The Bridget Jones Diary Film Adaptation

Novels leave the reader to make his or her imagination of the story as it develops. Since they are both considered as mediums of storytelling, it is to define which one is superior to the other. However, for a fact, filming has more aids to storytelling than novels do. Films have accompanying elements such as music, motion pictures, that make it easy for the viewer to follow the story. For the last century, film development has been based on stories that are adapted from previously written novels. However, the film is also considered to be an adaptation of the novel Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) authored by Helen Fielding. The novel Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) is in itself a reinterpretation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

Therefore, evaluating the quality of the film, regarding its narrative and against the novel by Jane Austen, various expected loopholes and inconsistencies will be found between the novel and the film. The first inconsistency in the narration concerns the behavior of the two main characters. In the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin, the narration goes that it is Mr. However, in their adult lives, their meeting and relationships starts as rough as that of Elizabeth and Darcy when marks make negative sentiments in regards to having a blind date with a lady that she describes as a verbally incontinent single lady who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish, and dresses like her mother (Fielding 67). This introduction makes a good borrowing from the original novel by Jane Austin, but it is more consistent with the later reinterpretation of the novel, almost two hundred years later, in the name of Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding.

Additionally, in regards to narration, the subtle elements vary essentially with regards to George Wickham in the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin and Daniel Cleaver in the film The Bridget Jones's diary (2001), yet the general introduction of the two pieces is the same. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth appreciates Mr. Wickham's organization - although nothing of the sort of love, genuinely sentimental ever goes down between the two characters. Jones are entirely unbearable. However, they do in any event once in a while offer pleasing relief to each other. In the novel Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth has a remarkable association with her dad Mr. Bennet (Austen n. p. This is also the case in the adapted novel whereby Fitzwilliam reveals to Elizabeth that he loved her.

This is in spite of how they had treated them before with negative criticism as we had seen from their stories on how their first meetings and relationships started. Fitzwilliam Darcy revealed to Elizabeth how he adored her when she was going to Charlotte and Collins (Austen n. p. Mark Darcy on the other side told Bridget after a supper party loaded with conceited wedded couples. This concept then brings to major topics of discussion. These are the fidelity and the narrative concepts. More importantly, the narrative concept, which was our topic of coverage deals with how consistent the narration of the film aligns with the description of the adapted novel. Some films fully adopt the narrative of the novel whereas other films might omit or add an advanced touch to the storytelling to meet the objective of the targeted audience.