Little Women (1949) Jo and Fritz Return From The Opera
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- June Allyson as Jo and Rossano Brazzi as Friedrich "Fritz" Bhaer in the 1949 film adaptation of Little Women.
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I have always loved June Alyson as Jo. She captures Jo’s spirit. jMO
She is one of my favorite Jo´s. Keep an eye on this channel. Many essays coming up about the 1949 film :)
I agree. I’ve seen the 1994 and 2019 version and read the book, and June Alyson does capture her boyish spirit. I especially love her voice.
I love this version. June Allyson and Rossano Brazi would work together again in the movie Interlude.
Oh, I will add that to my watch list. I have seen a couple of others Rossano Brazzi films, Summer Time and South Pacific, but I haven't seen Interlude. If you are interested in Little Women do check out my podcast ua-cam.com/video/Z7xZB2xOwQ4/v-deo.html&ab_channel=LittleWomenChannel
Their chemistry is so intense. I can see where Gabriel Byrne took his inspiration from.
1994 is another with great chemistry between the two.
I loved them. They were my favourite cast & I loved their dynamic.
These two worked so good together
I love Jo.
She is a tomboy, yet she grew into a beautiful woman when she met Baher.
He really saw a beautiful woman deep down, and beyond Jo's tomboyishness.
And she really liked Baher a lot, even dressing up nicely for the opera.
And men of this era were actual grown up, mature MEN - not little boy's in men's bodies who only thought of one thing.
They still exist, but they're becoming a rare breed.
If I meet a man, I'd like to meet a grown up, mature man, such as Baher in here, or even Laurie.
Laurie was a grown up, mature man - and so is Baher.
If I had two grown up mature men such as Laurie or Baher who were smitten with me, I could not decide, to be honest.
Laurie in the book really was a man child. It took the discussion with Amy to open up his eyes that he wasn´t being productive and then he grew out to be better. That is why Jo didn´t want to be with Laurie he was immature and was pulling her back. Friedrich never treated her that way and they shared the same morals and goals.
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And I'm not trying to talk bad about a man who only wants one thing - not at all.
These days, unfortunately, it's more common that women hurt these men, and maybe they are looking for a friend.
Back in the days of Little Women, it was rare that this occurred.
But if I meet a man, I want to meet a man, get to know him first, really get to know him, date for a long time, and then a committed relationship.
Not just jump into a "do you want to be my girlfriend?" quick relationship.
Maybe these men came from abusive households, and hurt by women.
But back then, it was rare, if unheard of, if unthinkable, that men and women hurt each other.
I'm not against relationships, and that one thing - what I don't like is the sudden relationship when I hardly know the man.
That's just me though.
But if I meet a man, I really want to get to know him - even if it's five to ten years - before a relationship.
In this version, I actually root for Jo and Baher more than for Jo and Laurie, Baher actually is more charismatic and has more interesting character than Laurie in this adaptation.
I love Bhaer in this version (and all versions) You should check my article/video on the cultural and historical evolution of Laurie :) www.fairychamber.com/blog/evolution-of-laurie
Bhaer is always superior for Jo. Laurie doesn't recognize the difference between platonic love and romantic love. He also can't match her intellectually.
@@siribaimusic Very true. Laurie was looking for a mother figure. Friedrich was way more mature and loved Jo unconditionally.
@@littlewomenchannel thanks for sharing, very interesting and insightful article.
Me too!!!! Of all the relationships in the story, I have always rooted for and LOVED the one between Jo and the professor the most, he genuinely loved her for who she was, and she came to love him in return, so romantic!
The way Rossano looked into her eyes as he spoke......*sigh*
I love them so much
I don't get people who don't like them. They are just so cute together.
They are the cutest
@@littlewomenchannel Thanks!
June Allyson as Jo and Rossano Brazzi as Friedrich "Fritz" Bhaer in the 1949 film adaptation of Little Women. I love these two.
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I get lots of comments to this channel people complaining or criticising looks of the actors or book characters, I usually block them because these people don´t seem to know anything about Little Women (and I want my audience to feel safe in the comment section). This is what happened in the novel and in LMA´s life.
