She chose a more difficult path, not confined to the family, writing for a living, breaking the rule that "a woman must marry well" and becoming an independent woman in the 19th century.
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"Little Women" has not yet been released in China, and Yu Yanjie has already seen it in Canada at Christmas.
It is a film of female authors, female directors, and female actors.
At 10:30 a.m., there were only a few people in the screening hall, almost all of them women.
There are old women on crutches, there are young girls who come with them, and there are old aunts like me.
When Joe sat by the bedside and woke up, little sister Beth was gone.
At that moment, there was a muffled inhalation behind him, and it was someone in the dark who was crying.
At the end of the movie, everyone gently applauded and silently dispersed, just after Midnight of Christmas, and the street lamp illuminated the sky full of snowflakes.
And the tears of Yu Yanjie almost couldn't stop flowing from the beginning of the film.
I myself can't tell why this ancient story has been unforgettable for years.
The same is true in "Friends".
Rachel lent Joey a copy of Little Women, who was not interested at first and cried as he read it.
After so many years, I became Joey too.
▲"Little Women" has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 95% and an IMDb score of 8.3
The director of "Little Women" is Greta Celeste Gerwig, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture the year before for Miss Bird.
This girl born in 1983 herself is a big beauty, from actor to director, two consecutive works have been filmed on my heart.
The first "Miss Asuka" made me feel that my old diary had been made into a movie;
The second film, Little Women, brought me to tears after decades of struggling for Joe.
Greta really understands the subject of girlhood.
Sure enough, women's stories still have to be filmed by women.
▲ Put a few pictures of beautiful directors
"Little Women" has a strong casting lineup -
Aunt May, 69, starred as the rich and sharp Aunt March, the neurotic strong woman Laura Dunn in "Big Little Lies" played the mother, Miss Watsons replaced Sister Stone as sister Meg, Ronan played the independent and free second daughter Joe, and the warm boy Little Young Master Laurie played sweet tea.
Yu Yanjie said that Greta's favorite pair of Ronan and sweet tea was ah.
Meg, who once complained about "why some girls have everything and some girls have nothing", eventually chose to marry a poor but upright husband
▲ Playing the third sister little angel Beth is the sister Eliza Scanlon in "Sharp Weapon"
▲ The fourth sister Amy finally gave up her richer fiancé and married Laurie, who had been a favorite since childhood
The pair of Joe and Laurie is an eternal pain in the hearts of book fans for a century and a half
Previously, in "Miss Asuka", Ronan and Sweet Tea had a rivalry, but Sweet Tea played a flower scumbag.
This time in "Little Women", Sweet Tea and Ronan's green plum bamboo horses and fights finally fulfilled the pain in everyone's heart (however, it did not).
Little Women was written in 1866 and marks just 150 years of its publication.
"Little Woman", "Uncle Long Legs", and "Pride and Prejudice" are the favorite girls' books for Yu Yanjie when she was a child.
These three stories are happy, warm, friendly, and the little throbbing of the first opening of the love sinus, which makes me feel happy every time I read it.
It is said that the first time Yu Yanjie watched "Little Women" when she was a child, it was a set of Japanese cartoons broadcast on TV.
Remembering that the skirt behind Joe's ass was burned by a fire, she met the little young master Laurie when she hid in the east at the dance.
It was the most enjoyable time in the whole book, thrilling and unsuspecting.
For a long time, I thought Little Women was a fairy tale, ending with Grandpa Laurie bringing a festive feast and piano, and ending with Marty's dad, who Had brought back from the battlefield.
There is no love and no can,no loss, no far away from home, no life and death tips.
Everything stopped at the Christmas time when the sisters were gossiping around the stove.
The movie "Little Women" uses cross-cutting of canonical and flashbacks.
It begins with Joe walking alone on the snow-capped streets of New York, meg, now a mother, unable to afford a coat, and a drunken Laurie wandering at a party.
When the movie slowly shakes back to the scene where Joe and Laurie first met, the young boys and girls avoid the crowd and dance a waltz on the terrace, and the lively room floats "Brahms Down in A Major Round Dance" -
The wind, the gentle wind, leisurely in this moment of the evening sky.
Distant mountains, quiet distant seas, faint crescent moon has gradually risen.
Xie Liwen's words for "The Prince of Pineapple Oil" are seamlessly suitable for the scene in front of him.
This is not a Pride and Prejudice story
It was 1860, and the Civil War was.
The father of the 4 sisters is far away from the battlefield, and they stay at home with their mothers, making female reds around the fire, reading stories, and also arguing with each other because of trivial matters.
The eldest sister Meg hopes to become an actress, the second sister Joe wants to become a writer, the third sister Beth is good at playing the piano, and the fourth sister Amy is good at painting.
Not far from March's house is the Laurie family's mansion, where the rich and benevolent grandchildren live.
The poor and interesting girl meets the rich spring breeze teenager next door, but unfortunately, this is not a story of "Pride and Prejudice".
In those days, women had to give up married life if they wanted to become independent and have a career.
Like Louisa Alcott, the author of Little Women, like Emily Brontë, like Jane Austen.
When Laurie chased Joe up the hillside shouted:
You know I've been waiting for you, can you love me the same way?
Sister Yu Yan's tears fell again.
The handsome and golden Laurie, the gentle and kind Laurie, the Laurie who loves Joe wholeheartedly, who doesn't like such a teenager?
