Posted on 01/02/2020 12:05:24 PM PST by C19fan
It’s a peculiar feature of our culture that men who behave in predictably masculine ways find themselves chastised and scolded for not being more feminine. This brings me to Little Women, which is not exactly packing in male ticket buyers. Why would it? No one expected women to turn up for Rambo: Last Blood, and no one seemed particularly interested in the male-female breakdown of the ticket sales for that one.
Yet op-ed writers keep pitching versions of the same strange thesis, which is that we should be cross with men for not buying tickets to Little Women. “Dear men who are afraid to see Little Women: you can do this,” says an op-ed in the Washington Post. I think the writer is here confusing the concept of fear with lack of interest or boredom. (I blanch at the prospect of going through my Aetna paperwork, but my guiding emotion is not fear.) “For the love of Marmee,” writes Monica Hesse of the WaPo, “won’t someone please organize a Meetup so these men can watch Saoirse Ronan and Emma Watson go to the ball and lose their gloves?” I am sorry to inform Ms. Hesse that the United States is a signatory to the Geneva Convention and hence no American man can be forced to submit to this variant of the Ludovico Technique from A Clockwork Orange.
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I do that with costuming. ;)
LOL. Offered mrs. jimfree the option of Little Women tonight as well as Knives Out among several options. She chose 1917.
“Chamomile on Skylon 4”!!!
Have the rights be bought by a studio yet?
Like tandem story students struggling with plot turns that don’t conform to their own creative appetites, so too today’s polysci/journalism graduates have zero desire to allow any influence by common sense nor intuition about human nature taint their activist agendas.
When does the XXX version come out?
It should have been a hard flop. It was the beginning of the wokening of Marvel. It’s the only Marvel film I didn’t watch, but I won’t be watching Stage IV.
OTOH...LITTLE WOMEN was originally a book written for, *gasp* GIRLS ( from around 8 through tween years ) and no boy or man should really care much about it at all; let alone go see the what...15th or more version of this butchered revisitation and reinvented tripe! Hell, it shouldn't even be seen by girls and women!
I plan to see 1917. I will stream it and Little Women when they are available on Amazon. Little Women was my among my favorite books as a child. I have seen most of the movies based on the book and my favorite is the Sarandon/Ryder version.
While in London recently, I had the chance to go to the Imperial War Museum, their WWI exposition is fantastic, and it's free of charge.
“Dear men who are afraid to see Little Women: you can do this,”
Really? Without falling asleep? Didn’t work out that way when I had to read the book. ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz
And no man SHOULD care about this book nor the far too many films and series made from it! The story is NOT for boys nor men at all!
Hey, that’s pretty good! Will there be a chapter 2?
“ Still, the scenes between Jo and Beth were rather emotional for me. That part was done well, as well as Meg’s interaction with her husband - some good relationship messages there.”
I agree
A combination of “Death Blow” and “Pain and the Yearning.”
No it wasn’t and your comment is not just silly, but an uneducated one!
Just an FYI - Little Women may be my favorite book ever since I read it at 8 years old; and I adore the movie - especially the one with Katharine Hepburn as Jo - par excellence!
That said, based on the vapid previews I’ve seen on TV I have ZERO interest in seeing this new, Woke version. Almost every scene and bit of dialogue in these previews never happened in the book.
It is, I believe, a quite “imaginative” interpretation of what the director and screen writers THINK Louisa May Alcott would or should have said, and as such, every ticket sold should come with a complimentary Barf Bag.
Discretion, etc, etc...
Huh?
It's a great book and both old and new film versions are also very good!
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