DZ-80: Interweaving Timelines 3 - Little Women

Listen to explore non-chronological structures can make work thematically resonant. In our final part, part 3, of our Interweaving Timelines series, we — Chas, Stu & Mel — take a deep dive into Greta Gerwig's 2019 adaptation of Little Women. In her adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's iconic novels, Greta chose to interweave the seperate timelines of Little Women and it's sequel, Good Wives, to create a thematically and emotionally potent work. This differs from all the other adaptations, which have chosen to keep the chronological storytelling of the source material. We compare Gerwig's choices and their resulting effects with Gilliam Armstrong & Robin Swicord's more faithful (and chronological) 1994 version. It's almost like a scientific experiment! Thanks to Chris Walker for editing this episode. As always: SPOILERS ABOUND and all copyright material used under fair use for educational purposes. LIKE THIS EPISODE? Send us feedback. Thanks to our Patrons, especially Randy, Garrett, Bjorn, Jessie, Khrob and Sandra. ——— CHAPTERS 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:00:37 – ScriptUp Sponsorship 00:02:00 – Little Women - 2019 vs 1994 00:06:35 – 2019's Interweaving Timelines 00:15:29 – Summarising the plot points 00:31:39 – Initial contrasts with chronological telling 00:35:32 – Laurie's Proposal 00:54:10 – Amy and Laurie's courtship 01:03:34 – Beth's Death 01:26:44 – Book burning and ice skating 01:36:51 – How the structure expresses theme 01:44:06 – Key Learnings and Wrap Up 01:59:02 – Backmatter FILMS LITTLE WOMEN (2019) — (w) Greta Gerwig, Louisa May Alcott (d) Greta Gerwig LITTLE WOMEN (1994) — (w) Louisa May Alcott, Robin Swicord (d) Gillian Armstrong SCRIPTS Study the script: LITTLE WOMEN (2019) — Greta Gerwig, Louisa May Alcott SHOT ZERO DEEP DIVES Art of the Title Sequence: LITTLE WOMEN LINKS Listen: Scriptnotes, Ep 433: The One with Greta Gerwig EPISODES IN THE INTERWEAVING TIMELINES SERIES DZ-78: Interweaving Timelines 1 - Destroyer DZ-79: Interweaving Timelines 2 - The Social Network DZ-80: Interweaving Timelines 3 - Little Women RELATED EPISODES DZ-78: Interweaving Timelines 1 - Destroyer DZ-79: Interweaving Timelines 2 - The Social Network ——— More Draft Zero is brought to you by our awesome Patreons. If you enjoy the show, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, a rating on Spotify, or a review on Podchaser. We are @stuwillis, @mehlsbells and @chasffisher on Twitter. You can find @draft_zero and @_shotzero on Instagram and Twitter. Full show notes at: https://draft-zero.com/2021/dz-80/