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If you love the movie Bridget Jones' Diary, which turns 15 years old on April 13, 2016, then you most likely love Pride and Prejudice — and vice versa. That's because the plot of. While the movie based off of Helen Fielding's novel is much more bonkers than Jane Austen's classic piece of literature (which does have its own hilarious moments), Bridget Jones' romance with Mark Darcy mirrors Elizabeth Bennet's romance with Fitzwilliam Darcy. And fans of any version of Darcy can't help but love Fielding's Austen-influenced masterpiece.Bridget Jones' Diary writer in a video interview that when she started writing her first novel about Bridget, she only had a collection of from the Independent featuring the character, but no plot. At the same time, the — starring Bridget Jones actor Colin Firth — was airing and she was 'infatuated' with it. Fielding said, 'And so I just stole the plot.
And then the book increasingly began to mimic and nick stuff from Pride and Prejudice. But it's a very good plot and I thought Jane Austen wouldn't mind, and anyway she's dead.' For those who love Pride and Prejudice, you already know about the little and big references to the novel in Bridget Jones' Diary. There is the fact that Bridget works at Pemberley Press, a reference to the name of Darcy's estate in Austen's classic novel, and that Fielding stole the last name of 'Darcy' for the stoic male lead.Besides the allusions, the people who worked on the Bridget Jones' Diary movie also have connections to Pride and Prejudice.
Screenwriter and also contributed to the screenplay for the 2001 Bridget Jones' Diary movie. And the casting of Bridget Jones is enough to make any Austen fan squeal in delight since Fitzwilliam Darcy actor Colin Firth played the role of Mark Darcy.
Not to mention, the actor who portrayed, Crispin Bonham-Carter, also makes brief appearances in Bridget Jones as an employee of Pemberley. You can see him during the Kafka's Motorbike launch in a and when Bridget quits. An earlier version of, which really highlights the importance of the first meeting between Elizabeth and Darcy, and also pertains to Bridget and Mark.
Instead of meeting at a turkey curry buffet, Elizabeth and Darcy first met at a ball where Elizabeth overhears Darcy saying about her, 'She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me' along with other disparaging remarks. While Mark and Bridget had met as children when she played in his paddling pool naked, their adulthood relationship began with a rough start when Bridget overheard Mark saying he didn't need a blind date with 'some verbally incontinent spinster who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish, and dresses like her mother.' It's amazing how much I love any version of Darcy when his character always starts off as such a jerk. George Wickham & Daniel Cleaver Being Scoundrels. This is not necessarily a plot point, but I can't ignore Bridget directly quoting Pride and Prejudice. The first sentence of Pride and Prejudice is, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'
(I used to have that quote on a T-shirt, don't be jealous.) Bridget riffs on this line when she goes to meet her mom by saying, 'It's the truth universally acknowledged that the moment one area of your life starts going OK, another part of it falls spectacularly to pieces.' The Overbearing Mother & The Soft-Spoken Father. Speaking of Bridget's mom, both Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Jones are pretty insufferable, though they do at least sometimes offer comedic relief.
Elizabeth has a great relationship with her father and Bridget clearly gets along better with her dad than her mom. Bennet is obsessed with marrying her five daughters off and Pam Jones is fixated on setting Bridget up. Unlike Lizzy, Bridget does get a break from her mother when Pam gets sidelined by her own crazy love life with Julian (echoing Lydia Bennet's story line). Either way, in both stories, you are grateful for Mr.
Bennet and Mr. The Wet Shirt Scenes. OK, this one is cheating a bit, but can you really blame me?
In the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice, the six-hour miniseries decided to spice it up by having Darcy take a dip in the water by Pemberley to cool down, even before he knew Lizzy was visiting his home. (This scene does not happen in Austen's book, but most of us aren't complaining.) In Bridget Jones, Firth took time off from the shirt-soaking department and let Hugh Grant do the dirty work. While on a mini-break with Bridget, Daniel drunkenly tries to board her rowboat and falls into the water. I cannot believe I'm about to say this, but in the battle of wet shirts, Grant wins when it comes to physique. But before my Jane Austen ladies freak out — don't worry, Firth's bath still wins overall. Darcy's Turning Point.
