a comparative study of Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones’ Diary movie version

[passerby222]

Hey guys!

We're writing an essay at school
"How does a comparative study of Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones’ Diary highlight the importance and quality if relationships in society?"

Pride and Prejudice - book
Bridget Jones’ Diary - movie version

I have no idea what to write....

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

[sciencefan]

Hey guys!

We're writing an essay at school
"How does a comparative study of Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones’ Diary highlight the importance and quality if relationships in society?"

Pride and Prejudice - book
Bridget Jones’ Diary - movie version

I have no idea what to write....

Can anyone help?

Thanks!I assume you mean the quality of relationships.

Have you read both books?
I haven't, but I read a brief synopsis of Briget Jones, and I think I remember she led a shallow life, and society around her was not as supportive as it was in the Bennet family's day.
I believe there is a previous thread here in the past 12 months.

[sciencefan]

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32719&highlight=bridget


I somehow missed the fact that you need info about the film version.

Alas, I, like Brooke White, do not watch R-Rated movies. I have wanted to see it very badly, but I just don't dare. I absolutely adore Hugh Jackman. Anyway, I haven't seen it, but I would think the premise I cited from the book in the link above would at least get you started in the right direction.

I can't believe your school made you watch an R-rated movie!
Shame on them.

[mazz]

Bridget Jones is not an R rated movie?? The theme is the same, one man has all the goodness, and the other has all the appearances of it. In P&P being over twenty and not married is cause for concern and gossip in the community, in Bridget Jones, set in modern times, the age of 30 is more plausible. Instead of 4 siblings, she has 4 friends, each a little odd in their own way but they still look out for each other. Her life is not so shallow, perhaps a bit self obsessed, but modern life has no clear cut standard of behavior as the Bennett girls had. Mrs Bennett isn't too much concerned about Lizzie as she isn't her favourite daughter, Mrs Jones is concerned about Bridg finding a husband. Both Fathers are amused observers. By the way it's Hugh Grant, not the boy from Oz!

[sciencefan]

You're right. It was Hugh Grant. I always get those two mixed up!
And yes. It's rated R.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243155/

[HeartlessSonnet]

Some of the name in the book and the movie are the same. Like Mr.Darcy Example....and think of the relationship of Bridget and Mr.Darcy and Lizzie and Mr Dacy. Think Bridget and Lizza are prejudice because of them think the Mr.Dacy's are so proud of there money and standing. The Mr.Darcy are pride. You think why they're pride cant give you the whole answer.

[HeartlessSonnet]

The part in movie at the dinner party in the palor and in the book outside in the rain,Compare the two.

[mazz]

You're right. It was Hugh Grant. I always get those two mixed up!
And yes. It's rated R.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243155/

Hi, why would it be R in USA and only M (over 15's) in Aust.? To Heartless sonnet... the joke of the movie is that Colin Firth who plays Darcy in pride and pred, plays the same misunderstood character of Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones. Yep I am a "smug married" a joke from the movie.

[sciencefan]

Hi, why would it be R in USA and only M (over 15's) in Aust.? To Heartless sonnet... the joke of the movie is that Colin Firth who plays Darcy in pride and pred, plays the same misunderstood character of Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones. Yep I am a "smug married" a joke from the movie.I don't know why it's rated R.
I don't know how they make those decisions.
An R rating means if you are younger than 17 years of age, you must be accompanied by a parent or guardian in order to be admitted to see the movie.

According to the MPAA who rates the movies, they say this about the R-rating:
"An R-rated motion picture, in the view of the Rating Board, contains some adult material. An R-rated motion picture may include adult themes, adult activity, hard language, intense or persistent violence, sexually-oriented nudity, drug abuse or other elements, so that parents are counseled to take this rating very seriously. Children under 17 are not allowed to attend R-rated motion pictures unaccompanied by a parent or adult guardian. Parents are strongly urged to find out more about R-rated motion pictures in determining their suitability for their children. Generally, it is not appropriate for parents to bring their young children with them to R-rated motion pictures."

I know it has the "f-word" in it about 30 times,
I don't watch movies with that word in it,
so I was really disappointed to learn that.
I would love to have seen the movie otherwise.