![]() ![]() Gerwig reshapes the text for the audience of our time, making it both meta and subversive, while each character stays true to his/herself and their narrative. ![]() More so because Gerwig combines Alcott’s semi-autobiographical ‘Little Women’, with more elements from Alcott’s own real life, from her letters and diaries, while at the same time, maintains her own take on the text and the characters. What made it all the more relevant and real was that the text was semi-autobiographical (much like Gerwig’s ‘Lady Bird’) and modeled after Alcott’s own her relationship with her three sisters and their adolescence. This, in many ways, served to validate the dreams of young girls to do something different. It was a text meant for young women, and it was the kind that reinforced the importance of individuality and normalized ambition in women through its characters, while portraying the regular lives of American middle-class girls. ![]() The work was a feminist text long before the word ‘feminism’ was even coined. There is a reason why Alcott’s novel proved to be a timeless classic, why it never went out of print, why its read so widely generation after generation, adored both by the young and the old alike. In an interview with Hollywood Reporter she stated, “ Little Women was just a part of me …These girls felt like my sisters and their memories felt like my memories. #IS LITTLE WOMEN A TRUE STORY MOVIE#This is because the book has been a part of her childhood, it mattered to her, and she just knew that this was one movie she had to make. Gerwig’s adaptation maintains it authenticity and honesty while staying true to the original. ![]()
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