Category Archives: Little Women

I noted how the Armstrong version portrayed Laurie as a male equivalent of Jo moreso than the Cukor/Selznick or Leroy versions. The ’33 adaptation manages to emasculate Laurie and treat him like a goofball, convincing the audience that the two are in … Continue reading →

Okay, it’s quite easy to critique the work of a dead man without fear of his rebuttal, unless he’s a zombie and then you have a quite different problem all together. So here’s my main problem so far. Sir, there is … Continue reading →

When we were discussing the male equivalent to Little Women, the suggestion of Fight Club certainly was not made in jest. Though it is a book of more mature themes, and would not be suitable in the children’s section, I … Continue reading →

1933 was a long time before Katherine Hepburn was labeled (Libelled, she’s not a pickle jar!) as “Box Office Poison,” a term she later was thankfully able to shake, and I think her independent nature fuels Jo and brings her to life, … Continue reading →

I’ve seen the 1994 version of the film, and I was ten then, so a lot of the passages of Little Women seem familiar to me in a kind of vague way. We heard Dr. Campbell read that quote about … Continue reading →