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Colin Firth as Mr Darcy

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Thurlow · 08/08/2014 21:11

I haven't watched this in years.

Good lord. Has there ever been a better - or fitter - bit of casting than this?

Much as I love Richard Armitage in North and South...

Darcy's hair alone has me going weak at the knees though the wine may have something to do with that too

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EmilyByrdStarr · 09/08/2014 17:07

I am loving N and S, it is amazing. Cried my way through ep 3, that has just ended. The look on his face when he talks about his 'foolish passion' being over gave me goosebumps! DH at the start looked at me with concern as I cried, and on waving my ipad at him is now just making soothing 'shhh now' noises.

So, is Mrs T going to confront her about her behaviour? I am sure she does in the book.

Going back to P and P, I read in the 'making of' book years ago that CF saw the proposal as romantic, in the 'can't live without you, but I have thought about it and this is what I am overcoming to be with you' way and was playing it like that. Made me see it in a different light. I think RA must have seen it, the clock piece and brooding by the mantelpiece happens in both Smile

Haven't read the SF thing, I don't think Darcy was depressed, I think he was dealing with a lot and E was different and didn't impose on him like Caroline for example did. I like to imagine that his mum was the same and he wanted the lightening impact he remembered from childhood. I imagine his dad to have been like him in character.

Right can't wait any longer for the last part of N and S!

EmilyByrdStarr · 09/08/2014 17:12

Why thankyou dearest, loveliest OnIlkelyMoorBahtat Grin

I love the scene when he goes back at Pemberley to replay the smouldering look that E gave him - see photo.

The only thing that puts me off is the dogs with him-before they pan down it sounds like he is panting, and not in a sexy way Grin

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emotionsecho · 09/08/2014 17:19

Yes Thurlow that scene on the bed with Jane and Mr Rochester is so hot, but equally rather sad. No way I could have kept my hands off him thoughGrin.

What about the ouch factor of the line "whose station in life is so decidely below my own". Note to Darcy, not the best way to describe the family of the woman you would like to marry irrespective of the veracity of the statement.

SconeRhymesWithGone · 09/08/2014 17:24

Thurlow You are so right about The Tudors. Sexy Thomas More, sexy Thomas Cromwell. Who knew? Smile

AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves · 09/08/2014 17:32

I like to imagine that his mum was the same and he wanted the lightening impact he remembered from childhood. I imagine his dad to have been like him in character.

Spot on, Emily!

I agree that Ciaran Hinds was wonderful in Persuasion, which was also in 1995! Vintage year. Amanda Root was ideal for Anne Elliott. He was also terrific as Mr Rochester, but I think Toby Stephens has the edge there.

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EmilyByrdStarr · 09/08/2014 17:32

Ooh, Mrs T has confronted M. Thornton going to see Higgins reminds me of Darcy going to find Wickham and Lydia (reading too much into this now, and also live updating, sorry, DH not interested Smile).

I know Darcy talks about the condition of life but to him he is just stating fact-the Bennets do have a different condition, gentleman's daughter or not. He is trying to explain that he has thought about this and loves her too much not to have her in his life, squee Smile

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 09/08/2014 17:50

Has nobody mentioned the lovely Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon - now THAT is the best Austen casting ever!

SconeRhymesWithGone · 09/08/2014 17:51

Oh, I had forgotten that Ciaran Hinds was in Jane Eyre, that was the Samantha Morton one, as I recall. There has been a real surfeit of Jane Eyres.
I agree Toby Stephens was great.

EmilyByrdStarr · 09/08/2014 17:56

Margaret 'I hate to think Mr Thornton thinks badly of me.'
Elizabeth 'I cannot bear that he is alive in the world and thinking ill of me.'

Sorry, my heart is broken by Mr T's 'look back' at M's carriage leaving, sniff. I am loving this!

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Thurlow · 09/08/2014 18:00

The "look back at me" scene completely undoes me on every single level.

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EmilyByrdStarr · 09/08/2014 18:19

Wow! Thurlow that was amazing Thanks
On a purist level, I imagine kissing a random man and then getting on a train with him might ruin a lady's reputation but I am sobbing here.

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EmilyByrdStarr · 09/08/2014 18:20

And you will all be pleased to know I have used up my image quota for the day now! Apologies for derailing the thread with my N and S thoughts!

Wishfulmakeupping · 09/08/2014 19:10

Love love love p and p watched it so many times :)
Watched the recent sense and sensibility with david morrissey and that was really good so much better than Emma Thomspon film.
Going to have to rewatch N and S I think

florascotia · 09/08/2014 19:16

Agree that Ciaran Hinds was fantsatic in Persuasion - ditto Amanda Root.
One of the best JA adaptations ever.

Jennifer Ehle very well cast - Colin Firth looks absolutely fantastic and by all acounts is a really thoroughly decent chap for his support for good causes. But to me he always seems rather the same in everything he does.

Rickman indeed good in Persuasion. Ditto Kate Winslett.

Re Emma, I have never been able to sit through anything with Gwynneth Paltrow in it. In Emma, she was so wrong it was laughable.

bluebeanie · 09/08/2014 19:29

I love p&p. Love Darcy, but what about Mr Bingley? He was so sweet. A straight forward lovely guy. No games. He'd be my choice for husband material.

Viggo in LOTR. Yum

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 09/08/2014 19:30

I must be the only person in the world to detest Jennifer E as Elizabeth too.

Agree that the Gwynnie, 'Emma' is shockingly bad.

Hate the David M, 'S&S' with a passion, although it's not as bad as Billie bloody Piper as Fanny Price!

emotionsecho · 09/08/2014 20:22

bluebeanie noooo, not Mr Bingley, if I couldn't have the more exciting (and to be totally shallow, wealthierGrin) Darcy, I'd have plumped for Colonel Fitzwilliam.

As Mr Bennet said to Jane about Mr Bingley "so compliant you'll never get anything done", or words to that effect, I need someone with a bit more dash and panache, dark with an air of danger all the wayGrin.

JapaneseMargaret · 09/08/2014 20:41

Mr Bingley is lovely - and perfect for Jane - but it's Darcy for me all the way.

Bingley would be the ideal BIL, though. Grin

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Thurlow · 09/08/2014 20:46

Mr Bennett says they'll never come to a decision and will be ripped off by all their servants Grin

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SenatusPopulusqueRomanorum · 09/08/2014 20:47

I love P&P. But I would choose RA's John Thornton over Mr Darcy.

My ultimate fantasy is RA's Guy of Gisborne. Smile

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Thurlow · 09/08/2014 20:50

I reckon you'd end up getting pissed off with Darcy quite a lot. He'd be a grumpy arse sometimes and you'd want to smack him upside the head.

John Thornton would probably be a much nicer husband.

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squoosh · 09/08/2014 20:55

John Thornton would have no chance with me, he lives with his battleaxe mother. Sexy.

I bagsie Henry Tilney from Northanger Abbey. He'd be a laugh.

florascotia · 09/08/2014 20:56

Sorry - I meant Rickman and Winslett in Sense and Sensibility of course.

EmilyByrdStarr · 09/08/2014 21:01

But then you can make up with him Thurlow Grin. He and I would get on brilliantly as I can be a grumpy and demanding person at times too!

Still Darcy for me, though I do think Bingley would make a fab brother in law.