Jane Austen is my favorite author.
It's George Knightley for me. He seems to have some sense of fun (really!). I found Darcy quite romantic, but a little too reserved.
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Jane Austen is my favorite author.
It's George Knightley for me. He seems to have some sense of fun (really!). I found Darcy quite romantic, but a little too reserved.
True. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by warm
Well, there isn't a time limit, but I noticed that you still haven't voted. Just think about that letter that Wentworth wrote. How could you resist a man that would write something like that? :D So go vote! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Ditto. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Do you mean he deserves more? Or less? :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by GX4146
Darcy is winning! I'm not the faithful kind - sorry Wentworth but - go Darcy! LOL.
:lol: I was trying to figure that out. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by optimisticnad
Yeah, well, Wentworth is closer. I see that he is only one vote behind now. :)Quote:
Darcy is winning! I'm not the faithful kind - sorry Wentworth but - go Darcy! LOL.
wentworth is the best!
Yep, there was something more going on... Besides of course branding poor Firth and Darcy as sex symbols there was thankfully a deeper theme of washing, baptism and transformation in Darcy. At least Firth was not undressed for nothing. Although, that wuld also have been ok...:pQuote:
P.s - in the movie version in the infamous scene where COlin Firth is soaked and bumps into Jane as she is looking around the grounds - did you not see how ...sexy he looked, or the very subtle way she looked at him up and down? That's where I got my idea from - she changed her mind when she saw his grounds all right! Definitely a metaphor for something else !
We both know this. Obviously 9 others feel the same. But how are we all going to convince the rest of the world that this is a fact? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
After Scott's Ivanhoe, Persuasion is on the shelf. If there is some time left, I could help you out, but I'm not making any promises...
Darcy is too lovely. Ferrars nor Brandon, nor Willoughby could beat him, though. So there there might be hope for Wentworth according to this poll...
Hypnosis? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
If that fails - make them vote at gun point.
:eek: :eek2:
Oh...
Feel a strange urge...
Vote for Wentworth...
Hand going up...
No, no, I don't want to...
Hand going, ugh, difficult to hold back...
...
'And your back in the room'.
Sorry, my own will is too strong, I'm afraid. But maybe this Austen book will become one in-betweenie as well...
What makes Wentworth so "irresistible"?
I voted Darcy, although I confess that I'm most familiar with Darcy and Knightley (who was a very close second) and am only passingly aware of Edward Ferrars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPVln...om=PL&index=11Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Is it the actor or Wenthworth we are covetting? ;)
In my opinion, throughout the book he fails to show any existence so couple of lines in a letter fail to win me over.
:lol: I watched P&P again on Sunday, for Mother's Day, my treat. I voted for Darcy, but Wentworth and Knightley are close runners up. Did you know though, that it wasn't Colin Firth swimming in that pond? It was a stuntman, as it was too dangerous apparently, he could have caught something. I don't suppose the fact that the stuntman could have too crossed their minds? I have to say that my mother, who is in her 70s, is obsessed with Darcy/Firth now after seeing the adaptation. She has bought the dvd for virtually everyone she knows, and even talks to complete strangers about it/him. He obviously did such a fantastic job that she's besotted :lol:.Quote:
Originally Posted by kiki1982
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Originally Posted by warm
And its owner is very rich and handsome, so I'll vote for Darcy.;)
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Originally Posted by kiki1982
:lol::lol:
Need a stronger dose...and how do you know I didn't make you vote under hypnosis and then for your own peace of mind make you believe what you wrote above? Anything is possible under hypnosis....
Oh Rupert Jones is gorgeous, not exactly a great actor but loved him in Persuasion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
One doesnt fall for Wentworth because he's got money and a beautiful house, one falls for his unwavering love and passion.
