Showing posts with label Mr. Darcy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mr. Darcy. Show all posts
Monday, 4 February 2013
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Ripper Street Review - Episode 6 (Spoilers for US)
This week's Ripper Street finally reveals a few of Detective Reid's secrets. Here's Jamie-Lee's review...
This review contains spoilers
1.6 Tournament of Shadows
Now three-quarters of the way through this beautifully bloody journey through the streets of Whitechapel in the months after the serials killings of Jack the Ripper, we are finally offered a brief insight into the background and inner workings of Ripper Street's lead character. Master of the bowler hat and sardonic quip, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid is played by Matthew Macfadyen of Spooks, Mr Darcy and husband of voice of Lara Croft fame. He even does those Marks and Spencers adverts, which is why you may find yourself wanting hot chocolate pudding oozing with cream and lashings of, ohhh, anyway... He has used his brooding skills demonstrably when hiding his feelings of pain about his daughter and somewhat awkward marriage in this gritty series and his MI5 training from Spooks has proved useful for authority, particularly when dishing out the dirty work to his right-hand men Drake and Jackson. He’s also shown that he’s not afraid of a rough and tumble himself when putting Jackson in his place, or giving one or two ruffians or embassy staff a swift backhand.
Ripper Street offers a plethora of on-going interesting characters and sub-plots to keeps viewers entertained alongside each week’s main plot, and this week’s episode is once again completely different from anything we’ve seen in the previous five. The H Division are left dealing with the dock strike of ’89 and rather unpleasant anarchists are stirring up trouble. A bomber is killed in an ‘accidental explosion’ revealing a deadly Communist plot, although as this is Whitechapel and prime time BBC One viewing, all is not what is seems. When Reid thinks everything looks a bit circumspect, he faces a backlash from Special Branch. Not heeding his warnings from above, he comes across something more unpleasant and sinister than the criminals roaming the streets, and far closer to home. In addition, we get a taste of what’s to come in the future storyline, when we discover that Jackson may not be who he say he is at all. Not so happily coerced into going undercover for Reid during the strike, he performs brilliantly, saving Drake’s life in the process. However, how far does and can his acting and betrayal go?
READ MORE: http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/ripper-street/24338/ripper-street-episode-6-review-tournament-of-shadows
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Pride and Prejudice’ at 200: Perfect Time to Ogle Colin Firth in a Wet Shirt By Leah Rozen | Posted on Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 (ANGLOPHENIA)
Colin Firth as a damp Darcy in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ (BBC)
Before the month is over, we’d be remiss if we failed to note that January marks the 200th anniversary – we’re talking bicentennial – of the publication of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
The beloved novel, in which both Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy overcome first impressions to realize they were meant for each other, originally appeared in three volumes on January 27, 1813. It has subsequently sold more than 20 million copies.
While we could go on and on about the novel’s long term popularity, wit, meaning and adaptability (movie versions, zombie novels!), let’s use the anniversary to look at Colin Firth in a wet shirt and to muse on stamps.
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
‘Pride and Prejudice’ bicentenary: Who’s your favorite Darcy? (poll) By Marama Whyte at 1:00 pm, January 29, 2013 - @maramawhyte (HYPABLE)
It’s the role of a lifetime – the chance to steam up the screen as Regency heart-throb Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. We’ve seen many Darcys over the years, but who was the best? Now you get to decide.
Yesterday was the bicentenary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. There’s no need to be scandalised by our blatant objectification of these leading men, we did the literary appreciation and analysis part yesterday, so now we can get to the really important matter – who was the hottest Mr. Darcy? Ladies and gentlemen, get your votes ready.
First, straight to the source. What did Austen have to say about Darcy in Pride and Prejudice?
“…Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien; and the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year.
The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.”
Monday, 28 January 2013
COLIN FIRTH: In The Matter of Mr. Darcy (HUFF POST BLOG)
Elinor Lipman
Author
May I weigh in? ("Insolent girl!" Lizzie Bennet would scold.) I do so only after having rented, streamed, watched, read, and taken notes during a week of adaptation immersion. Thus "pleased with the preference of one," I announce that the head-and-shoulders winner of Best Mr. Darcy is Colin Firth (1995 Masterpiece Theatre, 300 minutes.)
A geological sample of Darcy's core, as portrayed so beautifully by Firth, would show the following layers: at the bottom, his breeding and wealth. Undeniable. On top of that, confusion, the push-pull of class--egad, 10,000 pounds a year and a house 10 times larger than Downton Abbey! Who wouldn't be conflicted, falling in love beneath his station with a penniless girl in possession of an insufferable mother? Next: love-struck silence. And finally, which we learn from the housekeeper who has known him since he was four, a heart of pure gold. Before Disc Two, it is only hinted at. He stares at Elizabeth Bennet with an intensity that promises passion and--spoiler alert--a happy ending.
