#professor bhaer

[cypanache]

Look it’s late and I just have to say this. The fact I live in a time where Daniel Bruhl exists and there have been two new versions of Little Women filmed in the last decade and neither of them cast him as Professor Bhaer is just proof there’s something deeply wrong with the world.

(Robbed. We were robbed I say!)

#daniel bruhl #professor bhaer #little women #opportunities were missed here

[phireads]

I don’t know why, after all of the Little Women adaptations that have been made, we’ve never got Daniel Brühl as Professor Bhaer. I guess he’s still too young yet. But my point stands (especially considering Greta Gerwig’s Bhaer, Louis Garrel, is in his thirties, and younger than Daniel Brühl).

He’s German, he’s a brilliant actor, he doesn’t necessarily have a knows-what-an-iphone-is face. He’s also very good at playing charming characters (charm being something a lot of Bhaers seem to lack).

[ID: Photo of Daniel Brühl as Dr Laszlo Kriezler in The Alienist, wearing a black top hat, a white shirt and black tie, black waistcoat and a black overcoat]

Look at him! That’s my Friedrich!

#mine #books #classic lit #little women #louisa may alcott #professor bhaer #daniel brühl #image description

[qprsmackdown]

PROPAGANDA (under the readmore):

Camilla and Palamedes

They have the most relationship ever. They love each other. They are not complete without each other, necromancer and cavalier. Yet, Palamedes is infatuated with a living corpse who turns out to be a mega death saint that's turning on her god. It's not completely romantic. They've been together their whole lives. Their dynamic. I kind of want it. (if you find this propaganda compelling then feel free to share lol but I will not be checking the box)

You ever so scared of leaving someone that your souls become cosmically entangled and you end up creating a new person?

oh my god. listen. i'm sleepy and it's hard to explain however however. When [SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS] Palamedes dies, Camilla collects pieces of his skull, figures out where his soul is in the ghost river, and then tethers their souls together. And eventually they just collapse into being the same entity (Paul). QPR behavior. Plus they just talk so well to each other, check out their quotes

Jo and Bhaer

in the novel jo talks frequently about how even as an adult she doesn’t understand romance or why people get so weird about it. when laurie proposes to her and goes away to sulk after she rejects him she regrets not saying yes not because she loved him after all, but because she was SO FUCKING LONELY without him. she wouldn’t have married for love at all, she would’ve married her best friend for his company and to keep him close to her. queerplatonic behavior. also in the musical there is NO buildup on jo’s side to her loving bhaer. they are academic equals and they argue frequently, but they love being around each other so they get married. at least how I read the story Jo’s decision comes much more from a place of “if I have to get married and settle down because of the roles I’m prescribed by my society, even though I don’t agree with them, I’d much rather settle down with you than with anyone else. there’s no one I like to banter with more than you,” than it ever did love. jo and bhaers duet at the end of the show is literally not even explicitly romance centered. all of the verses are about how much they’re different. the chorus is just “you make me happy. you make me a better person. I love being around you. I’m lonely when you’re not around” which idk I get like that with my girlfriend yeah but I’m also like that with my other friends. however I get like that ESPECIALLY with my queerplatonic crush so. I diagnose these two queerplatonic. jo march is aromantic I will die on this hill.

#AUGH this propaganda . so good #-mod felix #poll #round 1 #side 1 #the locked tomb #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #jo march #professor bhaer #little women

[emigrams]

I am so bitter about little women and how the 2019 adaptation did not make Professor bhaer german with a real german accent.

Is it because they have been conditioned to think it is ugly and aggressive and mean and totally impossible to sound romantic?

Also germans could really benefit from some positive international language representation. So many germans are ashamed of their language and accent partly because of this.

#little women #greta gerwig #jo march #saoirse ronan #professor bhaer #friedrich bhaer #lma #louisa may alcott #german

[autospleen]

Jo and Fritz are in a qpr and you can't change my mind.