I agree there. I love Mr. Darcy too.:lol: he can just be a jerk at times.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by warm
Yeah, I did know, I saw a documentary about costume drama on ITV... Anyway, did you know that that scene was actually meant as a nude scene, but that Firth had mroblems with it? Lucky strike actually, because Darcy was much nicer with his wet shirt...Quote:
Originally Posted by wessexgirl
Your mother is great! Firth will pleased to know that his sex appeal goes as far as ladies in their 70s. If he can't get girls like Bridget Jones, nothing's lost... Damn, he's married.
But anyway, it was a great adaptation. I wrote something on it on my blog. It is amazing how consistent it was...
Because my computer was not hypnotised and according to this forum I can still vote and that doesn't work when I have already done so. Unless of course you meddled with my computer and the server...Quote:
Originally Posted by optimisticnad
But I've felt ever so strange since yesterday... Maybe something happened anyway...
BRAVO! Couldn't have said it better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
17! Everytime I come back to check this thread Darcy has more votes. So...I think it's all my fault! If i stop checking...who knows....:lol: I'm also suspicious that some people here, not all so don't jump down my throat please (especially when i'm stressed about tomorrow), as I was saying I suspect some people have only read P and P and know about the hype and how wonderful Darcy is and that beyond that initial attraction and fame they know nothing of substance. Now I'm going to be plagued with hate emails - I wouldn't normally mind but could I please request that you wait until after tomorrow? Thank you.
Man, I'll have tread Persuasion damn quick. Even better than Darcy Wentworth seems to be... But that is why I don't vote, because I haven't read Emma nor Persuasion and going by the votes, I can't really call it a responsible vote to presume Darcy is the best, 'cause it seems to be very close...
Ciaran Hinds played him and I saw a little piece of that (their first kiss in Bath with a carnival going past). He is indeed subtle, but not less a man for it...
Rejoyce! Unless Austen's original hero was worse than Hinds played him (which is hardly possible. When does the man actually play not brilliantly?) there might be another Wentworth-lover voting for Wentworth.
Today I was watching JE 1997 again on YouTube and bumped into Wentworth. Waw, what a man! The end... It just all came tumbling down and revealed fireworks.
I have almost finished Dorian Gray and I am eager to start on Persuasion without a doubt. Hopefully I can still wait for the end of Dorian Gray because I'm really thinking about starting tonight!
Hi Kiki, take a look over on Celebrity Crushes, as Ciaran is on my listQuote:
Originally Posted by kiki1982
I love Ciaran Hinds too, TMOC is so sad, and he was just the best ever Wentworth in Persuasion and was great as Rochester. (but my favourite ever Rochester is Toby Stephens). He seems to excel in these period roles doesn't he? Julius Caesar was brilliant too.
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Originally Posted by wessexgirl
Thanks for the tip. IMDb is also great to look at. Most actors have great biographies although Hinds seems to be a problem as he has kept himself anonymous despite the celberity craze...
Anyway. I liked Hinds better than Stephens. I found Stephens too soft, but that was maybe his script... I think that 1997 JE was well on its way to be another definitive adaptation (much as P&P, also partly an A&E-production), only they decided to downsize it a little. This Rochester could have been the best, but had an insufficient script. Toby Stephens I found too soft and not superior enough and foremost unrealistic as a 40-year-old. Although the man was about forty, I thought that he looked too young for his part, whereas Hinds was about right. Stephens can't help it, but maybe they should have done something about it. I also thought that Hinds' natural flair in cotume drama greatly contributed to his manner of 'having spent no day anywhere else than in these clothes and this Victorian world'. Stephens' posture and manner of walking I didn't find really attracttive and much too ungentlemanly (legs wide open is a no-no for a Victorian gentleman). But then maybe we should look at what the director told him to do to a certain extent...
And you know what he didn't even read JE 'because you should never put anything more in a script than there is in it'. Amazing. Just shows you how right the script was and how much he studied it.
But anyway, I am clearly biassed :D.
I voted for Wentworth. That letter always gets to the heart of me. <sigh>
It's all about Darcy!!
