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⋆｡°✩ Hey it's Radio ★ ˎˊ˗ -Click, press space, or use right and left arrow keys ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've seen the 2019 movie adaption of Little Women, you might recognize this face as Professor Bhaer. I started reading the novel at the fall of last year, but was getting a little bored with all the rhetoric language after only 100 pages into the book. Almost a year later, determined to finish the brick of a book, I sat myself down and voraciously read through the rest of the pages of Little Women. What seemed to be boring to me nearly a year ago was very inspirational and exciting now. I was surprised by my thoughts drifting away to think about what I had previously read in Little Women when I was daydreaming. What a shift! (However, the latter part is more intense than the beginning, so I guess I just had to be patient - not saying the beginning isn't great too, just more slice-of-life stories than big plot points) Anyways, I'M OBSESSED NOW AHHHHH and I watched the 2019 and the 1994 movies and like brooooo I love Jo and resonate with her very much, (spoiler warning now) I also love how she rejected Laurie ahahahaha bc I would hate to see their close friendship turn into a romance. I felt that if they did marry, it would almost be like telling the reader that there was no hope in having a person of the opposite gender as just your friend without strings attached (although Laurie still loved Jo, even if she didn't love him) but grrrrr watching Jo to love the Professor when she was in the most lonely part of her life warmed my heart so much when reading the novel ahhhhhhhhh I loved the adaptions of the book (1994 and 2019), although they both have their strengths and weaknesses (some more specific than others) The 2019 adaptation had a very nice cast (Emma Watson played Meg!) and the characters were very deep. However, in the first part of the movie when all the girls are supposed to be young, Amy literally looks like a full grown woman when she's supposed to be 11 or something xD Although, I have to give it to her later in the movie, because I could connect the same actor to Amy better in the movie, instead of an "older version" playing Amy, like how the 1994 movie did. But Amy was so cute in the 1994 movie as a young child!!!!! So idk what to think. I'm going to be a little blunt, but Laurie looked cuter in the 2019 than the 1994 movie. Ewwww Laurie was kind of disgusting in the 1994 movie. From the way he talked, to the way he breathed, to the way his hair looked, and to the way he legit forcibly kissed Jo like ewwww (not to hate, this is just my opinion, srry) Beth stayed the same in both movies, and so did Meg for the most part; although, Meg did get her own little scene in the 2019 movie with John Brooke over buying the silk dress, which I thought was nice. And Jo was great in both! However, I didn't like how in the 2019 version she legit screamed at Mr. Bhaer for critiquing her stories. LIKE BROO GRETA GERWIG YOU WITCH--- for context Greta Gerwig is the director of the 2019 adaptation and didn't like Jo's matrimonial ending with Friedrich Bhaer because she thought Jo should be single the rest of her life, which is understandable; however, she also just tells full out lies about Mr. Bhaer and Jo in interviews like she never read the book. She also chooses a young handsome French man to play the older and not so handsome German Professor so he would be "more appealing" to audiences. That said, I'm not saying Louis Garrel was not a good fit, you can't always find the perfect match for the role, and he was actually pretty handsome haha...but even saying that contradicts the novel's description of Bhaer so... I guess what I'm getting at is that Greta Gerwig didn't want the audience to like Professor Bhaer. She gave Jo and Bhaer minimal screen time, an out of character argument, and even an ending to be interpreted. When Friedrich, in the 2019 adaptation, was reading Jo's stories, he bluntly says, "I-I don't like them." THIS IS LITERALLY SO STUPID BECAUSE THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BOOK WRITES, IT'S MORE DEEP THAN THAT UHHHHHH and like i said Jo childishly storms off calling him a "blowhard" whatever that means But anyways, enough hate on the 2019, I'm going to say something nice about the 1994 adaptation to make ya'll stop having fits of rage over Greta Gerwig (oh shoot is it just me) hehehhee I felt very well fed with the amount of Jo and Bhaer scenes in the 1994 film, and although not all the scenes were the same as the book, it made me satisfied enough since the movie could only be so long oh gosh the opera scene i felt like Jo and like ahhh you know what happens lol "Your heart understood mine" AHHHHHHHHHH <3 and yes I know the actor playing Bhaer was 44 years old but like Jo said, "I couldn't help loving you if you were 70" so ummmm yeah, but if you think that's bad there are more representations of the man looking even older