Laurie Realizes His Love For Amy | Little Women (2019)

[@arivanilla]

Florence makes me love Amy. Her acting as the adult Amy has many layers and very charming. They have only few scenes together but the chemistry is so good that I hope we see them more

[@lauramaggioncalda3344]

Yeah, huh, DUNE lol

[@laryssalapa2064]

"No, I would be respected if I couldn't be loved" DAAAAAAAMN. She is really who he needed, no doubt.

[@reginadt]

No one has ever played Amy quite like Florence. She managed to not only make her sympathetic but lovable. I read the books and Amy went from my least liked character to the most. Thank you Florence and Greta

[@galaxiegrey96]

I agree wholeheartedly. Her performance was nuanced and the character growth unfolded so naturally.

[@davidlux6395]

I feel the books were very much written from the perspective of Jo or Louisa. The books create a sort of idealised version of reality for her. One in which Laurie was deeply in love with her. Something that never happened in real life. In fact the real Laurie often called her Little Momma or something like that. A nickname, he chose because her appearance reminded him of a grandmother (very nice of him). I think in reality Louisa struggled even more with the sexism of society and her own loneliness than Jo did. I think she held quite a bit of resentment towards her sister for "stealing" her childhood friend or her chance for something resembling love in a society that held norms and expectations she didn't fit into. As such I think you can really feel these unresolved feelings toward her sister in her writing. She's the least fleshed out and humanised character, out of the bunch. I'm glad the film decided to give her a bigger part, because Florence Pugh is just magnetic in this role and Amy and Laurie's relationship is what really made the movie for me.

[@anjudevikumaran6171]

I didn't know the two were in love.

[@MeredithHagan]

The way Amy’s face crumples after Laurie says “you know why,” that betrayal and hurt, that second when something you’ve always wanted is happening but you think it’s a trick. Florence’s acting is impeccable.

[@tleman185]

Florence sure does have a great face crumple *insert Midsommar ending scene flashbacks here*

[@brooklynnenoe8371]

I love how you can see the differences between Amy and Jo in the way the dialogue is written for both proposals. Jo argues and talks a ton and won’t shut up even after she says she’s done talking, but Amy says only a handful of sentences that reveal EVERYTHING she’s been keeping inside her whole life.

[@Hedge_witch]

I love that little moment when Amy does admit she wants real love, but she's developed such an understandable pragmatism and realistic acceptance that life isn't the fairy story Jo often paints for us, and so easily accepts is the only way. For Amy, as always coming second, she experiences the pitfalls and the losses of being a more artistic, passionate and creative type, her journey is one not often filled with success and she's smart and observant enough to understand society, and understand why. She gets how hard these things are for women, even if you ARE exceptional, you can still fall so far, so she is wisely wary. And she has also pined for someone long enough to accept unrequited love and heal from it. So for her to step out a little, and say "I didn't love him as I should" when she's knowingly on the verge of security is a big deal. But she doesnt make it the grand declaration Jo would, she's clearly so scared, but also so clearly not a person who can fake love nor thinks you should. It's a great conflict of interest and painted very sympathically here. Women really had impossible decisions to make then, and she of all of the sisters shows that, that head and heart didnt always conveniently come together. I think she's so very relatable in that moment. And what's really lovely is that Laurie instantly recognises it, sees her bravely putting her bruised heart on the line even though she shouldnt because she cant help herself and he kisses her immediately to let her know it's ok. I think that's really him growing. He loves all of Amy as a real person, he idolised Jo and put her on a pedastal, Amy made him quite rightly work for her trust and that's why they work, they're different but equals. He respects Amy in a way he never did Jo, the fact he tried to bully Jo into marrying him makes that apparent. Jo was quite right about them being a bad match and he's finally learnt that she was through his love for Amy.

[@JBFJBFJBF]

This is so well put, thank you.

[@mariahramirez592]

Finally a true reflection of their love story. I agree completely. It's easy to fall for chemistry on TV, but love is a choice and means more than just a feeling. I would say they have a healthy relationship. I do not believe he settled at all.

