time I feel lonely.
I grew up reading Alcott’s books, and Little Women is the best of the bunch, which is why it’s a classic. I’ve even read a collection of her gothic tales, the ones that we see Jo selling in New York, and they are definitely good examples of the type. They fill all of the genre’s tropes, doing like the publisher says here and providing what the audience of the time liked.
Jo did not give a cop out answer when Laurie proposed! She just didn’t love him. What else was there to say, but “No” and “Sorry?” Truly she did the best anyone could do… and then he threatened suicide when she rejected him 🙃 cut her out of his life completely and married her sister 1 year later.. Laurie is sus.
Louisa May Alcott’s publisher made her change the ending of the novel the same way Jo’s does. It’s why the proposal with Professor Bhaer seems so forced. Because Jo is most likely some type of queer, whether a lesbian, trans, asexual, aromantic, etc. She never loved Bhaer the same way she never loved Laurie. But as she says, she wants to be loved and so in the end she settles. Amy and Laurie are one of my favorite fictional couples of all time but I can understand and respect your feelings on them. One thing I’ll point out is that this adaptation chose to have Amy played by the same actress throughout which I think is brilliant but for those not familiar with the story it can be confusing because Amy is a child in the first part of the story. She’s the youngest and I can’t remember how young right now but I want to say 11 or 12. Laurie wants to be a part of the March family and their world more than anything. He loves each of them in a very specific way but it’s not until they meet again years later when Amy is older and more mature that he sees her for who she truly is and that their temperaments are such a good match. They fit together in a way Laurie and Jo never did.
I suggested "Middle Children" along with some other absolute banger nicknames but he didn't seem to like that either. what a pleb. we're clearly ✨inspired creatives✨out here 🤣
I love this movie and I remember it being the last movie I saw in theaters before quarantine with my best friend and his now wife (they started dating like a couple days after we went to see it). A couple months ago, at their wedding, I bought some yarn at a local yarn store and knit Beth's shawl (the actual pattern maker put it online). It's going to be a Christmas gift. While I am a bit more partial to the 1994 version, this one will always be special to me.
Joe loved the idea of love and being with Timothy cos he was the safest option like he knew her, she knew him. But she wasn’t in love with him. She would have just settled for him which would not have been the best choice
I loooooove this movie! It's absolutely the best version. It is the first one that actually does Amy justice. And I totally get why you were thinking he was settling, but in the book, you get to read the thoughts of the character and how laurie grows to really love amy as adults. If you get the time, the book is so good! Anyways, your reaction was fabulous and so much fun to watch
Little women takes place in concord MA- some of the story also takes place in new York and Europe the story follows the 4 march sisters throughout different decades of their lives starting during the civil war ( the version you are watching jumps back and forth and the events shown are not in chronological order) out of the 3 adaptations I have seen- 2 movies and one tv mini series my favorite adaptation is the 1994 film adaptation with Winona Ryder as jo. I love Little women and I's great to watch at any time of year- winter curled up with hot chocolate is my personal favorite.
The Absolute BEST rendention of all time was the one with Elizabeth Taylor, June Allyson, Janet Leigh ( AS IN Psycho and also the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis) and Margaret o'Brien! That is the one that will make you cry!
Louisa May Alcott was a lesbian and Jo is meant to be lesbian coded, but of course a book in the 1800s couldn’t have said that. She loves Laurie as a friend and a brother but she just cannot see him romantically. The book was published in two parts, the younger part and the older part. After the first book came out, people were pissed Jo rejected Laurie. They were begging LMA to put them together in the second book. LMA didn’t want Jo to marry at all but was forced to by the publishers (which this movie cheekily nodded to with Jo being forced to sell her heroine into marriage). LMA basically said, okay f you all, I refuse to put Jo and Laurie together because I’ve already said Jo doesn’t love Laurie, so f you Laurie will marry her sister and Jo will marry this random old guy instead. The way the relationship with Bhaer is described in the book, Jo isn’t even attracted to him they just have an intellectual connection. LMA really made it as clear as she was allowed to that Jo was not interested in men. This adaptation did a great job of showing the book ending, while also showing the ending LMA wanted to write, of Jo being unmarried and running her school. The audience gets to decide which is the real ending.
It is known that Jo and the March family are based on the author Louisa May Alcott and her family. And it’s also theorized that Alcott was a lesbian, and given Jo’s lack of interest in guys a popular head cannon is that she is also a lesbian or aroace. Especially since in the original draft of Little Women, Jo didn’t end up with anyone but the publisher forced Alcott to change it. Amy, at the beginning of the past is supposed to be 9 years old, I assume they didn’t have a different actor for young Amy as it would make the romance with Laurie much creepier. Also to be fair to Aunt Marge, at least from what I remember, she never actually offered Jo the trip and Jo never really gives her a reason to want to take her to Europe. Jo just assumed that reading to her would mean Marge would invite her Europe, when they don’t get along at all.
