#friedrich bhaer

[greengableslover]

LITTLE WOMEN (1994) dir. Gillian Armstrong LITTLE WOMEN (2017) dir. Vanessa Casville LITTLE WOMEN (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

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[hockey-and-timbits]

I could never love anyone as I love my sisters.

—Jo March, Little Women (Gillian Armstrong, 1994)

#Little Women (1994) #Jo March #Meg March #Beth March #Amy March #Friedrich Bhaer #Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence #Marmee March #Winona Ryder #Kirsten Dunst #Claire Danes #Trini Alvarado #Christian Bale #Susan Sarandon #Gabriel Byrne #Favourite Movies

[whenthegoldrays]

So I’m not sure if it was Greta Gerwig herself or a movie reviewer but I once read a criticism of the men in Little Women, saying that the March women’s husbands are all varying degrees of useless or disrespectful. Saying that John belittles Meg and her housework and that Friedrich has no respect for Jo’s work. And I have to say… what??

Meg and John are a great example of a healthy couple. Yes, he laughs when her jelly doesn’t turn out, but is he belittling her? No! He just finds it amusing because it is, at least to an observer. And he gets miffed that the house isn’t in order, but in fairness, she did say he could bring a friend whenever and dinner would be ready. They go through rough patches, but they always talk it out and keep on pulling as a team.

And the big one that everyone is mad about, Friedrich criticizing Jo’s writing. I think these people didn’t read the book because Fritz never reads Jo’s sensational stories. He finds a story in a newspaper — specifically stated to not be one of hers — and broadly criticizes that kind of story. This isn’t directed at Jo, it’s directed at writers of these stories in general (again, Friedrich doesn’t know Jo is one of them). But Jo takes his words to heart because he’s spoken to her conscience, and then she makes the decision to burn them all up and quit writing that genre of story. She listens to him because she knows him to have a strong moral compass, which is a big part of why she likes him so much. He helps her grow and become a better person and writer without having to give her direct advice!! And that’s beautiful!! And I’m sick of people who wanted Jo to stay single taking their disappointment and turning it into “all the husbands in Little Women were bad husbands and the second half is a commentary on how terrible it is to be married.” No. Stop it. Read the book. Cut it out with the cynicism.

#little women #little women 2019 #louisa may alcott #jo march #meg march #john brooke #friedrich bhaer #jo x friedrich #meg x john #elly's posts

[joandfriedrich]

Jo: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

Friedrich: Of course I would! And if you were a worm, then I'd be a worm too. We would live in the dirt and make flowers grow and get worm married and have worm kids.

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Laurie: Amy, would you still love me if I was a worm?

Amy: Theodore, what the hell are you talking about?

#little women #Jo March #friedrich bhaer #jo x friedrich #jo and friedrich #amy march #theodore laurence #Amy x Laurie #amy and laurie #incorrect quotes

[theatticwriter]

Louis Garrel’s first interview for The Dreamers.

#louis garrel #louis #garrel #france #french #cinema #friedrich bhaer #louis garrel icon #french cinema #the dreamers #eva green #louis garrel gifs #cannes

[edenxrosey]

Who is that singular fictional character that has been so marred by public opinion and misconceptions that they are largely regarded unlikable that you, in your infinite wisdom, still fervently defend with ever fiber of your moral being for not only being misunderstood but baselessly slandered? I shall go first: Friedrich Bhaer

#Greta gerwig has so much to answer for #the world has so much to answer for #the public consensus to so violently misunderstand him and Louisa’s intentions with him makes me want to tear my hair out #also hot take: #if you say you relate to Jo March but do not appreciate Friedrich Bhaer YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND JO #understanding Friedrich is understanding Jo and understanding them both is understanding Louisa #this is the singular object of opinion that I will hold with a fury #I am so casual about so many peoples appreciations of things because #hey people have different preferences #but this has gone beyond personal conviction and is just mischaracterization and misrepresentation to the point of abuse #Friedrich Bhaer #rant #little women

