Little Women (2019)

Hey, it's your old past slim and this is 70 millimeter, a podcast for film fans just like you with me as always is my close friend and artist Danny has hello and our close friend and women's studies expert protoxys or Marmy everyone does every episode is connected to a theme for that month and this time it's femtember final name pending still workshopping we're only covering movies directed by women this month so Danny's pick is Greta Gerwig's little women and you can use the chapters in your podcast app to skip to that discussion if you want Casey Hoss left her to quote perfect movie Proto famously said years ago that the 1994 movie was better than this will his opinion hold up we'll get into you Soka episode three I don't just get it we don't have to start thank you we can talk about that in the uncut I just want to remind folks that Spotify and patreon are making out so if you have been holding off on joining our patreon because you listen and Spotify can do that now also we just as a recording it's like about to charge patrons the numbers about to go down but we hit 400 patrons that's insane congratulations to you both congratulations or achievement yeah milestone and Danny famously promise that once we hit 400 we would do the first hunger games movie yeah are we still doing that it's coming yeah we haven't skid I haven't sent out a Google calendar invite yet but when I mean why would we just do one what's the what's the point you want to do them all that's what you're saying it's a whole series Proto where do you stand on that it's still unconfirmed how many movies there are in this franchise no one has a clear answer now I know that I saw trailer for prequel that looked pretty cool does it and I hadn't I had no idea what even was going on the movie not the music on the numbers are going backwards could be like six hunger games I also know that I had like the longest title I'd ever heard of anyone Google the title of the prequel so I can recite it it's it's like 10 words the prequel title it's insane there's like a semicolon I think there's three semicolons in the title the hunger games the ballot of songbirds and snakes that's pretty long it's nine do oh you know what this is what I want to start the show off with Proto watching the flash I think on packs this week Lord have mercy can we get into this Proto what what was that day like you make yourself some ice tea you sit down in front of max and fire up the flash and 4k yeah I was on vacation and I had a little bit of time in the vacation home and I could sit down to watch a movie and I thought hey like maybe you know I'm on vacation maybe something low stakes there's this flash movie and I know it's not going to be great but I don't need a great movie right now this is kind of what I you know it's kind of what I'm looking for something cheap so I put it on and well I mean I also knew I'm there's two other hosts on the show who will not be named who watched the flash and did not leave ratings so speaking of which I looked at your flash review someone's you calling me a coward in the comments of your review for not ratings flash yes finally people are speaking out thank you yeah I was upholded by this you in this movie oh my god it the only thing I can I can that comes the mind is the matrix reloaded the plastic people this movie yeah there was so much of that where everyone looked bad like really bad and maybe they were going for that not for me it's what they said yeah the the treadmill CGI stuff was a poor decision like all that CGI was ghastly catastrophic I had fun with flash I'll I'll test that and in my comments of my review I think I said I was leaning on three and a half stars to whomever called me a coward in part of his comments so I'm a three and a half stars I had fun I thought it was funny too doesn't mean I love the CGI or I know what that I didn't put stars up that's because there is no stars to give a zero star I can't give a star so those movies I can't if there was a zero star would you have given it zero stars yeah sure yeah that's what I did no stars doesn't mean zero stars though then we need to have a no stars you need to give I'm not doing I'm not doing a ticket they don't get through to letterbox nothing gets different over there everyone at letterbox reads the null tickets no they don't we read them together no we we have a four hour meeting weekly and we just recite them to each other I can just see like a ticker tip coming in you guys grab one read it throw it away another thing I could say about the flash is that let it out I could I could also kind of couldn't believe it when you get to the end of the movie and like like this was the story this was the story that they went with cash well listen a lot of people are back on the DC train with blue beetle they said they're they're back who's the director of suicide squad he's running James gun James they're like James guns done it again we're back in the game with blue beetle James gun also said that like the flash was the best movie though since the dark night or something like months but also you hate at the dark night so we don't need to get into this not even engaging with this business please I'm getting I'm getting linked to this in other discord's people for all thing one to talk about the films did any other movie part of you want to talk about to watch the stink of the flash out of your mouth no okay no AFI journey it's over it's it over to finish from AFI now I took a break I gave myself a week off some other things out you know like I said I was on vacation right watching some other things watch the French film you know you know how you do let's say hello to some new patrons who joined this week Jesse and fluffy tacos joined this past week could access to the VHS filter discord discounts on Danny's prints you know they're not on the website right now stop I'll get the store back going we're going through some constructions right now okay on the print under situation it's under construction they're coming back real soon I know I replied to a few people in IG saying yeah they'll be up by the end of the week you said that that was like two weeks ago but that's besides the point listen folks they're coming back real soon um send me a Google calendar invite let's get into this I sent a Google calendar invite through