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Hugh Grant as ᴇᴅᴡᴀʀᴅ ғᴇʀʀᴀʀs (dir. Ang Lee • 1995)

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Edward Ferrars (1995) :

Edward gets a bad rap because he's quiet and the whole lucy steele situation but he doesn't get enough credit for how honourable he is! It's easy to have honour when it costs you nothing he knows he'll be miserable with lucy but he knows it's the right thing and to do so he sticks to his guns and does it anyway despite the opposition from his family and to me that is hot! Also yes he makes mistakes but his family are vile - he grew up with Fanny and Robert and is still a good man! Also he looks like hugh grant and plays fun games with Margaret and he understands Elinor in a way no one else does - Hot!Hot!Hot!

Mr Darcy (1995) :

Colin Firth (1995) is book Darcy brought to life. He uses tiny gestures and looks to communicate with us and Elizabeth… his struggle is so subtle but so palpable. A beautiful asshole with a creamy nougat center. Just perfect.

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Those heart-eyes right up above☝️? Hot!

Passive-agressively drinking tea? Hot!

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The way he rushes over to see Elizabeth at Pemberley on those delicious long legs of his with that slutty wet curl hanging over his forehead? Hot!

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Fencing? Hot!

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The way he is so concerned about Elizabeth crying and takes her hand even though he shouldn't? Hot!

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This dimple-y smile of pure joy because he knows he's married to Elizabeth freaking Bennet? Hot!

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Colin Firth Darcy is simultaneously immaculately put together and entirely falling apart internally. The wet shirt scene is so iconic not (only) because ‘oooh almost-shirtless sexy man’, but because it’s a metaphor for how he’s absolutely falling apart!!! This is a private moment, when he doesn’t think anyone can see him. And then he bumps. into. Lizzie. At his house!! And the entire sequence that follows with him rushing out still doing his jacket up to catch her before he leaves. They are both on the back foot and it’s THAT moment of confusion that opens a more honest dialogue between them.

Without Firth in a lake you wouldn’t get Macfadyen in a downpour!

There's a reason why Colin Firth is forever known as Mr. Darcy above all other roles he's had and will have! Even ignoring the wet white shirt, which has become A Thing now, he is so hot with his curly hair and his little half smiles and his intense looks of longing and his legs that go on for milessss.

This cannot be real. My fellow Jane Austen people. Without Colin Firth’s Darcy we wouldn’t have 90% of modern JA content. He opened a door and there was no turning back for modern culture. There would be no MacFadyen standing half undressed in a field at dawn without Firth jumping into a lake first. There would be no hand flex if there hadn’t been Firth doing his best impression of a man undressing Elizabeth Bennet with his eyes and hating himself for liking it. There would be no Bridgerton without Bridget Jones. Let’s face it people. We wouldn’t be here having these arguments if Colin Firth had not been Mr Darcy.

Colin Firth understood Mr. Darcy in a way no other actor ever has. He is awkward as fuck in a way that comes across as snooty and judgmental on a first watch-through, then can be read as awkward and longing on a second time. His performance had such depth while looking extremely shallow at first glance. This man WAS Mr. Darcy. (I love 2005, as well, and I love Matthew McFayden, but he was awkward for awkward sake.) Colin Firth made Darcy's awkward look snooty and aloof.

THE socially awkward Darcy is the 1995 Darcy - look at him coming and sitting in awkward silence with Elizabeth pointedly asking her if she wants to live a long way from her family (to obvious relief) and then abruptly leaving - vote for him please 😭😭😭😭

Colin Firth served so much as Darcy that when they did Bridget Jone's diary, they brought him back.... AS DARCY. The smoulder. The angst. The man is the quintessential Darcy.

“Firthing” is an actual term that is used now to describe someone yearning intensely. It is named after Colin Firth’s Mr Darcy performance.

