Does anyone else love the most recent film version of Little Women? (Well I know that at least Arwen likes it but anyone else? )

I watched it again for about the 100th time this week and found myself crying all over again through much of the way through it. Any everyone is just so perfect and just like their parts in the books - well except John Brooke I think he should have seemed at least a little more attractive. Jo and Laurie were complelty perfect and I love Gabriel Burne as the Friedrich. Susan Saradan was also excelent as Marme, adding a touch more of feminism than was there in the book but I feel works very well.

So yeah does anyone else like it?

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Is it the version with little Kirsten Dunst acting as Amy?

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Yup that's the one

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*insert giggle of delight*

Within the past few months, I have come to the conclusion that Little Women is my favorite movie of all time. I loved it when I was younger, but hadn't seen it for several years until a few months ago, when I saw it again, and found myself crying throughout most of it. Not all tears of sadness, but tears of joy as well. I think its just such a timeless book and movie. Many movies adapted from literature--especially older literature, like this one-- don't do them justice. But this one does. I would have to agree with you Elanor, the casting was excellent, and all the characters were portrayed acurately, with the exception of John Brooke.

Every time I watch it, I still find myself squeeing over the ending scene. "My hands are empty"--"Not empty now." *melts*

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"...that kind of music in general turns my stomach. It's nice that they do have fans, though." -Nienor

Oh yes I love that scene *points to new siiggy * In fact I love Friedrich all together - I can't help smiling whenever he smiles at Jo.

You're right about often movies not doing the book justice. Very often they either leave out or change far to much and you're left with a very different story. Or else they leave in everything and there's bits that seem completly unnessary and don't work. But Little Women's pretty simalar to the book yet nothing feels unnecessary and the bits they have changed seem perfect for the film.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's one of their all time favourite movies

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I love it because it has Christian Bale in it

Elanor would you be angry if I either made or have someone make a banner for me that has the same quotes in it? I promise it wouldn't be exactly the same

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"...that kind of music in general turns my stomach. It's nice that they do have fans, though." -Nienor

Of course you can It was you quoting it here that gave me the idea for the banner so really you get first rights to the quote

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Yay I will get on banner making as soon as I have time. which probably won't be anytime soon.

Okay a question for everyone to answer, if you so choose:

Which Little Women character do you most identify with?


Ok sounds cliche, but I really identify with Jo. Not because I wish I were a man, but my need to be free, and my need to express myself through writing. Perhaps I do share some of her manly tendancies, though-- I love her quote in both movie and book, "I crave violence." okay I really don't crave it but I love violent movies. I just love Jo's spirit. I wish I were more like her than I actually am.

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"...that kind of music in general turns my stomach. It's nice that they do have fans, though." -Nienor

I'm going to go with the obvious answer of Jo as well. I can really understand her feeling of wanting to do something important with her life just not being sure what it is. And her feeling of loving home but also wanting to get out, away from it. Plus I can totally see why she chose Friedrich over Laurie, I think I would have done the same. Though I might have said yes to Laurie I suppose when he asked first - it just seems such an odd thing now to ask someone to marry you who havn't already been in a romantic relationship with for some time.

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I love that movie! It's so sweet. In fact, I haven't seen it in a while--this makes me want to watch it again.

I loved the film so much I brought it on Dvd a while ago, It's really sweet... I might have to go and do some srceencaps

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I've read the book a few times, and I love most every movie version of Little Women....I just can't wait to buy the musical CD!

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It was the first movie I ever saw in the theatre. I loved it. I still love it. I think Winona Ryder is wonderful as Jo, she somehow captures her spirit so well. I just saw it recently for the 20th time probably and cried, again, as always, when Beth dies.

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I've recently checked this film out of the library because I had promised Arwen I would see it sometime, soon (I think I promised her about more than a year ago, so I guess I didn't exactly fulfill the promise ).

I loved it.
I absolutely, most positively fell in love with it.
Always being a sucker for romances, I was sure I would enjoy it but the different relationships and the love and sisterhood between these girls made my heart soar.
I am planning to see if I could check out the book by Louisa May Alcott, because if the movie was this good, no doubt the book would be amazing.

In regards to John Brookes---I found his casting was pretty good, although I'm not sure how he was in the books, but he seemed moderately handsome enough, he looked like a poor man which was the entire ideal of Meg/John---was that she married for love and not for money, so he was thought to be an ordinary man.

At the beginning of this film, I started out to be a Jo/Laurie shipper, but as that didn't fall through and the circumstances of their moderate falling out, I fell more in love with the idea of Jo/Friedrich especially in light of what happened between Jo and Laurie.

Laurie claimed to "know" Jo, but I'm not convinced that he does. Jo has gone through family hardships and in her tomboy-ish nature, she has learned to grow up but still hold on to those escapades that she and her sisters would go on. Laurie was raised the grandson of a rich man, have always had the privileges and the opportunity to befriend the Marches because of their tight-knitted, loving relationship. We could say that Jo and Laurie had become best friends, but sometime along there Laurie falls in love with her but Jo doesn't do the same. Jo finds him as her dearest friend and feels it's only right to stay true to herself and reject Laurie's proposal.

The thing that bothered me the most about the proposal was how Laurie said, "You won't have to write, unless you want to." This one line kind of turned me off as a Laurie fan, because as Jo's friend for so long, he should understand her longing to express herself through writing, and that was what Friedrich understood about her. That despite her writing for the tabloids of silly adventurous stories so that she can become famous, he insists that she write from the "depths of her soul" which is what she has always wanted to do but feared that she would be rejected once more from a publisher. I find that Friedrich and Jo have a lot more aspects of their personalities, their ideals and their opinions in common than Laurie and Jo.

Sorry, long post---but there's just no good fanfiction around that has the pairing of Friedrich/Jo (only Jo/Laurie) so I must bide my time somehow!

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