{"id":13,"date":"2007-02-25T20:52:34","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T03:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/2007\/02\/25\/film-adaptations\/"},"modified":"2007-02-25T20:55:34","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T03:55:34","slug":"film-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/2007\/02\/25\/film-adaptations\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Adaptations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">It is amazing how funny and cheesy the 1949 movie seems when view by today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s audience.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I found the first half of the movie to be quite amusing.<span>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Especially when Jo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dress catches on fire and Laurie is whacking her butt to put it out.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>That got a laugh out of everyone.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>The phrases used are silly. Liz Taylor as Amy is a riot.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>She was definitely miscast.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>When she gets punished by her teacher, it seems almost like a sexual game between two adults, not a child being reprimanded.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Jo is a little too brazen and obnoxious in this version.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like she is annoying like that in the book.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I watched the 1994 version again this weekend, and I would have to say that it is definitely my favorite out of all the movies.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>The casting accurately portrays the characters the way that I picture the girls in the novel. Winona Ryder embodies perfectly the characteristics of Jo.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I also feel that Beth is finally shown in a way that demonstrates her importance to the family.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing how funny and cheesy the 1949 movie seems when view by today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s audience.\u00c2\u00a0 I found the first half of the movie to be quite amusing.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Especially when Jo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dress catches on fire and Laurie is whacking her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/2007\/02\/25\/film-adaptations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/shayden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}