![]() ![]() Adaptation Personality Change: A huge example with Rebecca Gillies.Adaptation Name Change: Mark's mother was named Elaine in the books, the films changed it to Geraldine.There was even some illustrated editions of the 1st two books (after the movies) where there was a brunette Bridget and Shazzer (compare to blonde film portrayals) and light haired Magda and Jude (redhead and brunette in film respectively).The first book mentions Pam being identified with red hair and the third book mentions that Woney had dark hair when she was younger the films have them played by blonde actresses Gemma Jones and Dolly Wells. In the movies, Bridget's portrayed by blonde Renee Zellweger, although in the first book she commented about men preferring blondes in a way that indicates she is not blonde in book canon.Absolute Cleavage: The films usually have Bridget tastefully showing off her breasts, but there are a few outfits that show off her cleavage, her Playboy Bunny costume being a prominent example.Tropes used in the various Bridget Jones media: A third film, Bridget Jones's Baby, was released in 2016, with Patrick Dempsey co-starring. The column finished with the note, "Bridget is giving every attention to the care of her newborn son – and is too busy to keep up her Diary for the time being.A third novel, subtitled Mad About the Boy, was published in October 2013. However, Mark was not entirely out of the picture, as he previously suggested that he would like to adopt the child. In the last entry, Bridget Jones gave birth to a baby boy, fathered by Daniel Cleaver. As author Helen Fielding said, "she's heading in a different direction." The column is continued into 2006. "I accidentally slept with each of them separately"), and the plotline launched into a pregnancy. Despite the time advance, Cleaver and Darcy were still the two men in Jones' life ("I'm not sleeping with them both at once," she explains later to her friend Shaz. ![]() The new Independent column was set in the then-present day of 20, with references being made to events such as River Thames whale, and has dropped some of the motifs of the original diary, particularly the alcohol unit and calorie counts. However, Bridget's obsession with self-help books plus several misunderstandings cannot keep the couple together forever. After Bridget and Mark reach an understanding of each other and find a sort of happiness together, she gains some self-esteem and cuts down on her cigarette consumption. A successful barrister named Mark Darcy also keeps popping into Bridget's life, being extremely awkward, and sometimes coming off a bit rude. Bridget repeatedly flirts with her boss, Daniel Cleaver. ![]() In the two novels and screen adaptations, Bridget's mother is bored with her life as a housewife in the country and leaves Bridget's father. She has some bad habits - smoking and drinking too much - but she annually writes her New Year's resolutions in her diary, determined to stop smoking, drink no more than fourteen alcohol units a week, and eat more pulses. She is a single, thirty-three-year-old woman who has a monotonous life. After Fielding had ceased to work for The Daily Telegraph in late 1998, the feature began again in The Independent on 4 August 2005 and finished in June 2006.īridget Jones graduated from Bangor University. Both novels were adapted for the big screen in 20, starring Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, and Hugh Grant and Colin Firth as the men in her life, Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy. Helen Fielding published the novelisation of the column in 1996, followed by a sequel in 1999 called Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. The column lampooned the obsession of women with women's magazines such as Cosmopolitan and wider social trends in Britain at the time. English writer Helen Fielding started her Bridget Jones's Diary column in The Independent in 1995, chronicling the life of Bridget Jones as a thirtysomething single woman in London as she tries to make sense of life and love with the help of a surrogate "urban family" of friends in the 1990s. Bridget Jones is a franchise based on the fictional character with the same name. ![]()
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