recording off-air and both Danny and Proto say that I'm the only person that they know that uses Google calendar invites hmm Proto what did you say I'm the I'm the one person keeping Google calendar online so that we were mid-sentents talking about it and you sent me an email while we were I was looking right at you and I got a Google calendar you never broke eye contact I don't know how you did it can can chat if you use Google calendar please back me up that it's a life saver you need to use I hate those protect any classic photo Danny just got posted in chat where was I oh yeah there's some watch parties planned this this upcoming week I think to support some tape deck adjacent podcasts so the watch parties are back if you're looking for some movie loving friends maybe your group of friends don't talk about movies they don't care what you think about movies hmm makes me new friends in our discord Danny anything you watch this week you want to talk about after we watched um godzilla 1998 I was itching to get back into um the monster verse um legendary films um so I watched the I don't know what year the Kyle chant no the Brian Cranston godzilla yeah 2014 thank you Kirby um I was just wanting to I wanted to start them over and watch them again um and I just picked that one to start with this the I guess is the first one I honestly had a good time watching it again I was I don't know I think it's okay I mean I had a it was fun I couldn't believe how much Brian Cranston was like swinging for the fence with his performance and the beginning of the certain his paycheck he really was I was it was it was impressive um but I mean once you get to the once you get to godzilla fighting the two moodos I guess they call them at the end though the husband and wife who were trying to put their eggs into San Francisco um tenderloin district you just it's a great time I mean it's a it's a fun fight um and I really had fun watching a George came in and watched a little bit of with me how surprised he stuck through uh some of the non monster bits we started we started watching um king of the monsters yeah we started watching king of the monsters and he was asking where uh he said where's that boy at and I was like which boy he's talking about air and Taylor Johnson and I'm like he's like 20 something man he's not a boy I was like I guess he I don't know honestly don't know why he's not in these next the next though yeah forgot about that he was kind of like the star of that first one he's busy uh doing that spider-man movie now without this just 2014 I mean I know I don't know why he wasn't in king of the monsters but we got Kyle Chandler so I think my favorite part of that king the monsters was godzilla's layer his underground layer oh yeah why don't you start talking about the hollow earth then you start getting into that gets remember I I wrote I know godzilla versus Kong was that pandemic I think that was like direct to max right I feel like I can't remember like 10 years ago I remember I gave that movie five stars and I was a fine I was crucified for that star rating you remember that era part I'll be giving five stars to godzilla versus Kong oh yeah the high-end three stars that's a classic review from old pro written in directed by ham sandwich that was what are your best ones yeah no so I'm I'm enjoying the journey again because I think we got we got one coming up soon right the next yeah it's like gazila minus zero or something it's like another reboot has nothing to do with shin godzilla for some reason wait what they reboot these godzilla movies every five years legendary pictures oh legendary I don't know anything about that no is that all legendary does is godzilla movies and didn't yeah see thank you kept godzilla x Kong one bro thank you I knew there was another one is that oh it's an Apple TV show oh god no that's a post-apocalyptic every freaking show and Apple Apple plus post-apocalyptic can anyone name ten non post-apocalyptic shows in Apple TV plus some it's not I dare you godzilla x Kong is not the Apple TV show there's two different things happening we got to move on we're running at a time that's all I watched this week that I want to talk about what about the Ferrari trailer you watch my god you seen this um you know I was already excited because I love Adam driver and man but the two of them teaming up to tell the Enzo Ferrari story uh I was very excited about and then the teaser it's just the teaser we don't have the full trailer yet but the teaser trailer for this movie it just had my hair standing on the back of my neck I'm so excited for this film the the car racing looks incredible um it really felt like um grand pre the old grand pre-movie kind of edging that it was just I'm very excited for this film okay but did you see the trailer for this I did Adam driver looks like he's in an SNL skit as Ferrari it's I've only seen the poster bit it I can see that we can Michael man hasn't put a lot of movies out recently black hat was the most reason one from 2015 I don't know I hear people say that that's like good actually but it's a 2.9 on letterbox what's black hat is that the one with him's worth Chris Hemsworth a man is released from prison to help American and Chinese authorities pursue a mysterious cyber criminal the dangerous search leads them from Chicago to Hong Kong it's on Netflix what actor did you just say Thor Chris Hemsworth then he did public enemies before that and then Miami Vice before that so and then collateral right before that so the not Michael man's not putting out like movie every year whatever clutter was like 1989 1989 Tom Cruise Jamie Foxx every week we give out a free year letterboxed patron tag your reviews uh for the movies that you're watching with us in advance of an episode 70 mm pod I don't check any other tags or views no and you could be entered to win a free year of letterbox patron gets rid of ads disclaimer and letterbox employee backdrop on your profile um I would I mean it's fem timber I would give it to a woman but all the women that were tagging their reviews are already patrons so I couldn't do it um but I do have a review from you and had a lump in my throat pretty much the whole time what an ensemble what a score what a film magic so you in s 93 just want a free year of letterboxed patron there you go congratulations