Sarah,
Re your comment:
> Darcy should be sexy and Errol Flynn... well, no.
> Men with moustaches are gross.
I have a mustache (well, not at this moment; I gave it up for Lent, but usually I do have a mustache). You can see it here:
[dicktracy.wikia.com]
(If I've properly copied the URL.)
So I rather take exception to gross. Unattractive? Well, that's in the eye of the beholder. But gross?
That said, mustaches were rare in the Regency era, from what I understand, but Flynn doesn't have to wear a 'stache. He was clean-shaven in Captain Blood.
OTOH, Connery has often worn a 'stache for his parts, in The Anderson Tapes, Zardoz, A Bridge to Far, and The Untouchables to name just a few.
So, between Connery and Flynn, the mustache question is a wash.
As for whether Flynn could manage Darcy, he did quite a good job playing Soames Forsythe (a Darcy-like character in many respects, though without Darcy's capacity for self-improvement) opposite Greer Garson in That Forsythe Woman, a film adaptation of Galsworthy's A Man of Property. I think, with the right director, he could handle Darcy pretty well.
Would he be as good Colin Firth? Probably not, but all my hypothetical suggestions are made with the understanding that, in most respects, I found the casting in the '95 version well-nigh perfect.
That said, he's tall, handsome, and has more than a trace of arrogance. The more I think about it, the more I think he'd be damn good as Darcy.
JIM
Re your comment:
> Darcy should be sexy and Errol Flynn... well, no.
> Men with moustaches are gross.
I have a mustache (well, not at this moment; I gave it up for Lent, but usually I do have a mustache). You can see it here:
[dicktracy.wikia.com]
(If I've properly copied the URL.)
So I rather take exception to gross. Unattractive? Well, that's in the eye of the beholder. But gross?
That said, mustaches were rare in the Regency era, from what I understand, but Flynn doesn't have to wear a 'stache. He was clean-shaven in Captain Blood.
OTOH, Connery has often worn a 'stache for his parts, in The Anderson Tapes, Zardoz, A Bridge to Far, and The Untouchables to name just a few.
So, between Connery and Flynn, the mustache question is a wash.
As for whether Flynn could manage Darcy, he did quite a good job playing Soames Forsythe (a Darcy-like character in many respects, though without Darcy's capacity for self-improvement) opposite Greer Garson in That Forsythe Woman, a film adaptation of Galsworthy's A Man of Property. I think, with the right director, he could handle Darcy pretty well.
Would he be as good Colin Firth? Probably not, but all my hypothetical suggestions are made with the understanding that, in most respects, I found the casting in the '95 version well-nigh perfect.
That said, he's tall, handsome, and has more than a trace of arrogance. The more I think about it, the more I think he'd be damn good as Darcy.
JIM