0:00:07 > 0:00:09A year has passed.
0:00:10 > 0:00:11A year since Meg married.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14Since I sold my novel.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17It failed.
0:00:18 > 0:00:19If I get bigger,
0:00:19 > 0:00:21I won't be able to wear any clothes at all!
0:00:21 > 0:00:23I'll have to wrap myself in sheets,
0:00:23 > 0:00:25and stay in the house till the baby arrives!
0:00:25 > 0:00:27This skirt has plenty of room in it, Meg.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29And I promise you, I've added so many frills
0:00:29 > 0:00:33the eye will be drawn away from everything that's going on.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35No-one will look lower than your shoulders!
0:00:39 > 0:00:40Oh!
0:00:43 > 0:00:45I can't even write a diary any more,
0:00:45 > 0:00:47and yet my head is full of words.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51A magnificent harvest, if I do say so!
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Are you sure they can be spared?
0:00:53 > 0:00:55- Of course they can!- Oh!
0:00:57 > 0:01:01She's a terrible big size for a terrible small girl, Mrs March.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Meg is young, and she's healthy.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05There is no reason to suppose that she will struggle,
0:01:05 > 0:01:07when the time comes.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Our house is full of stories.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Lives unfolding.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Wings waiting to take flight.
0:01:58 > 0:01:59Jo!
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Why didn't you do your hair the pretty way?
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Because I hate paying calls.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05And you don't need your mackintosh!
0:02:05 > 0:02:07I can smell thunder, even if you can't.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09And if people care more for my clothes than they do for me,
0:02:09 > 0:02:11- then I don't want to see them! - Please, Jo!
0:02:11 > 0:02:12We owe half a dozen calls
0:02:12 > 0:02:15even before we go to see Aunt Carrol at Aunt March's house.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17If you're going to be in a contrary fit...
0:02:17 > 0:02:19..you'll drive me distracted before the day is out!
0:02:19 > 0:02:20Likewise!
0:02:20 > 0:02:22And remember!
0:02:22 > 0:02:25- Loop your gown up in the street, and trail it in the house.- Oh!
0:02:26 > 0:02:27Yes!
0:02:27 > 0:02:29THEY LAUGH
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Ah! Oooh...
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Please be set. Please...!
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Florence's first season was such a spectacular success
0:03:10 > 0:03:14that we're now intending an entire programme of new activities for her,
0:03:14 > 0:03:17- aren't we, dearest?- Yes, Mother.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21Not that she will neglect any opportunity to share her advantages
0:03:21 > 0:03:22with those less fortunate!
0:03:22 > 0:03:26Tell me, Amy dear, are you much occupied with charitable works?
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Marmee has always encouraged us
0:03:28 > 0:03:30to support the Ladies Aid Society, Aunt Carrol.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33And I'm tending a table at their bazaar on Saturday.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37And I don't doubt that it will be laden with her pretty works of art!
0:03:37 > 0:03:39And what about you, Josephine?
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Oh, my scribbling keeps me too busy for charity schemes.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45By scribbling, do you mean drawing, dear?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Oh, Josephine doesn't draw.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51She writes romances, in a general way,
0:03:51 > 0:03:53with a dash of the spectacular thrown in as a makeweight.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57I see.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58Does that amuse you, dear?
0:03:58 > 0:04:00It pays me.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03And how do you fare with your languages?
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Oh, I don't know a word of anything,
0:04:06 > 0:04:08only English.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11And I can't keep at any sort of study, and I can't bear French!
0:04:12 > 0:04:14It's a such a slippery, silly sort of language.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Don't you think?
0:04:18 > 0:04:19HALF-LAUGHTER
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Hmm.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27SUBDUED GROANS
0:04:29 > 0:04:31DEEP BREATHING
0:04:31 > 0:04:32Beth.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35What's the matter? Shall I call Marmee?
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Please don't.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Don't call her, and don't tell her.
0:04:40 > 0:04:41Are you in pain?
0:04:41 > 0:04:44A little. But I can bear it.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52You don't look as though you're bearing it.
0:04:56 > 0:04:57Will you stroke my head?
0:05:03 > 0:05:06I wish you would tell me what was troubling you.
0:05:07 > 0:05:08Not yet.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27I had a letter from Aunt Carrol today.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Did she grill you about your charitable activities?
0:05:29 > 0:05:31No...
0:05:31 > 0:05:34She told me about her forthcoming tour of Europe.
0:05:35 > 0:05:40And she says that she needs a companion for her daughter Florence.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42So she has asked...
0:05:42 > 0:05:43Me to go with her?!
0:05:45 > 0:05:47No, dear. Not you.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Amy.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Aunt Carrol wants to go to Europe with her?
0:05:53 > 0:05:56London, England, Stonehenge,
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Edinburgh, Paris, France, Vienna,
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Berlin, Venice, Italy,
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Athens, Rome.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Mr Thomas Cook will be arranging
0:06:06 > 0:06:08some very circuitous rail connections.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11But she wants me to go with her?
0:06:11 > 0:06:15I actually begged her to take you off my hands,
0:06:15 > 0:06:18and she has my gratitude for being so obliging.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31I'm sorry, Jo.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35I know how much that would have meant to you.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36It isn't fair, Marmee.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37Amy gets all the fun,
0:06:37 > 0:06:39and all I ever do is work.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Jo, you would've had a hard year,
0:06:42 > 0:06:44pretending to be someone other than yourself.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48And I'm not sure that that wouldn't have cost you dearly.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Are you stitching that for Amy?
0:06:58 > 0:07:00How can you tell?
