Congrats Little Women
With the release of the nominees for Oscar this past week I am
reminded once again of how a movie like Little Woman goes against the Hollywood
grain.
Most of the movies nominated for Best Picture are films that
show violence; front and center are car chases, male-dominated leads—with one
exception.
Best picture
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Parasite
In her piece at Vanity Fair, Greta Gerwig on the Lives of Little Women—And Why “Male Violence” Isn’t All That Matters, Gerwig writes about the film,
her script and the utter lunacy of a book about 4 girls, their lives a
collection of mundane details. Frm her article:
I think Louisa May Alcott, whether she
knew it or not, made the ordinary lives of girls and women extraordinary by
turning her pen to them. I still think we very much have a hierarchy of
stories. I think that the top of the hierarchy is male violence—man on man, man
on woman, etc.
This is exactly what I was hitting
upon in my review of the movie, Little Women. (http://memoirouswrite.blogspot.com/2020/01/little-women.html)
Another thing I love about this
article is a “fake” page of script where Gerwig imagines a conversation between
the girls about art imitating life:
This seems to be an old, Plato’s
Cave kind of conversation/debate. Does art imitate life and what makes which
more important? If one had not collected data, minutia about the glaciers (ColdWar Spy Satellites Reveal Substantial Himalayan Glacier Melt) we wouldn’t have
milestone or anyway to compare to what is happening today. So also the “story
of domestic struggles and joys” reflects back to the audience/readers the lives
of women post-Civil War and conclusions we might make today about where we
stand in literature/history.
I’ve included a link here to the
article:
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