Thursday, January 27, 2005
No. of times looked up Colin Firth online today: 10.
Found a book called "Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife" at amazon.com today. Must admit that I'm a little obsessed with looking for all things Colin Firth on the internet. So I was looking for books about "Pride & Prejudice" and found all these sequels. That aforementioned book had the "Look Inside!" link and I read a few of the beginning pages...
The woman who wrote that sequel OBVIOUSLY wrote it with Colin Firth in mind as Darcy, and herself as Lizzy after watching the BBC movie because it is basically soft porn. Some of the lines are just confusing, and the author tries to channel Jane Austen, but in manner of "Red Shoe Diaries".
I'm all for reading P&P while imagining Colin Firth as Darcy, but to take Jane Austen's classic and make it into a Harlequein Romance novel just doesn't do it for me. There's a whole passage about a pillow that Mr. Darcy gave Elisabeth to sit on while they were going back to Pemberly because of their tumuluous night of passion on their honeymoon. Do I REALLY need to know about that? I mean, COME ON!
I think there's a part in "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" novel where she interviews Colin Firth (SO funny), and she asks if he thinks Mr. Darcy and Elisa Bennet had sex before they got married. He says that in Jane Austen's world, no...but in Andrew Davies world (director of P&P), perhaps (something about in one scene, Colin Firth was given direction to "Imagine you have an erection" when he saw Elisa approaching him in the grove after her long walk across the country). Somewhere else in the book, she says that it's just something one doesn't want to imagine...and it's TRUE. The whole quality of P&P is that Jane Austen writes about the courtship and climaxing feelings, not the fact that they had many nights of climaxing. It's a classic book written yesteryear, and the sequel just is a torrid wannabe. It's riddled with "betwixt's" and "heretofore's" in all the wrong places and OFTEN. When I have time, I'll have to re-type a passage just to show you what I mean.
Ok, back to work.
Found a book called "Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife" at amazon.com today. Must admit that I'm a little obsessed with looking for all things Colin Firth on the internet. So I was looking for books about "Pride & Prejudice" and found all these sequels. That aforementioned book had the "Look Inside!" link and I read a few of the beginning pages...
The woman who wrote that sequel OBVIOUSLY wrote it with Colin Firth in mind as Darcy, and herself as Lizzy after watching the BBC movie because it is basically soft porn. Some of the lines are just confusing, and the author tries to channel Jane Austen, but in manner of "Red Shoe Diaries".
I'm all for reading P&P while imagining Colin Firth as Darcy, but to take Jane Austen's classic and make it into a Harlequein Romance novel just doesn't do it for me. There's a whole passage about a pillow that Mr. Darcy gave Elisabeth to sit on while they were going back to Pemberly because of their tumuluous night of passion on their honeymoon. Do I REALLY need to know about that? I mean, COME ON!
I think there's a part in "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" novel where she interviews Colin Firth (SO funny), and she asks if he thinks Mr. Darcy and Elisa Bennet had sex before they got married. He says that in Jane Austen's world, no...but in Andrew Davies world (director of P&P), perhaps (something about in one scene, Colin Firth was given direction to "Imagine you have an erection" when he saw Elisa approaching him in the grove after her long walk across the country). Somewhere else in the book, she says that it's just something one doesn't want to imagine...and it's TRUE. The whole quality of P&P is that Jane Austen writes about the courtship and climaxing feelings, not the fact that they had many nights of climaxing. It's a classic book written yesteryear, and the sequel just is a torrid wannabe. It's riddled with "betwixt's" and "heretofore's" in all the wrong places and OFTEN. When I have time, I'll have to re-type a passage just to show you what I mean.
Ok, back to work.
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