0:07:00 > 0:07:02I wish I could say I do it gladly,
0:07:02 > 0:07:04but I don't.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06- Oh, Jo...- Don't speak to me kindly!
0:07:06 > 0:07:08I was too thoughtless, and too blunt,
0:07:08 > 0:07:10and I have an ungovernable tongue!
0:07:10 > 0:07:11I know how hurt you are.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13I can't let anybody see, Laurie!
0:07:13 > 0:07:15You never let people see your soft side!
0:07:15 > 0:07:17But everyone who cares knows it's there!
0:07:17 > 0:07:20I'd rather not talk about my soft side at the moment.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Why don't we talk about you?
0:07:22 > 0:07:25And all your grand plans, now you're a college graduate?
0:07:25 > 0:07:27I don't have any grand plans.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Grandfather's so pleased and so relieved
0:07:30 > 0:07:33I think he'll let me take a vacation for a while.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Well, aren't you fortunate?
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Jo! Jo!
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Beth?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45John came to the house, to fetch Marmee.
0:07:45 > 0:07:46It's happening, Jo.
0:07:48 > 0:07:53LOW, PAINED GROANING
0:07:58 > 0:08:00We shall have to get her lying down, Mrs March.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03The girl's going to exhaust herself!
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Good girl. Good girl!
0:08:08 > 0:08:11You didn't tell me. How did you ever survive it?
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Oh, I don't know, Meg.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16I don't believe women ever know.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18- But I did. We do. - SHE GROANS
0:08:18 > 0:08:20And you will.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22I promise you, you will!
0:08:23 > 0:08:26GROANING RISING
0:08:31 > 0:08:32FAINT CRYING
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Look at you, John! The man who has everything!
0:08:34 > 0:08:37I have a family at last. I can want for nothing else.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39When do I find out if it's a boy or a girl?
0:08:39 > 0:08:41CRYING
0:08:41 > 0:08:43- You'll see. - HE CHUCKLES
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Come!
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Don't open your eyes yet.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58- Surprise!- By Jupiter.
0:09:00 > 0:09:01Twins?!
0:09:01 > 0:09:03A boy, and a girl!
0:09:03 > 0:09:07I put a blue bow on one of them and a pink one on the other,
0:09:07 > 0:09:09French fashion.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12It's the joke of the season, isn't it?
0:09:21 > 0:09:23A son and a daughter.
0:09:26 > 0:09:31Do you suppose one day she'll say to me, "How did you ever survive this?"
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Very possibly.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36And you can say "You will."
0:09:40 > 0:09:41Thank you, Marmee.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Laurie might ride by in a moment.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52He went out to play billiards tonight,
0:09:52 > 0:09:54and this is the time he usually comes home.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58Here he is...
0:09:59 > 0:10:01All serene on the front!
0:10:05 > 0:10:06I like it so much when he does that.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10He looks so strong, and well and happy.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Goodbye!
0:10:19 > 0:10:20We'll miss you!
0:10:21 > 0:10:22Goodbye!
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Be safe, sweetheart.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Write to us!
0:10:33 > 0:10:34I'll write when I get to England!
0:10:37 > 0:10:38Goodbye!
0:10:49 > 0:10:51FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:10:51 > 0:10:52DOOR OPENS
0:10:54 > 0:10:56First nip of fall in the air.
0:11:00 > 0:11:01No pen and no ink today?
0:11:01 > 0:11:04I've penned and I've inked in every room in the house this week,
0:11:04 > 0:11:06and not one has proved more conducive than the garret.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Where are you floating off to, on that cloud of cologne and pomade?
0:11:15 > 0:11:16Eugenia Randall's house.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Eugenia Randall?
0:11:18 > 0:11:19Is she the girl you sent a rose to
0:11:19 > 0:11:21every morning of your sophomore year?
0:11:21 > 0:11:24She's giving a tea party so everyone can see her engagement presents.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26She was a delicious romp, and a fine flirt, but...
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Marmee doesn't like that sort of girl.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30Marmee didn't raise that sort of girl.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33I wouldn't know how to flirt, even if she had allowed it.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37I flirt constantly.
0:11:37 > 0:11:38I can't help myself.
0:11:39 > 0:11:44But what I really like are sensible straightforward, modest young women.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Jo?
0:11:55 > 0:11:56Jo, dear! I want you.
0:12:02 > 0:12:03Laurie.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07This won't do.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23What is it, Jo?
0:12:26 > 0:12:27I want to go away.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Where?
0:12:30 > 0:12:32To a hospital in a big city,
0:12:32 > 0:12:33to train to be a nurse.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35No, Jo! No.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37No. Besides, the war is over.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39Do you think disease has stopped existing,
0:12:39 > 0:12:40because the country is at peace?
0:12:40 > 0:12:42People will always need help, Marmee!
0:12:42 > 0:12:44And what do you need, Jo?
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Because, and forgive me if I sound disrespectful,
0:12:46 > 0:12:49I don't believe the state of the sick and the suffering
0:12:49 > 0:12:51is your principal concern.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54I need to not live out my entire life
0:12:54 > 0:12:56in the tiny town where I was born!
0:12:56 > 0:12:58I need to see things,
0:12:58 > 0:12:59and be things,
0:12:59 > 0:13:02because I'm terrified that if I don't,
0:13:02 > 0:13:05my writing will have to be forced out of nothing,
0:13:05 > 0:13:06and go nowhere!
0:13:07 > 0:13:09And I need to get away from Laurie.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13He's become...
0:13:13 > 0:13:14..fond of me.
