Bridget Jones
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Bridget Jones is a fictional character created by English writer Helen Fielding.
Fielding first published Bridget Jones' stories in the form of a diary in English newspaper columns in The Independent and later The Daily Telegraph.
They chronicled the life of Bridget Jones, a thirtysomething singleton woman living in London, surrounded by a 'surrogate family' of friends as she tries to make sense of life and love in the 1990s. Often hysterically funny, the column accurately lampooned the obsession of women with women's magazines such as Cosmopolitan and wider societal trends in Britain at the time.
The feature began again as in The Independent on August 4, 2005. A book containing all of the original columns was given away with the paper the following Saturday.
Bridget Jones's Diary
These columns were made into a novel in 1996, Bridget Jones's Diary, and turned into a movie of the same name in 2001, directed by Sharon Maguire. The plot is loosely based on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (and the sequel would be based on the plot of another of Austen's novels, Persuasion.)
The movie starred Renée Zellweger as Bridget. Before the film came out a considerable amount of controversy surrounded the casting of the American Zellweger as what some saw as a quintessentially British heroine: however, her performance is widely considered to be of a high standard, and garnered Zellweger an Academy Award nomination.
The director of the film, Sharon Maguire, is one of Fielding's friends who the character of "Shazzer" was reportedly based on.
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
A sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, followed in 1999.
A movie with the same title has been released in 2004.
Return to the Independent
The new Independent column is set in the present day (2005, with references being made to events such as Hurricane Katrina), and has dropped some of the motifs of the original diary, particularly the alcohol unit and calorie counts. Despite the time advance, Cleaver and Darcy are still the two men in Jones' life, and the plotline has launched into a pregnancy.nl:Bridget Jones fi:Bridget Jones