Little women / Drama

 Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Greta Gerwig
Year: 2019
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothee Chalamet, Florence Pugh 

The scene opens with a shot of a woman taking a deep breath before she opens a door and walks into an office full of men. The woman then walks up to a mans desk and asks where the weekly volcano office and that she would like to see mr Dashwood. The woman then presents the man with papers and exclaims that a “friend” of hers would like to submit a tale that she wrote to the newspaper, she promotes her “friend” by telling the man all the other newspapers that she has sold too and the awards that she has won for her writing, the man then tells the woman to sit. The woman nervously plays with her hands as she sits down, the man begins to read the story as she sits and watches him intently waiting for a reaction, the man begins to chuckle as he is reading the story which makes her smile. However, the man then begins to take his quill and cross out pages of her writing wich causes her expression to drop. A montage of the man slamming each page of the story is shown and each time the womans expression drops as we can assume she is preparing herself for rejection, but to her surprise the man agrees and says that “they'll take it”, but that she needs to alter it as its too long. The woman thinks for a moment almost as if she is contemplating

standing up for herself, but then tells the man that she took care in “having a few of her sinners repent” in the story to which the man responds “our country has just been through a war, people want to be amused not preaches at. Morals don't sell nowadays”. She then asks what the compensation for the story to be to which the man says that they usually pay 25-30 dollars for that kind of stuff, but they'll pay her 20, she thinks for a moment before she agrees and says that they can take it. She then asks the man if he would like any more stories of her “friend” has any better ones, he says hell think about it but to keep them short and spicy, and that if the main character is a woman to either have her married or dead by the end. The man then asks what name her “friend” would like put to the story and the woman quickly says no name at all. She sakes his hand and tells him to have a good morning as she gets up and leaves. The tone of the narrative then completely shifts as we see her running through the streets surrounded completely by men, smiling. Little woman is a period drama set after one of the world wars, we know this because during the conversation that the man a woman were having he says “this country has just gone through a war”. Little women hilights the divide that was faced by women back in that time as the woman in the

opening was the only woman seen throughout, and she didn't get payed in full for the story she submitted. In the clip we are introduced to the woman who we can assume is a very confident person as she is putting herself regardless of the social norms. We are also introduced to a man who is the newspaper publisher, not much is revealed about the man except for the fact that he has views about how woman should end up in the story. Based on the opening scene i can assume that the rest of the movie will follow the womans writing journey and how she becomes a successful writer.