Leave Bridget Jones be, argues culture critic Holly Thomas, who adores Bridget but explains why the recently-announced adaptation of ‘Mad About the Boy’ isn’t the best idea.
Few members of the metropolitan liberal elite would admit the 2001 movie “Bridget Jones’s Diary” was their favorite film, but if they picked up a battered copy of the 1996 novel, they’d be hard-pressed to put it down. Bridget Jones may be neurotic, absurd and mired in patriarchy, but she’s a hell of a lot more fun than any black coffee-glugging, Marx-bothering Sally Rooney heroine.
For sheer joyous reading and viewing, I don’t think the original, 32-year-old singleton can be improved upon. It was only after she arrived that we realized how starved of ridiculous leading ladies we’d been. Literature is packed with bonkers male comedy heroes — Bertie Wooster, Adrian Mole, Harry Paget Flashman, William Boot — but before Bridget, comparably nonsensical women were rarely the main attraction. They were the heroine’s goofy accessories. Mrs.
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