FILM ADAPTATION: Let's Talk About Little Women
We all knew it was bound to happen. I was just waiting for the right time and now seemed like the perfect opportunity. I've done some recent research, I've rewatched all of the adaptations this month, and I think it's time we talk about this once and for all. So everyone knows that I will defend Greta Gerwig's Little Women until my dying day. However, I have had many a conversation with many a friends about the other adaptations of Little Women (mainly the 1994 version with Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, and Kirsten Dunst and the 2017 BBC mini series version with Maya Hawke, Jonah Hauer -King, and Angela Lansbury) and which one is considered "the best". I have done a film blog on adaptation and my opinion stands the same: a good adaptation runs the fine yet difficult line between sticking to the source material and interpreting it into a modern context to give purpose. However, I did also mention in that same blog that with popular m...