#little women #jo march #fritz #professor bhaer #qpr #we support the jo/fritz marriage on this blog #they are perfect #i love them

[sparklygraves]

ok y’all -- I’m guessing this is an unpopular opinion but... I love professor Bhaer!!!

I still think Jo is gay &/or trans & I’m not sure I see them as a couple, but I think he’s splendid! 

I feel like Louisa does such a good job at making characters likeable from the inside out. like she does with Jo! like, she basically describes Jo as having a pleasant but unattractive face (that “comical nose” & all), but Little Women readers are obsessed with Jo for her deeply delightful, complicated, fiery self!

I kinda feel like with Bhaer, Louisa kinda made an older, male Jo-- bookish, bright, generous, messy...! so I mean... of course I love him!

let me know your thoughts! love him, hate him, don’t care? 

love Laurie so much you hate all other Jo suitors (honestly I totally get it-- I love Laurie a stupid amount too!!!)?

p.s. my opinion might change cuz I only just met him a few pages ago & I’ve still got a chunk of the book to go!

#bhaer #professor bhaer #jo march #louisa may alcott #good wives #theodore laurence #laurie

[jomarchswritingjacket]

forever gonna be wondering what sarah polley’s sapphic little women would’ve looked like and also if greta gerwig wanted professor bhaer to be younger and french then adèle haenel was right there

#jo march #little women #sarah polley #greta gerwig #professor bhaer #adele haenel

[the-forest-library]

FMK: Little Women style from A Career in Books

#a career in books #kate gavino #little women #theodore laurence #professor bhaer #john brooke #books #booklr #reading #bookish #bibliophile

[dailylgbtmusicals]

Doug Kreeger as Professor Bhaer in Little Women

Information

Name: Doug Kreeger

Credits: Love, Actually Live (Harry), Judas & Me (Jesus), Paradise Lost: Shadows & Wings (Ignis)

Color of the rainbow with which they identify: Gay

#dreamcast #doug kreeger #professor bhaer #little women #dailylgbtmusicals

[unwise-girl]

crossover moment?

ok hear me out what if when jo march went to nyc, she made friends with the newsies and helped write an article for them, and… what if they came back to visit jo and professor bhaer at the school during jo's boys/little men and hung around there serving as father figures to the boys. better yet: more newsies come to the bhaer’s school since they heard about it from other newsies.

#CAN THIS BE REAL #little women #newsies #crossover #musical #theatre #broadway #jo march #professor bhaer #jo's boys #little men

[mariusslonelysoul]

I've been in a sensitive and melancholic mood the whole day, for Family and Life Reasons, and now i want to watch a nice, fun movie, why not little women (2017)? It'll be a thirst watch for ian bohen anyway! Nothing about this plan can go wrong! :D

#in case it wasnt clear #it was a BAD idea #i've cried and now i'm questioning my life choices and barely existent life plan #and also i've been reminded why i loved jo when i read the book as a child #and then didn't like her #spoiler alert: it's coz i'm just like her #little women #little women 2017 #jo march #lousia may alcott #beth march #amy march #meg march #professor bhaer #personal

[littlewomenpodcast]

He is actually pretty great. "Chef's kiss"

#little women #professor bhaer #how I am #little women musical

[velvet4510]

#little women #louisa may alcott #jo march #laurie laurence #theodore laurence #theodore laurie laurence #friedrich bhaer #professor bhaer #jo x friedrich #jo x laurie #literary polls

[howifeltabouthim]

I, poor, penniless, plain simple fool that I am, have been ass enough to love you, Lady Laura Standish; and I brought you up here to-day to ask you to share with me—my nothingness.

Anthony Trollope, from Phineas Finn

#declaration of love #marriage proposal #rich girl #star-crossed lovers #reminds me of #little women #professor bhaer #poor #lady laura x phineas finn #otp #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #classics #anthony trollope #phineas finn

[jobethdalloway]

Which film adaptation of Little Women is your favorite and why? How do you feel about the musical version?

ah, anon! A question for the ages. It's 1994's for me.

