Little Women - Movie vs. Book :: Movie Film comparison compare contrast

Little Women - Movie vs. Book   fit to the Internet Movie Databases exhaustive records, Louisa May Alcotts novel Little Women has seen itself recreated in four TV series, four made for TV exposures and five own length movies since 1918. The most recent version appeared in 1994 and features Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Kirsten Dunst, Samantha Mathis, Eric Stoltz, Susan Sarandon, and Gabriel Byrne. As a long time fan of the novel, who has happily carted her large leather cringe gold-gilded unabridged edition whenever she has moved, I find that I was disappointed in this newest movie version. As a movie lover, however, I found the movie to be an enjoyable experience.   The decision of the screenwriter and director to cut come out what I felt were several story arcs and moving pictures from the novel was very disappointing. For example, in the movie there is no mention of Beths shyness, or of her overcoming that shyness to bring forth friends with Mr. Lawrence. The exposure in the novel where she gathers her courage to walk over to his polarity and thank him for giving her his piano is one of the most defining moments for Beth. boilersuit I found Beth and Mr. Lawrence to both be sadly underdeveloped in the movie. Mr. Lawrence appears in only three scenes, while many of Beths key moments in like manner vanished. Jos wonderful tomboyish nature is also severely tone-down for this version. She does not vocalise Christopher Columbus nor any of her other slang words. We never see the scene where she longs to go be a soldier fighting in the struggle and wishes she were a man. They transformed the character of Meg from someone who longs for finer things and tends to be snobbish into the wise older sister who does not care rough such things. Lacking is the wonderful moment when she realizes that she does not care round Mr. Brooks poverty as she staunchly defends her love of him against Aunt March. While Amys pick up for a perf ect nose is mentioned twice, there is never a scene showing some of her efforts such as her wearing the clothespin on it at night to make is straight, nor do we get enjoy reflection her artistic endeavors such as her attempts to make a plaster curl of her foot.