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How Little Women Throws a Dance Party Anatomy of a Scene

How Little Women Throws a Dance Party Anatomy of a Scene

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Theres a moment in Greta Gerwigs new film adaptation of Little Women that ignites the screen with as much energy as a fire that sets ablaze a characters dress in the scene prior. Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) is at a party with Theodore Laurie Laurence (Timothe Chalamet. He asks her to dance. But shes accidentally scorched a part of her dress and doesnt want other guests to see. Laurie takes Jo outside, and they have their own mini-dance party on the front porch bathed in the light of the larger party inside. They dance in ways that are refined, silly, playful and buoyant all at once. The moment, choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes, has a bit of a punk-rock rebellion quality to it, but also keeps with the time. I wanted it to feel both totally modern and period accurate, Gerwig said during an interview at The Times. I didnt want them to be doing dances they wouldnt necessarily know. But I did want it to feel joyful and young, like kids dance. Gerwig said the idea for this dance came from a Saturday Night Live sketch that features Gilda Radner and Steve Martin, where the two meet in a nightclub and trip the light fantastic. For our film, we wanted it to be this shimmery moment that feels like maybe it almost didnt even happen, she said.
Date: 2020-08-15

Comments and reviews: 8


I'll never understand all the work in bothering to get period costumes, hairstyles, furniture, architecture, carriages, etc, correct, and then having your actors speak 150 year old lines in current slangy vernacular and even gesture in a way that is very new/now. Why not just set the story in today?
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Id actually argue that they WOULD NOT be dancing that way. At that age (teen/young adulthood, they would have been trying to emulate the adults around them much more (see the 1994 LW for reference. Jo and Lauries Individual dancing is simply another anachronism.
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Everyone is praising the actors and well they deserve it they are perfect but I think we should also praise the director, the writer, etc they did a amazing job as well
Greta is the director and Im so thankful for her work its just perfect
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You can tell she thinks about every slight, minute detail and puts so much work into her movies. I hope she wins a best director Oscar for this or at least gets a nod
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I absolutely love the cinematography of this movie. Every shot is a painting. the lighting, the colours, the focus. Everything is just beautiful
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What an amazing treat. Thanks Greta Et Al
this vid is like an early xmas gift.
I'm about to watch it again for the 3rd time.
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this scene was like a
Lord & Taylor Mechanical, Period
CHRISTMAS WINDOW,
that people Lined up all day & night to see.
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My favourite part is the way Timmy nods and then looks away, when he says I have an idea about how we can manage. at 0: 29.
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