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Favourite Character

posted 16 years ago by monarchgirl-1
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Favouriter Character?
Which one are you most like ?

I have to say in all honesty my favourite character is Prudie because of how she evolves from this uptight annoying girl who doesn't understand her husband to a more emotionally stable woman who is happy with who she is and who takes action to rectify what's gone wrong in her realtionship.

I think I'm most like Sylvia in terms of that I am quite quiet and bookish. Although I can also see elements Allegra and Bernadette as they are both somewhat free spirits.

[–] me-ga-sa 14 years ago

I loved Prudie, I am totally in love with her. She reminds me though I don't like French.

[–] SpellSpirit 14 years ago

I liked Allegra. :) I think she was my favourite, though I felt like we could have explored her recklessness more. My opinion might have something to do with the fact that I love Maggie Grace, but I just thought she was really relatable. And her mum Sylvia was awesome too.

[–] taylorje 14 years ago

I have to say Grigg. He was so touchingly sweet when he asked if the Austen novels were sequels.

[–] KindredSouls 14 years ago

Favorite: Grigg, Prudie, Jocelyn, in that order.

Least Favorite: Sylvia and Allegra. I REALLY disliked them both.

No real opinion on Bernadette, not enough about her in the movie to decide.

[–] Screen_Queen 13 years ago

Favourite character is a tie between Allegra and Jocelyn. I'm more like Jocelyn though.

There wasn't anyone in the group I didn't like, I loved them all. They're the kind of people I wish I knew.

I only do it with superheroes.

[–] chinaahlm 13 years ago

i love all of them,especially Jocelyn and Prudie,maybe just because Maria Bello and Emily Blunt are my favorite actresses.

[–] XenatrixElixir 13 years ago

I loved Allegra and Jocelyn.

Allegra because, to be honest, it was Maggie Grace, and I love her, but her character was fun and spoke her mind, even if it was mocking someone else.
And I loved Jocelyn because I relate to her the most, I understand what shes going through and its always good to have a character you can feel in touch with.

[–] gyrogypsy 13 years ago

The tendency I've noticed in this thread is that people are choosing the character they think they can most relate to (except those who just like seeing Grigg in those biker shorts...yum...sorry, distracted).
Using that logic, I'd have to go with Prudie. She took a lot of hate, but I get her probably more than any other character (Jocelyn is me in 15 years). I've picked up a mistaken impression of her that she really changes over the course of the story - I didn't get that. I think we just got to know her better: a girl hiding behind principles and illusions of grandeur because they protected her from her irresponsible childish hippie mother growing up. The truth was she was absolutely miserable and couldn't allow herself to believe that her husband loved her. Maybe I'm rambling or want to see this because "Persuasion" is my favorite. But that scene at then end when she wants to read the novel with Dean gets me every time.
But, don't kill me for this, I think Sylvia is the most admirable (ironically as we see her at her lowest) because she remains constant in her character - that which Austen frequently wrote to be the most admirable characteristic in a woman.
Allegra just annoyed me - nothing interesting there.
Like another commentator, I'm fairly indifferent to Bernadette. Truthfully, I felt she was the real Fanny Price of the pack, who I am also relatively indifferent to.

Be like a duck...remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath. - Michael Caine

[–] grizzly228 13 years ago

At first Allegra annoyed me too, but after the subplot with her girlfriend betraying her trust I had more sympathy for her.

As a man, I would like to say Grigg was my favorite because he showed odd, but always positive characteristics. He walked a fine line between being out-of-place and comfortable around all the women (as I work in an office full of women, I know that different-but-accepted feeling). But in reality, my favorite character was probably Bernadette. She seemed to hold everything together and was always there to lend a little wisdom. I wish I had that kind of patience and non-judgemental demeanor.

[–] Dan1863Sickles 13 years ago

My favorites were Prudie (Emily Blunt) and Jocelyn (Maria Bello.)

I loved how Emily Blunt played Prudie. She made me smile from the very first moment in the opening credits, where she walks out of the shop and can't figure out which way to turn! Prudie is a person it would be easy to not like, since she's very weepy and seems self-pitying at times. But after a while I started to really relate to her. I figured out that her attraction to that hot young teen at her school had to do with being denied a lot of things when she was a teen herself. I could really relate to that! And I think staying with her husband was not so much a tribute to morality but just to growing up and accepting adult responsibility.

I've been a huge fan of Maria Bello ever since I saw her in Mel Gibson's PAYBACK. That's a guy movie, total opposite of this one. She plays a tough call girl who's been knocked around all her life. Very strong on the surface, but really tender and in need of love underneath. Jocelyn reminded me of that too. She comes from a more privileged world but she has the same walls and the same defenses. Both characters even share a need to have dogs around to protect them from men! Maria Bello just excels at playing tough women, whether rich or poor, and finding some kind of need and vulnerability underneath.

By the way, there wasn't anyone in this movie I didn't love -- these two were just my favorites!

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