It was almost five years ago that award-winning director, writer and actress, Greta Gerwig pitched Sony her spin on Louisa May Alcott’s popular coming-of-age classic Little Women, which is about four sisters wrestling with their identities and futures in the aftermath of the Civil War. The filmmaker in a recent interview revealed how she used the film’s editing, dialogue and dance choreography to weave together a timeless yet modern iteration.
Moreover, she spoke about how the multihyphenates – backed by a team of female producers; Amy Pascal, Denise Di Novi, Robin Swicord – combined taking creative liberties with her independent film sensibilities to tell a version of the literary and studio classic that hadn’t been told before.
According to Gerwig, she front-loaded much of her work during prep and writing. “I’m always thinking about what are we coming out of and what are we coming into?” the Little Women writer shared. “I thought about that in the writing, and I think about it all the way through shooting. Some of that I think is a function of coming from independent movies, because you just need to get the thing exactly as it should be.”
She further went on to say that often period pieces can feel quite heavy; they can feel quite nailed to the floor. “I wanted [Little Women] to feel light on its feet. I wanted it to feel irreverent. I didn’t want it to feel chaotic, I wanted it to feel very, very choreographed but I also wanted it to feel effervescent and staccato.”
Gerwig continued, “Something I think about a lot, particularly with women’s stories, is that they tend not to be thought of as epic. But I’ve always thought there’s just as much epicness in the kitchen as there are on battlefields.”
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