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Wow it’s been awhile since I last posted anything. Well... Fruits Basket! I can’t wait for the new episode tomorrow! Kyo has shown so much character growth and I can’t wait to watch Kyo and Tohru falling in love. But shits about to go down! Poor Yuki, I’m glad you’re finally starting to show more strength. Love for Kureno and Rin too is much needed. I need to reread the manga for the hundredth time now. I’m just so glad they are adapting the whole series and it’s beautiful.
i could talk forever about the way little women (2019)’s supposedly „woke” meta ending sucked, but i will never forgive the fact that greta gerwig had the perfect ending with jo feeling fulfilled running her school, genuinely happy in her marriage and surrounded by her parents, sisters and nieces and nephews who were all there to share her joy as her book first got published, and decided „no, i’m going to be a smart-ass and go with an ending that is condescending and cynical. but hey! i mocked the romance so that makes me the Ultimate Feminist.”
i mean, fine, i admit i hated that the movie mocked the umbrella scene by implying it was a work of fiction (which in itself makes no sense because are we then supposed to question if everything else that’s happened until that point also really happened?), but that’s just me being a romantic. you’d prefer that jo remain unmarried, great, all the more power to you.
but no one can convince me that long ass book binding sequence followed by jo standing there all alone hugging her book while the scene at plumfield where she’s surrounded by all of her loved ones is portrayed as maybe-fictional is a happy ending (or even a satisfying ending), and especially compared with the heartwarming and wholesome original ending in the screenplay that paints jo’s ultimate happy ending as being with her family and her book getting published is just the cherry on top of that.
there’s so much shipping discourse surrounding little women that sometimes people forget that at its core it’s about family. it’s about sisterhood. jo march as a character is so attached to her family (and that attachment is in part the reason why she was so against marriage at the beginning, because marriage spelled the end to childhood and all of them being together). to have an ending where she’s not with her family is a betrayal to the character. it’s a betrayal to the spirit of the book.
little women (2019) thinks it’s being special, but really it’s just echoing the same tired idea, that women can either have family or success. women are either meg or they’re jo: either they give up their artistic ambitions to settle down and have a family, or they pursue their art at the cost of loneliness. there was no reason the movie couldn’t have gone with the original, unambiguous ending which had jo BOTH succeed as a writer AND have a fulfilling personal life, but it went with this one, with the bleak, dark scene of her watching her book get published juxtaposed with the almost ethereal, fairytale-like dream of her being surrounded by her family. professional success comes with a price tag. for all of the post-modern posturing the movie tried to do, that’s a... strangely archaic idea to have.
Oh my god this. What you wrote are exactly my thoughts about Gerwig’s Little Women and her treatment on both Jo and Fritz. Jo really doesn’t really have character development in this movie. After that speech to Marmee about women, minds and hearts and love and being sick of it...but that she’s so lonely. Marmee also tells her it isn’t love when Jo thinks she made a mistake in rejecting Laurie. Jo may have had a passing thought in the book, however she knew she didn’t love Laurie romantically. Laurie was always her ‘boy’ and not a man. Then Greta has her writing a letter to Laurie to take her back and being jealous of Amy when they come home. That is not Jo. It’s also not Jo when she yells at Fritz when he critiques her work. Fritz helps her become a better writer - it’s all in the book!
Greta’s original script ending was so much better; it baffles me on why she changed it to this stupid woke bullshit. Fritz is not a character in this movie: we don’t get to know him and his story nor see his friendship with Jo (no nephews and no playing with children and going to intellectual gatherings- I did love the beer hall dance scene though and that Greta did have Jo’s family getting to know when he came to visit).
The umbrella scene was rushed, the chase scene to him felt so out of place, and yes Jo did have both a career and love life. I don’t mean to get I o Greta’s personal life but how can she hate Fritz so much when she’s married to Noah Baumbach who is 15 years older? She didn’t do a lot of necessary research (adding in so many Alcott references, esp with Jo, was odd too. Little Women is a semi autobiographical story; the second book is pure fiction).
It is here! My Big Bhaery essay, cultural and cinematic evolution of Fritz Bhaer (through gender studies of course). I tracked down the German university where Friedrich was a professor, time of birth and when he immigrated to US. Everything about 19th-century courting in Little Women. An equal amount of complaints and praises on the adaptations. Thanks to some of the recent studies made by Alcott scholars I have now become convinced that Louisa planned our professor from the start http://www.fairychamber.com/blog/evolution-of-friedrich-bhaer
I enjoyed Adam Driver’s sketches on SNL. I really wish SNL will upload the game night sketch that got cut: they should notice the pictures circling around (unless they released those photos?). My favorite sketch was Medieval Times. I hope he has hair that long in The Last Duel but I don’t believe that hair style was in fashion in France at that time. So I hope he does another fantasy or historical movie so he can play a character like Cameron haha. I also really enjoyed him as Randy the Intern, the science professor, and the cold open. The ketchup sketch was really weird but he and Cecily pulled that off perfectly. I don’t really like Del Taco much. The Slow song was funny but I honestly think it could’ve been a lot better. The sleepover sketch was fine...it had its moments.
