I apparently have a lot of opinions about a movie I haven't seen, but people being upset by that shocks me. Surely they haven't read the book as an adult. That is pretty much there in the text, it just sounds like the movie gives it voice.
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
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Sophia Brooks - Dec 28, 2019 5:05:01 pm PST #2416 of 3431
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Sophia Brooks - Dec 28, 2019 5:07:17 pm PST #2417 of 3431
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
And Amy, even with the pickled limes, understands the current social conditions and how to navigate them to her advantage, always. Which seems to escape the rest of the family.
amyparker - Dec 28, 2019 5:13:26 pm PST #2418 of 3431
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Right? "It's not romantic!" Given the choices available? Well, no. "Meg didn't marry well, Jo won't, Beth can't - so I will." Gerwig showing what that line meant is possibly more reality than some were expecting from a movie marketed like this one, especially if they haven't read the unabridged book.
amyparker - Dec 28, 2019 7:21:14 pm PST #2419 of 3431
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Sophia, I think a lot of people only know it from the films and have never read the book. I know, I'm shaking my head, too.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 28, 2019 8:59:07 pm PST #2420 of 3431
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Louisa May Alcott is in my top three authors (with Charlotte Bronte and John Irving). This adaptation sounds really good and true. I know she wrote children's books, but they had some really good, and subversive, messages. I read them almost every year, so, I can't imagine.
Consuela - Dec 28, 2019 9:09:11 pm PST #2421 of 3431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well LW was entirely charming. And beautifully shot: there were some shots that I just thought were lovely, like the scene on the beach with Jo and Amy, or the bit where Jo sits down on the hillside overlooking the church.
And the clothes! The costume designer deserves an award: it's all so real, and looks handmade, and shows the characters. Beautiful work.
Jesse - Dec 29, 2019 6:12:39 am PST #2422 of 3431
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My mother is so mad about that scene at the beach, just from having seen it in the ads. "People didn't just go to the beach! It was really far back then!"
Consuela - Dec 29, 2019 8:38:51 am PST #2423 of 3431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
but that was what Jo used the money she made in NY for. It wasn't a day trip, although the movie does kind of make it look that way.
Scrappy - Dec 29, 2019 10:41:52 am PST #2424 of 3431
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I'm with Sophia in loving LMA and rereading her regularly. I can't wait to see the movie.
Amy - Dec 29, 2019 11:06:33 am PST #2425 of 3431
Because books.
I need to reread some of the others -- I fixated on Little Women at an early age. And I've never actually read Jo's Boys or Little Men, which is sort of criminal.