congrats you on um we should talk about this meetup it's good I know it well it's here about it none of us were there but you Proto wasn't there we didn't get the invite your invite it was in the mail it wasn't in my I didn't send you a good calendar invite see that's how I missed it um so we did like a mini filly meetup you know there's people in like L.A. Andy's doing meetups I think Andy's had a meetup Andy's had a meetup in 10 states so far this country you're kidding me I don't know how he does it yeah so we were like enough of this we need to do a fill it off your movie weekend let's go see a movie in fill it off here so me Thomas Ev Alex and Pat went to go see stand by me my gosh what an amazing what an amazing day we had are you guys okay after that movie uh I hadn't seen it in like 25 years I think what's the last time you saw a stand by me I had the couple I ever seen with the one time but I had to have been high school yeah we went to see it at Brynmar Film Institute pretty nice theater in Brynmar PA it's like the highway but if they had like four theaters um so they were playing like two popular movies but then they do like their own programming on the side so they have a bunch of stuff coming up um so I gave stand by me four stars after the movie we went to have dinner and then after the dinner we went to go have some ice cream we went I was drinking a milkshake walking through the streets of Brynmar PA goodness the light wow for the ones last time you saw a stand by me uh is that the one with um McCulley Culkin and um that's the good son that's where the bees get them no no I'm taking the one with the girl yeah that's bees oh okay what's that girl my girl yeah they're not the same movie no stand by me has Will Wheaton River Phoenix Gerry O'Connell Cory Feldman Keifers Sutherland and directed by Rob Reiner off of the novella short story by the master of harsh Stephen King I always forget that's a king story yeah so it was a lot of fun you know it's funny you just saying the name Cory Feldman Chuck and Dale's face just like flash across the mind bad and spider needs to do more Cory Feldman movies I feel like they should just review one of his concerts oh god Art and Chats says retire King of Prussia I mean I got a I got a screener invite for King of Prussia King of Prussia is still alive and well there's the haunting in Venice I got to invite to that like new puro mystery pretty good I heard a lot of good things about it a lot of good things trainer trainer I invited my wife no offense we're gonna have a date night I know you would love to fly in I would you know he would it it's not even worth it um Casey says I'm very curious about it because the book sucked oh gosh whoo strong words from Casey she's she's all one tonight oh my god should we get into our movie little women 2019 someone has to 70 mm loves women month there's a lot of names that one didn't get for the grounds no this is Danny's pick part of what's this movie about megg joe beth and Amy march live in conquered massachusetts with their marmy while their father is a way fighting in the civil war when it comes to childhood the march sisters have the greatest gift you could hope for a deep friendship with each other these friendships are cocooned within the gentle arms of an adoring father and a mother who waters the strengths of each daughter and when the door opens and they step out into adulthood they find their own way and right their own story and they can always remember the time when they were little women one of my favorite Simpson homages which when moe is reading little women to those gals just search moe little women it's an amazing street job everyone pause search he says they were no longer little girls they were little women they were little women and then his single tear drops Nana's cheek I was looking at the first log that I have for little women 2019 and February 11th 2020 we started this show January 23rd 2020 so we were talking about our experiences with little women and like that was a four five that's insane about what we thought about this yeah I need to see I don't know what my first log was now probably you have a storied history with little women right I do we need to retell this story because it's been a long time so we talked about it all right everyone gather around uh said by the fire yeah little women 1994 starring Susan Miranda and Winona Ryder and the rest is a picture that I watch many times with my sisters growing up and it's just one of those you know it's as a sentimental place in my heart I love it I could watch it now even as we and we'll get into this as I watch this there's you know so much of the dialogue is similar that I see that movie as I'm watching this one so you say but don't get into it yet yeah I'm not I'm not I'm getting into it I don't want to hear it I know this is a dumb thing that makes me funny how when we get into the movie discussion and I tell everyone to hold their thoughts um yeah the I watched little women 1994 since that initial discussion we had three years ago um for the letterbox show someone had little women 1994 as one of their for phase so and I linked to the best scene of the movie which we'll get it we won't get into the next time before yeah there's a best scene oh my god yeah I mean I was welling up watching YouTube of my phone reclining on my couch it was like the Wolverine holding the photo but it was when he says my hands are empty you know what can I give you sort of it's a beautiful scene in the 1994 movie and we'll get into the this version try to dance straight from the bible Danny what about you what's your history with little women the movie no I never saw the 1994 version and I didn't read the book ever so my history is literally in January 2020 seeing credit girl wigs little women for the first time so I didn't I don't have I don't have a past or nostalgia say anything else other than what I saw right from Greta nostalgia I think this is probably my first credit girl wig movie oh you didn't see the lady bird until after a little woman yeah I think so and I actually don't love lady bird that much listen this weekend little woman wish or excuse me lady bird was showing and case and I were gonna go there's two showtimes at the one D in Orlando showing it both completely sold out I haven't seen a sold out theater like