Who is your favourite Darcy?

My favorite Darcy is the Darcy from our very own forum! The Darcy from the book is quite a nice character as well. :D

Another one is Darsie Latimer from 'Redgauntlet'. A cutie worthy of the name.

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Originally Posted by kiki1982

I have nothing against MacFayden (he looked good in Little Dorrit), but despite the ages I thought his face is too introverted to be mistaken for proud. With his long and pretty open face, he just doesn't look hard enough to be a Darcy. Darcy looks the confident and naturally aloof person in the corner, where he is in fact a bit shy. MacFayden, to me, looked the shy and gentle man in the corner who doesn't dare to speak to anyone.

I thought Ehle was actually about 21, but Firth was 35 at the time. Reasonably unknown.

Although I don't think we should compare a 21-year-old now with one back then. Your life was about a fifth to a third of the way through, if you didn't account for 20% of deaths in childbirth and other accidents.
Similarly, Darcy when he is 28 and a mere 6 years older than his friend Bingley, there is a great big difference in stature. Not only because Bingley only has 5,000 and Darcy double, but also because Darcy has bene his own man for a bit longer. I don't think 35 was too far off for a modern man, actually. 30 is when men more or less start to grow up.

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Actually, life expectancy then was not as bad as is often reported:

http://gcanyon.wordpress.com/2009/06...d-as-reported/

Anyway, who we like is all subjective, and fortunately for us the thread is titled who is your "favorite" Darcy. So far I like both Colin Firth and Matthew McFayden, mainly because I just happen to like both those movies (yes, I know, one is a mini-series).

As to why we in generaly mention Darcy more often, Lokasenna, he was young, handsome, wealthy, and originally quite aloof, and I think we all enjoy watching him him as well as Elizabeth fall in love.

No takers for Laurence Olivier, then? He did proud and arrogant very well.

Laurence Olivier was pure arrogance. No "real man" quality about him.

Matthew MacFadyen for the win.

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Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*

Laurence Olivier was pure arrogance. No "real man" quality about him.

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This...this is a joke, right?

Of course Laurence Olivier had 'real man' quality. Plus the best cheekbones ever. He had the face of Darcy before he even opened his mouth.

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Originally Posted by Adolescent09

This...this is a joke, right?

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Sadly, no. I don't mean Laurence in general, but in this particular film. He's dull. Greer Garson makes him look like a piece of the scenery. Sorry!

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Originally Posted by qimissung

Actually, life expectancy then was not as bad as is often reported:

http://gcanyon.wordpress.com/2009/06...d-as-reported/

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Thanks for the link. I had always presumed life expectancy statistics were skewed because of infant death rates. I couldn't imagine that a man would marry at 30 in order to die 8 years later and (at best) leave his wife with a score of children if not his children orphans altogether. I had one sad case like that in my husband's family tree though. Must have been awful for them.

Indeed, if you look at FreeBMD.org.uk - a website for looking up births, marriages and deaths in England originally for genealogy, but we can use it here too -, you can see deaths from about 1860, when ages were started to be recorded too and that indeed has mainly babies/small children on one end and people of mature age (50s and 60s with some 70s and rare 80s and 90s) on the other. A few in the middle, but not the vast majority.