Bridget Jones is the anti-Austen heroine. She is clumsy, smokes, drinks too much, and says the wrong thing. Her love triangle (the pretentious Daniel Cleaver vs. the aloof Mark Darcy) works because it resolves the English anxiety: do we want the exciting cad (passion) or the boring good man (security)? The English romantic storyline often chooses the boring good man, but makes him secretly passionate (Colin Firth coming out of a lake).
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