Bridget Jones - watched it last night, erm it’s aged a bit!

[Noeuf]

Gosh watched with dd as I was up late and it came on. Funny how I remembered it and how we’ve moved on now.
The emails about her skirt - funny/flirty then and now massively inappropriate
Darcy ‘negging’ her - dd couldn’t see why he was meant to be the one we all wanted
Fighting in the street! And no comeback for him as a human rights barrister
91/2 stone - and she was fat??!!! I weigh more than that and don’t think I’m comment worthy!
Just so interesting to see how my views have changed really.

[MelonTits]

The link posted of the review at the time the film was released led me to www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/13/bridget-jones-diary-at-20-renee-zellweger which views it from the modern perspective. Agree with several points!

[BalloonSlayer]

Bridget Jones diary started out as "Tge Diary of Bridget Jones," a column in the Independent. IIRC it was in the main bit of the paper, not the fun bit, and there was no author's name attached so for quite a while it wasn't clear if she was a real person or not.

Like everyone else at the time Bridget was avidly watching the BBC Pride and Prejudice, and she wrote in the diary about how she couldn't believe Elizabeth turns Darcy down and that she herself would have accepted him like a shot, no matter what he had said/done. Then Bridget meets Mark Darcy, who is standoffish, insults her, insults her (very annoying) mother, then asks her out . . . and she tells him to get stuffed.

It worked very well as a weekly serial. Daniel Cleaver is Wickham.

[GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER]

@Noeuf

Oh I love Bridget - grew up with the newspaper diary, read the books I’m not dissing Brdge!
Just surprised last night at how socially acceptable loads of stuff was like fighting in the street, trashing a restaurant etc and that just wouldn’t be seen as attractive now - Darcy is just rude and weird, and not in a brooding, manly way

I’m old enough to have been properly grown up when it first came out, and believe me, it certainly wasn’t ‘socially acceptable’ to trash restaurants or fight in the street!

One reason I think was so successful, is that it wasn’t ‘done’ at the time, to admit that you’d actually like a long term partner, or even a husband - rather than insisting that you were very happily single. But hardly anybody actually said it.*
Plus of course it was very funny!

The most ‘aged’ bit about it now, is IMO the fags.

*Apparently the same applied to the success of Jane Austen’s P&P - openly saying ‘Ooh, he has ten thousand a year - let’s try to nab him!’
Again, a thing that so many people thought, but it wasn’t ‘done’ to say it publicly.