this since like I mean Barbie but that's also Greta but for little I would not we weren't expecting lady bird to be sold out both showings this weekend but it was and we didn't get to see it so I was a little bit bummed it's pretty crazy like what we're living through with Greta in like her prime now what would be like I guess I don't know I hate to make a dude comparison but like Martin Scorsese when he's doing like good fellows and stuff I'm trying to think of like untouchable and like mainstream appeal and popularity I wonder like what the parallel would be in in the last 30 years I just feel like credit is shaman on maybe that's true the shaman he was pretty hot yeah his run he was hot it's a good phrase put that on the shirt Danny this was your pick so aren't you lead us off what's on the top of your mind for this viewing top of my mind was to talk about Greta she's the woman of the hour for us and I I'd seen lady bird before this so I didn't really have a grasp I mean I know she's only directed the three movies that I had seen but I didn't have a grasp of who she was even as a director then to to know that going into this little woman I don't know it's like you go into like your 17th Spielberg you know what you're expecting so I didn't know what I was expecting going into little women for the first time and I was I still kind of in awe of the filming of this the storytelling I think when I think about this the most not just like the performances but also the the two parallel storylines that are going on and happening side by side I think is some of the most brilliant storytelling that I've seen in a in a movie I I can't get I can't get over how how well it's done at least in my opinion how they go from the storyline of the childhood to storyline of adulthood for the women and I don't I don't think I've ever been kind of taken back by a director in a while like this has like Greta has done to me in this film. Yeah I think I saw on the wiki that my copious amounts of research scanning the Wikipedia but Greta had said that like the little women was an inspiration for her to become a writer and director yeah really worked hard to get the gig to write it first and then eventually was approved to be the director yeah I love the dual timeline stuff and I think I have like a vague recollection of us talking about this a couple years ago about maybe they're potentially being some confusion at the time like like you couldn't tell what was happening when I didn't have any of that in this particular viewing the 4k of it is ravishing looking you know the bright yellows of the the past and the kind of like almost like blue tone of the modern day yeah I it's pretty crazy in my opinion how how well that stuff works or what do you think yeah I'm not man out I really don't like the dual timelines and I guess I can just preference any of my opinions with this episode because I'm so just biased towards the the version that I grew up with that so it might just be that but I find that it drains the story of most of the dramatic weight that the story has by doing the timelines and I know like most people don't like that at all right but for me it just it just doesn't work and I find it kind of like choppy and confusing um and and just not really my cup of tea but I it is pretty amazing to me the the way this movie looks um the locations that are used and just the maturity I would say like as a director that Greta seems to have like in terms of like the way this movie looks I think you could put this up with like Barry Lyndon you know Kubrick's picture that we watched earlier this year where it's really that beautiful and there's so many shots that are just just gorgeous and and that are you know a joy to look at like the the beach sequence is probably my favorite favorite part of the movie um it's just it's just gorgeous yeah I watched that great interview with Greta and she was talking about the timelines and she was saying um because I guess the book itself is two parts it's like the the I don't I don't really know but she was saying that people say that it's like time travel or like a time jump and the way she described the two timelines where there's two it's basically like two separate films are happening um you have the the from it's like going in from 1861 and it's starting from there their childhood and then it's also telling the story from 1868 of their adulthood and it's really just cutting back in the moment when it kind of collides is the death of Beth which I think is my favorite uh not obviously you love what she died but I am pro murder um the the the the two scenes that mirror each other when uh Joe is upstairs with Beth and comes down and and Beth is at the table with Marmy and then for it to cut to adulthood and she comes down the stairs and she's not there like those that two scenes I think uh I mean I'm just welling up watching those performances and how it how it just mirrors itself in the two timelines and I think it's it I'm gonna say it multiple times this episode but it's brilliant work yeah yeah I love that I actually even forgot that the framing of those two scenes on this rewatch um and then right after we're talking about like the beauty this movie the the shot where she has um the conversation with Teddy Lori on the hills like what puddles that shot is gorgeous just them walking down the hill and you see that like beautiful like vista essentially that they have there my movement of massages do we have do we need to move that's the question I saw snow on the ground so I'm not going nowhere I mean if anyone has ever had to hang out with Danny where he had to wear jacket pants get ready to deal with the biggest curmudgeon on the east coast he looks great though Proto what about you what what struck you on this rewatch well that vista scene when you're talking about um how about the the wonka vibes emulating off a timmy in this in this it's weird it's like he knew he was gonna do wonka back in 2019 it's a prequel yeah there's a prequel I mean his pants are fantastic in this he has no rear end there was a couple shots where you saw like him walking away and there's just like a vast black hole where there could be a cheeks there's nothing going on there yeah and it's like it's like he doesn't have any center of gravity because like when he turns he would also often