I'm glad no one voted for Edward Ferrers. What a pansy.
I've always much preferred Colonel Brandon over Edward. I agree with the word "pansy" - something Brandon was not!
pfft I am going to have to reread all the Austens now arent I? Ive never seen the appeal of Darcy, and though Mansfield Park is by far my fav, Edmund is a right Twit, in fact come to think of it from memory they all wanted there heads smashing tgether. Pomppos annoying and self rightous, buht I will reread to make sure this isnt just the mists of time clouding my memory. :nod: :D
Oh yes, I think Brandon should have been on the list! He's right up there with Darcy!! No pansy there ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Frankie Anne
I agree about Colonel Brandon. Creme of a guy and so very moderate in his judgment... How he solves a little of the problem for Ferrars. Charming...
Don't you just love that piece at the end where Austen writs:
'A three weeks' residence at Delaford, where, in his evening hours at least, he had little to do but calculate the disproportion between thirty-six and seventeen, brought him to Barton in a temper of mind which needed all the improvement in Marianne's looks, all the kindness of her welcome, and all the encouragement of her mother's language, to make it cheerful.'
:lol::lol:
I can just see it now, Colonel Brandon alone in his mansion and doing nothing else but asking himself whether he would dare to ask... And being thrown back and forth between decisions. :lol: Poor man... And he doesn't even know what they said about him in the beginning. Knowing that, he might just not have bothered:
'Colonel Brandon is old enough to be my father; and if he were ever animated enough to be in love, must have long outlived every sensation of the kind. It is too ridiculous! When is a man to be safe from such wit, if age and infirmity will not protect him?'
What? 36 and one is not allowed to fall in love anymore? :lol:
'Did not you hear him complain of the rheumatism? and is not that the commonest infirmity of declining life?'
:lol:
and:
'But he talked of flannel waistcoats and with me a flannel waistcoat is invariably connected with aches, cramps, rheumatisms, and every species of ailment that can afflict the old and the feeble.'
:lol::lol:
Makes me think how lucky we are now that our men of 36 are not 'old and feeble' or 'infirm' and still have a long time to go before their life will be declining... .
Waw, what a book. Darcy was something, but Wentworth... There is indeed no beating him.
I started three days ago reading that thing. It must be a record. Pride and Prejudice was a record, but Persuasion beat it.
It'll have to be a vote for Frederick, for his letter and his words afterwards.
Brandon has been added. :)
Although i admit i do have a soft spot for Ferrars.
I agree with Ferrars. He's a lovely guy. Only, had been a little rash in his youth with that Lucy-girl... But I think, out of the two, Brandon is the lovelier man because he cared for the natural daughter of that old love of his...
Although, Willoughby gets redeemed a little in the end. Shame that it is too late for him...
Naturally, I would say the ever-so dashing Mr. Darcy, but lately I've been nursing a soft spot for Henry Tilney. He's so lively and flirtatious compared to the other, more brooding men. I could see myself actually falling for a guy like that in real life, whereas I find Darcy and Wentworth way too good to be true.
If we now start to like flirtacious men, then we should maybe include Mr Frank Churchill from Emma. He was so lovely and played so wll by Raymond Coulthard...
*swoon* :redface:
Ooo! Wentworth and Darcy are back as neck and neck.
Ooh I voted ages ago. Perhaps we can have more than one vote if others have been added, i.e. Colonel Brandon? It's so hard to choose just one......:nod:
Darcy or Wentworth? :confused:
Darcy's ability to reform and his assistance with Jane and Lydia are both huge positives, but Wentworth's letter (not to mention the 8 years of consistent love)...
I think I have to vote Darcy, but it's a very difficult decision :eek:
(I also like Tilney and Brandon, but not nearly as much as Darcy/Wentworth)
I'm very excited - just ordered Austen's Complete Works (Hardback)... can't wait to re-read :D