Little VVomen

Little VVomen is a three minute long mashup between the movie trailer for the 2019 Little Women and The VVitch produced by Shipwrecked Comedy. It follows Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March and the crazy cult like antics they get themselves into.

Watch it Here!
https://youtu.be/fp7NkMlWLC0

Plot
Since it is a trailer, we can't tell what the minutia of the plot is. However, we can still gather the basic aspects and connect some dots.

The trailer begins with Jo March pitching her most recent book about her and her sisters (Meg, Beth, and Amy) to the Editor. He offers "advice" for how she should change her book, but Jo does not seem pleased. We then see Laurie Laurence be introduced to the girls by Marmee. The girls are watching the pair from a window above, when they mention that he will be just perfect! After this it is made clear that Beth is ill, she coughs then utters that 'it has begun'.

Over time, Laurie grows more fond of spell-and-book-writing Jo. He eventually confesses his feelings to her, but Jo resists; she insists that he would be very unhappy with her. Laurie confides in Meg about how he's being driven out of his wits by Jo. From here, things only seem to escalate.

Beth is shown crawling across the floor, and moments later Amy knocks Laurie out with a flower vase. We see another interaction between the editor and Jo where he is once again asking questions she does not care for. This time he offers the advice to make sure a female protagonist is married by the end of the book. Jo questions if it has to be a man and hints at wanting someone different.... such as Black Phillip.

When Laurie comes to, he is tied up and facing the four March sisters. The sisters begin to chant and preform various rituals, causing Laurie's worries and confusion to grow. Bones are mashed (presumably by Amy), Beth's leg falls off, Jo's dress gets scorched, some sort of meat gets cut, and Meg cuts her hand in order to preform a blood sacrifice. Jo approaches Laurie with little remorse, reminding him of the warning that she had given him earlier that he would be very unhappy with her. She runs her hand along his face and leaves a marking behind that is made out of blood. After this, the four girls all fall silent.

We see a dark figure begin to move from behind Laurie. Eventually, the figure stops and leans against a tree; it is clear that we are in the presence of Black Phillip. Between his full black outfit, nails, and horns he's enough to send shivers down your spine. That is until he delivers the final line of "Wouldst thou like to live deliciously" in a voice that is goofier than his demeanor could ever measure up to.

After the credits, we see Jo with a match recite the quote featured at the top of the page; she is full of emotion and ready to rewrite the social standards. We also see a quick flash of Black Phillip's face in a bold red lighting.

Cast
Sinéad Persaud as Jo March

Jessica Jade Andres as Beth March

Sarah Grace Hart as Meg March

Mary Kate Wiles as Amy March

Robert Manion as Laurie Laurence

Tim de la Motte as the Editor

Bonnie Bailey-Reed as Marmee

Sean Persaud as Black Phillip

Production
Sinéad Persaud came up with the idea for the sketch several years ago when she, Mary Kate Wiles, and Sean Persaud were in the ArcLight Cinema parking lot and were playing on the joke of using "w/vv" with movie titles. That was when she came up with the play on words Little VVomen. Sinéad then wrote the short herself and got a pass of approval from Sean. The sketch then sat idle until last year; Shipwrecked knew that they wanted to do a Halloween sketch, so when the trailer for the new Little Women (2019) movie came out, they knew the timing was perfect to bring Little VVomen to life.

Then, they filmed the short at Sunny Gables one day in late September 2019 with their small cast and crew. The Director, Joe, used the recent Little Women trailer as inspiration and tried to match as many shots in the sketch as possible in order to create parallels. Shipwrecked was able to use their Patreon income to cover of expenses for filming that day.

Patrons at the $5 and above tier were sent a link to watch the unlisted short on October 24th, 2019 and it was posted publicly to YouTube on October 25th,2019.

Crew
Produced by Sarah Grace Hart, Sean Persaud, Sinéad Persaud, & Mary Kate Wiles

Production Sound Mixer: William Kioultzopoulos

Hair and Makeup: Roxanne McDanel

Gaffer: Sebastian Johnson

Set PA: David Workman

Re-Recording Mixer: Christopher Marino

Production Designer: Kim Brunner

Assistant Director: Tia Workman

Director of Photography: Devin Hassan

Editor: Raymond Fraser

Composer: Dylan Glatthorn

Extras
Shipwrecked Comedy released a Behind the Scenes video to their YouTube channel about scouting the location and their day on set!

Trivia
- The chant they recite in the trailer is an excerpt of a poem called "A Song From The Suds" that Jo March writes in Little Women.

-To be able to have the script on set the cast and crew used a Joe Stribling original called "tiny sides".

- For the shoot Sean used real acrylic nails.

- The "ham slap" done by the Editor was added on set by Tim de la Motte and William J. Stribling

- This was Robert Manion's first time working with Shipwrecked Comedy.

- A reference to A Book By Its Cover was made with the line "Yum Yum, Jo!"

- The release date for the spoof movie was set as Arbor Day (April 24th).