[ SECRET POST #2808 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2808 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Daria]


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[Hannibal]


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[Breaking Bad]


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[Pride and Prejudice]


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[James May from Top Gear]


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[GentleWhispering]


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[Little Women]


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[Psycho-Pass]


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[johnny's entertainment / j&a]










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Comments

[fscom]

08. http://i.imgur.com/tQ9JE9g.jpg
[Little Women]

[philstar22]

I agree with this secret. I'm not a Jo/Laurie fan at all, which is wierd because friendship romances are usually my thing. But Jo being with him always felt like it would hold her back. I always wanted her to be independent and become an awesome writer. And the same things that bugged you with her eventual romance bugged me too. There was nothing wrong with her original writing. No one has to write about their background (and the fact that I read the book for the first time after I had read/seen Anne of Green Gables kind of ruined that plotline for me).

And yet, I ship them in the movie. And not because I find him attractive. Because in the movie, seeing the characters on screen, they had chemistry. I liked his shyness and awkwardness balanced with her intensity, independence, and strength. In the movie, in spite of the paternalistic lecturing bits, they seem like a good match.

[fauxkaren]

I first read Little women when I was like... 9 years old (yeah I was a precocious child) and 9 year old me has NEVER gotten over Jo and Laurie not ending up together and Laure marrying Amy instead.

[(Anonymous)]

Me neither. Honestly I get huffy about it and try to argue that it was a shitty authorial decision even though I don't remember much at all from the book and can't backup my arguments.

[(Anonymous)]

+100,000,000,000,000,004

[philstar22]

I was mad at the end that she got together with anyone at all. As a kid, I wanted her off on her own being awesome and writing awesome stuff about her awesome adventures. Even then while I loved her friendship with Laurie, I thought that he would hold her back. And then the person she married ended up holding her back even more. Don't get me started on the sequel. (Though, as noted above, my shipping preferences in the movie are different).

[(Anonymous)]

I felt the same as a kid. Him getting married to Amy was like adding insult to injury to kid me since I hated Amy SO MUCH. She annoyed me to no end.

[(Anonymous)]

I was 9 too and THISSSSSSSS IT WAS A TRAVESTY OKAY

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. From what I've read, LMA was so irritated at the letters she was getting from Jo/Laurie shippers after the first part was published that she purposely wrote put an end to all that in the second volume. That could just be literary urban legend.

The fact that Laurie ended up with Amy was insufferable. The worst part is, in the sequels, Laurie and Jo are STILL closer to each other than even their spouses. Not that a man and woman can't just be friends, but I never bought their romances with other people.

I can't say I ever warmed up that much to Baer.

[(Anonymous)]

But, really, all I wanted from that book was for Beth not to have died, so I was always going to be disappointed.

Re: I can't say I ever warmed up that much to Baer.

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

I know!

*hands out tissues*

[(Anonymous)]

I was really angry with that book. It's apparently a great book for girls but I was so angry with the "oh the biggest thing you should get out of life is having a husband" bollocks - why does no one ever take the father to task for his leaving his wife & children to fend for themselves while he preaches with soldiers? They say in the book that his death would leave them destitute...!

and Jo, Jo...why???!

[(Anonymous)]

Those are some of the problems you get with author self-insertion.

[(Anonymous)]

The father was a chaplain in the army during the Civil War, not a street preacher following soldiers around for kicks. There was a huge push for enlistment early in the war, which meant that, patriotism aside, soldiers were also being paid relatively well. The Marches were poor before Mr. March enlisted, so enlisting would have been a chance to improve their lot that didn't involve excessive sucking up to Aunt Josephine.

[lunabee34]

I kinda felt the same way in the books. It's been a long time since I read them (at least twenty five years, possibly more), but I remember thinking it was super pasted on. I think I just wanted her to be single. IDK

[sarillia]

I tend to like May-December romances and Jo and Bhaer are one that appeals to me. I have some issues with it but I like it overall.

Also, Laurie pissed me off with his attempted emotional manipulation when Jo rejected him.

[(Anonymous)]

I can relate to this secret - the Jo/Pro relationship in this film is the only one that ever seemed feasible to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I was not a fan of them in the book, it felt really tacked on and even like we were getting a story not for the characters we knew in the book.

I did ship Jo/Laurie but I probably could have let go of them for something a bit better. I don't think the movie changed my mind about anything but I also haven't seen it for years and I think I read the book more then I watched the movie.

[(Anonymous)]

I just saw Gabriel Byrne in "Quirke" and he's still damn fine.

[(Anonymous)]

I ship Amy/Laurie and Jo/financial independence and traveling the world as a single lady, so I agree with this secret.

My favorite Little Women movie!

[elephantinegrace]

Sorry, it's just that, whenever people talk about Little Women (when they're not talking about the book), they rarely ever refer to this movie.

I actually felt like this movie did the Jo/Baer relationship better justice than the book did (then again, I'm pretty hardcore about Jo ending up with Laurie if she ends up with anyone at all).

[esteefee]

I'm with you, OP. Oh, Gabriel Byrne. If you've never seen Miller's Crossing, you must. It's violent as hell, but worth it just for the close-ups.

[gabzillaz]

I didn't really care about their relationship in the book, but I feel the actors had a lot of chemistry in the movie.

Better than Jo/Laurie at least.

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree - I always Professor Bhaer scolded and lectured Jo rather than relating to her on a more equitable level.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I don't think the way Bhaer moralizes to Jo is really that different from the way Alcott's heroines moralize to their friends (both male and female) and their beaux, e.g. Polly in An Old-Fashioned Girl or Rose in Eight Cousins. It seems to me that Alcott wanted to write characters who helped their loved ones make good and moral choices, regardless of those characters' genders.