It’s the role of a lifetime – the chance to steam up the screen as Regency heart-throb Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. We’ve seen many Darcys over the years, but who was the best? Now you get to decide.
Yesterday was the bicentenary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. There’s no need to be scandalised by our blatant objectification of these leading men, we did the literary appreciation and analysis part yesterday, so now we can get to the really important matter – who was the hottest Mr. Darcy? Ladies and gentlemen, get your votes ready.
First, straight to the source. What did Austen have to say about Darcy in Pride and Prejudice?
“…Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien; and the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year.
The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.”
5 comments:
I love Matthew MacFadyen. I can't get enough of him in any role, but he makes me swoon as Mr. Darcy!
You are preaching to the choir with that one. Don't you love Ripper street?
Oh yes!!! Matthew MacFadyen.... no doubt about it!! LOVE him! And that Ripper Street... WOW!!
Mathew Macfadyen wins for me
Well Ladies, is no one else than Colin Firth who makes me swoon! He is the perfect Mr Darcy!
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