Colin Firth all the way. He's known in our household as Owl Eyes because in every frame he's mooning over Elizabeth Bennet. Unsurpassable, unmatched, golden television (and some of the worst dancing you've ever seen).

Colin has beautiful, touchable curls.

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My high school English teacher was very into using movies to teach alongside literature, which was a great teaching tool. When we read Pride and Prejudice, he used both 2005 and 1995 for various scenes. What stands out to me all these years later was when it got to the part when Lizzy went to help Georgiana after Caroline dropped Mr. Wickham's name and Darcy gives Lizzy this look:

My teacher stopped the film and pointed at Darcy's face and said, "See that? That is THE look. If someone ever looks at you like that, you know they're in love." And what is hotter than that?

Also this teacher had two cats named Lizzy and Darcy. Not relevant to the poll but I wanted you all to know about them.

The best thing about the Colin Firth wet shirt scene is actually the scene that follows where him and Lizzie are both just dyinggg of embarrassment but Darcy pulls himself together refuses to lose his advantage and runs to get dressed and chase her down before she leaves - just the mix of cringe and hopefulness at seeing her again is so well done and so attractive!!! (this is just the bit where he's running after her but I love it all!)

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Mrs. Jennings, in all her glory! This iconic scene perfectly captures her tireless and often misguided mission to marry off every eligible person she meets.

The line in this meme—"She had now therefore nothing to do but to marry off all the rest of the world"—is classic Jane Austen humor at its finest. Mrs. Jennings embodies that nosy, well-meaning relative who can’t resist playing matchmaker, even when she has no idea what’s actually going on.

In Sense and Sensibility, Mrs. Jennings is like the embodiment of society’s obsession with marriage, especially for women. She’s so eager to find a husband for everyone (Elinor, Marianne… basically all the single people around her) that she often jumps to wild conclusions, like thinking Colonel Brandon is romantically interested in Elinor when he's just trying to help Edward Ferrars with his career. Her good intentions often lead to misunderstandings, which makes her both lovable and frustrating at the same time.

What I love most about Mrs. Jennings is that she’s a reflection of how society constantly pressures women to get married, as if that’s their sole purpose in life. Her character highlights the comedy in that pressure but also serves as a critique of how reductive those expectations are.

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i have no idea how bridgerton managed to cast certain characters  ( anthony )  so perfectly, or translate characters from page to screen  ( simon )  like clockwork, and with colin, they were just like  ---

‘give him big hair and make him Baby’

which isn’t quite the case in the books let me tell you

[annadelveys]

controversial, i know, but i never really got the appeal of darcy as in darcy being this romance icon ("when will I meet my Mr Darcy?") like I'm happy he hit it off with lizzie but. 100 % not my type. even if you were into socially awkward men, edward ferrars is literally right here..

[mirdaniaa]

Ooh 8 10 14 16 for the austen asks?

8. Least favorite couple

This kind of goes along with the last ask, but I loathe John and Fanny Dashwood. I know he gets more of a spine at the end and everything ends up okay but like. Dude royally fucked up.

10. Most frustrating family member

I already said John and Fanny BUT I am also going to add Mrs. Bennet, which I know is a really obvious answer, but holy shit the woman has no tact and Darcy was right to point it out.

14. Favorite love confession from the books

I love Emma and Knightley’s moment because not only is it a great moment of two lifelong friends who are in love with each other just now realizing that their feelings are requited, but also because Emma IMMEDIATELY is like WAIT I CAN’T MARRY YOU BECAUSE I HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF MY DAD. and regency feminist icon George Knightley decides that he’ll defy convention by moving in with his wife.

16. Least favorite film adaptation

there was like...a really bad made for tv version of Sense and Sensibility, and they conflated John Dashwood with Edward Ferrars, I think?? And Elinor and Marianne moved into a tiny apartment together to show that they were poor but it was furnished and decorated way nicer than it should’ve been. And Elinor got promoted on her first day or something weird like that? It was really bad, I couldn’t even finish it.

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