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| Addicted Fan   Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 4,446
| Bridget Jones / Pride and Prejudice Do people who like one also like the other? I ask because I hated P&P, but it's my mom's favorite book. I wasn't too crazy about Bridget Jones's Diary either, but the similarity between that and P&P really struck me and I was wondering if I should get it for my mom. (I'm kinda slow. The books felt similar to me, and I thought BJ was a rip off, and it wasn't until someone mentioned the love interests having the same name in both books that I realized it wasn't a ripoff, it was an homage.) __________________ "When the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over." "What's all over?" "It." | |||
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| Master Fan  Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 12,829
| Bridget Jones' Diary author Helen Fielding has never hidden the fact that she loved Pride and Prejudice. She mentioned the book frequently in her books and even the movie that was made out of the book P&P. I do believe that BJ movie was also an adaptation of P&P : the girl that falls for a guy, hates another guy because of the first guy, then discovers that the first is a jerk and the second was misjudged, and finally fall in love with the nice guy (the second). Classic. And it worked. The similarities were voluntary. Anne __________________ The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast : the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed' | |||
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| Master Fan  Joined: Dec 1999
Posts: 11,917
| Sometimes the language gets a lot of people with P&P type books. I haven't read BJ, but I've heard people mention some similarities. __________________ Come visit the WWE/Wrestling Board When we're free to love anyone we choose When this world's big enough for all different views When we all can worship from our own kind of pew Then we shall be free | |||
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| Total Fan  Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 7,397
| I don't like Pride and Prejudice. Everytime I try and read it I end up rereading the first page over and over again- I just can't get past it. On the other hand I love Bridget Jones Diary. I guess I'm just odd. [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img] __________________ ...You'd think by now, I'd know the shape of calling home... | |||
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| Absolute Fan Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 6,732
| I've read both books, but Mr. Darcy in P&P just didn't do it for me. Mark Darcy in BJD on the other hand, did. I love Jane Austen, but I prefer Mr. Knightley from Emma to Darcy - I feel like we never really get to know the latter and it frustrates me. | |||
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| Addicted Fan Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 4,446
| I think I prefered BJ to P&P because in P&P the characters all take themselves so seriously. Through the whole book all I could think was, "For god's sake, go get a life!" And I also think a comedy of manners should be a lot more pointed; it seemed really fluffy to me, even for its genre. But that's just my taste. I'm not going to say one or the other was better. __________________ "When the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over." "What's all over?" "It." | |||
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| Obsessed Fan  Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 5,075
| I love both. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] And I love how the 2nd Bridget Jones book is an homage to Jane Austen's Persuasion. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Bryana __________________ | |||
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| Absolute Fan  Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,149
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Crossbow- Like your mom, I adored P&P. It will forever be in my top 3. To me, Bridget Jones was hilarious and just similar enough to P&P to make it interesting, but not so much that it seems redundant. __________________ "Clark's going to community college and Lana's staying here? Four years and they're not going to change one bit, huh? Set your TiVos, people. Next season is going to be awesome!" ~OmarG, TwoP | |||
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| Master Fan  Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 10,630
| I couldn't get past the first few pages of Pride and Prejudice either when I first read it; however I then saw the BBC/A&E movie and fell in love. It made the book much easier to "get", and now it's one of my favorites. I haven't yet read the Bridget Jones books; I started reading the first when I was house-sitting, but I couldn't read it in one sitting and obviously couldn't take it home with me. They are on my list, though. --Rachel __________________ GilmoreGirls.org Savvy? | |||
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| Addicted Fan  Joined: Feb 2000
Posts: 4,972
| I love P&P. I've never read BJD though, but I really like the movie. I never find myself comparing the two much though, even though they follow the same type of storyline. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] | |||
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| Addicted Fan  Joined: Apr 2003
Posts: 4,913
| I love all three books. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] (and I adore the BBC miniseries of P & P and the BJD movie) On the DVD featurette of the BJD movie Helen said "I always thought Jane Austen's plots were very good, and I didn't think she'd mind because she's dead." __________________ "...I wouldn't mind seeing Vaughn in a wetsuit. Or out of one, if you know what I mean, and I really, really, really think you do." - Erin, from TWOP. | |||
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| Master Fan  Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 21,176
| Loved both books and both movies/series I thought it was brilliant that they cast Colin Firth in BJ because I couldn't have imagined anyone else playing Mr. Darcy. __________________ Arrested Development - "Are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over — an analyst and a therapist. The world’s first analrapist." | |||
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| Master Fan Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 12,829
| While I firmly believe that the BJD movie took the plot from P&P, I don't think the BJD book is a parallel of P&P because the stories are totally different. In the first book, Bridget found out quite early the true story with Daniel and Mark's wife. She never thought that Mark was a bastard, just that he was arrogant. The book doesn't have the same plot as in P&p, while the movie has. I like both the movie and the book, but they are so different. __________________ The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast : the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed' | |||
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| Master Fan  Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,205
| I love the quote that Helen Fielding once made about BJD and P&P. She said something on the lines of that she saw P&P and thought that would make a great modern day story - and then basically put her own life inside it to make BJD <g> She also said that since Jane Austen wrote it years ago she couldn't get sued for copyright [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ "It's better to over-analyse, than not analyse at all". NM. 2000. | |||
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| Addicted Fan  Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 4,301
| I love BJ but have never gotten into Austen. Really not my cuppa tea [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] | |||
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