I can’t wait to watch Annette. I am hoping in The Last Duel that we see all sides of what happened. Yes this story and characters takes place in the 1300s in France so culture was vastly different. But in the modern age here with the MeToo movement I really hope the rape charges are handled carefully. Like was it rape or is the woman lying? Maybe there was miscommunication going on? I haven’t read the book so I can’t really say. It will be cool to see Adam as a knight squire (which is odd. Adam is way taller than Matt so that will be ironically funny to see Adam as the squire and Matt as the knight).
I hope Adam decides to do more Broadway shows. I missed seeing him in Burn This and I would love to him on stage. I wonder what other projects he has planned? I would love for him to be a lead in a comedy or a romcom - one that is creative, smart, and has three dimentional characters that is. If they ever make another Jane Eyre movie him as Mr. Rochester would be amazing. Or as Darcy (wouldn’t it be interesting if there was a movie made from Darcy’s point of view?). He probably could’ve pulled this off when he was younger but can anyone picture him as Howl in a live adaptation of the book Howl’s Moving Castle? A completely different type of character than he usually goes for but I think he would be brilliant. Another adaptation I can easily see him in is The Alchemist. Otherwise I have plenty of my own original screenplays where it would be a dream come true if anyone of them get green lit he would play the main male character(s).
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Kylo, that was the character that [Rian Johnson] was most excited about getting into and writing, because in the first Star Wars films, Vader was a great villain, but he was never someone you identified with. Whereas, with Kylo, it’s almost like Rey and Kylo are two halves of the protagonist. And, if this is all about the transition from adolescence into adulthood, Kylo is that anger of adolescence.
ADAM DRIVER as KYLO REN behind the scenes of Star Wars: The Last Jedi requested by @galacticidiots
I HATE THAT WE CAN SEE HER TALKING TO HIM BUT CANT KNOW WHAT SHES SAYING GOD FUCKING DAMN IT
(gif is @adamdriverse on twitter)
*me*
Never read nor watched Little Women before this, but I am so phenomenally fond of Friedrich. Just. In general. But this is coming from someone who watched 2019 first and had no context prior to this! As a writer/cinema-saavy person, I was made aware of the Gerwig’s cinematic parallelism of past and present during my watch, and I could tell that there must have been something taken out of the equation as a means to balance out Gerwig’s vision. Yet, I took fondly to the man who was basically void of existence mid-movie, purely on the fact that Gerwig’s method of narrative essentialism still had me appreciate his weight? In the same way 2019 Jo summarized the entirety of her loneliness in a single sweep (as I later found out she dedicated an entire chapter to such somber chills), I found that Friedrich’s ‘clean sweep’ came down to lines that could be easily overlooked if one came for acting instead of script:
“But do you have anyone to take you seriously? To talk about your work?”
Which sealed the deal for me early on– that he was essentially the one meant to simply see her. That in a single line Greta Gerwig had ‘essentiallized’ his character. (And I, of no former knowledge of Little Women, came into a 151 year old plot delighted to know I was right an hour later.)
Anyway major respect to Gerwig for her take on the entire book, because each (even beyond Friedrich) left me so fond. I adored Jo, Laurie, Amy, Beth and Meg so much…………….. lord.
Of course, as I’ve actually admitted 2019 Friedrich was my first version of Friedrich, and he still managed to catch my attention for all he was worth– it was nice reading book two and finding out that Alcott wrote him in as a worthy addition (rather than a cop out, as I’ve had the misfortune to read criticisms as of late.) Fleshed him out so thoroughly that I was shocked at all that anyone would argue otherwise. While she was obligated to write a romance at all, she did so on her own terms and did so with all the determination to stir. And with such poignant cause to stir, considering she clearly decided against Jo and Laurie narratively. (To which, I do have to toast to shippers because everyone has their own cup of tea and that also delicately requires respect.)
I have no doubt that Alcott would have wanted Friedrich to be taken with as much weight as one would have for the author crafting him– for if she was determined to be a good writer, she would write her secondary love interest in full investment, regardless. And Alcott’s a d/mn good writer for one determined to subtly/unsubtly preach between the lines. Basically, as a writer myself, I respect her hussle and wish others would too. Sure, she was obligated to tie it up with a romance but she sure as hell managed to finesse an entire character who she took entirely seriously, herself. (Really, really wishing Gerwig added the Kant/Hegel argument in though. Loved that bit in the book so much.)
So cheers, Friedrich Bhaer- I love and appreciate the sheer narrative irony and the keen weight of your existence.
I find Greta´s biases and lack of research extremely disappointing, at the same I am so glad there are more people who have come to love Fritz thanks to this movie, and even better have become inspired to read the book.
