The New York Times critic Janet Maslin recently tweeted her surprise at the “active hostility about ‘Little Women’ from men I know, love and respect.” While the box office numbers following its release on Wednesday suggest the movie has found a decent audience - it placed third, behind the new “Star Wars” and the latest “Jumanji,” on opening day - that unconscious bias has seemed to trickle down to the casual male viewer as well, if Twitter is any indication. The film has been lauded by critics and ostensibly possesses many of the qualities awards voters look for: an A-list cast (including Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet and Meryl Streep) a respected actress-turned-director (Greta Gerwig) and beloved source material.īut so far it has been noticeably underrepresented during awards season - two Golden Globe nominations and zero Screen Actors Guild nods - and Vanity Fair described the audiences at early advance screenings as “overwhelmingly comprised of women.” One of its producers, Amy Pascal, told the magazine she believes many male voters have avoided it because of an “unconscious bias.” So reads the headline for an article on Vanity Fair’s website this month about the latest screen adaptation of the beloved Louisa May Alcott novel. “‘Little Women’ Has a Little Man Problem.”
0 kommentar(er)
