@@katherinepettus5132 i agree, many movies are losing their human qualities by pushing this fake narrative that has good intentions but is mostly just damaging to women as a whole. In that they're so focused on filling their new narrative it stands in front of the film itself making it kind of just unlikeable compared to the past movies.
Everything about this scene, the opera show, him interpreting for Jo, he being so gentle/patient/understanding, holding her hand, reciting a poem, and the kiss. It’s so romantic and beautiful. I love everything about it.
This scene isn't in the book, but it's enchanting just the same. Jo's look of innocence surprised into love, and Friedrich's gentleness with her, is very touching.
I love this scene. They are falling in love with each other and Friedrich's heartfelt regard for Jo shows his admiration for her intellect, not just her beauty. When you can converse about things that stir your soul and excite you, and at the same time remain generous and compassionate, it leads to an understanding of the heart. "Her heart understood mine." Their love story is one I keep in my heart. It reminds me of my late husband who was many years my senior, yet our friends envied the comfortable manner of our relationship. I miss him terribly. This movie version of Little Women is dear to my heart. ♡
My heart literally skips a beat whenever I see this scene; the music is beyond beautiful, and the setting is so luxuriously private (with a few minor exceptions), so by the time Fredirch recites his "Your heart understood mine" poem, I'm SO blown away by his efforts to woo her...And their eyes so full of love (especially before they kiss) pretty much make this scene so much more magical and believable...:3
I love how their just about to kiss, when the bang makes them jump. Its really cute. I have never seen the whole movie or read the entire book, but this makes me want to read the book.
Oh, you should read the book! It's language is dated by modern standards. But if you can be patient with it and adjust to its pace and feel, it's a beautiful, touching, meaningful book. So real to what sisters go through with each other, and how girls mature into thoughtful, loving women.
I read one review of this film that said "He makes a pass at Jo at the opera which would have been completely antithetical to his classical German sensibilities" or something like that. Yeah, I don't care. I love this scene. And he is a complete gentleman about it and woos her with beautiful opera lyrics. I am not complaining at all.
Antithetical to his German sensibilities? The Germans were a notoriously romantic people. I can hardly think of a better place for a poetic German to woo his lady love. That reviewer had some strange ideas of what Germans value.
My obsession for this movie is so great that I refused to see an opera unless this one was the first. It's still my favorite out of all that I've seen.
The opera is translated as The Pearl Fishers. It's a Bizet opera, which is the same guy who wrote Carmen. It's a really lovely opera...one of the most underrated IMO.
Endearing scene...so monumental! Loving the whole soundtracks by Thomas Newman as well. It was just so heartwarming! The whole cast were brilliant, I lost counts how many times did I watched the movie
First balcony....perfect date. Laurie speak french and would be able , financially speaking , to bring her anytime to opera...but never done it. She has more in common with Fredrech.
I think it's more that Friedrich is the unknown and change... she's been afraid of all her life. He's not afraid to disagree with but at the same time, challenges her to be more than to slip back to old habits or the spaces allotted to her. Both her and Laurie are twins in this respect... they were desperate to become adults but unprepared and overwhelmed when they did, to which they regressed in personality.. meeting the reality after dreaming of the prospect of "freedom" from the constraints of society. Baehr was good for Jo because he was a little older, wiser and more settled with who he was but again, would challenge her to be more of herself than who she dreamed to be... just as Amy was good for Laurie because, although vain and materialist, she's always known what she wanted... Baehr represents the spiritual or mental aesthetic and Amy the physical. Both were pragmatic realists to Jo/Laurie's being dreamers of a shifting polar axis between exaggerated idealism and cynicism. .. or say, being introverts that lived too much in their heads. And thus, likewise, they softened the harsher features of both Amy and Friedrich in contrast.
Gee, after this many years my heart still melts every time I watch this scene. 🥰 How he reached for her hand, OMG. I love the fact that they didn't emphasize that subtle gesture in any way and yet it's there. I may be cynical and what not, but this is just perfect (and the best possible date in my book, actually).
This is one of my all time favorite romantic scenes in movies. I loved the new version of Little Women and I knew this wouldn’t be in there since it’s not in the book but I was still a little disappointed.
There is something powerful about opera. This is one of my three favorite movie scenes. The other two involve opera in Philadelphia and Shawshank Redemption. ❤
I absolutely love this movie Little Women, I prefer the one since 1994, The most wonderful scene that I like the most is Friedrich & Jo and they fall in love, which has given me goosebumps. And they truly make a lovely couple.😀👍❤❤
Okay, the chemistry between these two is undeniable, and it was really necessary to show it, for us to see why Jo needed Friedrich, not Laurie. But the kiss… it was too much. Can you imagine the kiss in such circumstances with the ‘book Bhaer’? No. It was too romantic. And after it she was, like, okay that he doesn’t write her back when she returned home and sent him her book? Well, nowadays maybe it would be okay, though it’s sad. But then… I don’t know, I think they shouldn’t have kissed.
It's not a song, it's a duet from Gerges Bizet's opera "Les Pêcheurs de Perles" (The Pearl Fishers). Search on RU-vid "De mon amie, fleur endormie... Leïla! Dieu puissant!". Greetings
Jo & Friedrich would not be viewing this opera. Jo was 15 in the middle of the Civil War, and would have been born about 1848, give or take a year or two at most. The Pearl Fishers debuted in 1863, running briefly in Paris, but was not revived until 1886. In the novel LIttle Women, Jo was married and had 2 children by the time she was 30. The Professor wasn't courting her when she was 40! (My favorite aria is the tenor/baritone duet from this opera.)
You have to understand the background. Alcott wanted Jo to remain single, but her publisher and most of her readers insisted she be married; this dispute is depicted unequivocally in the 2019 version. To get even, Louisa married Jo off to a fat, impoverished old German tutor, instead of a dashing, hunky neighbor. I can imagine her snickering, picturing her disillusioned readers trying to be thrilled at the prospect of that rolling on top of them every night. She couldn't have foreseen Hollywood always casting handsome European gallants as Friedrich.