lose his balance like he doesn't have enough weight to his his hindquarters to like you know be grounded enough um he does like these weird like spin moves in this movie just crack up the up the whole time watching this uh so that stood out to me this time I would give that actor praise but I don't want the first thing did I give praise to be him uh sersha Ronan in this movie I had to look it up she's been nominated for an academy award four times and she lost four times what I don't even want to talk about who she lost to and little women we're not going to talk about it we'll talk about in the uncut episode for supporters only if you want that kind of juice from Danny um she is unreal in this film she's such an amazing actor she like radiates when she's on screen I want to be best friends with her I want to be best friends with Joe I want to hang out I want to get mixed up into potentially loving her and she not loving me and having to deal with the fallout of that over the years um yeah I just couldn't get enough of her and I like I still couldn't believe like that there's articles out there that she was nominated four times she didn't win for anything and I do agree that some of the people that she lost to is kind of bunk but yeah and I and I guess that kind of drifts into one of my other main points but sersha is amazing in this uh the cast in this movie is nuts yeah Laura Dern Merle Streep Eliza Scanlan Emma Watson Flell Florence Pew um and our king Bob Odin Kirk we'll get into him don't don't get into him yet we'll get into him I mentioned to talk about him with you guys but the the cast is incredible in this looking back I mean looking back three years I think it's crazy to see that this cast was all together I can't even imagine what we'll think 10 15 20 years from now um but there's just something about the cast and the characters that they play that there's like more love in this movie than maybe 99% of movies I've seen like you want to hang out with this I want to be friends with this family like when Marmy invites uh Teddy into like when Teddy's at the house and he sees them for the first time kind of like all interacting as a family and there's just so much love in the house and so much love to give from the house to him who is essentially a stranger it it's like it's like this emotional magnetism that this cast radiates in the movie I couldn't get over watching it it's like every scene you care about them in ways that aren't just so difficult to pull off and it just has to do with the talent of the writing but also the talent of the cast I thought when there's I guess there's two Sertia and um Merrill when they found out that Greta was doing um little woman both said that they're Sertia told her she's gonna be Joe March and Merrill Shriep said she's definitely gonna be in the movie so it's like you have these people who are just like we're doing this because we love it just like Greta takes the takes the directing role because and writing role because she loves a little woman but you watch every performance in this film from I mean even down to even Chris Cooper and oh yeah he's great it's just you can you know when you watch a film when everyone that is working on it loves what they're doing and they have they're pouring their passion into the characters that they're portraying and every scene just kind of even when it's sad or emotional or happy or it's it's something going on the weight of whatever is there is it's just kind of coming out of the screen the the the scene that you just said about Teddy coming in on the marches when he first interacts with the entire family in one room and he kind of just kind of sits back in in all of them as a family that's how I feel like when I watch this film just sitting back and I'm just in awe of this cast this crew and just the love that this movie was given proto wow anything anything to add or not in agreement I'm not all right proto not we'll take it how about Amy's skill level at painting did you notice what she was painting like she looks like she could be the most popular painter in the country at that moment she's amazing she's not getting too looks because she's a woman yeah but she's brilliant uh what else Danny jumped out of you on this feeling I think another I don't want to talk about like every scene in this film but I think the score at this movie is underrated I don't think I've actually sat and listened to it until just recently and I think it's it's an absolutely beautiful score throughout the whole thing and it really resonates with me this time around yeah it fits if it's perfectly for the movie the um the one thing I'll give a critique uh to join proto side for this for this viewing I was trying to think of how the relationships ended with um Amy and Teddy getting together and I think there's if I have one critique that Teddy and Amy's relationship to start off the movie it almost happens so fast for the movie that I like I still can't like grasp them marrying by the end of the journey if that makes sense because like their relationship starts in the future like present day really but I'm still so invested in Teddy and Joe's relationship that their eventual marriage still almost feels like quite a shock as a viewer and I couldn't really tell if it was that like what's the line um economic uh I wrote it down somewhere an economic proposition it is marriage and I was trying to think like is Teddy really in love with her or is this him like giving into that economic proposition that she talked about part do you have any thoughts on on their relationship in that storyline yeah yeah that's a good point because I felt the same way it feels rather uh ambiguous they don't you don't really get to see into how both of them feel and maybe that's just by design I don't know what it's like in in the novel um but I agree because they have that conversation and then you know they agree to get married and you're and you're kind of wondering but maybe that's maybe that's what they're going for because you know we often tell ourselves one reason that we're doing something or we might say it's this one reason but it's actually there's multiple reasons why at the end of the day why we do something and we just kind of uh describe it as one so Marcy and Chats says I think this version does the best at making their