WaPo: “We watched 15 straight hours of ‘Little Women,’ and things got weird”

WaPo writers Caitlin Gibson and Monica Hesse watched a whole bunch of adaptations of “Little Women” over 15 hours and rated them. They started in the 1930s and ran up to the 1994 version. The newest is not included in the “Womarathon.” You can read their thoughts here. From the article:

In 1868, Louisa May Alcott published “Little Women,” her seminal novel about four sisters in Civil War-era Massachusetts. Approximately 150 years later, two Washington Post journalists — namely, us — lost our minds.

In the interim, there were remakes and fan fiction and debates about Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy and their mother, Marmee. Should aspiring writer Jo have turned down boy-next-door Laurie’s marriage proposal? Would Laurie really have then ended up with self-centered Amy? (Spoiler: Beth dies.)

Hollywood got involved. “Little Women” adaptations plopped onto screens nearly once a decade; watching them became a rite of passage. Mothers and daughters, sisters and friends wept into their popcorn in crowds full of other women weeping into their popcorn. A new entry into the canon lands this Christmas: a Greta Gerwig production already hyped as the best “Little Women” ever.

 

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