I think the reason it was ok for Jo to cuddle up to Beth is that, scarlet fever rarely kills you up front, it causes bad damage to your heart. So beth actually died of like heart failure. But yea if she was actively ill that is a little weird to be all up in someones face like that.
So we’re not supposed to buy Jo marrying Friedrich, that’s why Gerwig has two ending scenes for her. We see Jo talking to her publisher about the novel based on her life, telling him that the main character ends up on her own at the end, but her publisher insists that she needs to get married if it’s going to sell, so she goes alright deal and writes the ending where she ends up married, and that’s the scene where she’s living with Friedrich in Aunt Marge’s mansion and running it as a school - that’s the actual ending to the novel, Little Women, but then we see another scene where Jo is having her novel printed, which is the real ending of Jo’s story and the one that parallels both Alcott’s real life as a successful unmarried author and the original ending she planned for Little Women, but was unable to have as her publisher said it needed to fulfill 19th century expectations so it would sell and make money, so she wrote Jo to be married to Friedrich (who was much older and not attractive like in the film). Some might say Laurie settled for Amy, which is kind of what I originally thought, but I also thought that Laurie loved Jo for her independence, but her independence is what made her an unrealistic partner for him. He was too traditional,wanted a traditional wealthy lifestyle, and he would’ve never been happy had he married Jo because she wouldn’t have been able to fit into his life as a dutiful wife due to pursuit of a writing career, and she would’ve never been happy with him because he would’ve tried to fit her into a box and stifle her creativity to fit her into the role of a wealthy wife. Furthermore, Laurie’s advances towards Jo always made her uncomfortable, whereas his advances towards Amy were more welcomed - he recognized the value in pursuing someone who actually likes him. Amy was also independent and creative, and she did reject him and Frank as well, demonstrating her independence, but does loves Laurie, she also values her family and knows she needs to financially provide for them as her other sisters won’t, she doesn’t think she will become a successful artist, so she chooses to marry him for both love and practicality. Laurie knows Jo will never be a dutiful wife, he loves Amy as well, he values her independence and creativity, and her desire to be a wife fits into his lifestyle, so he chooses to marry her. Overall, Amy and Laurie are a more compatible couple even if their love doesn’t seem as passionate as his love for Jo, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less real.
I love the story of little women! This movie is so extremely good! They’ve made it into a play and my friend played Jo in it and was spectacular! I want to play Beth at some point. Honestly I wish Jo and Laurie should’ve ended up together. It was actually found an alternate ending that was the original ending where Jo March and Laurie ended up together. But she went with the ending we all know today where Amy and Laurie ended up together. I feel so bad for Beth she had to go through having Scarlett fever. I wish she survived, I cried so much during her death scene. I love the aesthetic of this movie (in the past part of the movie)! Love time period movies. Love the videos! You do an amazing job!
Louisa May Alcott was adamant that Laurie and Jo not end up together (which broke my fourth-grade heart), so I think what you found cannot have been something she wrote. What Americans know as _Little Women_ was originally two volumes. The first half was published as _Little Women._ The second half starts with Meg's wedding. In the U.S., it these two volumes are now published together as _Little Women,_ but in England, the second half is in a separate volume called _Good Wives._ Anyway, between the two volumes (as they were even in the States then) being published, a lot of girls wrote wanting Laurie and Jo together, and Alcott refused. I've often thought about starting with a new second volume, though. But I did like the Jo/Professor and Laurie/Amy stories too.
@@HuntingViolets I never realized it was originally 2 volumes with different names. I just realized that I also forgot to mention that the person who found the original ending I was talking about was found at the author’s house. I saw a video where it was talked about and it showed that the papers were on display for a bit. I don’t remember every detail of that story since I learnt about it a year or 2 ago. I do remember that it was a group who went to go visit the house where little women was written and the works there showed them the papers since it was out for display at that time they went. Obviously everything on the internet isn’t always true but it did show some of the papers on display etc. I then looked it up to see if it was true & basically saw that it was but she just decided to not go with that version and went with what we all know today.
@@Bri_Games I found out about the difference in volumes online. Some English people I interacted with had only read the first volume (our first half of the book), which ends before Meg's wedding, Laurie's proposal, Beth's death, and Jo's even meeting Professor Bhaer.
