Laurie Realizes His Love For Amy | Little Women (2019)

Hi, hi, hi! Amy! My, you've grown so much! You wrote you'd meet me at the hotel! I couldn't find you when you got over there. Well, you didn't look hard enough. Well, maybe I didn't recognize you because you're so beautiful now. Oh, stop it. I thought you liked that sort of thing. No, where's your grandfather? He's in Germany. He's still traveling. I'm traveling on my own now, just relaxing. Riding and rolling and drinking. Yes, well, don't tell your mother. Are you chasing some young girl across Europe? No. I couldn't believe Joe turned you down. I'm so sorry. Don't be, Amy. I'm not. Baby! Amy! You come back here right this instant! Oh, our Martin. Come on. I'll be looking good. Get off me! Allons-y! We need you to be somewhere. Come to the New Year's Eve party. It's a ball and everyone will be there, including Fred. Pick me up at the hotel at 8. Au revoir! Oh, Lori! Dress for festivities! Top hats and silks! I will! I'll wear my best silk! It's Lori. I know. I'm so sorry. I will, okay? I'm so sorry. Lori. Amy. I waited an hour for you. I feel caught. Amy, please. Amy. Do you want to know what I honestly think of you? What do you honestly think of me? I despise you. Why do you despise me? Because with every chance of being good, happy, and useful, you are lazy, faulty, and miserable. That's interesting. Yes, while selfish people do like to talk about themselves. Am I selfish? Yes, very selfish. With your money, talent, beauty, and health. Oh, you think I'm beautiful. Yes, you like that, you old vanity. With all these good things to enjoy, you can find nothing to do but dawdle. I'll be good for you, St. Amy. I'll be good. Aren't you ashamed of a hand like that? No, I'm not. Looks like it's never done a day of work in its life, and that ring is ridiculous. Joe gave me this ring. I feel sorry for you, I really do. I just wish you'd bear it better. You don't have to feel sorry for me, Amy. You'll feel the same way one day. No, I'd be respected if I couldn't be loved. What have you done lately, old great artiste? Perhaps you're fantasizing about spending Fred Vaughn's fortune. Fred Vaughn, ladies and gentlemen! Fred, I'm so sorry. May I ask your last portrait be of me? All right. Now that you've given up all your foolish, artistic hopes, what are you going to do with your life? Polish up all my other talents and become an ornament to society. That's where Fred Vaughn comes in, I suppose. Don't make fun. I said his name. You're not engaged, I hope? No. But you will be if he goes down properly on one knee? Most likely, yes. He's rich, richer than you, even. I understand queens of society can't get on without money, although it does sound odd from the mouth of one of your mother's girls. I've always known I would marry rich. Why should I be ashamed of that? There's nothing to be ashamed of, as long as you love him. Well, I believe we have some power over who we love. It isn't something that just happens to a person. I think the poets might disagree. Well, I'm not a poet. I'm just a woman. And as a woman, there's no way for me to make my own money. Not enough to earn a living or to support my family. And if I had my own money, which I don't, that money would belong to my husband the moment we got married. And if we had children, they would be his, not mine. They would be his property, so don't sit there and tell me that marriage isn't an economic proposition, because it is. It may not be for you, but it most certainly is for me. Oh, that's Fred. Can you unbutton me? How do I look? Do I look all right? You look beautiful. You are beautiful. What are you doing? I'm looking at you. I mean, what do you intend to do? With what? Yes. I've been writing an opera. I'll be the central figure. That's a waste of time. What would you have me do? Go and work for your grandfather and make something of yourself. You're not playing fair. Here. That's very good. When did you do this one? It was the day at the beach. First time I met Fred. That's right. What's he doing? He's in London on business. He'll be back in a few weeks. Don't marry him. What? Don't marry him. Why? You know why. No. No. Yes. No. Lloyd. What? You're being mean. Stop it. Stop it. I have been second to Jo my whole life in everything. And I will not be the person you settle for just because you cannot have her. I won't. I won't do it. I won't. Not when I've spent my entire life loving you. Couldn't let you travel alone the day of March being so sick. Even if you despise me. I don't despise you. Beth was the best of us. I'm not marrying Fred. I heard about that. And you are under no obligation to say anything or do anything. I just didn't love him as I should. So we don't need to talk about it. We don't need to say anything.