Helen Fielding’s heroine in Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones is an every woman. Bridget is on the wrong side of 30, single, smokes and drinks too much, flirts with her boss and is far from modelesque.
Published in 1996 and made into a movie in 2001, Bridget makes the rest of us feel better about our lives.
I’ve seen the movie several times over the past 13 years. I just finished the book.
I enjoyed the book, but as often happens when books are made into movies, changes are made to either characters or plot. Pulling from Jane Austen’s classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, Fielding has written a very funny and realistic picture of what it is to be a modern single female adult.
The movie is extremely funny. Surprisingly, Renee Zellweger, an American actress, fits in brilliantly with the English cast. Whomever the casting director was for this movie, they must have had the Janeite community in mind. Colin Firth (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Pride and Prejudice 1995), Hugh Grant (Edward Ferrars, Sense and Sensibility 1995), Gemma Jones (Mrs. Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility 1995), and Embeth Davidtz (Mary Crawford, Mansfield Park 1999) were all perfectly cast.
While I recommend the book, the movie is that much better.
P.S. I’m adding the fight scene, well, just because Darcy never had the chance to properly clock Wickham in the face in Pride and Prejudice doesn’t mean he can’t do it in Bridget Jones Diary.
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