Critics praised Maguire's direction, the screenplay, the film's lighthearted tone, and Zellweger's titular performance which garnered her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Production began in August and ended in November, and took place largely on location in London and the home counties. Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones appear in supporting roles.
However, her life changes when two men vie for her affection, portrayed by Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Fielding studied English at St Anne's College, Oxford and was part of the Oxford revue at the Edinburgh Festival, forming a continuing friendship with a group of comic performers and writers including Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson.Ī co-production of the United Kingdom, United States and France, it is based on Fielding's novel of the same name, which is a reinterpretation of Jane Austen 's novel Pride and Prejudice. She has three siblings, Jane, David and Richard. He died in and her mother, Nellie, still lives in Yorkshire. Fielding grew up in Morley, West Yorkshire, a textile town on the outskirts of Leeds in the north of England. In her review for The New York Times review, Sarah Lyall called the novel "sharp and humorous" and said that Fielding had "allowed her heroine to grow up into someone funnier and more interesting than she was before". Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy was published in autumn with record-breaking first-day sales in the UK exceeding 46, copies. Helen Fielding born 19 February is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirty something singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love. There are parallels between The Edge of Reason and the Austen novel Persuasion, in which the main character is persuaded by her friends to break off her relationship with her "true love". It also involves many misunderstandings, a few work mishaps, and an adventure in Southeast Asia involving planted drugs and Madonna songs. The comic novel follows the characteristic ups and downs of the self-proclaimed singleton's first real relationship in several years.
It chronicles Bridget Jones 's adventures after she begins to suspect that her boyfriend, Mark Darcy, is falling for a rich young solicitor who works in the same firm as him, a woman called Rebecca.
Clever casting of the Bridget Jones's Diary film resulted in Colin Firth playing Mark Darcy, who Bridget detests at first, until he sweeps her off her feet. In Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget continually obsesses about Mr Darcy (as played by Colin Firth) in Pride and Prejudice. was beside himself and asked if we'd secured the rights to the book! We assured him that we had and he was totally taken aback when we told him that it was Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that we'd been talking about!" A Jones for Mr Darcy When pitching the project to a BBC exec, the producer didn't mention the title of the series: "We made it sound very modern, very contemporary. Ehle later won a BAFTA for her role, and Firth was nominated for one as well. Their break-up didn't hurt their performances though. By the time they kissed onscreen, they had broken up in real life. Jennifer Ehle, who plays the tomboyish and naturally beautiful Elizabeth, started dating Firth early on in filming, but they couldn't draw on the relationship long. When he started reading the script, he soon realised that it was a part he'd be mad to pass up. Though Colin Firth's Mr Darcy is widely accepted as approaching perfection, he turned down the part when it was first offered, thinking it was "girly stuff".
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The lively script, set against a backdrop of lavish sets, stately homes, ladies in ball gowns and the smouldering Colin Firth all combine to make this a series to watch and rewatch. We think Jane Austen would be shocked but also remarkably pleased with this rendering of her work.