I need to watch this movie the reason for Amy to be in the same class as the younger kids is because in the one room schoolhouse they'd have the older kids help teach the younger kids
“I need them to give me some sort of clue that we’re changing between past and present” *proceeds to talk about the significant colour pallet changes between the past and present* For real though at the beginning of the movie it is a little difficult to figure out 😭
My recommendation would be for you to watch the version with Wynona Ryder, I think you will understand the story quite better. I love Little Women with all my heart, is one of my favorite books, but I don't like the jumps in time that this version makes, the other is chronologically done and it is quite easier to follow. Love you and your videos
While I watched this movie I thought this was one of the girls memory who survived long enough to write a book about her life. It just felt that way for me. Idk did anyone else just get the feeling?
@@MoviesinDepth With Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Kirsten Dunst, and Christian Bale, it's my favorite version hands down. I would put it closer to Pride and Prejudice even if only for movie era. Hope you add it to your list!
also I love his response to Jo "I've always loved you, but the love i feel for Amy is different" it's basicall first love vs today's partner kinda thing
😎 If it's of interest, over the last century, there have been nearly as many remakes of "Little Women" as there are of "A Christmas Carol." The first two are lost silents from 1917 and 1918. The first one with sound came out in 1933 and also features an all-star cast, headed by Katherine Hepburn as Jo. The next one, from 1949 featured an even more star-studded cast full of names that are still recognizable today (Elizabeth Taylor, June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Janet Lee, Mary Astor etc). Then, from the 1950s through the 1980s, there were numerous made-for-television versions. Finally, there was the 1994 theatrical release, featuring a whole bunch of actors who are still major celebrities today (Winona Rider, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon etc). 😉👍
The original film is okay in my opinion especially as it has a young Christian Bale however I love this one more. I did get spoiled by Beth's death thanks to FRIENDS as there's an episode where Joey is reading Little Women and Rachel spoils it.
I do like some nonlinear movies, but the way they do this bugs me. You are constantly shown how things turn out before fully seeing the setup, and it kind of spoils all the stories. Obviously, this isn't most people's opinion, but this is not an adaptation I like that much.
Yeah it really throws me off and confuses me even though I’ve read the book several times. I wish there was an edited version of it that put the scenes in chronological order because I really like the cast and production in general
@@moramorandobianchi7093 I get they wanted to do something different because all the previous versions were linear, but linear is what works for this story.
This was a good movie but not my favorite adaptation. I much prefer the 1994 film starring Christian Bale, Winona Ryder, and Susan Sarandon. Probably because it’s what I grew up watching, but I think Greta Gerwig made a beautiful film and had a great cast.
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You’re MY NAMELESS LITTLE MONSTER
I ship
what a beautiful festive bromance
The fact that the 4 American sisters are all played by non-American actresses is hilarious
Prime reason I thought this movie was BRITISH FOR 30 MINUTES
@@MoviesinDepth The 2017 BBC adaptation, meanwhile, had three out of the four sisters played by American actresses. Go figure.
Happens all the time when it’s the other way round. Americans playing Brit’s, Aussies, Irish, etc…
It actually really bothers me lol, love all these actresses but this is such an American tale, I wish it was being told by Americans. Not to mention Emma Watsons very bad American accent which is pretty distracting lol
@ but that’s what happens all the time. Americans are always playing all kinds of nationalities. Now you know how we feel.
The way he kept thinking that Meg and Jo liked Laurie romantically when it was never the case (because only Amy was in love with him) was quite funny ngl lol
IM TEAM EVERYONE😂♥️
@@MoviesinDepth That's why we have fanfiction. I love a good rare pair.
the story of little women is a semi autobiographical story by louisa may alcott, who was probably queer in one way or another, which i think makes jo's reaction to laurie's confession make even more sense
28:56 she herself never married
louisa may alcott said in an interview once, that "I am more than half-persuaded that I am a man's soul put by some freak of nature into a woman's body.... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man."
That quote is SO GOOD
@@MoviesinDepththey made Alcott Mary Jo off or they wouldn't print the book. She did argue for the right to own her book and for her wages. When your reading the book the professor comes out of nowhere and your left confused and mad over Laurie. They made the professor an inside joke if you read the book you laugh at under the umbrella bit. They established Amy and Laurie's relationship really well in this adaptation that you don't hate Amy and Laurie for getting married. Amy gets too much hate when she and Jo are two different sides of the same coin. Both want to be brilliant artists Jo a writer Amy a painter. Difference is Jo wants to be independent and not play by societal rules while Amy does she wants to marry rich. It makes sense he would love them both. It makes sense if Alcott was gay she would reject Laurie while we are all scratching our heads. This is her real life and back then she couldn't tell Lory hey I'm gay so it's just a "no i have tried and I cant".
To be fair the implication in the movie is that potentially she did NOT marry him but she changed the ending for her book because he insisted on it and she remained unmarried. It's hard to tell for sure but I think that was an implication on purpose! we can read it any which way.
