Must be that Special Edition we keep hearing about
Journalists are often accused of having seen film adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels rather than reading the novels themselves. What then can we say to this?
ASK a woman to describe Fitzwilliam Darcy, the obstinately ineligible stiff who thaws under the lively wit of Elizabeth Bennet in “Pride and Prejudice,” and watch her eyes take on a lustful sheen as she conjures up the image of Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, plunging shirtless into an icy English pond.
Shirtless?
(And everyone knows it wasn’t really Colin diving into the pond, right? He told Bridget Jones so, remember?)
Thanks to Alert Janeite Lisa for the link.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:02 am
And if you didn’t see Bridget Jones, the making of featurette on the “special edition” DVD of said adaptation clearly shows that the real dive was into a pool by a “stunt” double.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:47 am
plunging shirtless into an icy English pond
A fine example of uncovering subtext(iles) in the Austen adaptations.
June 11th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Ineligible? With all that money? I’m confused.
June 11th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
A fine example of uncovering subtext(iles) in the Austen adaptations.
BA-DUM-DUM!
She’s here all week, folks! Try the veal!
June 11th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
I guess it’s somewhat better than the usual “emerging dripping wet” kind of nonsense I’ve seen. Commons sense dictates that Darcy does at some point emerge dripping wet, but we never actually see that lovely moment, do we?