0:13:15 > 0:13:16And, uh...
0:13:19 > 0:13:21..you don't think you could become fond of him?
0:13:21 > 0:13:22No.
0:13:22 > 0:13:23I love him,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26but like I've always loved him. Like a brother.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28And...that won't change.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30I know it won't change!
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Good,
0:13:33 > 0:13:34because you and Laurie...
0:13:35 > 0:13:37..you're too much alike,
0:13:37 > 0:13:40both have hot tempers and strong wills.
0:13:42 > 0:13:47Marriage takes...infinite patience and forbearance, Jo.
0:13:47 > 0:13:48As well as love.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51I know that.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54Because I've seen that.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58But I'm not sure I could manage it with anybody.
0:14:00 > 0:14:01And I don't intend to try.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11Laurie needs a girl like Beth, Marmee.
0:14:13 > 0:14:14Like Beth?
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Beth loves Laurie.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21In the most tender, most hopeful, most hopeless way.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24And that's what's been troubling her?
0:14:24 > 0:14:25It's been breaking her heart!
0:14:25 > 0:14:27And it will break mine too,
0:14:27 > 0:14:29if I stand in the way of what might be the better thing!
0:14:34 > 0:14:36MARMEE SIGHS
0:14:45 > 0:14:47You'll hate New York.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50I might. But I like the sound of Mrs Kirke's boarding house.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53You're going there as a governess to her children.
0:14:53 > 0:14:54If she didn't need a governess,
0:14:54 > 0:14:56and if she wasn't an old friend of Marmee's,
0:14:56 > 0:14:58I wouldn't be going to New York at all.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12"Dear Marmee and Beth.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15"I kept trying not to remember Father's face
0:15:15 > 0:15:18"when I left him at the station.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20"But the sun came out and I took it as an omen.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28"Independence has its charms.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31"It also has its challenges.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36"But I make shift, and so far haven't disgraced myself at all.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42"Mrs Kirke's house is a veritable Babel."
0:15:42 > 0:15:44MEN LAUGH
0:15:44 > 0:15:46"There are two French ladies
0:15:46 > 0:15:49"and three engineers fresh off the boat from Sweden.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53"There's a professor from Germany.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57"He's raising two nephews, after his sister died."
0:16:01 > 0:16:03"He has a beard
0:16:03 > 0:16:05"and a kindly sort of face.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07"Or perhaps I just think that,
0:16:07 > 0:16:11"because I keep being told what a splendid man he is."
0:16:11 > 0:16:14"And because it's so very obvious he's poor.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17"Poverty always enriches those who rise above it."
0:16:19 > 0:16:27# Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen bluhn?
0:16:27 > 0:16:34# Im dunkeln Laub die Goldorangen gluhn
0:16:34 > 0:16:36# Ein sanfter Wind... #
0:16:36 > 0:16:37Please can I get past?
0:16:40 > 0:16:43Child! This is too heavy for such a little one as you.
0:16:43 > 0:16:44Give it to me.
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Thank you.
0:16:47 > 0:16:52It always pains me when a child must earn their bread.
0:16:52 > 0:16:53Yes.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55It pains me too.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05"So far, London is all fog and umbrellas, and I went to
0:17:05 > 0:17:09"Westminster Abbey and sketched three tombs and a rudiment screen.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11"Flo and I got in a hansom cab today...
0:17:11 > 0:17:13"..but Aunt Carrol made us both get out
0:17:13 > 0:17:15"because the driver smelled of beer.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18"I am, as ever, your loving Amy.
0:17:18 > 0:17:23"PS, ribbon is so cheap here! Only sixpence a yard."
0:17:25 > 0:17:29HE PLAYFULLY SHOUTS
0:17:31 > 0:17:36Kitty! Minnie! What in mercy's name are you doing?
0:17:36 > 0:17:39We're playing a game of menagerie, Miss March!
0:17:39 > 0:17:42Franz and Emil are a tiger and lion respectively,
0:17:42 > 0:17:45hence their incarceration behind the dining chairs.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Minnie's feeding them ginger cake.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49A very particular ginger cake,
0:17:49 > 0:17:54formulated for the mammalian species Felidae.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Meanwhile, I'm an elephant.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58No ginger cake for me.
0:17:58 > 0:17:59SHE CHUCKLES
0:17:59 > 0:18:02BHAER IMITATES ELEPHANT
0:18:17 > 0:18:20- You write fast? - Faster since I've been here.
0:18:20 > 0:18:2220, 20, 20.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24I'll only pay ten for this
0:18:24 > 0:18:27because stories of sisterly love don't generally appeal.
0:18:27 > 0:18:28They appeal to me, sir...
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Ten. And that's my final offer.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32However, bring me more like these
0:18:32 > 0:18:34and you'll be published once a fortnight. 20 every time.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40"...Und Gott druckte das tote Kind zu Seinem Herzen, und Flugel
0:18:40 > 0:18:46"wurden ihm gegeben, damit er mit dem Engel fliegen konnte, hand in hand."
0:18:48 > 0:18:51Now Miss March will read now from the English book,
0:18:51 > 0:18:53so as to learn our language lesson.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58"Then the child opened his eyes and looked into the glorious
0:18:58 > 0:19:03"happy face of the angel, and at the same moment they found
0:19:03 > 0:19:06"themselves in that heavenly home where all is happiness and joy.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10"And God pressed the dead child to His heart, and wings were
0:19:10 > 0:19:15"given him so that he could fly with the angel, hand in hand."
0:19:25 > 0:19:27Miss March.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30Pray tell if I disturb you. You're writing home?
