P&P not a romantic comedy. You read it here first.
The Guardian says that Working Title Films, producers of the Bridget Jones movies as well as a lot of other popular “rom coms” starring those Brit actors and actresses that we all love, is trying to make a different sort of movie…like PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
A gleaming London of sunshine or snow, of middle-class heartbreaks and happy endings, where no one gets stuck on the Tube and nothing looks dirty. Cut to a beautiful American, some hilarious oddballs and a self-deprecating hero, usually played by a stammering Hugh Grant.
It’s true that Mr. Darcy does not stutter, nor is he self-deprecating, bless him.
November 17th, 2004 at 2:44 pm
“Gerald Kaufman, the Labour MP and film buff, said: ‘They are some of the most awful British films ever. One reaches for the sick bag when they come on. They’re so coy and twee and smug.”
Ummm, Gerald, what kind of twee?
Personally, I have liked all of the Working Title films v.v. much.
April 17th, 2005 at 5:00 pm
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