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Dr Tara Slatton's avatar

This is sadly the same thing that has happened first with Sci-Fi movies (esp Star Wars), then comic book movies, and fantasy movies, classic literature just seems to be the latest victims of the trend. People with little actual talent and no love for or understanding of the original material hijack a superior work to fill with their own philosophy and belief system because they know no one will pay to see anything original they create. That is why we got Jake Skywalker in The Last Jedi and why we got a completely regressed Thor in Love and Thunder, and Captain Marvel wearing a Galadriel skin suit in Rings of Power. Sadly Louisa May Alcott isn’t alone in having her beautiful work desecrated. Spare yourself the horror of any of the recent Jane Austen adaptations.

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Rachel's avatar

You missed the part where she makes Jo pine for Laurie and jealous of Amy, and makes Amy a lovesick puppy of a young woman. I couldn't agree with you more, though. Gerwig tried so hard to make this movie subversive that she took out all of Alcott's original subversiveness and turned it into feminist drivel (it actually felt pretty anti-feminist to take a novel written by a woman and gut it like she did, tell you the truth.) I am still mad about this one

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