relationship believable one of the things that Greta said in the interview I watched with her was telling the story on how each sister ends up with someone else and she was saying her one of her reasonings for having um the movie start with Joe writing so that they she can introduce Friedrich right away so that she can show some sort of relationship with Friedrich in the beginning of the film so it didn't feel way too out of place at the end I wish they showed a little bit more of the New York City backstory between the two of them in the middle somewhere um but that well now I'm talking myself out of it because they don't really get together at the end necessarily um but all this is to say the Joe Teddy stuff is probably my favorite part of the movie everything that they do together the way they act together when she gives him that ring oh my god and before that Amy makes fun of his ring yeah years later the scene where they're dancing else on the deck I mean you can't beat it no you just can't beat it I want to go dancing right now just thinking about that scene it's so good I every scene where I honestly pull for Joe and Teddy to get together every time I watch this film because I feel like it's it's what I want it's what the viewer wants but I like I watch every every scene through uh teary eyes with them two together they're they're magic on screen her search on Timothy I I I can't get over how good they are um but the scene on the hillside is is a top tier scene with the two of them uh with Teddy pouring his heart out and Joe just basically laying it out saying it's not for her and I just I can't get over that scene Teddy hiding in the jackets remember they're voting on if they let him into the oh my gosh girl's only club yeah yeah yeah another five star scene with the fam god should we get in a Bob Odin Kirk right now this is what the people want proto Bob Odin Kirk his father march get into it arriving from the war I know people were gobs smacked to see regular Joe Bob Odin Kirk fathering these these wonderful women what do you think I crack out every time he comes on screen all I think of when I see him in this is the Steve Buschemi skit um you know hello fellow kids it's like hello fellow citizens of 1860 New England I am a father it's just like he's like straight out of the 20th century um so it's just aside he has those sideburns though he's got those ancient sideburns sideburns not enough for you it's not enough with Bob I love Bob Odin Kirk as the dad what better man to have fathered these loving girls funny vivacious it's Bob Odin Kirk regular Joe just like me you know not some kind of sexy you know it's not John hit get your John Hams out of my little women okay John Hams no father march thank you I need to edit that one are you pro Bob Odin Kirk or negative it's because I don't have I don't have any I don't have any sort of reactions to Bob Odin Kirk I always found it funny that people did it didn't bother me when it happens and I guess I don't know it's really funny it wasn't a big deal to me well one thing I wanted to bring up is I think I noticed it more of this feeling but um and you were kind of mentioning this of the relationship between the characters of Amy and Teddy uh the little women 1994 version chose to have Amy played by two separate characters Kirsten Dunne's as the younger version and then an older version Amy played by different actors and to me it kind of it helped to create more of a divide and of knowing these two characters um and make it more believable to me Florence pew like her she all she has like a deep voice already that she is not believable to me in any way as young Amy so I always so it's it kind of cracked me up whenever she's performing as like this younger version I don't know how old she's supposed to be but it seems like she's supposed to be like 12 or 13 but I thought like I thought Florence pew was like 33 she's only like 25 um but the line that cracked me up is when she's she's making that um footcast she's making the footcast and like all I heard was like I'm making a mold of my foot for Laurie so he knows I have nice feet like he just sounded like this like she's trying to be 13 but she's just not pulling it off uh at all and that just that kind of took me out of it I forgot that they had two different actors playing the role yeah I noticed this time that she look it looked like they filmed her sitting a lot in those older flashback scenes to almost like convey some sort of youth um it didn't it didn't necessarily bug me in this feeling but I think Amy's characters I don't know it's probably like my I don't want to say least favorite because it sounds like a negative connotation but didn't work as well as the other ones I actually don't I don't like how they did it in the 94 one I think if they would have cast two different Laurie's maybe I would have enjoyed it better I think they just don't they just throw like a mustache a little mustache to make them older with the older Amy it's just I don't know I found that interesting it felt a little creepy she also has that line I have lovely small feet the best in the family yeah she wouldn't hurt her ankles uh also she has a funny line too I'm giving a lot of praise now you know I said something about her but she deserves praise there's also that great speech from Joe in the attic where she's talking about how she's so lonely and they're talking about like did I did I screw up not accepting Teddy's proposal you should you know should I go back but do you love him I care more to be loved I want to be loved that is not the same as loving you know I just I just feel I just feel like women they they have minds and they have souls as well as just hearts and they've got ambition and they've got talent as well as just beauty and I'm so sick of people saying that that love is just all a woman is fit for I'm so sick of it but I'm I'm so lonely but she still doesn't really say that she loves him do you think Danny that she was in love with him where she's still just kind of grappling with her desires to be free and like a writer versus married and tied down um yes I think well yes to um she still has the desire to be a writer and doesn't want to be tied down but she also wants to be loved and that's why when Marmy kind of reiterates that it's not the same so wanting love but loving