0:19:30 > 0:19:31Ah, no. I'm just writing.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Erm, might I enquire as to
0:19:34 > 0:19:39whether you have any fondness for philosophy?
0:19:39 > 0:19:42I have read a little Immanuel Kant, but
0:19:42 > 0:19:44I struggle with his notion that we don't
0:19:44 > 0:19:46- conform to the world, but the world conforms to us.- Ah, ja.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Well, I struggle with that also.
0:19:49 > 0:19:54Um, I find greater coherence in the views of Hegel.
0:19:54 > 0:19:55Yes. Exactly.
0:19:55 > 0:19:59Well, there is a symposium - a debate -
0:19:59 > 0:20:01to be held next week.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05May I take the liberty of purchasing admission for us both?
0:20:07 > 0:20:10Ah...I would like that.
0:20:10 > 0:20:11Ja?
0:20:12 > 0:20:15- Ja, that's great! - THEY BOTH LAUGH NERVOUSLY
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Ah, ja.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20SHE LAUGHS
0:20:24 > 0:20:27I called in at the library to look up the works of Mr Hegel,
0:20:27 > 0:20:29and I agree with him.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31If everything I know comes from my sensations of the world,
0:20:31 > 0:20:35there must then exist a world to provide me with such sensations!
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Yes. Yes, exactly.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45SHE LAUGHS
0:20:45 > 0:20:47"No matter where I go,
0:20:47 > 0:20:51"Jo's wild imagination has been there in advance of me.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54"The Vampire Bridesmaid set me up sublimely for the catacombs,
0:20:54 > 0:20:56"and I read The Gondolier's Ransom
0:20:56 > 0:20:59"within an earshot of actual gondoliers!
0:20:59 > 0:21:02"Can you send me some blue dye for my satin button boots?
0:21:02 > 0:21:04"I need to make them match my walking suit,
0:21:04 > 0:21:07"and you can't get blue dye in the whole of Europe.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10"I guess everyone just buys new shoes all of the time..."
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Hurry! The maids will be coming in to set the table.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Take those painted eggs to your room,
0:21:19 > 0:21:21and don't put them where they'll be smashed or trampled,
0:21:21 > 0:21:24or everyone's labours will have been in vain, including mine!
0:21:26 > 0:21:29My nephews enjoy their handicrafts with you.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31I like teaching boys.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Better than teaching girls - but don't tell Mrs Kirke.
0:21:34 > 0:21:35No. No! Shh!
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Observe this, this illustration.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43I wince to surmise what adventures it depicts, and think it
0:21:43 > 0:21:47should not be brought into a house where there are children.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Look, more of it there is!
0:21:49 > 0:21:51It's better they play with gunpowder,
0:21:51 > 0:21:52than they read such things!
0:21:52 > 0:21:55The Weekly Volcano? Let it burn.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59You know, I have no patience for those who create this bad trash!
0:21:59 > 0:22:02In which case, Professor Bhaer, you have no patience with me.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Every other week I publish a story in that magazine.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07And every penny I earn in exchange for them
0:22:07 > 0:22:09goes to the good of someone I love.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11My sister, as it happens!
0:22:11 > 0:22:14I shouldn't have to explain how much a sister can matter.
0:22:14 > 0:22:15Not to you.
0:22:15 > 0:22:16Wait. Ah...
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Your sister is sick?
0:22:21 > 0:22:22She isn't strong.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27I've been saving up so I can take her to the ocean.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34Does that still make my stories "bad trash" in your eyes?
0:22:44 > 0:22:47APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS
0:22:47 > 0:22:49KNOCK ON DOOR
0:22:56 > 0:23:02I have not words sufficient to apologise.
0:23:02 > 0:23:03I wish instead to...
0:23:05 > 0:23:06..present a gift.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14- The Complete Works Of Shakespeare. - Hmm.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18There's a universe of literature within these boards.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Shakespeare earned his living by his pen.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25He wrote spectaculars, and he entertained the people.
0:23:26 > 0:23:31But he also created works of such beauty that the world
0:23:31 > 0:23:33is still sustained by them.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37One need not exclude the other.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42You know so much more than I do.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45That only makes me learned.
0:23:47 > 0:23:48It does not make me wise.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52But I am wiser now.
0:23:54 > 0:23:55Professor Bhaer.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59I've decided to go home for a short while.
0:24:01 > 0:24:02I'm leaving next week.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06S-so suddenly?
0:24:06 > 0:24:09I've had another payment, which means I have enough to take my sister to the sea.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13She needs the air very badly.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15But you will return?
0:24:17 > 0:24:19To New York?
0:24:19 > 0:24:20Yes.
0:24:21 > 0:24:22Yes.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Godspeed you on your journey, Miss March.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39- I'll see you in four weeks!- Ja.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Write often!- Bye.- Bye. - Safe journeys.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04CHICKENS CLUCK
0:25:26 > 0:25:30- Jo, we're going to have to have this out.- Have what out?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32I've loved you ever since I've known you!
0:25:32 > 0:25:34And I can't help it, even though I've tried.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Laurie, I don't want to have this conversation!
0:25:36 > 0:25:38I know you don't!
0:25:38 > 0:25:41I've tried to show you how I feel but you refuse to see it.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44So now I'm going to make you hear it, and give me an answer!
0:25:44 > 0:25:46Jo!
0:25:46 > 0:25:48I don't want you to be unhappy, Laurie!
0:25:48 > 0:25:51- I went away so that you wouldn't be! - It was no use.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54I spent the whole time trying to turn myself into someone
0:25:54 > 0:25:55good enough for you to love!