[thatscarletflycatcher]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2023 - DAY 6: FAVORITE CHARACTER

MARK STANLEY as FRIEDRICH BHAER in LITTLE WOMEN (2017) Dir. VANESSA CASWILL

#perioddramaweek2023 #perioddramaedit #perioddramasource #adaptationsdaily #little women #Mark Stanley #Little Women 2017 #Fritz Bhaer #Friedrich Bhaer #I have given up and given in into Tumblr's demands

[vasiliapetrovna]

#friedrich bhaer #little women 1994 #memes #this was the first thing i thought when i saw the post #queue to where no man has gone before

[usertimothee]

Hey, I haven’t read Little Women or any of the books related, the only adaptation I have seen is Greta Gerwig’s and I’ve recently rewatched it. And I have some thoughts are mostly ramblings and need to express to someone so I hope you don’t mind me popping in here. I don’t really know where people got that Jo was In love with Laurie? She loved him as a friend but romantically? I never got that really. And how I took that scene with Jo and Marmee was Jo admitting she was lonely and if Laurie asked her to marry him again she would say yes. That’s kinda unfair to herself and him when you think about it, marrying someone just because you’re lonely? Not because you are truly in love with him? How would you both be happy together? I’ve seen some discussion around them and I don’t really like people putting in the tropes “oh lovers who went wrong or right person wrong time” to Jo and Laurie. Because they weren’t lovers, they were friends. And I don’t understand where people get Jo being the “right” person for Laurie. I wish we could have gotten more of Jo and Friedrich. They were cute I think. And I wish we could have gotten more with Amy and Laurie. I think this summer I’m gonna find the books and read them. Anyways, there’s my thoughts and hope you are having a good day.❤️

hi anon! never be afraid to come into my inbox and ramble about little women bc talking about it is literally my fav thing.

especially when ur thoughts are so spot on, and i'm honestly so surprised and pleased u got this from greta's version. bc a lot of people think she made laurie and jo be that "right person wrong time" couple when they're not like that at all, in any adaptation, even greta's.

ur totally right, jo never loved laurie romantically. like, ever. and it's made obvious multiple times. ("i can't love you as you want me to...it would be a lie to say i do when i don't," in the proposal scene.) and it's especially made clear in the attic scene, with jo admitting she's just so lonely. but if you can't get it from: marmee: do you love [laurie]? jo: if he asked me again, i think i would say yes. do you think he'll ask me again? marmee: but do you love him? jo: i care more to be loved. i want to be loved. marmee: that is not the same as loving. jo: i know. like ur honestly dumb i'm sorry? or don't know how to read media at all. or ur just being willingly obtuse idk.

and i would go even further. i firmly believe that laurie never loved jo that way, either. that boy was lonely before he met the march family. maybe even lonelier than jo was after beth died. he was an orphan, lived with his tutor and his grandfather (who was kind of cold to laurie before he met the marches, as well.) he had no friends. jo was the first girl he loved at all, in any way. of course he thought he was in love with jo. he didn't know any other love except the love had for her. and laurie was a romantic, as well. of course he thought the two of them were meant to be.

but they weren't, ever, and that's made so clear from their conversation in the attic. laurie: jo, i have always loved you, but the love i feel for amy, it's different. and i think you were right about this, i think we would've killed each other...i think it was meant this way. like...do jolauries think laurie is lying to jo? what reason would he have to do that? it doesn't make any sense.

and jo looks so stunned (this is admittedly clearer in the book than it is in greta's version) because it's amy. not because she's jealous, or expected laurie to still love her, but because her best friend just came home married to her little sister. that would stun anyone. and she looks sad, again, because she's so lonely, and she basically looks at the rest of her family coupled up and in love (amy and laurie, meg and john, marmee and her father) and she aches, because she doesn't have that.

i really think greta's only mistake was including that stupid letter to laurie. it didn't make sense and wasn't true to jo's character at all.

