Comments on: Contest Update!

By: Old Hag

Old Hag — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 22:20:17 +0000

[...] macfayden knightley Totally. [...]

By: Old Hag

Old Hag — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:35:22 +0000

[...] Contest Update! [...]

By: Mme Pinky Andrexa

Mme Pinky Andrexa — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:46:18 +0000

Sorry, but Colin Firth is not the epitome of Mr. Darcy, nor was Firth the First. The version in which he appeared may be truer to the book, but Colin always looked more like a Rochester to me, than a Darcy. The first Darcy I ever saw was David Rintoul. Some say Rintoul was wooden, but at least he looked like an aristocrat.

Matthew Macfadyen, making sweet blue bedroom eyes at Kiera’s Lizzy Bennet, is far closer to the Darcy of my imagination than any other I have seen over the years.

Matthew Macfadyen is the new master of Pemberley. I wave my lavender-scented hanky in derision at all Firth fans. Firth is so 1995, darlings…

By: Cupie

Cupie — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:07:48 +0000

I say we mash those hot fuckers together and take pictures.

By: Old Hag

Old Hag — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:00:16 +0000

[...] This may have been the hardest decision we’ve ever had to make. First off, obvs Hot Darcy Action Figure can and will not pass without notice (though we have deliberated long and deliberately on Darcy love and, despite the popular vote, currently love…love…LOVE Macfadyen). Still, that debate was a late-breaking addition to the book-snagging and occasioned by our quick-beating heart, not our decidery core. We must now turn ourselves to the assortment of linear worms, which, upon the contest’s close, immediately posed the following dilemma—what, exactly, were we in fact motherfucking judging? After much more decidery decideration, we finally settled on the following criterion: the worm that burrowed into OUR ear would be the worm that won. [...]

By: huberama

huberama — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:05:58 +0000

Old Dary – staring at Elizabeth as she turns the piano score pages for Darcy’s sister. Hottest. Ever. End of contest.

By: Ameeta

Ameeta — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:57:55 +0000

Colin Firth is the epitome of Mr. Darcy, as evidenced by his re-doing the role in the two Bridget Jones’ movies, and sort-of redoing it in Love, Actually. MacFayden didn’t really strike me as Darcyish, to be honest, although I think he’d make a great Heathcliffe, or maybe a good Mr. Rochester; he’s a little too…emo? angsty? for Jane Austen’s character, while Firth had the perfect amount of dry humor.

By: Liza

Liza — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:56:46 +0000

McFadyen…all the way…

“I love…I love…I love you.”

Le sigh.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:16:21 +0000

I am not a traditionalist by any means, but I stand firm in the thought that the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice perfection. Absolute perfection! Colin Firth’s Darcy is the touchstone of hotness. Matthew MacFayden and Kiera Knightley lack the maturity of Colin and Jennifer. The latest P&P is tolerable, but reminds me of a just-barely-slightly-above-average high school production. Take the Pemberley scene, for example. Up the grassy knoll saunters a very damp and very hot Darcy (Colin Firth) where he meets up with the lovely Jennifer Ehle. Between them unfolds a deliciously awkward conversation that maintains every bit of its British propriety. The scene from the MacFayden/Knightley version lacks the subtlety of the BBC film. There’s giddy awkward laughter, big goggley glances. This MacFayden/Knightley version should be titled “Flakey Awkwardness and Prejudice.” No, Miss Bennett and Mr. Darcy have no pride in this version. Knightley and MacFayden are too sure of themselves as attractive, Hollywood actors and actresses are wont to be. This, for me, detracts from the characters

But back to hotness. It’s Darcy’s sultry smugness (perfected by the lovely Firth) that makes him so freakin’ irresistable. Have you seen those chocolately brown eyes!? Is there a pinnacle of Firth/Darcy hotness? That is a good question. There are many moments that would make for the perfect “Hot Darcy Action Figure.” There’s the “Fencing Darcy” action figure. There’s “Exhausted Post-Letter Writing Darcy”. There’s the limited edition “Cambridge-Graduate-Darcy-Intrudes-Upon-Wickham-in-Flagrante-Delicto” action figure as well. These are all very hot moments. But the hottest of hot is the aforementioned “Moist Sauntering Darcy.” Yes, a damp, surprised, yet restrained Colin Firth is a hot Colin Firth.

And with that, I bid you adieu.

Melanie