READ MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elinor-lipman/in-the-matter-of-mr-darcy_b_2551744.html
Author
Though hardly enough is known about Jane Austen's too-brief, non-celebrity life, there is one biographical certainty we can surmise from this distance: No one ever asked her whom she'd pick to play Mr. Darcy in the movies.
May I weigh in? ("Insolent girl!" Lizzie Bennet would scold.) I do so only after having rented, streamed, watched, read, and taken notes during a week of adaptation immersion. Thus "pleased with the preference of one," I announce that the head-and-shoulders winner of Best Mr. Darcy is Colin Firth (1995 Masterpiece Theatre, 300 minutes.)
A geological sample of Darcy's core, as portrayed so beautifully by Firth, would show the following layers: at the bottom, his breeding and wealth. Undeniable. On top of that, confusion, the push-pull of class--egad, 10,000 pounds a year and a house 10 times larger than Downton Abbey! Who wouldn't be conflicted, falling in love beneath his station with a penniless girl in possession of an insufferable mother? Next: love-struck silence. And finally, which we learn from the housekeeper who has known him since he was four, a heart of pure gold. Before Disc Two, it is only hinted at. He stares at Elizabeth Bennet with an intensity that promises passion and--spoiler alert--a happy ending.
READ MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elinor-lipman/in-the-matter-of-mr-darcy_b_2551744.html
Colin Firth and the BBC class of '95 voted best Pride and Prejudice cast (RADIO TIMES)
RadioTimes.com poll names Firth and Jennifer Ehle, from the TV adaptation of Jane Austen's 200-year-old novel, the ultimate Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet
Ellie Walker-Arnott
1:05 PM, 28 January 2013
In honour of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, we asked RadioTimes.com readers to take part in our poll to decide the ultimate cast from TV and film adaptations of the beloved literary romance.
We wondered if the votes might provide a new pairing of Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, or perhaps match one Mr Bennet with another Mrs B. But as it turned out, you thought the BBC's 1995 TV series, adapted by Andrew Davies, had already ticked almost all the boxes!
Aside from the role of Jane Bennet – which saw Rosamund Pike from the 2005 movie version pip 1995's Susannah Harker to the post with an impressive 50% of the vote – readers opted for the 1995 cast members in all of the categories. So we think it's fair to pronounce the TV mini-series the best ever Pride and Prejudice adaptation.
Friday, 25 January 2013
Monday, 21 January 2013
Matthew Macfadyen - Ripper Street Offers Brand New Challenges for Matthew Macfadyen 20 January 2013 (CONTACT MUSIC)
Ripper Street Offers Brand New Challenges for Matthew Macfadyen
BBC America’s Ripper Street – a period series about a cop, tasked with solving crimes in 19th century London, post Jack the Ripper – premiered last night on BBC America.
Marking the occasion, Ripper Street star Matthew Macfadyen discussed the experience of working on the show and getting under the skin of his character and choosing to do a long-term project like the series. For New York Daily News Macfadyen explained that as an actor, he often feels the stress of not being offered work, and then at some point the scripts simply start to pour: “[W]hen the phone doesn’t ring for three weeks, you start thinking, ‘My God, I’ll never work again.’” For him, a long-term contract for a series offered some security in a profession, where stability is inherently lacking.
READ MORE: http://www.contactmusic.com/news/ripper-street-offers-brand-new-challenges-for-matthew-macfadyen_3459775
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Colin Firth - Only You Can Hear My Soul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlEOfDsgyXA
Linmuis
So tired of waiting for Colin Firth news to come through again, so I am putting up some videos of him that I love, especially for a Saturday night!
Matthew Macfadyen, (PHOTOS) PRESS CONFERENCE EPIC UK-German-Russian-Georgian
Epic by Ben Hopkins a UK-German-Russian-Georgian co-production Press Conference — with Matthew Macfadyen and Mike Downey.
PICTURES FROM THE GEORGIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER FACEBOOK PAGE
https://www.facebook.com/pages/GNFC-Georgian-National-Film-Center/114327075295743
PICTURES FROM THE GEORGIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER FACEBOOK PAGE
https://www.facebook.com/pages/GNFC-Georgian-National-Film-Center/114327075295743
Friday, 28 December 2012
EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Macfadyen shares all the GORY details from his new TV series Ripper Street (MAIL ON LINE)
By DAVID WIGG
Matthew Macfadyen has been tempted back to a major TV series for the first time since the long-running Spooks ended two years ago, in which he played a very modern role as counter-terrorism chief.
Now he has re-emerged as Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, a late 19th-century policeman whose beat is London’s East End, haunt of the notorious Jack The Ripper.
The time is April 1889, six months after the Ripper has claimed his last victim, hacking a fifth young woman to death - and people are beginning to venture out after dark again, in the cautious hope that his murderous reign of terror is over.
But is it? After all, the series is called Ripper Street.
The famously buttoned-up Macfadyen reacts with mock horror: ‘I couldn’t possibly give anything away’, he says. ‘But I will say that Inspector Reid is a very modern policeman, and what he investigates takes him beyond the Ripper’s crimes.