0:25:55 > 0:25:57You are good enough. You've always been good enough!
0:25:57 > 0:26:01It's just I can't love you in the way that you want me to.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04I've tried, and I won't lie and say I love you like that when I don't!
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Have you really, truly tried?
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Really, truly.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27HE CRIES
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Teddy, I'm sorry.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46I'm so desperately sorry.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50I'd kill myself if I thought it would help!
0:26:50 > 0:26:54- In what way would that help, Jo? - I don't know!
0:26:54 > 0:26:57But it would be easier than making myself love you when I don't!
0:26:57 > 0:26:59- That can't be done. - Some people manage it.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03I don't believe in that sort of love, and I don't intend to try.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08I have something to tell you.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14If it's about that old man, I'd rather not hear it.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15What old man?
0:27:15 > 0:27:18That professor you were always writing home about!
0:27:18 > 0:27:19Professor Bhaer?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21We're friends, Laurie.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23We talk about literature and plays, and...
0:27:23 > 0:27:26You go to philosophical symposiums together!
0:27:26 > 0:27:28We went to one philosophical symposium!
0:27:28 > 0:27:31If you tell me you love him, I'll be the one who kills myself!
0:27:31 > 0:27:35- I haven't the least idea of loving Professor Bhaer or anybody else. - You will in the end!
0:27:35 > 0:27:37And so will you in the end!
0:27:58 > 0:27:59You grew out your hair.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04I thought you might care for it.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14I'll never love anyone but you.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16Laurie.
0:28:16 > 0:28:17Be sensible.
0:28:19 > 0:28:24I will not be sensible! I can't be sensible, Jo!
0:28:24 > 0:28:26I don't believe you've got any heart at all!
0:28:26 > 0:28:28And I wish I hadn't!
0:28:37 > 0:28:39Love cannot be forced, Laurie.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Well, that's what she said.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44And I'd rather hang myself than live in a world where
0:28:44 > 0:28:45she won't change her mind.
0:28:45 > 0:28:49Sometimes the only response to the provocation of a woman
0:28:49 > 0:28:51is to take it like a man.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53What if I can't take it like a man?
0:28:55 > 0:28:56Then take yourself abroad.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04HE PLAYS PIANO
0:29:04 > 0:29:06You said I could travel once I graduated,
0:29:06 > 0:29:08but I didn't think I'd be travelling alone.
0:29:08 > 0:29:10You wouldn't be alone.
0:29:10 > 0:29:12I wouldn't be with Jo.
0:29:12 > 0:29:16There's at least one person who'd go to the end of the Earth with you.
0:29:19 > 0:29:20Who?
0:29:20 > 0:29:22Me.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24- MR LAURENCE CHUCKLES SOFTLY - Thank you, sir.
0:29:26 > 0:29:28I went through all of this when I was your age.
0:29:28 > 0:29:32And then again when it was your father's turn.
0:29:32 > 0:29:35HE RESUMES PLAYING PIANO
0:29:37 > 0:29:39May I advise against the Sonata Pathetique...
0:29:41 > 0:29:44..until we're feeling more robust?
0:30:10 > 0:30:12SHE GASPS
0:30:43 > 0:30:47You have a bay scallop and an angel wing here.
0:30:48 > 0:30:51Do you want me to look the other ones up in the book?
0:30:51 > 0:30:52Later.
0:31:01 > 0:31:02You know, don't you, Jo?
0:31:10 > 0:31:11Yes.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15I wanted to tell you,
0:31:15 > 0:31:17but I couldn't.
0:31:20 > 0:31:21I've known for a long time.
0:31:23 > 0:31:25I suspected, and I wanted to be wrong,
0:31:25 > 0:31:28so I went to Dr Bangs, so he could tell me not to be so silly and...
0:31:31 > 0:31:32..and he didn't.
0:31:38 > 0:31:41Now I'm used to it, it isn't hard to bear.
0:31:41 > 0:31:43Except I've been keeping a secret.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45Is that what was troubling you last autumn?
0:31:47 > 0:31:48Yes.
0:31:50 > 0:31:51It wasn't to do with Laurie?
0:31:51 > 0:31:53Why would it be to do with Laurie?
0:31:55 > 0:31:59Apart from seeing him so strong
0:31:59 > 0:32:02and well and so full of happy plans, like all of you.
0:32:02 > 0:32:03But you kept it a secret.
0:32:05 > 0:32:08You didn't let us comfort you or help you.
0:32:08 > 0:32:10Why did you try to shut us out and bear it all alone?
0:32:15 > 0:32:17I didn't want to be selfish.
0:32:19 > 0:32:20I didn't want to frighten Marmee,
0:32:20 > 0:32:23when she was already worried about Meg and her confinement.
0:32:23 > 0:32:25You don't think we wanted to care for you?
0:32:28 > 0:32:30You have to let us help you.
0:32:30 > 0:32:31You have to try to get well.
0:32:31 > 0:32:32I do try.
0:32:34 > 0:32:37But every day I lose a little strength
0:32:37 > 0:32:39and feel more certain I shall never get it back.
0:32:43 > 0:32:44It's like the tide, Jo.
0:32:48 > 0:32:50When it turns, it goes slowly, but it can't be stopped.
0:32:54 > 0:32:55I'll stop it.
0:32:57 > 0:32:58I'll fight it.
0:33:00 > 0:33:03I'll...keep you alive,
0:33:03 > 0:33:06whatever I have to do,
0:33:06 > 0:33:07and whatever I have to give up to God.
