Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
monition : SPOILERS for Bridget Jones : disturbed about the son
fan of theBridget Jonesfilm series who have n’t read Helen Fielding ’s source material for its late film , Bridget Jones : Mad About the Boy , have a cruel surprise in store for them . Mark Darcy , Bridget Jones ’ horse in shining armor from the first three movies , is drained . Colin Firth ’s iconic symbolization of good erstwhile - fashioned British heroism and humanity has been kill off , and Bridget has been left mourning the expiration of her dream humankind .
Just as this news was greeted with daze and outrage upon the issue of Fielding ’s novelMad About the Boy12 years ago , viewers expect to see Firth back by Renée Zellweger ’s side as Bridget ’s husband are up in arms . The marital bliss that awaited the serial publication heroine and thefather of her newborn boy William at the ending ofBridget Jones ’ Babyhas been torn to shreds . InMad About The Boy , Bridget is alone again , shinny with being single and reelect to the dating secret plan . As for why that is , it ’s all because of an event that occurred offscreen .
Mark Darcy Died On A Humanitarian Mission 4 Years Before Mad About The Boy’s Timeline
He Went Out With Dignity, Doing What Was Important To Him
Mark Darcy was a barrister who take on international human right slip touch to humanist causes , which came in peculiarly handy when Bridget regain herself framed for drug trafficking in Thailand duringBridget Jones : The Edge of Reason . It ’s also Mark ’s humanitarian work that got him killed , however . He died stepping on a landmine in Sudan , where he was negociate the release of some aid worker who ’d been take hostage .
Bridget Jones : Mad About The Boy will bestow Daniel Cleaver back but in a smaller function , which is a immense relievo now that Darcy wo n’t be around anymore .
His death is never shown inBridget Jones : Mad about the Boy , as it occurred four years before Bridget ’s late amorous trial by ordeal begin . In a elbow room , this narrative choice spares fan of the series – and ofColin Firth’sBridget Jonesrolein fussy – the additional repulsion of having to see the man of Bridget ’s dreams abide his grim fate . It also spares Mark the indignity of dying onscreen , keeping his noble death a pure abstraction at arms ’ length , whichhelps to keep on the overall idealisation of his image in the series .
Why Mad About The Boy Really Killed Off Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy
Helen Fielding Needed Bridget Single Again
Helen Fielding ’s determination to bolt down off Mark Darcy in her novelMad about the Boymeant that this latestBridget Jonesmovie adaption had to follow suit . That meant saying goodbye to Colin Firth , the actor who ’s played Darcy throughout the movie series and who really first inspired the character , after Helen Fielding saw him as Mr. Darcy in the BBC ’s 1995 adaptation ofPride and Prejudice . Firth’sMark Darcy does still appear in the fourthBridget Jones , but only in the pattern of an apparition . He ’s otherwise most notable for his absence seizure throughout the quietus of the film .
When fronting up about her logical thinking for getting disembarrass of Darcy in 2013 , Fielding said thatshe wanted to portray Bridget Jones as a single female parent . The problem was , “ Mark Darcy would never leave her , ” she explained . “ He ’s too much of a valet de chambre . ” ( viaBBC Radio 4 ) To manufacture a office in which Bridget was leave open to Fielding . Sheneeded to kill Mark Darcy , piss the fourthBridget Jonesstory a widow woman ’s story . Fielding also draw on her own biography experience , exploring her flavor about the premature death of her father , and the pain in the neck it caused her mother .
" This is a account about Bridget moving on and rebuild herself rather than an epic taradiddle of true love . Bridget already had her happily - ever - after many time over at this gunpoint . “- Mary Kassel - ScreenRant ’s critique ofBridget Jones : Mad about the Boy
throw that the creation ofMark Darcy as a character is inextricably intertwined with Firthas an actor , he was the gruelling person to apportion the tidings of Mark ’s death with . When Fielding called Firth to break it to him , he plain told her , “ You ’ve kill the amiss one . ” ( viaVariety )
How Mark’s Death Changes Bridget In Mad About The Boy
She’s Back In The Game, But Older And (Not Much) Wiser
Mark ’s death has clearly taken its toll on his wife . InMad about the Boy , Bridget seems different how previous picture in the franchiseportray her fictitious character . She ’s additional psychoneurotic , more uncertain of herself than ever , and wracked with anxiousness about aging alone without her married man . She ’s taken to applying Botox to her expression , and is shin to adapt to the conventions of societal media . On the other hand , enough sentence has passed since she lost Markfor Bridget to work through her heartbreak .
As the press release of " Bridget Jones : sore About The Boy " approach , fans are commend the events of the first several pic in the franchise .
The whole point ofBridget Jones : sore about the Boyis that she ’s a exclusive woman in her fifties with two children , navigating the perils of romanticism in ways that made her such an appealing heroine to begin with , but in completely different circumstances . It ’s Mark Darcy ’s last that allows Bridget ’s life to take this trajectory , reliving her old age - old mistrust about prospective romantic match through freshly - fangled matchmaking means like dating apps . As much as it ’s easy to overlook Mark , we ’d miss this version of Bridget if he ’d kept her away from the world of date for the rest of her life .
Sources : BBC Radio 4;Variety
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