Normally, we spend only for about 90 minutes with the ROM-Com heroine. We meet her dream men (and rarely women) and fall in love again. Then we say goodbye, and after the last kiss, we never know what she will do.
Not Bridget Jones.
Since first appearing in Bridget Jones's Diary in 2001, Ren Xerewgar has been a roughly mixed OTIC London. She shrinked (but secretly cheered) because she turned into a bed with a handsome and handsome Cad Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). We saw her humiliating himself in front of Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), and even though he was an unbearable snob, he realized that he was her great love. I did it. We observed that Bridget and Mark broke up and returned together many times. She got a better job and gave birth. And now, in the latest article “Bridget Jones: Mad A Boy” (premiere in Peacock on February 13), she is a widow with two young children and is about to start again in her 50s. 。
The patience of Bridgit Jones in popular culture is that when the credit rolls on ROM-com, the character's life is complete and the quality of the sequel is changing, and that the real sense of life is refreshing itself. I will hurt. (But, at the end of all movies, it may work well for bridgets.)
At the same time, having Brigitte Jones in our lives reveals a surprising amount of how we talk about women. Characters, especially Zelwegger's performance, were directly connected to the conversation between the body image and the aging of the public, but sometimes revealed. Bridget was an intentional pioneer.
The beauty of Bridgit Jones, the creation of the novelist Helen Fielding, who was working on all the scriptwriter, was always her mess. For example, compare to Meg Ryan Sally, “When Harry meets Sally …” is probably the ideal of Romcom Heroine's platonic ideal. Sally is a little tolerated and may be unfortunate in love, but she is almost negligent and well. She always looks perfect. She puts the video tape in alphabetical order. On the other hand, Bridget is untouched. She drinks too much and smokes like a chimney. (The number of cigarettes she puffed in the early movies is completely shocking in 2025.) Her apartments are disasters and their clothes are scattered. And yes, she gets too heavy -at least she thinks she does.
Talking about the outdated Bridget Jones is to talk about her weight. Both “Bridget Jones's Diary” and “Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason” (2004), she is not small, but overweight is exaggerated. At the beginning of the Diary, she decides to lose 20 pounds, despite weighing only 136. In “Edge of Reason”, she is hidden from the new boyfriend mark. About how he reacts to her in the light. He tells her that she loves “wobble”.
Zellweger was famous for gaining weight to play Bridget. This is the fact that it was more discussed than learning British accents. She had never revealed how much she had revealed, but the news media has spilted about the idea that this American movie star quits a lot of pizza and eats a lot. When the interviewer put on how the pound was attached, Zelweger was distracted. When I talked to the Guardian, she said, “I understand the conspiracy. It sounds like a very open experience, but I hope it is the most important.”
One year after the release of the movie, Kate Betts, a former HARPER'S BAZAAR editor, has published Mea Culpa. He wrote the New York Times and explained that the actress seemed “overweight” and pulled the cover of the Zelwegger linked to the “Bridget Jones Diary”. Vetz acknowledged that “the obsession with the prejudice and thinness of fashion, and the soak between people who are carriers in business seem to be more and more blind spots.” Still, the damage was taking place.
Since 2001, society has experienced countless conversation cycles about what women's famous things should be seen. “Body -positive” may have been a buzzword 10 years ago, but celebrities who fell down today are facing questions about whether they used Ozen Picks or used the same medicine.
Make early Bridget Jones movies a strange experience. Looking at her body on the screen is still almost innovative considering how thin the standard Hollywood standard is. However, she is cruelly critical, despite the handsome man who felt sexy enough to enter the fist on her. It's painful to see her self -disgust, but it's honest. How often are we the worst enemies? The bubble in the plot means that this question is not considered, but it is crushed by you.
When Bridget returned to Bridget Jones's Baby in 2016, more than 10 years have passed since The Edge of Reason, and Fracas did not exceed her size. It was also seen as a character problem. Instead, it was on her face. When the trailer was released, the variety published a column to guess if Zellweger did “work”, and found that “it doesn't look like Bridget Jones.”
Zellweger responded in an essay at Huffpost. “It's not anyone's business, but I didn't decide to change my face and perform surgery,” she wrote. “This fact is not a true import to anyone, but it is discussed among journalists who are respected only by possibilities, and the general conversation is the confusion of news/entertainment and the persistence of social physicalism. It is a confusing illustration.
However, Bridget Jones is a person formed by its fixation. She can see it in an unrealistic and does not match the media set criteria, in a way to be BE humiliation. The third movie of franchise is due to age. More than 10 years have passed since we finally saw her, so Bridget looks different. She has a crow's legs and her pregnancy is considered an “old man.” She may not know who her child's father is at least at first, because she is still the same old mixed OTIC, but she gets older and makes her a pioneer. I am. Only in movies such as “The Substance”, culture has caught up with conversation that “Bridget Jones's Baby” was provocated about aging.
In “MAD ABOUT THE BOY”, Bridget's new challenge is the death of Mark Darcy, a reminder with a severe time passing and our vulnerable mortality. However, Bridget soldiers are interested in trendy love again, a young man played by Leo Wudard.
Bridget adventure was long and fantastic, but their hearts are just women who are trying to understand her life. Her journey may have a more noisy man and a stupid scenario in her journey, rather than what she encounters as an audience. You can easily recognize how we reflect ours. Every time she gets a happy ending, it is qualified by the sequel that throws another obstacle to her path. She is scrutinized and is separated off the screen, but always finds a way to get out of the mud. And that's why it was blessed to take her around for all of these years.