They put in a lot more for Amy in this movie than in the original, I'm surprised I didn't get to see you react to her great monologue. The ship fight with Jo/Laurie and Laurie/Amy has been going on for a LONG time lol. I don't think Jo loved him, when she said "I tried and I can't" I think that meant she tried to convince herself she could love him that way and simply couldn't make herself feel romantic about him. So he did settle but maybe with the person who was better suited for him in the end.
IM HERE FOR THE NEW TEAM EDWARD JACOB DEBATE
@@MoviesinDepth Laurie in the book finds himself thinking less of Jo and more of Amy. He even tries not to, since he's kind of stubborn and he thought he would never get over Jo. There's a part where he thinks about Mozart, who first loved one sister but later the other (whom he married), and that Mozart was a great man. (Laurie also played the piano.)
I do think, if you wanted to, you (the general you, I mean) could certainly write a story where Laurie ends up with any of them. Even Beth, if written to live (of course, Alcott's sister Lizzie died) had music in common with him and at one point Jo thinks Beth is in love with Laurie (she is only thinking how healthy and vital he is, while she dwindles down, really).
@@MoviesinDepthplease, it predates Team Edward vs Team Jacob! In fact the Jo/Laurie/Amy ship wars were so intense people were writing the author back then because they were angry that Jo didn’t end up with Laurie. Shipping is universal and has always existed lol
One theory of this movie is the “past” is as Jo remembers it and is writing it. I believe this is why Greta had Florence play herself younger as that’s how Jo remembers her - always a giant baby
That is craaaaazy to think about!
The 1994 version has in one line the perfect encapsulation of why Jo and Laurie would never work. When Laurie asks her to marry him, Jo’s response is, “We’d kill each other!” And yes, that is absolutely correct. They were perfect friends but would have made horrible lovers.
Me on the way to watch the 90s version 🫡
Please do! It has its flaws, but it stays more true to the spirit of the book, and the characters just feel more sincere.
@@MoviesinDepth please do!! Winona Ryder plays "Jo" and Christian Bale plays "Laurie"!! 😂😂 I think little Kirsten Dunst plays young "Meg" too.
@@miaborges3674 young Amy, but yeah, she's there 😊 it has always been my favourite version of Little Women up until the moment I saw Greta's in the movie theatre. I still think it's the best introduction to the story for newbies
What this movie does better than other adaptations I’ve seen is show that Jo and Amy are two sides of the same coin; they are both incredibly passionate about their interests, Jo writing and Amy painting, both have ambition to be the best in their chosen field, and both are fiercely independent women. I don’t see Laurie as having settled. I think his love for Jo was pure and romantic in a childish and innocent way, his love for Amy is more mature. It also makes sense that it would be those two since the qualities he loved in Jo, he’d also find in Amy. And in the end, Amy is more suited to him so he’ll arguably live a happier life with her than he and Jo would’ve had together.
@@crystalpritchard5065 except they aged Amy up and frankly… I hate the extra stuff they added. Completely spoiled it for me
@ really?? This is the first iteration of Amy I’ve liked, and the first time I’ve understood why Laurie falls in love with her. Florence Pugh was amazing in the role and Greta took what I found to previously be a one dimensional character and gave her some depth.
@ you’re not supposed to like Amy at first and you’re not supposed to consider her as a potential partner for Laurie at first.
It’s all wrong. Just because you like her as a character better doesn’t mean it’s done right.
I suppose you like those awful Maleficent films too.
@ I’ve actually never seen them.
I don’t like Amy when she’s younger in this version, she’s a brat and I still found myself wanting to scream when she burned Jo’s transcript, but I love the woman she becomes. In the previous versions I found I had no attachment to Amy because they changed the actress and then never really focused on Amy when she was older. It always felt jarring to me that she and Laurie ended up together. While I sometimes found it distracting to see Florence Pugh playing the younger Amy, I really appreciated the focus on older Amy and understanding who she is and why Laurie would’ve fallen in love with her.
There’s another version of this movie that came out in 1994. Winona Ryder is in it. I would recommend watching that one next.
Love that version. Maybe my favorite.
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I love that version. Also star-studded cast with Winona Ryder, Christian Bale, and Susan Sarandon, just to name a few.
The 90's version is linear (doesn't jump back and forth). Beth got scarlet fever early in the story, and dies 4 years later from heart damage caused by the scarlet fever
I can relate so much at Jo especially when she said she's so sick of how the world treating women like we need to get married, need a man to live but at the same time I feel lonely.
The way I screamed when I saw the notification, THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE ( seriously my mom asked me if I was ok)
HAHAHA you are the BEST!! Thank you so much for watching!!
These movies always make me wish we had the style of that time period
I lovvvvve the style of this back in the day
Oh my god. This movie BROKE me. I love this movie so much.