[@Evanarix]

I wanna like your comment a million times. This is so perfectly well put.

[@SundropQueen60]

Florence Pugh and Timothy Chalamet were the perfect Amy and Laurie. Some who have read the book thought Laurie and Jo should have gotten together as a couple. I think they were better as friends for the reasons Jo said.

[@braria9855]

I found that in the movie the scene with Jo, where he lets her know about him and Amy he does it in a weak way, making one feel like he did in fact settle for Amy. Especially the part where he should go into depth of how he loves Amy differently with a twinkle in his eye, but instead says it kind of "trying to justify himself" way

[@SuperStella1111]

@@braria9855 you don’t flaunt your luck in love with an ex during the “Dear Jo(hn)” moment. It was realistic.

[@helenbeam7586]

The book was a social statement of the times. Women wanted liberation from just being a destiny if wives and mothers. How women were and looked to ways to support their family. Jo being a!writer. Amy settled for the role typical of women. Meg as well.

[@once.upon.a.time.]

​@@helenbeam7586but Jo ends up with the teacher in the book, and he's much much older. So although she fulfilled her dream of being a publisher author she still became a wife too...

[@helenbeam7586]

@once.upon.a.time. Louisa may Alcott never had her own children. True she was a wife, Jo too. But both real and fictional women were authors in a time where women to not be anything but wives and moms. Jo had to write and loved too to help finance their family.

[@maylynbayani]

I could not stand her as a child. As an adult, I grew an appreciation and love that Amy is a realist. I would have done the same thing.

[@TerryBrand-f7d]

She was hilarious with her foot in that bucket, though. LOL I'm chuckling now just thinking about it. Florence deserved that OSCAR nod.

[@lenawalters1866]

The way Meryl Streep plays Aunt Marge as low key someone who is completely not surprised by any of this is so funny. She's just always in the background seeing exactly what is going on.

[@OreadNYC]

I love the way in which Amy tells Laurie that for women, marriage is an economic proposition -- because throughout most of human history, that is exactly what it has been. I've always found it rather significant that several of the female writers who wrote so beautifully about love either never married themselves (Alcott, Austen, two of the Brontë sisters) or else married later in life (Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning).

[@jelenaforfree]

Their on-screen chemistry is fantastic!¨Well done!

[@michellecarbonell707]

That is so odd I found them to have no chemistry

[@Jocelyn_Herrick]

@@michellecarbonell707what movies do you watch? Twilight?

[@Kay-tl5hd]

I just wished they showed more of their relationship 😊 like how they got married and all… love them ❤

[@clarissagafoor5222]

I like the scene in the room where Amy tells Laurie the reality of women's lives at that time. And when Fred arrives we see that Laurie is starting to understand how he feels for Amy. And then in the garden when Amy tells him her feelings.

[@Alicefaith-fe5qb]

i think at 1:53 is when the grandmother noticed amy was in love with laurie. it totally skipped over my head in the movie

[@librocubicularist3322]

I read the book as a little kid and loved and understood Amy. I watched the movie and I'm so happy Greta finally portrayed her how she should be portrayed. As much as Jo and Laurie were good friends and maybe shipped as children, Amy and Laurie were endgame for all the reasons Jo told Laurie and because of how compatible Amy and Laurie are. In the end, Laurie wanted to marry one of the March girls because of how he felt accepted and loved in that family, thought it was Jo because of a childish crush, but loved Amy as a mature adult.

[@cmdub97]

Alcott wrote Amy after her sister she got along with the least, so its no wonder many other portrayals leave the reader/viewer disliking Amy. While Laurie is modeled after a real person, he was never a friend of the family, nor did he marry anyone from the Alcott family.

[@MamaMargie]

I loved Amy in the book and this movie. I even as a child wanted to be Amy.

[@once.upon.a.time.]

