I agree - Matthew MaFadyen (?) was really cute in Spooks but just didn't do it for me in the new P&P. Mind you, I wasn't overly impressed with that version anyway (I too wanted to throw things at the cinema screen - prefereably the big clunky boots I was wearing). Could rant for ages on the problems with that version - Keira as the wrong choice for Lizzie, the director seeming to think he was doing Wuthering Heights rather than P&P - but at the risk of deviating from the topic I'll bite my tongue!
But maybe we should open this poll out to include two more famous Byronic heroes - Heathcliff and Rhett Butler? Have to say though that based on the book versions Mr Darcy would still win me over - the others are just a little too mean for me!
Interesting that no one has mentioned HOW MUCH MORE MONEY Mr Darcy has...
Have to vote for Rochester - not that Darcy isn't attractive, but Rochester at least knows how to be passionate, even if he waits to show it. And he has a very sexy voice (always, for some reason).
If you search for "Jane eyre James Barbour" on YouTube you can see some poor quality but fab video of some of the more emotional songs from the American musical version which have always endeared Rochester to me.
Well, I don't, because I'm perfectly happy with the one I've got already. But, I want Jane to all the way through the book - whereas most of the time I want Lizzie to give Darcy a good slap, and it's only at the end that he redeems himself.
I thought you were talking about Rochester from The Libertine for a minute, played by the delectable Depp, so I was tempted...
Colin Firth in a wet shirt. Nuff said.
Off the point a bit, I know, but....
The clothes on the Beeb adaptation have been making me cross! The book was published in 1847, so Jane's kit is ok for that period - though I'd associate with slightly later now I think about it. However, all the other ladies, ironically, look to be wearing clothes from a slightly earlier period - not just in the flashbacks, but in the everyday scenes. There's a definite 1830's look (maybe even earlier) to some of the posh ladies' costumes - and I hate 1830's fashions - more to the point, they should be dressed more fashionably than Jane, not less so. I suspect that the costume designers may have done this because 1830's fashions look more silly and frivolous whereas later fashions were more prim and sober, but it still annoys me.
I have tried to find information on the costumes on the beeb website, but there doesn't appear to be anything there. I'm posting this on here because I was hoping that someone with a bit more expertise than me has either:
a) seen this hideous anachronism and agrees with me totally; or
b) seen it, thinks it's just fine as it is - in which case please tell me where I'm going wrong!
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