Little Women
Little Womenopening on Christmas Day is a vacation endowment in and of itself , as the adaptation of the classic novel is sure to enchant families everywhere . The tarradiddle revolves around the March family , the beloved they have for each other , and the pursuit of their passion . But it ’s also about the origination of graphics itself , something which screenwriter and directorGreta Gerwigbrought into focus with her unique narrative trend . Gerwig shared the inspiration behind her first feature film since the critically acclaimedLady Birdwith Screen Rant , and how a perusing of Louisa May Alcott ’s text led to a fresh take on the March sis .
Congratulations onLittle Women . I ’ve be intimate it since I was a child , but I thought that your intermingling of timeline and incorporation of Louisa May Alcott ’s living story was a great meta commentary on women and writing , specially with how Joe narrative pop off . What inspired you to make that change ?
Greta Gerwig : Well , part of what inspired me to make that change was twofold . The first part of it was when I learned about Louisa May Alcott ’s life - which frankly , when I was a kid , I did n’t cognize because you do n’t really investigate who ’s write these thing . You sort of believe that these people are veridical people or maybe that they ’re your sisters , which is what I consider . But then when I was an grownup and explore Louisa , as you have sex , she never got married , she never had kids - but she did keep the copyright to her book , and she felt that she had to have Jo March get wed and have fry because that was the affair that was going to sell book at that time . And I was like , " That ’s unbelievable . " That ’s an incredible twist in this sort of break between fiction and realism . And it ’s astonishing that she was in reality able to be more progressive in her own life than she was allowed to make her character .
And then the other affair was that she never wanted Jo to get hook up with . She said she should have been a literary thread maker with books for fry . And I thought , " I ’ve get to give her an ending she would have liked . " I mean , I ’ve got to right the wrong of story here . And I did n’t need to not do the closing that was in the Bible , because I wanted to honor the book . But I also desire to say , " But why is that what we needed to see ? " And then I wanted to make the ultimate felicitous ending of a girl and her book .
Aside from Jo , which you perfectly filled in that crack for her , Amy ’s the eccentric that I believe benefit most from the timelines . You get to see her as herself before you see what Jo thinks of her . Did you always have a clear imagination of what Amy require , like her love for Laurie and of art ? Or did that come as you were writing ?
Greta Gerwig : The trueness is I pass back to the text , and it ’s all there in the text . Amy is one of the most riveting characters on the page , and some of the railway line that Florence Pugh has are pick out directly from the book ; line about her painting . She says , " I want to be bang-up or nothing . " That ’s an awesome thing for someone to say in the 19th hundred , who was a woman who ’s trying to be a painter . As she has the line , " The world is hard on challenging girls . " The world still hard on challenging girls .
I wanted to search at that fictitious character again , because I find out all this richness in the textual matter and because I felt like it was time to revisit our judgment on char who say what they want and then go for it . And I thought it was very interesting that that ’s the baby that , for all of time , everybody ’s criticise . She ’s the one who was always saying incisively what she wants , and then she ’s lead to work on it ‘ till she gets it . And that ’s the one we do n’t like . That interesting . I think figuring that out was so much down to going back to the text , but also to the great performance by Florence Pugh .
Wonderful . I hope we see more of her , Saoirse and Timothée in your work .
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