How interesting! Although Beth and Jo were my favorites, I grew to really love Amy too. I don't think I liked Meg as much 😅

[@livexthexlife192]

It’s telling that only an outside perspective could see that she liked her least because Amy is Jo’s foil … highlights all her shortcomings but also in many ways is the most like her of all her sisters

[@jepbrown4941]

Florence always got timothee in the end. This movie, dune😂

[@picardtseng]

Also I started missing Saoirse Ronan

[@ojasvitaak6205]

Not getting in dune though

[@braria9855]

@@picardtseng He and Saoirse were the cutest most matching couple ever, I still ship them especially since he's dating some superficial low life now

[@NotCthulhu]

"Reverend Mother... what if Paul Atreides were still.... still unmarried? UWU"

[@SarifaXionic]

@@ojasvitaak6205She didn't get the love but she got the ring. A got is a got.

[@theresaandrade8261]

They both are such beautiful people. I loved their storyline.

[@Julesorjulz]

Personally, 1994 Little Women is my favorite. It's timeless, the music and everything about it is comforting.

[@1tommyday]

I couldnt agree with you more!!! This just didn't work for me next to the 1994 version.

[@Lulusvideos1]

Agree, the soundtrack is the best of all the Little Women movies, and the scenery is beautiful.

[@veemack6980]

Mine too! Christian Bale was incredible as Laurie!

[@denisefreitas6727]

Greta Gerwig and Florence Pugh made Amy justice.

[@radguurl]

This is the first adaptation where it makes PERFECT SENSE that they would end up together and that Laurie wouldn't have worked with Jo. Florence Pugh made adult Amy so sensible, bright and firm in talking to Laurie as an equal and you can see Laurie falling in love with her as a result. Such amazing casting !

[@kr8289]

Am i the only one who adores their story❤❤. It was so heartfelt.

[@alyzu4755]

Florence Pugh is one of the best actors working today. She's always terrific. 🥰

[@Polin-dx5ru]

His love for Jo was not the same as his love for Amy.

[@carolinaflor]

To me Timothée Chalamet, who is 28, still looks so young. He’s a great actor, but looks 15 to me. I have a hard time seeing him as Laurie. I like the version with Winona Ryder and Christian Bale.

[@federica60503]

Winona Ryder is thee Jo for me as well! Loved her version

[@Jenflower74]

Totally agree. Especially when they pair him against Florence Pugh (who I loved in this role, btw.) Christian Bale will always be the one and only Laurie.

[@1tommyday]

Absolutely 💯 %

[@ebonyjohnson2009]

Her small speech and America Ferrera’s in Barbie is just AMAZING

[@jonathahot]

"Beth was the best of us." 😔

[@fancypotat15]

poor guy the both times he ever tried proposing to girl their first word was "No" 😢

[@onzy601]

Exactly what I was thinking about lmaoo. That no no no

[@paulkellerman2603]

That is why in Dune Part 2 he just said: I will take the hand of your daughter.

[@jbvader721]

​@@paulkellerman2603Sad thing is in Dune Messiah (spoilers) he will not treat her well.

[@paulkellerman2603]

@@jbvader721 Only in book. Irulan from movie will be top dog.

[@MR-rj2qw]

I imagine, if you have only ever seen this movie and not read the book or watched another adaptation, Laurie‘s sudden change of heart very much comes as a surprise. To me it feels like if he cannot have Jo, he settles for the next best thing which is Amy. I know it is not supposed to appear like that, but still. As they did not have a child actress play younger Amy, it is harder to understand why he suddenly falls in love with her when she seems to be like she always was, one does not realize that quite some time has passed.

[@andrewcabral963]

What coincidence that those two now star in Dune.

[@jbvader721]

And she's Timothee's second pick girl again. But, now that Dune Part 3 is being developed...let's just say things aren't going to be good. And we'll be getting used to Florence's pout ☹️.

[@laluneestdort9783]

Amy wasn’t so straightforward and rude in the book. She measured her words and had tact. As for Laurie, he never made a scene like that, not caring about what society would think in a dance where many people were present, and he never made fun of Amy in public. I feel they wanted to make the characters fit in today’s normative: people making scenes, not caring about their reputation or the scandal they produced. All the romanticism from that time was not shown in this movie.

[@jupiterdai]

I agree 100%.

