#mr darcy
Miss Elizabeth Bennet (Jennifer Ehle) & Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy (Colin Firth), Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC Miniseries)
I made a Mr Darcy months ago on commission. I finally found the time and hair sculpting confidence to take on Lizzie and those curls.
Day 24: Movie Scene.
Part of a 60 day art challenge with friends on Gaiaonline.2022.
For this prompt I chose a scene out of Pride and Pedjudice. Where Mr. Darcy grabs Elizabeth’s hand to help her in to the carriage. The body language is so beautiful and the way he flexes his hand afterwards is *Chef’s kiss*.
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Lizzy when Darcy runs into her at his house:
darcy’s first proposal he’s like “hello woman who is half an inch away from snapping my neck, i have something to tell you and you have to hear this right now, i musttell you how i feel, sit there and listen as i monologue” and then when he delivers the letter he’s like “i’ll just leave this here, you don’t have to reply if you don’t want to, sorry for bothering you” and then his second proposal he’s like “if you’re still not into it, i promise i will never bring it up again, i’m only here darkening your doorstep because i heard from my aunt that you maybe don’t hate me anymore but if i’m wrong, just say so and i’ll dip, sorry for bothering you again”
ladies, you ever reject a man so hard he learns boundaries for the first time in his life?
I’m at the part where Liz and Darcy are dancing at Netherfield and omg I haven’t noticed before that if Liz wasn’t totally determined to hate Darcy she would see
He is FLIRTING WITH HER!!!!!!
Elizabeth recognizing Darcy’s smile in his painting is great because:
1. It pulls together the various occasions when Darcy has smiled before now, but which readers (and arguably Elizabeth herself) are likely to have overlooked as a pattern of behaviour. Now, it’s brought forward as part of the impression she/we have of his character at that point.
2. Doing so also helps create a sense of continuity between the various phases of his development.
3. Elizabeth remembers the smiles as specifically happening “when he looked at her,” so Darcy smiling is linked closely to his feelings for Elizabeth. He doesn’t just smile around her; he smiles ather.
4. We hear immediately that the picture was painted before Darcy’s father died. This particularly rewards re-reading, because Darcy will later talk of his father in glowing terms. Darcy smiling at Elizabeth in the exact same way that he smiled during his beloved father’s lifetime links his feelings for her—his feelings beforeher rejection—to not only tumult and passion, but happiness.
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Yes! He’s mentioned as smiling 8 times before he proposes to Elizabeth the first time (and yes, they’re all associated with her, aww). She’s mentioned as smiling 14 times in this same period, though 2 of those are when she’s part of a group that is said to be smiling, and 1 of those is said to be a forced smile, so I’m gonna count it as 11 confirmed and real smiles. That’s really not that many more than Darcy, especially considering that the book spends far more time with Elizabeth than him. (And yes, I actually counted. Thank goodness for being able to search the free text online!)
So, even though she perceives him as severe (due to her prejudice) and he does have a more serious disposition overall, he’s never an emotionally constipated robot, even at the start of the book. He feels happiness and can show it and be pleasant and even flirty when he wants to be.
None of the adaptations get this quite right and show Darcy smiling enough.
“Do you believe in love?” I believe in fictional men loving every aspect of their lover
when Lizzie said
“Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, witch is why I will end up an old maid.”
I felt that.
Pride & Prejudice
Is basically 2 hours of Enemies to Lovers soundtracked with classical music
How can you not love it ?
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
you must allow me to tell you how ardently i admire and love you.
It’s always “wyd” and never “iwhttyyhbmbas”
The Living Sculptures Of Lunathion
I loved this scene from Pride and Prejudice so much and actually, I planned to draw Elizabeth, but as soon as I had painted the angel sculpture, Crescent City hit me.
Characters from Crescent City by Sarah J. Maas
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my aesthetic as of July 2020 is listen to All Too Well, cry, and watch Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Matthew Macfadyen reads First Proposal scene from Pride & Prejudice *swoon
With Music & Film Clips: Matthew Macfadyen reads First Proposal scene from Pride & Prejudice
If Lord of the Flies was played by accurate actors
