(Written assuming you've both read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and watched the Miramax film Bridget Jones's Diary.)
My freshman year of college I was introduced to the movie Bridget Jones's Diary, and immediately fell in love with it. Renee Zellweger is amazing, and Colin Firth...ohh, Colin First is spectacular. A few weeks later I went out and bought a copy, and have probably watched it 30+ times. It's just such a good story, and I never knew why. Spring semester of 2004, in my British Novel class, I was asked to read 8 novels, including Pride and Prejudice. At first I truly despised reading it, and vowed to get done with it as soon as humanly possible. However, though still complaining to my roommate about its drabness, I think I secretly started getting into it, needing to know how it would happen that Elizabeth and Darcy got together. Just after I finished reading I thought to myself one night that I might like to watch a movie. So I popped in Bridget Jones's Diary. And as the story progressed, I realized that I was becoming more and more convinved that the movie was based on Austen's book.
Mr. Darcy=Mark Darcy. Now this is fairly obvious, however the only really obvious name connection. What is sort of ironic is that apparantly Bridget Jones's Diary was originally a book. The movie only portrays 1/2 of the book. Which is why a 2nd Bridget Jones's Diary is coming out. Now, in the second half of the book, Bridget, now a television reporter, is very excited because she |