[@sandyjuntunen4088]

Everything has to be made woke today! They have no creativity so they copy others & ruin it with woke. All clips, & they still don't get a clue!

[@batkat0]

​@@sandyjuntunen4088 Is woke in the room with you right now?

[@voyance4elle]

I never understood this part of the story. I can't sense that he is in love with her at all... Maybe interested, yes, but in love?

[@livexthexlife192]

It’s done nicely in the book, you see how slowly overtime he falls in love with Amy, it’s also hard to understand in the movie but when he meets her in Europe, he hasn’t seen her in several years, so he went from knowing her as a tag along kid-sister, then re meeting her as a mature young woman

[@llchapman1234]

It always bugged me that Lawrence so easily transferred his affection to another sister. He was lucky she accepted him as the other two weren't available.

[@noonooshK]

Same

[@dianaswanson5705]

In the book, it just happened over time, as they got to know eachother and he was surprised by her being so grown up and lady like...like he was seeing her in a different light and that's what made it enchanting...the details of the book are better

[@thistlethorn96]

Poor Aunt March 😂 She brought Amy to Europe to marry her to someone rich and sophisticated and Amy marries the wild boy next door 😂 Technically she succeeded but she didn't know it.

[@veemack6980]

Christian Bale was so much hotter as Laurie!. But Peter Lawler was the original Laurie!.

[@mariane3146]

they deserved each other ❤ i want what they have or nothing

[@oldageisdumb]

Don’t only believe in fairytales. They are created for movies. True love is gritty, stable, exciting and enduring.

[@carontorliak2760]

​@@oldageisdumbright hand for me it is

[@OzSistersDiaries]

were they besties before lovers? i can very much tell that the way they say the truth without any filter they're bestfriends😂

[@unicornio5956]

No childhood friends in a way. Laurie was Amy’s older sister Jo’s best friend.

[@HelenSheAlphaz]

And people still prefer jo over amy for laurie...

[@dianaswanson5705]

I did and sometimes still do.

[@DeRone22]

This movie made me love Florence and fall in love with Chalamet lol they surely can act

[@kxk_77]

fantastic actors

[@VagiragaDaur]

The way how he quickly kissed her😮❤

[@Dryjins]

Amy is a real winner

[@starsandbeyond5848]

They are exactly the same as I pictured these characters when I read the book as a kid.

[@SabohatNormurodova-c4i]

Amy is so adorable

[@kitsong]

Paul, does Chani know you're having visions about you and Irulan in 19th-century Massachusetts?

[@teddy.yellowbuckets]

Bruh i never even see this movie and I’m crying

[@evam4182]

Oh you gotta.

[@chavieevahorn1103]

Amy is the cutest

[@tawfiqsnow]

Name of the movie 😊

[@andreashick4883]

Little Women

[@London1869]

...based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott

[@kitsong]

Dune Messiah. The plot really went off the rails after they adapted the first book.

[@BonnieBLass22]

Timotee is too petite and boyish looking and his manners all wrong for Teddy/Laurie. These two were only cast because they’re friends with the director, not because they were actually the best fits for the role. PBS version that came out around the same time did SO MUCH better with casting and costumes!

[@donutcat870]

At 0:52 there is a fart

[@1tommyday]

I prefer the 1994 version. The fashion in which they are speaking to each other sounds like modern times, not 1864. I don't love Timothy Shalomar. I'll take Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst and Christain Bale any day over this.

[@BeaWalsh]

Love them ❤

[@tmyoshimura621]

Oh wow I’ve gotta see this

[@evam4182]

Did you?!

[@marianavase8805]

What I don't like is that Florence seems much older than Timothe, she has a very deep voice and her complexion is more mature. Timothe looks like a 15 year old teenager. I also didn't like that Florence played the version of Amy when she is a little girl, she is not believable, they gave her two braids and bangs and that transforms her into a little girl? Well, that girl has the voice of having smoked a lot 🤣

[@breadopiz]

i agree

[@MaryB.Robinson]

I honestly believe a deep voice doesn't and shouldn't ever matter when it comes to casting; I had a deep voice when I was a kid (people would mistake me for my mother over the phone) and I still do, so to see a deep-voiced woman get a role as a feminine, relatable, non-villianious character is awesome. Tim was also in his mid-twenties so it doesn't really matter what age he looks like.