I’m STILL NOT OK
2:41 TWO ICONS IN ONE SCENE!!!! (also glad I wasn't the only one destroyed by this movie😅)
YES. THIS MOVIE SHOULDNT HAVE DONE THIS TO ME
When the scenes are in warm tones its the past, while the present is in cool tones
I grew up reading Alcott’s books, and Little Women is the best of the bunch, which is why it’s a classic. I’ve even read a collection of her gothic tales, the ones that we see Jo selling in New York, and they are definitely good examples of the type. They fill all of the genre’s tropes, doing like the publisher says here and providing what the audience of the time liked.
I need to read the book now. It’s official
I'm not even watching the movie. I'm watching YOU watch the movie and it still makes me cry.
WELL GET THROUGH THIS I PROMISE♥️♥️💔
Jo did not give a cop out answer when Laurie proposed! She just didn’t love him. What else was there to say, but “No” and “Sorry?” Truly she did the best anyone could do… and then he threatened suicide when she rejected him 🙃 cut her out of his life completely and married her sister 1 year later.. Laurie is sus.
Louisa May Alcott’s publisher made her change the ending of the novel the same way Jo’s does. It’s why the proposal with Professor Bhaer seems so forced. Because Jo is most likely some type of queer, whether a lesbian, trans, asexual, aromantic, etc. She never loved Bhaer the same way she never loved Laurie. But as she says, she wants to be loved and so in the end she settles. Amy and Laurie are one of my favorite fictional couples of all time but I can understand and respect your feelings on them. One thing I’ll point out is that this adaptation chose to have Amy played by the same actress throughout which I think is brilliant but for those not familiar with the story it can be confusing because Amy is a child in the first part of the story. She’s the youngest and I can’t remember how young right now but I want to say 11 or 12. Laurie wants to be a part of the March family and their world more than anything. He loves each of them in a very specific way but it’s not until they meet again years later when Amy is older and more mature that he sees her for who she truly is and that their temperaments are such a good match. They fit together in a way Laurie and Jo never did.
0:34 Im still calling us the MIDsters 😂. Id even compromise and say we're Nameless MIDsters
NO. NO. NO.
@@MoviesinDepth YES. YES. YES
@@TaliyahHarris1025 LET US KEEP THE NEW NAME! I LOVE BEING A NAMELESS LITTLE MONSTER
I suggested "Middle Children" along with some other absolute banger nicknames but he didn't seem to like that either. what a pleb. we're clearly ✨inspired creatives✨out here 🤣
@@K.C-2049 You had some good ones 😂
I love this movie and I remember it being the last movie I saw in theaters before quarantine with my best friend and his now wife (they started dating like a couple days after we went to see it). A couple months ago, at their wedding, I bought some yarn at a local yarn store and knit Beth's shawl (the actual pattern maker put it online). It's going to be a Christmas gift. While I am a bit more partial to the 1994 version, this one will always be special to me.
Looooove this take
This is one of my favorite movies!! I love it so much thank you for reacting to it!🙏
My heart is still BROKEN AFTER THIS
Not Evan thinking almost every one of the sisters liked Laurie 😂 I mean, I wouldn't blame them
Joe loved the idea of love and being with Timothy cos he was the safest option like he knew her, she knew him. But she wasn’t in love with him. She would have just settled for him which would not have been the best choice
Fair. So FAIR♥️
Thank U so much for your reaction. Love it
Aunt March was a widow in the book and Mr. March's aunt (by marriage), not his sister.
OHHH that makes way more sense!
@@MoviesinDepth Yeah, her pushing all the girls to find a rich husband is a little more unsavory in this version.
Now, Taliyah, don't forget to shower Evan with all of your cats' love
Pffff I’m allergic.. maybe
@@MoviesinDepthpffff 😂
I loooooove this movie! It's absolutely the best version. It is the first one that actually does Amy justice. And I totally get why you were thinking he was settling, but in the book, you get to read the thoughts of the character and how laurie grows to really love amy as adults. If you get the time, the book is so good! Anyways, your reaction was fabulous and so much fun to watch
24:30 10+ years??
Thanks for watching this movie ❤. I'm from Northeast India and I read the Assamese language translation of the book when I was teenager..😅
Little women takes place in concord MA- some of the story also takes place in new York and Europe the story follows the 4 march sisters throughout different decades of their lives starting during the civil war ( the version you are watching jumps back and forth and the events shown are not in chronological order) out of the 3 adaptations I have seen- 2 movies and one tv mini series my favorite adaptation is the 1994 film adaptation with Winona Ryder as jo. I love Little women and I's great to watch at any time of year- winter curled up with hot chocolate is my personal favorite.
