Little Women Film Comparison: 1933 and 1994

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in the role of Jo who is the character of central importance in the book and also in its cinematic adaptation. In the new movie version of the book, everything has been done skillfully to accomplish the lasting impact that the novel leaves on the readers. Little women is not an ordinary book and so the movie versions are required to keep up with the extraordinariness of the wonderful novel by focusing on performances, sets, costumes, music and landscape. Individual performances especially by Ryder and Susan Sarandon make the movie the best cinematic adaptation of the book so far. Ryder gives a very powerful performance as the outspoken and immensely independent though slightly boyish Jo who refuses to accept societal norms yet grows up to be a woman of substance.

The director Gillian Armstrong chose to deviate from the book on some occasions and yet she manages to retain the essence of the story by following the plot precisely. We need to understand that usually when books are ...

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of the past. And the actors have done a marvelous job in becoming worthy successors. For example Ryder in the role of Jo is so convincing and so absolutely close to her character in the book that the sheer power of her performance blurs the legendary performances by Hepburn and Allyson. "Ryder is more than just a worthy successor to the legends who preceded her in the role: Katharine Hepburn (1933) and June Allyson (1949). This Jo March is both rebellious and magnanimous, and Ryder plays the outspoken budding writer with only a trace of makeup, a long brown wig, and dresses made of the plainest muslin. Those who have worked with her say that Ryder is one of the lucky few who doesn't ...

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