Lizzy and Bridget both become utterly confounded when halfway through their stories Darcy tells them he actually likes them, despite how he has treated them in the past. Fitzwilliam Darcy told Lizzy how he loved her when she was visiting Charlotte and Collins. Mark Darcy told Bridget after a dinner party full of smug married couples. Both female characters were not onboard to fall for Darcy's change of heart since in true Darcy form, he managed to insult both characters while professing his love, among other transgressions. The Dreamy Endings. In a simplification of both plots, Lizzy and Bridget eventually realize they care for Darcy when they discover he was the noble one in his interactions with Wickham/Daniel.
While Pride and Prejudice the book doesn't have a big make out moment worthy of swooning, the BBC miniseries and the 2005 Keira Knightley versions do have Lizzy and Darcy kissing. (The additional were added specifically for the American audience and caused controversy since.) After unnecessarily worrying that Mark no longer wanted her upon discovering her diary, Mark and Bridget shared one of my favorite movie kisses ever (I even wrote a blog post about it when I was approximately 16-years-old) in the snow.
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Whether or not Austen would have approved of Mark Darcy's language when he responds to Bridget saying, 'Wait a minute. Nice boys don't kiss like that,' I know that Bridget Jones' Diary purists absolutely f.cking do.Images: Caitlin Gallagher/Bustle; Miramax (5); Focus Features (3); (8).
As a huge fan of the books, I had incredibly high expectations of the movie. In order for the movie to work for me, it had to capture Bridget's plucky-heroine character and the hilarious-poignant emotions that are in the book. Needless to say, `Bridget Jones's Diary' the movie worked very, very, very well. Although Helen Fielding also wrote the screenplay (w/ Richard Curtis, very skilled with romantic comedies) and keeps the laughs coming, this movie could have fallen flat on its face. But it doesn't because one, the casting is absolutely divine and two, smartly builds on some elements the book downplays. Renee Zellweger is absolutely perfect as Bridget Jones.
She has always been one of my favorite actresses and here, she totally displays Bridget's pathetic cuteness. Zellweger gained weight for this role, too, so she looks adorably plump. It's very, very hard to not fall in love with her the moment you see her at her family's Christmas party or drinking alone at home or listening to sad, Celine Dion music. (You have a heart of stone if you aren't moved to laughs or tears or pity for her.) I can't imagine anyone else playing Bridget Jones. Zellweger fits the role because she is very much normal and approachable
we can relate to her. As Daniel Cleaver (her caddish Cassanova lover/boss), Hugh Grant is smoldering and hilarious.
(Ok, I might be a little biased because I've been in love with him for ages and ages, but you can't deny he is a great comedic actor.) There's no trace of his stuttering that we saw (and I loved) in `Four Weddings and a Funeral' or `Sense and Sensibility.' Grant morphs effortlessly into a cad that we all love to hate and all love to love.
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Yes, it's a paradox, but that is what Grant brings to his role. He makes being `bad' look so sexy. You can't take your eyes off him; he brings his own humor to his role.
It's lovely, smoldering, and incredibly sexy.Colin Firth is also a delight to watch onscreen as Mark Darcy (I think I might be in love with him, too). He is also sexy and smoldering, but not in the same wild, fiery way as Daniel Cleaver. Firth brings a very cute sweetness to his role. I don't know if it is his adorable face or his hair or the way he dresses or just the fact that he is a major sex symbol, but you can't help but fall in love with him the MOMENT you see him onscreen.
There is also one very beautiful moment where he tells Bridget, `I like you very much
just the way you are.' It's incredibly romantic and, for me, ranks right up there with Tom Cruise's `You complete me' in `Jerry Maguire.' He also has rather explosive chemistry with Renee Zellweger, which is moving and sexy all at the same time. (And, of course, the author Helen Fielding used Colin Firth as the basis for Mark Darcy, so it all works out marvelously.) I also mentioned that the movie smartly builds on some elements that the book downplays. Yes, there are certain parts of the movie that cannot be found in the book, but I'm still glad they put them in the movie. Most of what they added doesn't necessarily build on plot but it does add to the characters.
I don't want to give anything away because it's rather hilarious what unfolds onscreen. The movie is filmed in an almost Ally McBeal type of way but it remains true to the sincerity, cuteness, and pathetic naivete that Bridget Jones embodies. There are no pretensions. It's an entirely wonderful film.
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