Friedrich and adaptive Attractiveness
There is nothing new about "sexing up" both Jo and Fritz. Rossano Brazzi, Gabriel Byrne, Ian Bohen and Louis Garrel are all very good looking men. Rossano is often referred to as the "beautiful professor Bhaer". Back in the days hiring Gabriel Byrne as Fritz caused similar discussion like there has been now on hiring Louis Garrel. Gabriel Byrne has been voted as the sexiest man of Ireland multiple times. He has been listed by People as one of the "Sexiest Men Alive and in the early 2020 Glamour voted him as the sexiest actor in the word. Gabriel turns 70 this year. Louis Garrel has been voted as the sexiest man in France. As you can see, there has been a very conscious effort in hiring good looking actors to play Fritz.
This goes back to the old debate does hiring a good looking actor to play a character who in the story is handsome-not-handsome affects the story? What it comes to the book and knowing that Fritz not being very good looking was intentional, this makes the whole debate about the looks of the movie Friedrich tricky. Movies are a different platform. They are here to tell a story and to make a profit and the easiest way to get viewers is to hire good looking actors.
Movies have been criticized for having attractive actors to play Jo as well. Louisa was commissioned to write Little Women in 1867 and it brought her wealth but also life-long fame. She was always frustrated by the devoted Jo-fans who were disappointed by her looks since they imagined Jo to be pretty. Louisa herself wasn´t very attractive, and her illness must have affected her body image. Most widely accepted cause for Louisa´s health problems and early death is mercury poisoning. During her American Civil War service, Alcott contracted typhoid fever and was treated with a compound containing mercury. For instance, Jo´s boys took 12 years to finish because of Louisa´s poor health. Mercury poisoning caused Louisa to gain weight, it lowered her voice. Mercury includes testosterin it made her look more masculine, based on her diary markings, she didn't know why this was happening, and the medication was very painful.
One of the main models for Laurie was a Polish composer called Ladislas Wisniewski. He was 10 years younger than Louisa. The conventionally good looking young man who she met while working in Switzerland, a year prior Little Women was written. Best way to describe him was flicky. He flirted with Louisa for weeks and then allegedly proposed Louisa´s employee (I go into detail about this in my video essay "love and sex in little women" that you can find on this channel). There have been some speculations made that Wisniewski was a conman who prayed on wealthy women. He told Louisa that he had tuberculosis, she took care of him and he "miraculously" cured. I don´t know if he was a conman or not but I think he was looking for someone to nanny him like Laurie wants Jo to nanny him. This kind of relationship is unbalanced and not healthy. I think Louisa did mean Laurie´s character to be a positive example of a person who can turn their life around, whereas Ladislas turned out to be a disappointment.
Still today there are a lot of people who wonder why Jo didn´t marry Laurie because Laurie was rich and good looking. Read any novel from Louisa May Alcott, rich people are usually the unhappiest ones and the only acceptable wealthy people are the philanthropists. In Louisa´s world self-reliance is the key. Jo can not marry Laurie because he does not share this value. Friedrich does and he pushes Jo to be better in her craft and she gives him recognition as a teacher. The book Fritz patches his own clothes. His most eccentric flaw is that he is not good with money, not because he drinks or gambles but because he likes buying gifts for the people he loves. Laurie, on the other hand, likes to buy things for himself and gives useless gifts for his friends as a joke, which shows that he doesn´t understand his privileged position and this is what LMA often criticises in the novel. It is not until he is lectured by Amy he begins to take his life more seriously.
In Little, Women Friedrich is Jo´s sexual awakening. He is written to be more masculine and more mature than Laurie. He has a beard, big hands, deep voice. In Little Men, the narrator even says that Jo loves very ”manly” men. There is some criticism over guys who are thin and more effeminate. Like Laurie and Nat. When Laurie is chacing Jo he takes a position that is almost "overly masculine" this breaks Jo´s ideas of masculinity that she had cherished. Friedrich gives her a new model, a man that is more gentle and sensitive. He never criticises Jo´s writing in the novels, he criticises the genre, Jo herself didn´t want to write sensationalism and demonises her work as trash, even before she goes to new york.
Main models for Friedrich were philosopher Henry David Thoreau, to who Louisa was in love with and her writer, the German poet Goethe. It is pretty fair to say that Louisa wanted someone on her side who could feed and stimulate her brain. Louisa was attracted to Henry but the most important aspect of that relationship was their similar interests and the intellectual connection that they had and they did spend a lot of one-on-one time together. the age difference between them was the same as between Jo and Friedrich, 16 years.