I’m adding this into my winter hot chocolate playlist immediately
13:21 Break out the band, MID is singing!!
DID IT MYYYYYY.. let me stop
I loved this video Movies in Depth I laughed the hole video your so hilarious ❤😂
The Absolute BEST rendention of all time was the one with Elizabeth Taylor, June Allyson, Janet Leigh ( AS IN Psycho and also the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis) and Margaret o'Brien! That is the one that will make you cry!
Louisa May Alcott was a lesbian and Jo is meant to be lesbian coded, but of course a book in the 1800s couldn’t have said that. She loves Laurie as a friend and a brother but she just cannot see him romantically.
The book was published in two parts, the younger part and the older part. After the first book came out, people were pissed Jo rejected Laurie. They were begging LMA to put them together in the second book. LMA didn’t want Jo to marry at all but was forced to by the publishers (which this movie cheekily nodded to with Jo being forced to sell her heroine into marriage). LMA basically said, okay f you all, I refuse to put Jo and Laurie together because I’ve already said Jo doesn’t love Laurie, so f you Laurie will marry her sister and Jo will marry this random old guy instead.
The way the relationship with Bhaer is described in the book, Jo isn’t even attracted to him they just have an intellectual connection. LMA really made it as clear as she was allowed to that Jo was not interested in men.
This adaptation did a great job of showing the book ending, while also showing the ending LMA wanted to write, of Jo being unmarried and running her school. The audience gets to decide which is the real ending.
It is known that Jo and the March family are based on the author Louisa May Alcott and her family. And it’s also theorized that Alcott was a lesbian, and given Jo’s lack of interest in guys a popular head cannon is that she is also a lesbian or aroace. Especially since in the original draft of Little Women, Jo didn’t end up with anyone but the publisher forced Alcott to change it.
Amy, at the beginning of the past is supposed to be 9 years old, I assume they didn’t have a different actor for young Amy as it would make the romance with Laurie much creepier.
Also to be fair to Aunt Marge, at least from what I remember, she never actually offered Jo the trip and Jo never really gives her a reason to want to take her to Europe. Jo just assumed that reading to her would mean Marge would invite her Europe, when they don’t get along at all.
Warm tones are the past cold blue tones are the present.
I think the reason it was ok for Jo to cuddle up to Beth is that, scarlet fever rarely kills you up front, it causes bad damage to your heart. So beth actually died of like heart failure. But yea if she was actively ill that is a little weird to be all up in someones face like that.
Jo already had scarlet fever
That almost makes it MORE TRAGIC💔
So we’re not supposed to buy Jo marrying Friedrich, that’s why Gerwig has two ending scenes for her. We see Jo talking to her publisher about the novel based on her life, telling him that the main character ends up on her own at the end, but her publisher insists that she needs to get married if it’s going to sell, so she goes alright deal and writes the ending where she ends up married, and that’s the scene where she’s living with Friedrich in Aunt Marge’s mansion and running it as a school - that’s the actual ending to the novel, Little Women, but then we see another scene where Jo is having her novel printed, which is the real ending of Jo’s story and the one that parallels both Alcott’s real life as a successful unmarried author and the original ending she planned for Little Women, but was unable to have as her publisher said it needed to fulfill 19th century expectations so it would sell and make money, so she wrote Jo to be married to Friedrich (who was much older and not attractive like in the film).
Some might say Laurie settled for Amy, which is kind of what I originally thought, but I also thought that Laurie loved Jo for her independence, but her independence is what made her an unrealistic partner for him. He was too traditional,wanted a traditional wealthy lifestyle, and he would’ve never been happy had he married Jo because she wouldn’t have been able to fit into his life as a dutiful wife due to pursuit of a writing career, and she would’ve never been happy with him because he would’ve tried to fit her into a box and stifle her creativity to fit her into the role of a wealthy wife. Furthermore, Laurie’s advances towards Jo always made her uncomfortable, whereas his advances towards Amy were more welcomed - he recognized the value in pursuing someone who actually likes him. Amy was also independent and creative, and she did reject him and Frank as well, demonstrating her independence, but does loves Laurie, she also values her family and knows she needs to financially provide for them as her other sisters won’t, she doesn’t think she will become a successful artist, so she chooses to marry him for both love and practicality. Laurie knows Jo will never be a dutiful wife, he loves Amy as well, he values her independence and creativity, and her desire to be a wife fits into his lifestyle, so he chooses to marry her. Overall, Amy and Laurie are a more compatible couple even if their love doesn’t seem as passionate as his love for Jo, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less real.
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More sanity before baby is born.