0:33:09 > 0:33:14This is what He wants, Jo.
0:33:14 > 0:33:15He can't be that cruel.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20I don't want to let life go.
0:33:22 > 0:33:24I can only try to be willing.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28Will you tell Father and Marmee, when we get home?
0:33:28 > 0:33:30- I won't have to.- But you must.
0:33:32 > 0:33:34And you must look after them.
0:33:36 > 0:33:37Promise me.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42I promise.
0:33:51 > 0:33:53Good afternoon, Miss March!
0:33:53 > 0:33:57- Laurie!- Or should that be bonjour, Mademoiselle Mars?
0:33:57 > 0:34:00Marmee a ecrit que vous serez a Sienne!
0:34:00 > 0:34:02Your tenses are all back to front, Amy!
0:34:02 > 0:34:04HE CHUCKLES
0:34:05 > 0:34:09I've been making Herculaneum efforts with my art.
0:34:09 > 0:34:12I thought the Continent would bring out the Raphael in you.
0:34:12 > 0:34:13It hasn't so far.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16And I tried oils in Paris, drawing in Nice
0:34:16 > 0:34:18and absolutely everything in Rome.
0:34:21 > 0:34:22You know...
0:34:23 > 0:34:25..I'm starting to think I might not be a genius.
0:34:27 > 0:34:31I think the same thing every time I try to sit down and write my opera.
0:34:31 > 0:34:33You're writing an opera?
0:34:33 > 0:34:36Grandfather likes to see me occupied,
0:34:36 > 0:34:38and I like Mozart and Beethoven.
0:34:38 > 0:34:40Not that that has got me anywhere.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58You've timed your return to perfection, as it happens.
0:34:58 > 0:35:02The cat has had kittens again, and someone needs to take them on,
0:35:02 > 0:35:06- as Hannah has threatened to run them through her mangle.- Marmee.
0:35:09 > 0:35:10Yes?
0:35:13 > 0:35:15I'm sick...
0:35:17 > 0:35:19..and I'm not going to get better.
0:35:36 > 0:35:40SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
0:35:52 > 0:35:54SHE INHALES SHARPLY
0:35:54 > 0:35:56She was the one that I never made plans for.
0:36:00 > 0:36:01She was the that one I...
0:36:03 > 0:36:04..I couldn't imagine married.
0:36:07 > 0:36:08She was the one that...
0:36:10 > 0:36:12..I couldn't picture with an infant in her arms.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18She knew she was dying for a long time, Marmee...
0:36:18 > 0:36:20And all I know was that she...
0:36:20 > 0:36:22..she would never leave home!
0:36:23 > 0:36:26And I was content with that.
0:36:26 > 0:36:28- CRYING:- I could keep her safe here!
0:36:34 > 0:36:37And now she's going to go so far away from home,
0:36:37 > 0:36:41I won't be able to guide her or protect her.
0:36:44 > 0:36:45I-I...
0:36:46 > 0:36:49I won't be able to be her mother.
0:36:52 > 0:36:53And she will need me, Jo.
0:36:53 > 0:36:55She will need me!
0:37:29 > 0:37:32GENERAL CHATTER
0:37:41 > 0:37:44I'm afraid I might have overdone it with my embellishments.
0:37:44 > 0:37:47So many fresh flowers, I might as well climb into a vase.
0:37:49 > 0:37:52I'm sorry. I...brought you some more.
0:37:57 > 0:37:59This stuff is nice.
0:37:59 > 0:38:01It's called illusion tulle.
0:38:02 > 0:38:04You can pin it on over the shabbiest gown
0:38:04 > 0:38:06and shimmer like a moth in candlelight!
0:38:06 > 0:38:07Which is lovely...
0:38:08 > 0:38:10..unless you don't like moths.
0:38:18 > 0:38:20Would you care to dance, Amy?
0:38:21 > 0:38:23One generally does at a ball.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48BABY CRIES
0:38:55 > 0:38:57Jo.
0:39:03 > 0:39:07Do the babies tire you? BABY CRIES
0:39:07 > 0:39:08Yes.
0:39:11 > 0:39:12Shhh.
0:39:47 > 0:39:49BETH BREATHES SOFTLY
0:39:57 > 0:40:00BETH WHEEZES
0:40:27 > 0:40:28Beth, dear...
0:40:32 > 0:40:34..you're going to have to go on a journey...
0:40:37 > 0:40:39..and you mustn't be afraid.
0:40:42 > 0:40:45You were always braver than you knew.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56Rest here, until you're ready.
0:41:42 > 0:41:46"Take care of Amy, Teddy. Stop.
0:41:46 > 0:41:49"With love. Stop. Jo."
0:42:27 > 0:42:31Marmee says I'm to stay here with Aunt Carroll and Florence.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35I keep wanting to tell you to cry.
0:42:36 > 0:42:37I can't.
0:42:42 > 0:42:47I keep remembering that will I wrote when Beth had scarlet fever.
0:42:49 > 0:42:52You bequeathed me a plaster horse, if I recall correctly.
0:42:54 > 0:42:55I had my death...
0:42:57 > 0:43:00..all rehearsed in my mind.
0:43:01 > 0:43:04I had Beth's all rehearsed and ready too.
0:43:04 > 0:43:05I thought it would tear me open...
0:43:07 > 0:43:09..burn me down, like a house. And now...
0:43:12 > 0:43:13..I'm just frozen.
0:43:16 > 0:43:19I'll come to see you every day, Amy.
0:43:22 > 0:43:23Promise me?
0:43:25 > 0:43:26Yes.
