Line #27 Trivia/LittleWomen2019


1	* ActorInspiredElement:
2	** Amy's speech about marriage was not in the initial script, but was suggested by Creator/MerylStreep. After working and talking with Creator/GretaGerwig, Streep asserted that there needed to be a moment in the film that gave modern audiences the opportunity to understand the true powerlessness of women in that period; not only could they not vote or work, but through marriage they would lose ownership of their money, property, and children. The speech was written shortly before shooting the scene.
3	** It was Florence Pugh’s idea for Amy to wear her fairy costume when she burns Jo’s manuscript.
4	* AllStarCast: Creator/SaoirseRonan, Creator/EmmaWatson, Creator/FlorencePugh, Creator/TimotheeChalamet, Creator/LauraDern, Creator/ChrisCooper and Creator/MerylStreep.
5	* BillingDisplacement:
6	** Creator/EmmaWatson follows lead actress Creator/SaoirseRonan, even though third billed Creator/FlorencePugh is the largest supporting role.
7	** The poster also has Creator/MerylStreep listed alongside the main cast members over many actors with much larger roles such as Creator/ChrisCooper.
8	* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted for the most part, as the film was primarily filmed in and around UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} (where ''Little Women'' is set), but the UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} scenes were also filmed in Boston (the Arc-de-Triomphe seen in the background of the first Paris scene is pretty obviously CGI).
9	* DawsonCasting: Well, all the actresses in their twenties are also playing the characters across seven years. Most egregiously in the case of Florence Pugh, who plays Amy from the age of ''thirteen'' to twenty (the previous 1994 film cast two actresses to play the character as a child and adult).
10	* FakeAmerican: Irish Creator/SaoirseRonan[[note]]Who was born in New York but raised in Ireland, and has dual Irish and American citizenship[[/note]] as Jo; Brits Creator/EmmaWatson, Creator/FlorencePugh and Creator/JamesNorton as Meg, Amy and John Brooke; and Australian Creator/ElizaScanlen as Beth.
11	* FandomNod: There is one to the generations of fans who wondered why Jo didn't get with Laurie.
12	-->'''[[https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/little-women-movie-2019-ending-greta-gerwig-interview Gerwig]]''': Then I was able to do things like have the publisher say things like, "Frankly, I don't understand why she didn't marry the neighbor." Because I know that everyone for all time has asked that question and because of the way I structured that film was able to actually have someone say that.
13	* MethodActing:
14	** As with ''Film/LadyBird'', which was set in the early 2000s before the smartphone boom, Creator/GretaGerwig prohibited the use of them on set.
15	** Florence Pugh told Saoirse Ronan to go ahead and slap her when Amy and Jo fight after the burned manuscript.
16	* PlayingAgainstType:
17	** Mildly for Creator/EmmaWatson. Best known for being slightly tomboyish and NotLikeOtherGirls heroines (as in closer to Jo), she plays the more traditionally feminine sister Meg.
18	** Creator/BobOdenkirk is most famous for playing the sleazy [[Series/BreakingBad Saul]] [[Series/BetterCallSaul Goodman]], but here acts as the kind, selfless family patriarch.
19	* PlayingWithCharacterType: Chris Cooper often plays {{Jerkass}}es or intimidating characters. Here he plays Mr. Laurence, who initially appears to be a stern old man but is revealed to actually be very kind.
20	* ProductionPosse: Creator/SaoirseRonan, Timothée Chalamet, and Tracy Letts previously starred in Gerwig's ''Film/LadyBird''.
21	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: A new film adaptation of the book entered development in 2013, and Creator/SarahPolley was reportedly hired to write and direct in 2015, but nothing came of it. Greta Gerwig was then hired to write a screenplay in 2016, and eventually became its director after the success of ''Lady Bird''.
22	* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: No trouble at all believing Creator/SaoirseRonan playing the daughter of Creator/LauraDern.
23	* StarMakingRole:
24	** This combined with ''Film/{{Midsommar}}'' helped put Creator/FlorencePugh on the map, and even earned her an Oscar nomination.
25	** It also considerably raised the profile of Creator/ElizaScanlen.
26	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
27	** Creator/GretaGerwig was unsure about casting Saoirse Ronan again, having just directed her in ''Film/LadyBird'', but Saoirse had written to her and ''told'' her she was going to be Jo. Realising that casting herself was a very Jo attitude to things, she was signed on.
28	** Creator/EmmaStone was originally cast as Meg, but filming conflicted with the press tour of ''Film/TheFavourite'', so she was recast with Creator/EmmaWatson.
29	* WordOfGay: Saoirse Ronan has [[https://www.out.com/film/2019/12/18/saoirse-ronan-says-little-womens-jo-march-might-be-queer stated]] that Jo's sexuality is ambiguous and not necessarily straight.

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