and finally, once again, laurie doesn't love jo like that. not back then, and certainly not now. i mean, the journey from "i think you will marry, jo. i think you'll find someone, and love them, and live and die from them, because that's your way. and i'll watch," to "i never thought i'd prepare a carriage to help jo march chase a man, but i like it!" he's delighted in that scene, just like everyone else. bc the jo he saw with friedrich was so different that the jo that was around him. he can tell the difference because he knows the difference now, because that boy is so desperately in love with amy it's not funny.

and that's another thing jolauries disregard: laurie's love for amy. because he does love her. and amy loves him, and understands him in a way that jo never did. and laurie wants to be better for amy. because, let's face it, that boy was a mess when amy found him in europe. (and this is one other thing the movie leaves out: laurie realizes in the book that jo was right shortly after he leaves concord - the two of them would've never worked. and by the time he meets up with amy again, he isn't still mourning his relationship with jo, he's just insurmountably lonely again, just like he was before, and he doesn't see an end to it.) he heals bc he falls in love with amy. he wants to be worthy of her, because he admires her and respects her. there's a great first draft of the script which is floating around on the internet which includes this letter from laurie to amy: Dear Amy, I have gone to make something of myself, so you might not be ashamed to call me your friend. like...he just got his heart broken by her. but he doesn't get angry at her, like he got angry at jo, because he loves amy. and he wants to be around her and is desperate to have her in his life, even if it's just as a friend.

and, just to give more evidence that amy is the first and only person he's in love with (and because i just love it a lot), here's the original draft of their kiss scene: laurie: i love you. amy, i love you. amy: you do? laurie: more than anything or anyone in this world. you are first in everything. you do not have to accept me, but i love you, amy march. [amy cries even harder. he kisses her.] amy: i love you, laurie laurie: i love you, amy march. laurie literally has gently but ardently resigned himself to loving amy even if she doesn't love him back, which is such a change from when jo rejected him.

and ur totally right, jo and friedrich are so cute together (even though louis garrel is unfortunately an asshole). and more importantly, friedrich understands jo in a way laurie never did, and lover her for who she is instead of who he wants her to be. and come on, when friedrich says, "my hands are empty," and jo takes his hands in hers and says, "they're not empty," and then he kisses her in the rain. like that is peak romance idk what anyone says.

anyways. tl;dr jo never loved laurie, laurie never loved jo, laurie is in love with amy, jo is in love with friedrich.

anon, feel free to come into my inbox anytime! and let me know how u like the book! i think if u have these opinions, u will like it a lot :)

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[lauriemarch]

friedrich was so funny when he gifted jo shakepeare’s folios and then turned around to say he doesn’t like her stories for having too much killing and salaciousness

#like yes ‘i’m no Shakespeare’ ‘thank goodness we already have him’ #but also too much killing? babygirl let’s discuss any of the tragedies #no one will forget jo march #jo march #friedrich bhaer #little women #dark academia #light academia #studyblr #booklr #studying #light acadamia aesthetic #study notes #book blog #poetry

[jomarchswritingjacket]

no one:

soft hearted brown haired pretty boys:

me: 😍 😍 😍

edit: OH NO I FORGOT THE BEST ONE

GILBERT BABY I AM SO SORRY

edit edit: LAST ONE I SWEAR

#I gotta stop simping over dudes but like #Old habits die hard lmao #hiccup haddock #Httyd #how to train your dragon #friedrich bhaer #laurie laurence #little women #orpheus #hadestown #nino quincampoix #amelie #amelie musical #gilbert blythe #anne of green gables #eugene fitzherbert #tangled

[rythebluealien]

I’ve just watched Little Women (2019) and I can’t understand how some people could like Jo and Laurie more than Friedrich and Jo.

First off (a bit unrelated) : FRIEDRICH (aka Louis fucking Garrel) IS SO PRETTY IT MAKES ME WANT TO BAWL MY EYES OUT

Second off: Laurie and Amy are wayyy too cute together let them be.