But Joe said:
Sorry, there's nothing I can do, I think, I'm not going to get married.
She shouted out loud to her mother:
Women can also have wisdom and talent, why should women have to get married?
When Little Women was first published, readers chased after the publisher and asked, "When will Joe marry Laurie?" ”
150 years later, it is still difficult to understand and still difficult to reconcile.
As a child, I didn't understand why Laurie was so good, why Joe just didn't love him.
I did my best to digest Mrs. March's words, "Joe and Laurie are too similar in personality to get along for long," but still couldn't convince myself that "Joe needs a higher spiritual realm."
Although the German professor whom the author had arranged for Joe was a soul mate of a rich man, for a century and a half, everyone had supported the CP combination of Joe and Laurie.
Until now, some people have written in book reviews that "Joe's failure to marry Laurie is a big bug left by the author", "Joe obviously loves Laurie", "Why did he suddenly poison the dog with sugar"...
This obsession is also quite deep.
Director Greta is deeply sympathetic.
The biggest change in the movie is that after the death of the third sister Beth, the deeply lonely Joe begins to examine his choices.
She confessed to her mother that she liked Laurie and that her sense of independence had overreacted herself, saying that if Laurie confessed once that she would agree, she even wrote him a letter of change of heart.
However, some people miss it and then don't.
When it was time to say goodbye, Laurie held his beautiful fiancée, Amy, and told Joe that he had listened to her and found a suitable partner.
At that moment, it began to rain heavily in the sky.
Blind date, but can not love each other.
Little Women has not been forgotten in 150 years, I think, in large part because of Joe and Laurie's misses.
Every girl has a Joe in her heart
Every girl has a Joe in her heart—a shiny Joe, a dashing Joe, an unfettered but talented Joe who dares to do anything we dare to do.
In order to help her mother raise money to visit her father on the front line, Joe cut off a long hair that Amy called "the only desirable place", and she worked to save money only to take her seriously ill sister Beth to see the sea.
Little Angel Beth asked Joe: Are you sad?
Joe didn't answer.
After that, the sister Meg chose the former between the family and the stage, the third sister Beth, who loved to play the piano, died of illness, and the fourth sister Amy gave up the dream of being a painter and returned to China to marry.
Only Joe realized her girlhood dream and became a writer.
Although, she had to compromise with the publisher to give the heroines of the novel a "marriage or death" home.
I understand why the author, Olcott, insisted on not going along with public opinion and not letting Joe marry Laurie.
Because if that were the case, Joe would no longer be Joe, no longer Alcott who was "angry every day of my life", no longer Alcott who was bored with being asked "who Joe married", the Joe he wanted to portray.
Even so, like director Greta, we firmly believe that for the rest of her life, Joe can't forget the teenager who accompanied her on the terrace to waltz, the teenager who skated with her, the teenager who chased after her and asked "Can you love me?"
At the end of the film, Joe and Olcott merge into one.
She sat in the publishing house to talk about the cost of the manuscript, talk about deletions, and agreed to arrange a husband for Joe to complete the reunion ending.
The real Olcott, who never married, was an abolitionist and feminist, and in her later years became Concord's first woman to register to vote.
Alcott's life was not rich, she worked as a nurse, a teacher, a tailor, a writer, living on her own hands.
Everyone thinks that if Alcott were alive, she would be very supportive of the "#MeToo" movement and equal pay for men and women for equal work (Yu Yanjie also thinks so).
"I only have a story that has been passed down for a hundred years"
Over the past hundred years, "Little Women" has been continuously remade into movies, and 5 versions have been released so far.
Katherine Hepburn, Jane Parker, Elizabeth Taylor, and Winona Ryder have all starred.
Yu Yanjie really feels that "Little Women" directed by Greta is the best interpretation -
The smooth editing and concise expression, looking back at the past 150 years, not only faithfully reproduce the original work, but also add feelings and insights.
No matter what era of women, growing up is not an easy task, accompanied by difficult choices and farewells.
When the girls' laughter and tears shine between the light and shadow, this warm and lamenting scene is sad but proud.
Including Amy, who was not liked by Sister Yan when she was a child, when she said "some of our sisters must marry well, Meg does not, Joe will not, Beth can't, I must marry well and make everything better", I found that she is not actually hated in her imagination, but grows strong on another track.
At first, Yu Yanjie thought that Miss Watson, who played the intellectual, would play Joe, but fortunately she took over her sister Meg.
Although Miss Watsons is also good, Ronan's performance is more layered.
To say that Ronan this girl is really dazzling, she has an indestructible face, the green eyes of the lake hit people's hearts, and the stars can't cover Ronan's light.
Whether it's Ronan, a high school student who changes her name and talks harshly in "Miss Asuka", or Ronan, a bakery worker who lives in the attic in "The Grand Budapest Hotel", there have always been comments that Ronan will become a great actor like Aunt May.
In this regard, Yu Yanjie also has no doubts.
At the end of the film, Joe calmly responds to the publisher:
We can share by sales, but I don't sell the copyright to the novel, I want to own my own work.
Why didn't Joe understand after 100 years of Meeting Sister Yan? How many years have the copyrights to several of my books been sold to publishers?
A story that still makes people heartwarming countless times is about love, and more about human nature...
To this day we are still holding on.
The pictures in this article are from the internet
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