Henry is the romantic lead in all of her novels.
Henry passed away when Louisa was 27. Rest of her life with Ladislas, and other men and women who she encountered. She never found them to be even remotely as intellectually stimulating as Henry was. In Little Women Jo confesses to Friedrich that, he is her first love, and therefore the best.
What Louisa does with both Jo and Fritz she is criticizing the shallowness, people who are not that attractive to the outside world are worthy of love.
Neither Friedrich nor Jo are ugly. It is the society that is ugly.
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You said all that so eloquently, thank you for that. I never knew so much about Louisa and her life. As lovely as Laurie is, you can't make someone love you and Jo never felt that kind of love for him and she is right, you cannot force that king of love. He no Amy were much better suited. She found her soul mate in Frederich. I felt a similar sort of thing when I met my partner, we connected on so many levels (and I too, like manly men.)
Very well said!! Not all heroes/heroines are supposed to be conventionally good looking, even if Hollywood needs to have them so for artistic/monetary purposes.
Jo was never the family beauty; it was Meg who had that role. However, Jo is not necessarily ugly; in Victorian times she was thought so because her complexion was darker than Meg's and she had tomboish manners. Even so, she had her beautiful hair, her "beauty". And she had very expressive gray eyes. I dare say that she would have been considered quite pretty in more modern times.
@@sarahbrightmore3749 What a nice comment. Thank you Sarah. Sorry that I just now saw your reply. The young men who inspired Laurie's character, there were fun to hang out with and allowed Louisa to be both caretaker and the tomboy with them, but to have a real long lasting relationship with someone requires a lot more. Even though she couldn't get that in her real life I am glad she was able to write those wishes in her novels. If you wish to learn more do check out my Little Women podcast. ua-cam.com/play/PLlvBupY5iidqidu1p5VW1MPXwrMkKcFyX.html
@@lolixxxx988 yes, you are absolutely right. In the 19th century Jo having a tanned skin was not considered pretty, because having a tanned skin was a sign that you were part of lower class working in the fields. Of course, now being tanned can be fashionable and trendy. Definitely Jo wouldn't have that many problems with her looks in today's society. Meg was also called plumpy in the novel, so I guess her figure was more feminine that Jo's, but the book does mention in the beginnig of part 2 that Jo developed to look more feminine. In Jo's boys she has gained some weight and has referred to have "matron-like figure". If you are into Little Women, do check out my podcast ua-cam.com/play/PLlvBupY5iidqidu1p5VW1MPXwrMkKcFyX.html
Best Jo March ever❤
She was really good in this role :D Do check out our Little Women podcast as well ua-cam.com/play/PLlvBupY5iidqidu1p5VW1MPXwrMkKcFyX.html
I love this song!
It´s beautiful.
Did this movie start the trend of Jo and Friedrich going to see the opera/play/Shakespeare? I remember they did it in the 1994 version, the 2018 version, sorta in the 2019 version, and that one Lifetime movie, the March sisters at Christmas?
There is an opera scene in the 1933 film as well. In the book Fritz sings "Kennst du das land" which is from Goethe´s "Wilhelm Meister´s apprenticeship" which has also been made into opera. He plays the song for Jo in this film too.
Small Umbrella In The Rain Oh, that’s interesting! Thanks for sharing!
You know, people talk about a generation gap these days.
Jo's being a tomboy has gone on for millennia - there have always been women, especially young women Jo's age and Beth's age - not all, but many - who are/were tomboys.
I'm talking about no respect for Mom and Dad, total rebellion against the values and morals they were instilled into them, etc.
Jo did not necessarily rebel against her Aunt March when she asked her Aunt for help - she was getting fed up about her aunt's attitude.
But she did say "Aunt March!," when her Aunt visited later on, as if to apologize for her attitude towards her Aunt.
If I were alive during this era, I certainly would have not rebelled against my Mom or Dad.
If anything, I'm envious of the girls and women born and growing up/grown during this era.
Great points. Aunt March was rich, and she had authority :D I can see people being intimidated by her.
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Sí!
Awesome
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Would you happen to know what song this is?
M'appari
from the opera "Martha"
@@littlewomenchannel Thank you!