Joaquin Phoenix shouting out Adam Driver during his acceptance speech for Best Actor at the 2020 SAG Awards
WHAT IS WITH THE PRESENTATION OF ALL SITH AS EVIL AND ALL JEDI AS GOOD? Excuse me, but the Jedi and the Sith were incredibly flawed for acknowledging only one side of the Force. Palpatine is evil, but he doesn't represent all Sith. The point of the sequel trilogy was to show that Rey and Ben acknowledge both aspects of the Force and are better for it. Balance is the key. It would have been spectacular to see Ben and Rey take down Palpatine by achieving the balance and embracing the grey, but noooo we have to have the Sith vs. Jedi thing and Ben being virtually ignored.
Let me get this straight…
They decided to make a movie taking into account feedback and complaints that certain fans had about the first two films in the trilogy. That resulted in a fan service and nostalgia filled mess that made little cohesive sense and has been slammed by critics and fans and is now the worst reviewed Star Wars movie.
They had a stellar cast, in particular Academy Award Nominee Adam Driver, one of the best actors of this generation.
He played Kylo Ren/Ben Solo, arguably the best and most popular character of the ST.
They gave him no dialogue in the second half and completely underused this immensely talented actor yet he still gave it his all and stole the movie.
They killed off his character in the most tragic, unsatisfying way.
Now, a month after the movie was released, this character they killed unceremoniously is all anyone can talk about. The one thing everyone can agree on is that Ben Solo and Adam’s portrayal of him was the highlight of the film and the ST.
#BenSoloChallenge was trending.
In memory of this character over $80k has been raised for Adam’s non profit organisation, Arts in the Armed Forces.
Reylo has skyrocketed in popularity and the fandom has created so much new content.
The Rise of Kylo Ren #1 was one of the best selling comics of 2019, even though it was only released on December 18, two weeks before the end of the year.
Adam Driver has been nominated for an Academy Award for the second year in a row.
No one is talking about the trio, Palpatine’s return, Rey Skywalker or any of the nostalgic fan service. It’s all about Ben Solo.
They in no way did this character’s journey justice. They threw him under the bus for their own selfish reasons even though it didn’t make sense for the narrative. They tried to throw him into a pit never to be seen again but the jokes on them because now Ben Solo is more alive than ever!
I hope Disney realises they made a huge mistake in killing off this character and prioritising their childhood nostalgia over a well written story.
Preach! This. So this. Thanks for writing and posting this because this is so true. Adam and Ben Solo deserved better and when you look at his supposed death scene you can tell they heavily edited that scene and reversed part of it (thanks to the talented fans who have corrected this scene). I know that Ben did some horrible things that are unforgivable as Kylo Ren, but he did deserve to finally be at peace as Ben and he can’t do that by dying or disappearing into the world between worlds that Disney will prob never go for. And yes all anyone can talk about is Adam and Ben Solo and I really hope Disney is listening and will do something about it.
Can we take a moment and just look at the development of Adam Driver/Ben Solo/Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequels?
Boy looks super young and fresh at that emo phase. Power is everything to him and he just wants to be like Vader.
Has grown into a man now who has met his match in the Force. Has become more stone like rather than an angry emo mess. He has seen his match and because of her, he has started to feel a pull to the light. She became his beacon. But still, he wanted power. He wanted her to rule alongside him.
Has officially become the man. The Ben Solo. He has gotten rid of his mask, he has synced with his soulmate. No longer is he on a quest for power, he is there to save the one person who has finally shown him love and care and even through the awful things he did, she still wanted him. So he comes to her rescue. He becomes Ben Solo.
I just think it’s interesting to see how much Adam as an actor and Ben Solo/Kylo Ren as a character have grown over the course of the sequels. It’s nice to see the difference because in The Force Awakens, he looks so completely different. Comparing him from TFA to The Rise of Skywalker, you can see the difference and the development that the character and the actor go through. And I just think that’s cool.
I just watched Marriage Story earlier tonight. It left me emotional, with many thoughts, and with questions. The villain was the divorce lawyer system but the other villain was the major miscommunication that was going on between Nicole and Charlie. I have a lot of conflicting thoughts about the last third of the movie because it seemed like Nicole was the villain in the end for getting pretty much everything and Charlie nothing, but then I think Charlie was also the villain at points. They are grey characters and real people and that at the end of everything they still do care for each other. Nora was a bitch though; smart and clever but also really manipulative. Brilliant acting by Adam Driver and Scarlett Johanssen; so raw and real. I also finally watched Logan Lucky on Sunday and that movie was a fun two hours. Adam really becomes Clyde and he was hilarious. Totally on an Adam movie watch binge (can’t believe I haven’t seen many of his movies yet). He really deserves the Oscar nom (and GG nom) and hey he has won some prestigious acting awards this year/last year. He carried TROS and he didn’t have lines as Ben (you can tell he does say stuff but the horrible editing they did. Plus he was supposed to live dammit) but he was amazing with his facial and body acting that we could see everything he was thinking.
Ben Solo redeemed😫😍 credits: Obnixius on Reddit