That wasn't always my answer - for most my life, it would have been 1949. That was the first version of the story I encountered, on VHS at my grandmother's house. I got to know the sisterhood of Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy through those cozy, Technicolor hues with a surge of admiration and kinship for June Allyson's Jo, while also relating hard to the timidity of Margaret O'Brien's Beth. Elizabeth Taylor as Amy still cracks me up and Janet Leigh is a wonderful Meg. It's the most overlooked of the theatrical film adaptations, in large part I'm sure because it hews very closely to the 1933 OG. (I don't care for that one by comparison; Katharine Hepburn is a super cool person and all but I don't like her in the role of Jo and yet she is the only single actor in the cast with an ounce of charisma. imo. I did love seeing her in good drag tho) (People also don't like some of the liberties taken in 1949, ie switching Amy's and Beth's ages - a complaint I totally understand, but again given that it was my introduction to the story I had no idea this was "wrong")

I saw the '94 version a couple of times in high school and was so devoted to my childhood favorite that it took me a while to warm up to it. But by my twenties, it had become a favorite and it is now a go-to comfort movie for me. It has slightly edged out '49 as my personal favorite and in terms of recommending an adaptation to people I think it's the best one to go to. Part of that is yes nostalgia for '90s period pieces (Thomas Newman's score is unmatched in its comforting coziness) - but also its the way its deep, abiding love for the characters and text is manifested with warmth. The novel is warm, and to me, that feeling is somewhat lost in Gerwig's admirable take.

There is a lot I truly love about the 2019 version - chief among them is righting the one wrong of '94 and giving full dimension back to Amy. It's all there in Alcott's text and tries to be there in Armstrong's. The problem in '94 is not only that young Amy gets so much more screentime than adult Amy, but that Kirsten Dunst is SO memorably fantastic in the part and Samantha Mathis just leaves no impression. I see the vision, like, for the porcelain doll Amy but in the novel the still contained that same fire and drive as Jo. Gerwig and Florence Pugh bring that back into light in the most compelling, beautiful way. She manages what no other film adaptation had done before, which was to set up Amy and Laurie in a believable fashion. She does so much that is so wonderful and I am grateful her film has introduced the story to so many. It's such a beautiful one. (I have a few casting problems with '19; my biggest disappointment on a personal level is that I never felt warmed to Beth the way I have in other versions.)

I must admit that despite my love for Sutton Foster, I don't remember loving the Broadway version. I do remember liking the song "Some Things Are Meant to Be," and should listen to it again. I am however grateful for its existence because it was my Broadway-loving gf's introduction to "Little Women" and yay for that!!

tl;dr: it's 1994 for me, but I love something about every version!

#anon #little women #there's also a 1970s miniseries where william shatner played professor bhaer #it's pretty awful but i loved greer garson as aunt march #also this is the part where i confess i couldn't finish the PBS masterpiece version i'm sorry maya hawke #but i did really like angela lansbury in that so I just FF'd to her scenes #long post

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

me 5 years ago: armin is so relatable on such a fundamental personal level that I don’t think it’s possible for him to have been created by someone who doesn’t also hold all of these competing traits, thought processes, desires, flaws, and experiences within themselves. i suspect that armin must be the most intimate character for isayama to write.

jaegerists in 2022: ArMiN aRlErT is obviously a self-insert

me: uh that’s what i JUST said

#- HK #sometimes things that are self-inserts are better #it’s called bleeding onto the page #kid me thought Professor Bhaer was a bore turns out he’s based #mobile #x #SNK #Armin #also i just think it’s neat that a teen girl in nowheresville North Carolina U.S.A #can connect emotionally with a young male mangaka on the other side of the world #through the story he is telling #like I know it SOUNDS cheesy but like. that is really the power of stories that is really the universality of the imago dei #no matter why we write that is why we all write in the end