BBC P&P 2

For the second half of the P&P viewing, I’d like to take a look at how dreamy Mr. Darcy is. You read that right, dreamy. In the book, we are supposed to view him as pompous and arrogant, and while he is wealthy, he isn’t the ideal man for any woman, for he simply isn’t interested in women. But in the BBC production, Colin Firth plays him, who himself is a looker, let’s be honest. And while Mr. Darcy in the novel is handsome, I bet he was never imagined as Colin Firth handsome. Does this change what the audience perceives of him? Makes him less arrogant, since he’s got a nice face? While I definitely think this does play his character up, making him more appealing to the masses, it does somewhat hinder the true character of Mr. Darcy that we meet in the novel.