Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… a hot-shot in the publishing world. Daniel Cleaver is known around his office as a charming, yet devious, womanizer. Recently, he’s gotten involved with a colleague named Bridget Jones, whose “desperate romantic agenda” is beginning to drive him a bit mad. Bridget wants, in his words, romantic “mini-breaks” to the countryside where they ride in “little boats and read poncy poetry to each other,” while he’d rather stay in and watch cricket, drink beer, and chain-smoke.
Personality… glib and charming, but duplicitous. Daniel is about as slimy as it gets when it comes to predatory men. Don’t let his charms fool you: beneath the sexy, sophisticated exterior is a self-hating, womanizing, alcoholic just waiting to wreak havoc on Bridget’s life.
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The story picks up four weeks after the first film, and already Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, strange contractor, and the worst vacation of her life.
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Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a dashing and handsome American named Jack. Things couldn't be better, until Bridget discovers that she is pregnant. Now, the befuddled mom-to-be must figure out if the proud papa is Mark or Jack.
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A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
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Meet Bridget Jones—a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could: lose 7 pounds, stop smoking, and develop Inner Poise. Here is the laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of a hilarious year in the life of the devastatingly self-aware Bridget Jones; a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, and form a functional relationship with a responsible adult. Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel—or at least afloat. Whenever her plans meet with disaster, she manages to pick herself up, go out on the town, and tell herself it will be all right in the morning, when life will definitely be different this time and totally alcohol, calorie, and perverted-misogynist free.
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Bridget Jones, beloved Singleton and global phenomenon, is back with a bump in Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries. 8:45 P.M. Realize there have been so many times in my life when have fantasized about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time. Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour: a joyful pregnancy which is dominated, however, by a crucial but terribly awkward question – who is the father? Mark Darcy: honourable, decent, notable human rights lawyer? Or Daniel Cleaver: charming, witty, notable fuckwit? 9:45 PM It’s like they’re two halves of the perfect man, who’ll spend the rest of their lives each wanting to outdo the other one. And now it’s all enacting itself in my stomach. In this gloriously funny, touching story of baby-deadline panic, maternal bliss, and social, professional, technological, culinary and childbirth chaos, Bridget Jones – global phenomenon and the world’s favorite Singleton – is back with a bump.
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Bridget Jones, the main character in the novel and the film, "Bridget Jones's Diary," shares her own ideas on homemaking, cooking, relationships, weight loss, and other subjects in a parody of a self-help book.
