I was bored by Little Women the book, as I alluded to in a previous post. I GUESS I can see the adulation that some people have for it; it just wasn’t my thing. The movie, though, was just unbearable. I love older movies. This one was just so saccharine and cloying. I suppose the acting was good for the time, but it just seemed so wooden to me. I found the film interesting as a point of interest, having watched On The Watefront just a few hours earlier. It was amazing to see how far screen acting had moved in 20 years, from young Hepburn to young Marlon Brando.<\/p>\n
I mean, I really don’t know. Was I supposed to like it? I hated it. And it wasn’t because there was a dearth of explosions and shootouts. It was just boring, cliched, and truly painful to watch in my humble opinion. I couldn’t force myself to get emotionally involved with any of the characters, because they didn’t seem finished. Their development was sorely lacking. The whole movie just seemed like a random string of events happening to people that I didn’t particularly care about.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0Like I said, I guess the film was a product of its time. It just didn’t have the same emotional impact of the book (which I didn’t like either). The whole deal just comes across as so trite. I WISH I could live in a fantasy world where I grin and move on within a matter of seconds when my sister dies.<\/p>\n
It isn’t that the story is bad, I just prefer a little realism in my literature and film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was bored by Little Women the book, as I alluded to in a previous post. I GUESS I can see the adulation that some people have for it; it just wasn’t my thing. The movie, though, was just unbearable. … Continue reading