http://www.uip.co.uk/trailers/bridget_jones.html


It's baaaaaaack....
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Other than the controversy over some (small?) racial content, is this movie worth it?

http://www.januarymagazine.com/fiction/bridget.html

It sort of sounds like Sex in the City.
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racial content? u mean worse then the "cruel race"?
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I guess by "racial content", I meant the racial controversy posed by the movie -- disgussed in this Asian Week article (http://www.asianweek.com/2001_05_25/ae2_hotnsour_bridgetjones.html)
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Instead, Diary inflates that stereotype into a minor running joke, and that joke stands out all the more in the Miramax film, which is more action-oriented and less talky than the book.

It starts out innocuously enough, with the Jones character (Zellweger), quizzing her judgment-impaired and terminally batty mother (Gemma Jones) about the eligible bachelor she’s been set up with for their turkey curry Christmas celebration. It’s Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) ?here, reprising his Mr. Darcy role in the recent BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. Mark has just been divorced by his wife, babbles Mrs. Jones. She was Japanese. They’re such a cruel race.
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Waitaminit...they're talking about the first one, right? That article is dated from May 2001 and they quote Pearl Harbor as coming out at the same time.

Is the new one doing the same schtick?
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Waitaminit...they're talking about the first one, right? That article is dated from May 2001 and they quote Pearl Harbor as coming out at the same time.

Is the new one doing the same schtick?
Hopefully not.

Just wanted to put the old controversy out there.
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"bridget jones, you will be given the skills of the SAS in order to fight off the invading cruel race"
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