Posted on 01/01/2020 1:12:11 PM PST by Kaslin
Social Justice Warrior. Like "woke", it used to be a serious, sober description and has now become an term of ridicule and derision.
I decided that I wouldn’t go after one of the parts of the trailer had the John Lithgow character telling Jo that she had better make the main female character married. Yeah. Like that happened. I am totally fed up with PC-ing of classics.
Thanks! I will check those out!
I DID see it ... it’s the only one I’ve seen, never read the book.
Children should be encouraged to read old books; especially should parents want them to see the movie ( from any era ) made from them and have them read the book/s FIRST!
Look at the latest absolutely revolting POS out of the UK of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, for example. Having Scrooge sexually molested as a child, offering Bib C money to have sexual relation with his wife, and him using the F word several times detracts from what was originally written and the whole thrust of the story! It thoroughly debased a much loved story for NO reason at all!
From what I have read about this new, unnecessary, redo of this book, this remake is just as bad!
There have been extremely few movies made from books and/or stage plays that are even 1/10th as good as the original and movie remakes are even more seldomly anywhere as good as the original. Some of the very few examples of the remake of movie being better than the book or play are CHICAGO ) play ), the third remake of THE MALTESE FALCON, and the remake of GASLIGHT.
My wife and I saw it and thought it was excellent.Of course, it was updated to today’s audiences. If you wiki the family, they’re 19th century hippies.
Loved the book also.
I can’t believe they made this again. Give it a rest
You actually have no idea what the book is really about.
Modernizing a book that was published in 1868 gives you a false idea about it and the story and actually ruins it!
Hah! If they were hippies, I’d be the last to love the book or the movies!
Fore-runners to the hippies; the family were good friend of the disgusting Thoreau and that group of transcententalist non-conformists.
I agree with you 100%; there was less than NO NEED to make this one, or several other newer ones! All they do is completely RUIN it!
None of Alcott’s books carry over the idiotic Thoreau themes; they are actually children’s books and should be read by children today, as they are true classics and do give a window into the past. They’re also well written.
Gone With the Wind is an EXCELLENT movie albeit a bit changed from the book.
Personally I think there re many great examples of movies based on books. Some have notable changes, but nonetheless excellent. And I read Little Women because I loved the 49 movie so much, and still enjoyed it thoroughly!
One of my favorite books as a young girl. And while I love old movies, I never cared for either June Allyson or Kate Hepburn version. The one I like is with Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon (early 90’s). I know. Go figure.
No one has done a film of Louisa May Alcott’s other pair of novels, Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom. Perhaps they should have a go at it. At least, it would be something new.
Two of my kids saw that yesterday with their day camp group.
Yes, GONE WITH THE WIND is a great movie and it pretty much stuck to the book. There are many such examples of good to great movies that though they had to cut down on what could be shown and said, did the book justice. OTOH...many, even older movies with great casts, fall far short of the make, such as the 1950's IVANHOE!
Since you like GWTW, see RAINTREE COUNTY, which is good and sticks pretty well to the book too.
The '49 remake of LW is cloyingly sweet; the Katherine Hepburn one is better. Every damned remake ( movie and T.V. series ) after these 2, have been dreadful!
I have seen ever single movie and T.V. rendition of A CHRISTMAS CAROL ( except for the newest one, which I refused to suffer through ) and THE best one ever made is the 1950's Brit Alistair Sims one; it is the closest to the book.
ASAIK, the ONLY movie that is word for word, scene by scene exactly the same as the book is the 1963 LORD OF THE FLIES. There may be others, but I don't know about them.
There IS a 1930’s movie of LITTLE MEN and it’s pretty good. But yes, AFAIK, nobody has ever made a film of the two you mentioned.
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