A certain reaction I'm forbidden to say the name of
Possibly another kitten 😂
Santa is checking the LIST TWICE
I love the story of little women! This movie is so extremely good! They’ve made it into a play and my friend played Jo in it and was spectacular! I want to play Beth at some point. Honestly I wish Jo and Laurie should’ve ended up together. It was actually found an alternate ending that was the original ending where Jo March and Laurie ended up together. But she went with the ending we all know today where Amy and Laurie ended up together. I feel so bad for Beth she had to go through having Scarlett fever. I wish she survived, I cried so much during her death scene. I love the aesthetic of this movie (in the past part of the movie)! Love time period movies. Love the videos! You do an amazing job!
Thank you SO MUCH for this!! You’re the best!!♥️
Louisa May Alcott was adamant that Laurie and Jo not end up together (which broke my fourth-grade heart), so I think what you found cannot have been something she wrote. What Americans know as _Little Women_ was originally two volumes. The first half was published as _Little Women._ The second half starts with Meg's wedding. In the U.S., it these two volumes are now published together as _Little Women,_ but in England, the second half is in a separate volume called _Good Wives._ Anyway, between the two volumes (as they were even in the States then) being published, a lot of girls wrote wanting Laurie and Jo together, and Alcott refused. I've often thought about starting with a new second volume, though. But I did like the Jo/Professor and Laurie/Amy stories too.
@@HuntingViolets I never realized it was originally 2 volumes with different names. I just realized that I also forgot to mention that the person who found the original ending I was talking about was found at the author’s house. I saw a video where it was talked about and it showed that the papers were on display for a bit. I don’t remember every detail of that story since I learnt about it a year or 2 ago. I do remember that it was a group who went to go visit the house where little women was written and the works there showed them the papers since it was out for display at that time they went. Obviously everything on the internet isn’t always true but it did show some of the papers on display etc. I then looked it up to see if it was true & basically saw that it was but she just decided to not go with that version and went with what we all know today.
@@Bri_Games Interesting!
@@Bri_Games I found out about the difference in volumes online. Some English people I interacted with had only read the first volume (our first half of the book), which ends before Meg's wedding, Laurie's proposal, Beth's death, and Jo's even meeting Professor Bhaer.
I've seen most of the Little Women movies and Timothee Chalamet is my favorite Laurie.
(Not that Christian Bale was bad, but still...)
PREACH
I almost forgot:
Brownish-hazelnut hair PLEASE
LMAO
I need to watch this movie the reason for Amy to be in the same class as the younger kids is because in the one room schoolhouse they'd have the older kids help teach the younger kids
It. Is. So. GOOD♥️
Me any time I have even the mildest cold “I’m very sick and you must do as I say”
PFFF not me taking notes
9:13 Who don't you know at this point lol
Hey hey donnnt hate the player hate the game!!
“I need them to give me some sort of clue that we’re changing between past and present” *proceeds to talk about the significant colour pallet changes between the past and present*
For real though at the beginning of the movie it is a little difficult to figure out 😭
My recommendation would be for you to watch the version with Wynona Ryder, I think you will understand the story quite better. I love Little Women with all my heart, is one of my favorite books, but I don't like the jumps in time that this version makes, the other is chronologically done and it is quite easier to follow. Love you and your videos
Thank you SO MUCH for watching!! ♥️
Its a interesting version but i feel like this version depends on either having read the book or watched other versions to fully get it.
Past vs. Present: Film colouring, dear. Film colouring
Enjoy your reaction, hope you do more periods film like this
sir, you haven't seen this? This is one of my comfort movies
I HAVENT. AND IM MAD AT MYSELF
Throughout the movie there are several instances of Jo and Laurie swapping and sharing clothes
While I watched this movie
I thought this was one of the girls memory who survived long enough to write a book about her life. It just felt that way for me.
Idk did anyone else just get the feeling?
Very fair take!!
I think you should watch Lovely Bones if you havent. Its chilling but book based and has Saiorse Ronan, aka Jo.
Will…. Will my heart survive..
@MoviesinDepth Honestly probably not but its still good 🤷♀️
I love being a nameless little monster
Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays to you too!!!
This is one of my favorite movies of all time.
It was so good!!
Can't believe you never watched this until now 🎉
BATMAN HAS ENTERED THE CHAT 🎉
IM UPSET AT MYSELF
Meg is short for Margret so you were right technically for someone's name... xD
This is what i needed😂
And the original author’s name was Louisa, so he got another one too? 😅
true! 😭
Wonder what Evan would look like dressed in that time periods fashion 🤔
Get him a nice suit and possibly a top hat
Let’s get AI in the chat
Yes deliver me is good u will like it it’s one of those heartwarming movies about helping people and stuff
The only movie that I use as my white noise 🥰🥰 EVERY FUCKING NIGHT TO GO TO BED
One room schoolhouse. All grades together.
I love your reactions haha
Thank you so much!!