but loving him back she she just doesn't she doesn't I think she was settling so that she's not alone she says that I'm so lonely in line right which breaks my heart every time but um no I don't I don't think she actually I think she loved Laurie as a friend as a best friend but she was just settling for him to not be alone baby girl just feeling the call of nature listen Joe we've all been there you're in your early 20s you want love you want to make babies and then 10 years go by and you find yourself trapped and you're like how did I get here the call of nature the the one thing that I loved more on this viewing since I'd seen the 1994 little woman was the entire moment where the fam like Friedrich comes over also his scene is just amazing when he plays the piano in that moment for them but then after he leaves they like doll her up like oh you love him you love him and I remember thinking that it felt so weird on first viewing that that was the way that played out but it makes so much more sense to me having seen the 1994 version where all that stuff was played up legit and that's how it ended but I liked in this version where you can kind of just see that this is so over the top because this is like the story version that the publisher wants and like this is the version that he wants to sell it's not the real version of how things would go part of the do you get any of those vibes how did you take that scene since you love the 94 version so much yeah it's kind of meta what they do with that because it's very clearly talking about the book and all cuts experience of writing the book inside the movie as Joe trying to publish this book so I do like that it's it's cool how that's done I like the 94 version better though of course I mean they even do rush through that great line like my hands are empty and it like doesn't work on any level like in this movie which makes sense because they're just like this is the fake version Danny anything else on your list you want to get through I loved the scene which I found out later that it was pretty much directly from the book where um Marmy sitting with Joe on the floor and she Joe says something more like uh I don't know what Joe says but Marmy responds to her about her being angry nearly every day of her life I liked that idea that we see Marmy throughout this entire film who is nothing but a loving caregiver to the girls to neighbors to the strangers strangers um and we never want to kind of see her have any sort of anger towards anyone um or lash out or um whatever but then she confides or at least confesses to Joe that she's near she's angry nearly every day of her life and I found that interesting that she has not uh she just has that kind of in her because it's it's just it's it was just like a nice little layer to Marmy that I loved um it's what's it's it's one of the scenes that I love a lot love Marmy want to hang out in this house eat some dinner in this house you know you know I want everything about it apparently they built this house for the movie right can we air be and be it that's pretty much all my list per do you have anything else you want to add yes so how did they how do they carry Beth's body out of the room while Joe is sleeping in the chair was that a really it's a good question right like was that the same thing yeah you've never slept through anything big the moving of my my dead sister no don't wake her she's she used to say she died in that room okay degree all right here we go she went downstairs to breakfast while I'm gonna shoot it no we triggered him he's triggered listen I'm just answering questions that were poised I love the scene of Joe writing her story in the attic and placing all the pages on the floor by candlelight that's a beautiful scene the no sky oh mod hmm the uh uh uh the so the ending the very end of the movie god the moment where and they don't share this at all but there's in this this kind of like montage moment it flashes back to when the girls were like under 10 playing like tea together and playing in the attic oh my god Greta is a monster for that like you feel that in your gut I felt like I felt I I felt my childhood flash before my eyes and like the bitter sweet memories that are fleeting that I don't know even thinking of my child it's weird as you get older you know the the memories even now that felt vivid before are are feeling like they're beginning to blur that it's hard to remember almost much of anything my child it's so weird um but that scene kind of like communicates that like longing that you you have for those memories and like that time and like the thought of just if you could go back for just one day um and so I mean that to me that's an amazing piece of filmmaking are you going to remember your 20s when you're 60 you know what are we going to remember when we're that old fifth moment we're 50 that's not far for you yeah the ending the book production scene also incredible the long shot of her you know thinking of all those things and reacting to multiple thoughts yeah I love the ending I love the meta textual stuff in this I mean really it's like a precursor for Barbie getting crazy um I still had an amazing time on this rewatch loved it love everyone involved in this movie loved everyone involved in the production the costumes or nuts um I'm still five stars for a little women never 19 god bless I'm three stars oh god just like that still was not only before yeah you know I'm over the years I can't I when I when I hear the lines I see the scenes of this movie I just see 94 in its place and I and I kind of and it just tarnishes my view oh I wanted to ask you guys that is there a movie like that that you can think of where there was like a remake and it's not like the remake was bad but it's just that you liked a previous version so much better doon I'm I just googled popular remakes I don't think I have that connection with anything off the top of my head because some of these movies like I don't know these don't make any sense to me no I can't think of anything some of these lists have like the thing but I mean who's who's watching the thing remake thinking they're gonna get something as good as that nobody I can't think of anything else I think you're rare breed with that 1994 little women double VHS there's 12 of them does it there are there's a lot