'He is beginning to see huge new advances in forensics and pathology as for the first time police work becomes truly scientific, and he can see that this is the future’.
I watched the opening scene as Macfadyen as Reid – tall, imposing, well-dressed in a long heavy coat and a black bowler hat, and sporting distinctively fashionable sideburns - sips his beer in Whitechapel’s packed Brown Bear tavern.
He smiles as his fellow drinkers cheer on a brutal bare-knuckle fight. It’s all good fun - or what passed for fun in the late 19th century - but Reid’s off-duty moments are numbered.
Suddenly, a scream echoes through the fog-shrouded warren of streets. The naked body of a young prostitute has been found with her throat cut. The murder has all the Ripper’s hallmarks, and panic once again grips the East End.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2254341/Matthew-Macfadyen-shares-gory-details-new-TV-series-Ripper-Street.html#ixzz2GNrw2erg
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Matthew Macfadyen has been tempted back to a major TV series for the first time since the long-running Spooks ended two years ago, in which he played a very modern role as counter-terrorism chief.
Now he has re-emerged as Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, a late 19th-century policeman whose beat is London’s East End, haunt of the notorious Jack The Ripper.
The time is April 1889, six months after the Ripper has claimed his last victim, hacking a fifth young woman to death - and people are beginning to venture out after dark again, in the cautious hope that his murderous reign of terror is over.
But is it? After all, the series is called Ripper Street.
The famously buttoned-up Macfadyen reacts with mock horror: ‘I couldn’t possibly give anything away’, he says. ‘But I will say that Inspector Reid is a very modern policeman, and what he investigates takes him beyond the Ripper’s crimes.
'He is beginning to see huge new advances in forensics and pathology as for the first time police work becomes truly scientific, and he can see that this is the future’.
I watched the opening scene as Macfadyen as Reid – tall, imposing, well-dressed in a long heavy coat and a black bowler hat, and sporting distinctively fashionable sideburns - sips his beer in Whitechapel’s packed Brown Bear tavern.
He smiles as his fellow drinkers cheer on a brutal bare-knuckle fight. It’s all good fun - or what passed for fun in the late 19th century - but Reid’s off-duty moments are numbered.
Suddenly, a scream echoes through the fog-shrouded warren of streets. The naked body of a young prostitute has been found with her throat cut. The murder has all the Ripper’s hallmarks, and panic once again grips the East End.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2254341/Matthew-Macfadyen-shares-gory-details-new-TV-series-Ripper-Street.html#ixzz2GNrw2erg
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Saturday, 22 December 2012
Sunday, 16 December 2012
Ripper Street New drama for BBC One starring Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg (BBC)
Matthew Macfadyen plays Inspector Edmund Reid
Date: 28.11.2012Last updated: 05.12.2012 at 12.13
Category: BBC One; Drama
Tell us something about the character you play in Ripper Street
Reid is a very dedicated, forward thinking policeman. What I find interesting about him is that there’s nothing jaded or on the back foot about him. I wanted to get away from the sort of classic, seen it all, done it all copper and he’s definitely not that. He’s quite progressive and interested in technology and the innovations of the age, which were enormous, especially in Victorian times. So he’s an interesting character. He’s got quite a lot of anger and he has a fairly dark past. He has made a terrible mistake and that sort of haunts him. So, there’s a lot to play with. It’s good fun.
How would you describe Ripper Street?
Ripper Street is a very visceral police drama set in the reign of Queen Victoria in Whitechapel in London, in the aftermath of the horrific Jack The Ripper murders.
What drew you to the character of Reid?
It’s always really the writing. That’s what either grabs you or doesn’t. And Richard Warlow, the creator and writer, has made a very original thing really. He’s got a wonderful way of creating the language and so this show is sort of bombastic, big and colourful and grimy as well. There’s lots of stuff in there.
What is the dynamic like between the three main characters?
I certainly love acting with those two and the way it’s written they complement each other very well. There’s me, who’s the sort of driving force of the threesome; and then there’s Drake played by Jerome who’s got this lovely quality - he’s the brawn and he’s also got a great sincerity and strength to him; and then there’s Jackson played by Adam, who’s just sort of brilliant, he’s got a brilliant mind - I mean he’s wayward and he’s infuriating but he’s, incredibly gifted at forensics and pathology and all the rest of it. As a threesome they sort of work really well. And there’s respect and there’s also mistrust. And there’s antagonism between the three of them so it’s a good mix. I hope!
Reid respects Jackson because of his skill. This was an age where the amazing advances that we take for granted now hadn’t happened: forensics, forensically fingerprinting and DNA. It was very basic sort of police work I suppose but for them it was cutting edge. Things were happening at an alarming rate, technologically. And so I think they would think of themselves as very modern and very progressive... which is interesting. It’s a period procedural but it doesn’t feel like that to them, obviously.
READ MORE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/ripperstreet/matthew-macfadyen.html
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