Yayyyy!! I love this Movie!!! 🙌🏻 I have the book but it’s taking forever for me to read so I re watch this movie too many times 🫠🤣
MIAAAA! Why didn’t you tell me I was gonna END WITH THIS MOVIE!!♥️🤣
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this movie is a masterpiece and that all i can about this
PERIOD
MID Happy Holidays and my birthday is next week, can you to the grinch movies
Happy early birthday!
@@MoviesinDepth Thank you and I appreciate it
@@stacycalvo omg my birthday is this Sunday!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 💜💜💜
@samanthavalenzuela3123 I didn't know that and happy early bday and my birthday is on christmas day and thank you!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Have you ever seen the 90s version?
Never seen it before!
@@MoviesinDepth With Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Kirsten Dunst, and Christian Bale, it's my favorite version hands down. I would put it closer to Pride and Prejudice even if only for movie era. Hope you add it to your list!
This was good mid made it funny and posting the same day as billy and mello❤
Great minds think alike!! ♥️
if anyone thinks teddy and amy aren’t in love YOURE wrong
also I love his response to Jo "I've always loved you, but the love i feel for Amy is different" it's basicall first love vs today's partner kinda thing
I like this version but my fav is still the 1994 one.
I like the 90's version better
Merry Christmas to my fav ginger
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MEERY CHRISTMAS TO YOU!! 🎄🎄🎄
The 1994 version is amazing
You should have gotten with a certain British friend of yours on Twitch and had him be your hair consultant for this video 😂
LMAO NO
Nameless little monsters! ❤
We’re HERE!! ♥️
I love this movie! i read the book back in hs i think
I’m dedicating myself to read it now
@ it’s been so long since I read it, so I’m probably gonna buy it to read 😂😂
😎 If it's of interest, over the last century, there have been nearly as many remakes of "Little Women" as there are of "A Christmas Carol." The first two are lost silents from 1917 and 1918. The first one with sound came out in 1933 and also features an all-star cast, headed by Katherine Hepburn as Jo. The next one, from 1949 featured an even more star-studded cast full of names that are still recognizable today (Elizabeth Taylor, June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Janet Lee, Mary Astor etc). Then, from the 1950s through the 1980s, there were numerous made-for-television versions. Finally, there was the 1994 theatrical release, featuring a whole bunch of actors who are still major celebrities today (Winona Rider, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon etc). 😉👍
That is CRAZY♥️👏
Are you going to check out any of the other versions?
It's so funny how you think they all want Laurie when almost none of them do.
PFFFF I might have to!!
5:10 "Us" sniffing feet?! 👀🧐
YES. YOU
@@MoviesinDepthNOT 😂
14:23 This is why I refuse to swim or scuba dive
PFFF
This is my first video of yours please do more Timothee movies !!
Thank you for watching!! ♥️
Not him assuming this is an English tale and hating on Prof. Baer 😢
I love me some Saoirse Ronan. 🙌🏻
love this movie 😭
MY HEART
EMMA WATSON
EMMA OMG
The original film is okay in my opinion especially as it has a young Christian Bale however I love this one more.
I did get spoiled by Beth's death thanks to FRIENDS as there's an episode where Joey is reading Little Women and Rachel spoils it.
2:02-2:06 ohh i like that movie!
Right??
Love spirited. I guess im one of the 5
16:41 There's an easier way to make an M, sir 😂
NO
If we're recommending Christmas movies then I BEG you to watch Nutcracker and the Four Realms!!!!
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It is based on Louisa Alcott Book please try to credit the author...The winona ryder - christian bale version has garbriel byrne as the professor
it's only my favorite movie of all time
Good taste right here
15:45 Immediately. Give me the purple dress
Lmao how could I have guessed pff
Well Louisa did write the original book so the name guessing wasn’t a complete flop
I’m taking this W lmao
@@MoviesinDepth as you should!
21:08 Again, easier way to make an M 😂
HUH
I do like some nonlinear movies, but the way they do this bugs me. You are constantly shown how things turn out before fully seeing the setup, and it kind of spoils all the stories. Obviously, this isn't most people's opinion, but this is not an adaptation I like that much.
Yeah it really throws me off and confuses me even though I’ve read the book several times. I wish there was an edited version of it that put the scenes in chronological order because I really like the cast and production in general
@@moramorandobianchi7093 I get they wanted to do something different because all the previous versions were linear, but linear is what works for this story.
This was a good movie but not my favorite adaptation. I much prefer the 1994 film starring Christian Bale, Winona Ryder, and Susan Sarandon. Probably because it’s what I grew up watching, but I think Greta Gerwig made a beautiful film and had a great cast.
I know this movie have a lot of fans, but personally I prefer the 90's version the one with Wynona Ryder more than this version.