Third off: Louis. Garrel.

#little women #louis garrel #jo march #laurie laurence #amy march #friedrich bhaer #jo x friedrich #jo x laurie #amy x laurie #florence pugh #timothée chalamet #saoirse ronan

[mockscreens]

hi! can you please make some lockscreens of jo and friedrich from little women 1994? thank you!

please like/reblog if you save!

more lockscreens here!

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[theatticwriter]

Louis Garrel Interview for The Three Musketeers.

#louis garrel #garrel #french #louis #cinema #france #friedrich bhaer #little women #french cinema #the dreamers #louis garrel gifs #cannes #les trois mousquetaires #the three musketeers

[littlewomenpodcast]

Jo March's Love For Stout Men (Video Essay)

When Friedrich becomes Jo's sexual awakening in the book, she pays attention to his big hands and his big feet, and she's lusty over him. In "Jo's Boys" When Dan comes back to Plumfiled, he has grown a beard. For those of you who have not read Jo's Boys, Dan was one of Jo's and Friedrich's students. When he comes back, he asks Jo if he should shave the beard off, and Jo is like "Don't do that. It makes you look so manly and handsome" It is so funny because both Friedrich and Dan's characters are based on Henry Thoreau. Mac's character in Rose in Bloom also has the same body type. He's blonde and he's younger. In Eight Cousins where he's a preteen, he's described as a bit chubby, but then in "Rose in Bloom" Mac has a growth spurt and suddenly he's taller and he got broad shoulders. Rose is surprised and she begins to see him more attractive. All these men are described to have blue eyes, which is an interesting detail because Henry David Thoreau had blue eyes. In every Louisa May Alcott story that I have read, the leading male character, let's call him the Friedrich Bhaer archetype is a plus-size man. There is a story called The” Queen of Hearts” The leading male character is a German gentleman called Augustus Bobb, and he is a large man, the female character who very much resembles Jo, is over her heels in love with Mr Bobb. In one of Louisa May Alcott's thrillers, Long Fatal Love Chase, we meet Henry David Thoreau, This time he is father Ignatious, who is a big man and he has a beard. The Friedrich Bhaer archetype is a very kind man, he is a gentle soul so I would say that Louisa May Alcott's male characters are very body positive.

This is a quote from Jo's Boys, and Jo's Boys is a sequel to Little Women and it takes place when Jo is in her 50s and she is a famous writer by then. ”It was one of the family jokes that Jo was getting fat, and she kept it up, though as yet she had only acquired a matronly outline, which was very becoming. They were laughing over the impending double chins when Mr Laurie came off duty for a moment” According to Louisa May Alcott, Jo gained weight and grew double chins and then we have Greta Gerwig making fatphobic comments on Little Women.

Louisa May Alcott was not a particularly skinny person herself, especially at the end of her life. She became very ill after the Civil War, and she was treated with mercury the mercury treatment very likely messed up her hormone levels and caused her to gain weight. Jo is not fuzzy about weight, she finds Friedrich's dad-body very attractive, not to mention, the narrator writes how Jo's family members make jokes about Jo's appearance, all except Friedrich who is constantly convincing Jo that in his eyes, she is still the most beautiful woman on earth. How hypocritical is this from Greta Gerwig to make fat-phobic comments about a fictional character, when both Jo and Friedrich in her book are constantly being judged and made fun of by their weight? Not to mention Louisa May Alcott constantly faced fatphobia. In her diaries, she writes how fans came to see her and then they were disgusted when they saw her because she didn't look like a 15-year-old.

#little women #Friedrich Bhaer #fatphobia #Greta Gerwig #anti greta gerwig #anti little women 2019 #Jo March #Louisa May Alcott #rose in bloom #mac campbell #body image #Youtube

[junior-stargazer-goke91]

Little Women (1994)

Written by: Robin Swicord

#little women 1994 #gillian armstrong #gabriel byrne #friedrich bhaer #movie quotes #film quotes #robin swicord