0:43:30 > 0:43:33FOOTSTEPS
0:43:38 > 0:43:41Marmee thought that I shouldn't keep this in my bedroom any more.
0:43:41 > 0:43:43I thought to put it in the parlour...
0:43:43 > 0:43:45..but, it's Beth's
0:43:45 > 0:43:48and I don't think it should be where I can see it for a while.
0:43:48 > 0:43:50It can have a home with me.
0:43:58 > 0:43:59Help me.
0:44:00 > 0:44:01Always.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07You have to write, Jo.
0:44:09 > 0:44:11You have to write.
0:44:14 > 0:44:18Sift down through your heart,
0:44:18 > 0:44:20through all the pain...
0:44:21 > 0:44:23..and grief.
0:44:24 > 0:44:26There are words there.
0:44:29 > 0:44:31There's a woman there.
0:44:34 > 0:44:35And it's you.
0:44:37 > 0:44:40But I don't know what the words are.
0:44:40 > 0:44:42I don't know what to say.
0:44:42 > 0:44:43Say you were happy once.
0:44:47 > 0:44:49Say there was laughter.
0:44:51 > 0:44:53Say what is true.
0:45:22 > 0:45:24My Beth.
0:45:31 > 0:45:35Sitting patient in the shadow
0:45:35 > 0:45:37Till the blessed life shall come
0:45:39 > 0:45:42A serene and saintly presence
0:45:42 > 0:45:44Sanctifies our troubled home
0:45:46 > 0:45:49O my sister passing from me
0:45:51 > 0:45:54Out of human care and strife
0:45:57 > 0:46:00Leave me as a gift those virtues
0:46:00 > 0:46:02Which have beautified your life.
0:46:07 > 0:46:09By Josephine March.
0:46:25 > 0:46:26Thank you, miss.
0:46:37 > 0:46:39- DOOR OPENS - Jo!
0:46:39 > 0:46:42Don't let the babies in! They won't get a Christmas surprise if you do!
0:46:42 > 0:46:44They're with Marmee and Hannah in the kitchen.
0:46:48 > 0:46:51Father showed me your poem in Godey's magazine.
0:46:51 > 0:46:53It's beautiful, Jo.
0:46:53 > 0:46:56The editor ordered four stories
0:46:56 > 0:46:58and as much verse as I care to write.
0:46:58 > 0:47:02He said that he liked them because they were pure, warm and honest.
0:47:04 > 0:47:08Cut it out and pin it to the wall above your desk,
0:47:08 > 0:47:10so you can see what you can do.
0:47:12 > 0:47:14I just broke my scissors.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16SHE CHUCKLES
0:48:00 > 0:48:02I've had to do yours all over again.
0:48:02 > 0:48:05It will never sail anywhere folded like this.
0:48:05 > 0:48:09Laurie, that paper boat could sail across oceans.
0:48:09 > 0:48:12It could sail all the way back home!
0:48:12 > 0:48:15Get back on the bank, Amy.
0:48:15 > 0:48:19I've saved you from drowning once before, I'm not doing it again.
0:48:19 > 0:48:21OK, give me yours now!
0:48:24 > 0:48:27THEY BOTH CHUCKLE SOFTLY
0:48:41 > 0:48:43Oh, they're not going anywhere.
0:48:46 > 0:48:47I'm not sure I want them to.
0:48:49 > 0:48:53I quite like them just sitting there side by side.
0:48:53 > 0:48:55On the same journey.
0:49:00 > 0:49:02We're on the same journey, aren't we, Amy?
0:49:04 > 0:49:05Yes.
0:49:09 > 0:49:11Can we make it last forever?
0:49:39 > 0:49:41Amy's engaged to be married?
0:49:43 > 0:49:45To Laurie?
0:49:45 > 0:49:47Yes.
0:49:47 > 0:49:49He's been writing me all winter.
0:49:49 > 0:49:53Were you hoping that he would ask you again?
0:49:53 > 0:49:54No.
0:49:56 > 0:49:58I was hoping he wouldn't.
0:49:59 > 0:50:01Because if he had, I might have said yes...
0:50:02 > 0:50:04..and not for the right reasons.
0:50:06 > 0:50:08I've got writing to do.
0:50:11 > 0:50:14THEY SHOUT JOVIALLY
0:50:27 > 0:50:29That's lovely, Daisy.
0:50:29 > 0:50:33Amy will like the blue pitcher best, blue is her favourite colour!
0:50:33 > 0:50:34Oh!
0:50:35 > 0:50:38Look. That's lovely!
0:50:38 > 0:50:42If they haven't arrived already, and early, and if the little lady
0:50:42 > 0:50:45isn't dressed in silk from her head to her French-buttoned boots!
0:50:45 > 0:50:48HANNAH LAUGHS
0:50:48 > 0:50:50- Shall we go see her? Come on!- Come on!
0:50:53 > 0:50:56- Amy! Sweetheart!- Marmee!
0:50:58 > 0:50:59MR MARCH: Welcome home!
0:50:59 > 0:51:01Thank you, sir. Good to see you.
0:51:05 > 0:51:08That's not an engagement ring.
0:51:08 > 0:51:11She has a sapphire from Chopard as big as a pigeon's egg!
0:51:11 > 0:51:13But I can't get my glove on over it.
0:51:15 > 0:51:16It's a wedding ring!
0:51:20 > 0:51:23- Well done!- Thank you, sir! - Well done!
0:51:25 > 0:51:28THEY BOTH LAUGH
0:51:34 > 0:51:38Hey, Jo! Is genius burning, or can you tolerate a visit?
