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I have to admit to a soft spot for Tom Bertram (preferably as portrayed by James Purefoy), but the one who really broke my heart was Alan Rickman as colonel Brandon!
You got to love James Purefoy. 😉And a resounding YESSS to the divine Alan Rickman. He radically and dramatically changed the Sense & Sensibility reading experience for me. 🥰💔
I'll take smoldering glances, pursed lips, clenched fists all day, er night long
Audiophile Archives wrote: "I'll take smoldering glances, pursed lips, clenched fists all day, er night long"🤭
how DID I know Sammy would be the first one here - hahaha :)
Teddie wrote: "how DID I know Sammy would be the first one here - hahaha :)"Well to be fair, Sammy had advance knowledge it was going to be here 😂
Sammy wrote: "Well to be fair, Sammy had advance knowledge it was going to be here 😂":D
But just a heads-up that there may or may not be an announcement coming here tomorrow... 😉
With the challenge starting tomorrow it's time to announce...
Are you dotty for Darcy, or wild for Willoughby? Do your knees knock for Knightley?
Over the next few weeks (with a little time off for Christmas!) Austen's leading men will - genteelly - be battling it out in our arena to decide once and for all who the most dashing Austen hero (or possibly villain) is.
A few rules for our duelling arena:
📜 One vote per person per battle. Additional votes on the same battle will be disregarded.
📜 Every spectator (that's you!) gets 5 tokens to bestow upon any combatant of their choosing at any point during the run of the games - on top of their one vote. You can use them one at a time or all at once, bestow them however you please, but when they're gone, they're gone, so choose wisely!
📜 You can vote on every battle, or only every now and then - There's no commitment needed
📜 This is intended to be fun! No disrepect is meant to the participants, and please keep things friendly among the spectators. Just because we've retired from the drawing room it doesn't mean we've left our manners behind.
Our first battle will start tomorrow, so make sure you have your notifications turned on. 😉
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the start of our Regency edition of Thirst games!Now, before we find out who Austen's most dashing gentleman is, each character will need to put forward a champion. so our first series of battles will be between different incarnations of each character, to determine the favourite.
And we are going to kick things off with...
Pride and Prejudice is Austen's most adapted work, and we have gathered together a whopping 12 hopeful candidates. Because having them all in one free-for-all battle will be a little unwieldly, we're going to tackle this a few contestants at a time!
today we start with:
1940 Mr Darcy: Lawrence Olivier
1980 Mr Darcy: David Rintoul
1995 Mr Darcy: Colin Firth
2005 Mr Darcy: Matthew Macfadyen
It is time for your votes! Which Mr darcy most deserves his place at Pemberley?
My vote, always, will be for Colin Firth. There are no acceptable alternatives.Also, Mr. Rintoul's hair is... unfortunate...
Much as I love the P&P series with David Rintoul, my vote also goes to Colin Firth. The first Darcy I saw on screen and splendid it was. (and I have nothing against the others!!! Love watching the different adaptations.) 🫠
I'm inclined to agree on Colin Firth - though I was unaware of Lawrence Olivier's game.
Such a difficult decision... I've watched / had the 2005 version on so often, in part because of the soundtrack, and as much as I liked Colin Firth back when I first saw that version, I'm going to have to go with the extra brood Macfadyen brings.
ducks
Just to make things interesting, I am going to agree with Teddie and go with Macfadyen. There are a couple of lines that he delivers in that movie that make my knees go bye bye.
I already know where my extra 5 tokens are going to go, if we get there. I have not seen the Olivier version. Has anyone? Is it any good?
Jenny wrote: "Just to make things interesting, I am going to agree with Teddie and go with Macfadyen. There are a couple of lines that he delivers in that movie that make my knees go bye bye."
No need to duck, I thought Matthew Macfadyen was lovely and that scene in the rain is the best kiss-that-never happened, moment. 😊I saw the P&P with Laurence Olivier. It is from 1940 and what you could expect from "classic" Hollywood at the time. It was short, light & fun (me and my parents enjoyed watching it), but only bears a superficial resemblance to the original plot. And funnily, the costumes look like hand-me-downs from Gone with the Wind or felt like it. 🤭
Here is the movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk4hA...
My preferred Macfadyen is Angus... 😆I have to admit I haven't seen the 2005 version. If they ever get technology to the point where I could watch it with someone other than Keira Knightley in the lead role, I'm in! 😆
Hmmm which Darcy? The Laurence Olivier one is a different vibe to bring to proceedings. Struggle to get on board with Rintoul. Firth and Macfadyen are both very good options. I want to go to both Firth and Macfadyn. Since they are even at the moment with no one else in the running, I’m going to cop out and not pick.
Mmm… I only saw the movie, but Colin Firth isn’t my favourite. I might try the one with Matthew Macfadyen
GR suddenly decided that I don't need notifications for just this one thread in the JA challenge ... aaaargh! So annoying!Maybe I shouldn't have named it Behind the Black veil? 🤔
“Are you prepared to encounter all of its horrors? (...) Dungeons, and sliding panels; skeletons; strange, unearthly cries in the night that pierce your very soul!” — Northanger Abbey
If you have been persuaded to follow the Wet Shirt — Welcome to (be) NAUGHTY at NORTHANGER. 😊
This thread is for those of us who occasionally find the drawing room a bit prim. Step through this hidden door, follow the signs to the passage leading to the shadow-side of Austenland, where lace gloves (and perhaps more 😉) come off. Here you are given leave to whisper scandal, brawl over Darcys, confess guilty pleasures, and delight in discovering the (not-so) secret obessions of others with anything Austen-related…
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The Discussion Threads (both Drawing Room & Behind the Black Veil) welcome also those Group Members who don't wish to participate in the Challenge, but have a lot to say about anything related to Jane Austen. 😊
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✨ A Question for the Bold Who Have Entered the Passage ✨
The curtain has been drawn back, the candlelight flickers, and the shadows beckon you down into Northanger’s secret passage…
But tell us: which Austen Hero or Baddie would you dare to follow into the darkness?
Would you take the steady hand of Captain Wentworth, chase the smolder of Darcy, or risk the silken words (and slippery morals) of Wickham? Perhaps you’d wander after the tragic eyes of Willoughby, or the dangerous charm of Henry Crawford? Or maybe your heart insists on Edmund… (we won’t judge… much 😉).
Choose wisely — for in these halls, lace gloves slip, whispers linger, and reputations may not emerge unscathed…