{"id":20,"date":"2007-03-12T17:44:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T00:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/2007\/03\/12\/more-of-that-2\/"},"modified":"2007-03-12T17:44:27","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T00:44:27","slug":"more-of-that-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/2007\/03\/12\/more-of-that-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More of that"},"content":{"rendered":"

I agree with some of the things people were expressing about June Allyson.\u00c2\u00a0 She, unlike Hepburn, seemed to become Jo, and just seemed to fit into the role much better.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, as Dr. Campbell noted, she takes out any inner struggle or intellectuality, but I feel that there isn’t much to begin with from the novel.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong, Jo is my favorite character, no matter what anyone says, I am biased from my opinions as a child, and am obstinate.\u00c2\u00a0 When I reread Little Women<\/em> it shocked me how different Jo was than I remembered and had turned her into after growing up enjoying the 1949 version.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe that I was exposed to this travesty of a film first has ruined my ability to critique fairly, but after reading it again, I feel that Jo was more one-planed than I remember.\u00c2\u00a0 She “prances” around, is boyish, has a quick temper and likes to write.\u00c2\u00a0 There is only one time that she is even exposed to a gathering of “intellectuals,” and until the Professor steps in, she is completely doubting her faith in God and taken by the pompous philosophers.\u00c2\u00a0 She sees through some of them and is disappointed, but still questions all that she has based her life on.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s not exactly the character I had imagined her as, or the one other people try to portray her as.\u00c2\u00a0 She is not experienced, and simple, as the narrator would much prefer, and most importantly, she has a good heart and is willing to work.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t really like any of the three films’ depiction of Jo, but I still think that Allyson’s was the best.\u00c2\u00a0 Though it’s an awful film, it is easier for me to imagine her as Jo.\u00c2\u00a0 As I said in my earlier post, Hepburn was unnatural and too “big” for the role, and Winona Ryder was just boring.\u00c2\u00a0 I like her as an actress, but she seemed to (and this may be the screenwriter’s fault) be the matured and subdued Jo after Beth’s death-the ENTIRE movie.\u00c2\u00a0 She doesn’t capture Jo’s spirit, and though she is a great actress, she didn’t offer the vibrancy and the confidence that Jo should exude. …finally, this is all my OPINION on choices in actresses, so please don’t crucify me people, I realize I have my biases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I agree with some of the things people were expressing about June Allyson.\u00c2\u00a0 She, unlike Hepburn, seemed to become Jo, and just seemed to fit into the role much better.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, as Dr. Campbell noted, she takes out any … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}