0:51:38 > 0:51:40I can always tolerate a visit from you, Teddy.
0:51:40 > 0:51:45But...I'm not sure how many more surprises I can bear.
0:51:45 > 0:51:47PENCIL DROPS
0:51:52 > 0:51:53Why didn't you tell anyone, Teddy?
0:51:57 > 0:51:59We thought it would be a lark.
0:51:59 > 0:52:01HE CHUCKLES
0:52:05 > 0:52:07I have to get back to my wife soon.
0:52:09 > 0:52:12But I want to say one thing, once,
0:52:12 > 0:52:13and then put it by forever.
0:52:15 > 0:52:19And what is that, Teddy?
0:52:22 > 0:52:26I used every power in my possession to stop myself from loving you.
0:52:27 > 0:52:29And now I know I never shall.
0:52:31 > 0:52:34I will love you till the day I die, Jo.
0:52:36 > 0:52:42But you and Amy have changed places in my heart.
0:52:42 > 0:52:45You are my sister, and she is...
0:52:45 > 0:52:47Mrs Laurence?
0:52:48 > 0:52:50Yes.
0:52:50 > 0:52:52Can you believe it?
0:52:52 > 0:52:53Yes.
0:52:56 > 0:53:00Now can we go back to being happy, like we were before?
0:53:01 > 0:53:02Not quite.
0:53:04 > 0:53:07We were children before, and we aren't any longer.
0:53:25 > 0:53:27Marmee will be along soon.
0:53:28 > 0:53:31She just wanted to be sure that you had seen the doctor.
0:53:31 > 0:53:35Estelle sent for him this morning.
0:53:35 > 0:53:40He told me only what I knew already.
0:53:40 > 0:53:42Which is that you've had a stroke.
0:53:43 > 0:53:49A small stroke. I am in no danger.
0:53:50 > 0:53:52I want you to take some of this soup.
0:53:54 > 0:53:57Ordering your elders and fiddling with the sick.
0:53:57 > 0:54:01You've turned into an old maid, Josephine.
0:54:01 > 0:54:04I prefer to think of myself as a literary spinster.
0:54:05 > 0:54:07We're both aunts.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11There is a pleasure in it,
0:54:11 > 0:54:17as well as duty, and vexation.
0:54:17 > 0:54:20The world should be kinder to those of us.
0:54:22 > 0:54:25Our lives are not without purpose.
0:54:25 > 0:54:27But mine is small, Aunt March.
0:54:28 > 0:54:32It's so small, and so narrow, I feel it closing in on me like walls.
0:54:34 > 0:54:36I wasn't meant for a life like this.
0:54:40 > 0:54:41Now...
0:54:43 > 0:54:44..open up.
0:54:44 > 0:54:45W-when I'm ready.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51Better times will come.
0:55:15 > 0:55:17Professor Bhaer? Is that you?
0:55:19 > 0:55:20Miss March!
0:55:24 > 0:55:25You look tired.
0:55:27 > 0:55:30I've been to see my aunt. She's sick.
0:55:35 > 0:55:37What in heaven's name has brought you here?
0:55:39 > 0:55:40Business.
0:55:42 > 0:55:43Please, take shelter.
0:55:50 > 0:55:52You said you'd come back.
0:55:55 > 0:55:57I promised Beth I'd stay.
0:56:01 > 0:56:02I shouldn't have stopped writing.
0:56:03 > 0:56:05You didn't.
0:56:05 > 0:56:07You wrote a poem.
0:56:08 > 0:56:10It was called My Beth.
0:56:10 > 0:56:12You saw it?
0:56:13 > 0:56:16And I keep it against my heart...
0:56:19 > 0:56:21..which has been sore for you.
0:56:29 > 0:56:31I should go.
0:56:31 > 0:56:35- You must entertain visitors, perhaps?- No.
0:56:35 > 0:56:37It's just my family.
0:56:37 > 0:56:41But don't worry, I've told them so much about you.
0:56:41 > 0:56:43- Oh, you have? - SHE CHUCKLES
0:56:52 > 0:56:54Come here.
0:56:54 > 0:56:56I've forgotten how to do it the pretty way!
0:57:00 > 0:57:01You don't have to, Jo.
0:57:02 > 0:57:04You look beautiful.
0:57:06 > 0:57:08Everybody really likes him.
0:57:08 > 0:57:11THEY LAUGH
0:57:12 > 0:57:16PIANO PLAYING
0:57:16 > 0:57:20Hurry up, Jo. It's your turn, and your audience is getting restless!
0:57:38 > 0:57:42CHILDREN LAUGH AND SHOUT
0:57:55 > 0:57:58She's looking a little stronger, Amy. I'm sure of it.
0:58:00 > 0:58:01Yeah.
0:58:01 > 0:58:03Boys! Boys!
0:58:03 > 0:58:05Lay off the apple picking for now and come and get your tea.
0:58:05 > 0:58:09Class One over there, Class Two there, where I can see you.
0:58:09 > 0:58:12I never imagined Aunt March would leave Plumfield to Jo in her will.
0:58:13 > 0:58:17And I dare say Aunt March never imagined what she'd do with it.
0:58:19 > 0:58:21I don't think that old house ever made her happy.
0:58:21 > 0:58:24But it's brought me more joy than any castle in the air,
0:58:24 > 0:58:27even if my hair is turning grey.
0:58:27 > 0:58:29Nothing is ever perfect.
0:58:31 > 0:58:33But things can be just right.
0:58:34 > 0:58:35Yes, they can.