of versions of this movie Marcy S is proto picking little women 1994 for next week ice ice ice can you imagine Danny I'm going through my list real quick I like the delivery of when Laurie is with Amy and he says you look beautiful and then the pausing says you are beautiful I thought that was a good delivery online I want to be great or nothing love that and I loved I do love the the writing Joe as Luis May the ending was cool because that mirrors her life publishing the book where she did fight to keep the copyright and the higher percentage and two weeks after the book was released little women sold out completely and it's never gone out of print sense which is unreal I loved that and I like that she kind of wolf that true story into this movie I I love this movie so much I watched it today I'd watch it with Casey this week or a couple days ago and I just kind of sit very like teary eyed watching this film I there's so much about how it's made how it's performed how it's told I mean Greta I don't know if I said it but she's definitely on my Mount Rushmore of directors I think I love everything I don't I don't know that she's missed for me I don't know I mean I love Lady Bird we know how we feel about Barbie and this movie for me this is my favorite of hers she's she's just someone that I'm gonna always follow and I put this on my top four I can't like honestly this is one of those films I feel like I can't live without it's just it's a movie that I'm I know I'll watch at least once a year for the rest of my life at Christmas time I know my daughters love it I love that they love it and watch it and so yeah this is this is a four star five star in my top four and I mean I'm just I love this film Mount Rushmore month I don't know the spiritual sequel coming this year wonka wonka not delayed suspiciously still coming out this year you do the math all right little women in the books femtember final name pending I think we have a VM to get to let me see you can leave us one at 70 mm parajima calm email text voice memo let's see what we have here hey guys kev here absolutely thrilled you guys are doing little women but I do I do want to say when I saw this movie in the theater I didn't know who you playing the dad I had absolutely no idea so when Bob Odenkirk opened the door and said where's my little women I just about hit the ceiling I let out like I was like Bob De Niro in Cape Fear I just could not hold back the shrieking laugh like oh my god it's Bob Odenkirk a little woman very weird even now just I haven't seen the movie probably in three and a half years but I word kev kev's unhinged where's my little women anyway that's it that's all I got peace and love and I'll talk to you guys very soon kev's one of these people that wanted john ham he wanted john ham some sex icon in his sweats part of who would you have cast it as as father march um god let's see let me put on my insider hat right now yeah your movie insider one out of pull it right out of that cap let me just google sexiest men alive yeah yeah yeah conferee oh where's my little women oh it's a toy toy toy he is best still alive also I should apologize I think I said mega a few times when I was thinking of Beth I apologize everyone involved oh boy Idris Elba Bradley Cooper Brad Pitt Hugh Jackman I can see Hugh Jack and probably people losing their minds at George Clooney but headbopped around with those sideburns probably flying off his face boy all right um I did have one magazine I like the scene where she went to that dance with Teddy what was the nickname they had for Daisy and he was like a gas that she was okay with that stuff that was cool okay not funny games and the fun in games it's time for Proto's pic next week guide us I'm very excited for this pic a genre bending picture what considered comedy horror fantasy and romance the uh the subtitle on letterboxed she loved men to death no 2016's the love witch oh my what and a builder which okay yeah the art is gonna be fire for this episode oh my god Elaine a beautiful young witch is determined to find a man to love her in her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spills and potions and then picks up men and seduces them however her spells work too well and she ends up with a string of hapless victims when she finally meets the man of her dreams her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder who is backdrop you you guys already have this reviewed this it's time oh yeah what the it's time look at that backdrops this is streaming foe free on just about everywhere voodoo to be uh what else movie canopy peacock AMC plus so there's no reason to not watch this movie wow this is a big pic I was shocked I thought you were picking them it didn't make any sense because I don't think I think a man directed it but that scarlet Johansson movie I thought he was picking under this kid under the skin I was like oh my god can we wake up it's saddened and glazer as a man isn't that the catch the the line from under the skin I thought he was read off the title the big front of the skin listen to the synopsis for under the skin and tell me I was wrong a seductive stranger prowess the streets of Glasgow and search a prey unsuspecting men who fall under her spell that's pretty close to the love witch one word pretty close okay mr. mefistophiles is negative comedy I mean there's a lot of murderer of dudes and under the skin so you could take it sideways a lot of awkward death of men like I just like fallen into the darkness for like 20 minutes skin suits his we we flapping about excuse me check the tapes yeah check the tapes okay little women in the books femtember rolling along the love witch next week shocking pack I'm shocked uh perroding closing thoughts oh dear I didn't plan any closing thoughts but um god thanks for being here but sir marie next week for the love witch you Seventy millimeter is a tape deck production featuring original artwork provided by Danny Haas spiritual guidance and vizier the robot who loves movies provided by Pertile X's producer at large Dale underscore a transcripts provided by Sophie Shin and music composed by Cinematic prints and other merch are available on Seventy mm pod dot com this episode was mixed edited and produced by me slim Support our patreon for access 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