[@LemonSte]

We're just used to seeing older men being paired with young women in movies. They look like they're both in their twenties, I know because I am a person in my twenties and they look the same age as me and my friends lol.

[@marysueeasteregg]

Pugh does smoke, but her deep voice is due to a medical condition she's had since childhood called tracheomalacia, a rare condition that is due to the cartilage of the windpipe/trachea being soft, weak and floppy. Chalamet is actually the older of the two, by one week. I agree he is very youthful looking for his age. He is an excellent actor, but I wonder how his looks will age.

[@MorganHyde-ie5ru]

Florence has a very youthful face. I have to disagree with you on all counts, excepting that Timothee does look very young. I don't think they look poorly matched though.

[@Peertoiba019]

He were looking good with joe butt ..........Amy picked him .This hurt's

[@agrarianarc]

Ugh, just can’t compare to the 90s version. None of this is believable

[@chevexx1111]

Why do people care so much about this story?

[@MuftiTalhaOfficialvideos]

Sir ji... Jeannie aur Juju ke next episode karo

[@milicarasovic1839]

Regulus Arcturus Black WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE DOING HERE?!

[@mr.pradorobledo]

Kit Kat | Katie (I)

[@mr.pradorobledo]

3:16 ' be good aren't you ashamed of a hand like '

[@AyanTheAlien]

Everything she said about marriage is 💯 true for men than it was for women. It still is. She wanted to earn money that was her's, so do we men. But guess what? After marriage, all money will belong to her & all her money will belong to her too. Funny how by empowering women, we made men impotant.

[@onlyhousestarklivesmatter]

Your understanding of society for women is so flawed and childish that I can’t help but wonder this comment is a stupid attempt at trolling

[@123sjal]

Tell us more about life for 1800s women. You are much more an expert than the author! 😂 Sounds like you are bitter from a bad choice, but your anecdote is not reality. Republicans are in the process of returning women to chattel when we never attained full equality. It won't make you happy, it is to keep poor people poor. Better keep it in your pants or you will deserve all the child support costs and court battles!

[@evam4182]

It’s 10000% not still true lol

[@kailani808]

I will go down with the Jo/Laurie ship 🚢

[@lampy4485]

This feels like awkward acting

[@pn7185]

There was no love! He settled!

[@ileniavivino680]

Amy non mi piacerà mai nè nel libro nè nei film. Laurie doveva stare con Jo e nessuno mi convincerà mai del contrario.

[@CresenceStarTrajano-ds4pk]

Luh?

[@honeymcdonald9120]

No no no this plot line is just wrong. Laurie should be with Jo - end of story.

[@rosea2350]

This version is awful; it takes the book and turns it into some wacky feminist manifesto.

[@kathy.7475]

I have seen many versions of Little Women. This was my least favorite. This Amy seemed cold and hard, even her features. There is no softness about her.

[@debatable98]

I can understand this. I love Florence Pugh, but there was something very childishly girlish about Amy that i don’t thinks is portrayed in her rendition. I heavily disliked Amy at first but I remember feeling very proud as i watched her mature from her whiney self to the Amy Laurie fell in love with, whilst still keeping her core traits.

[@TerryBrand-f7d]

I thought she was hilariously vulnerable with her foot in that bucket. LOL Can see why Florence got an OSCAR nod for the role. Greta is so good with comedy! Love it!

[@Hedge_witch]

She's pragmatic, not cold.

[@AlbenaBG]

This film is completely detached from book.

[@menkasharma392]

❤❤

[@nicolaannalisa]

Io. Sara

[@ShannonA-sm8hf]

Horrible acting awful

[@mauracorsini4649]

10 year acting coach here and her delivery of "You're being mean" is truly impeccable. Absolutely perfect. bravo x107784314433890914