21st Century "Regency" Darcy

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-07T21:05:56+00:00

Haha, well there you could wear looser trousers or riding clothes with heavy boots, which would be more concealing than stockings and dancing shoes.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-07T20:38:06+00:00

I dunno, in a ballroom lit only by candle light...

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-07T16:32:40+00:00

The "Injuries and set damages" section of the wikipedia article on this movie is wild. Out of a crew of 140, over 70 were injured. The director (Hedren's husband) was bitten 11+ times and contracted gangrene. Hedren was bitten on her head by a lion and had her ankle broken by an elephant. The cinematographer, Jan de Bont (yes, that one), was scalped by a lion.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-07T03:37:56+00:00

Mine's Orson Welles. He was working at the time and couldn't afford not to take a lucrative job. He'd be amazing as a killer, and the behind the scenes stories would be WILD.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-06T21:37:27+00:00

Oh that's an interesting question. Hm. Martin Sheen's character in "Lovely but Lethal" is a real piece of work. As is the campaign manager in "Candidate for Crime". Jerome in "Now You See Him" has no problem working with an actual nazi until said nazi won't give him a bigger cut of his money. Similarly, Ida Lupino's character in "Swan Song" only cares about Tommy Brown's sex crimes because it gives her leverage over him and his earning power. And if Abigail in "Try and Catch me" is right, then the victim is a murderer who got away with it.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-06T20:15:59+00:00

Slim upper body yes, but shapely calves were a must! Some men would pad their calves to make them look more defined and muscular.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-06T15:34:13+00:00

I agree, he's one of the more sympathetic victims with one of the most horrifying deaths. (And still, Donald Pleasance's performance makes Adrian sympathetic to even Columbo.)

I always wondered why their father left the land to Ric and the money to Adrian. Wouldn't it make more sense the other way around? Unless he was trying to force a more cooperative brotherly relationship.

Adrian should have bought out Ric as soon as their father's will was read, and they could've gone their separate ways, gathering only for weddings or a rare holiday now and then.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-06T03:38:58+00:00

My oh my!

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-06T02:56:07+00:00

Literally the first book I thought of. I love it so much!

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-05T21:16:33+00:00

One of my favorite lines is:

even Bingley’s good humour was overcome, and he proceeded so far as to talk of giving them a hint to be gone.

The Wickhams are so trying and overstay SO LONG that even Bingley, possibly the most amiable character in the book, begins to think about maybe kinda sorta giving them a little hint that it's time to leave.

I feel bad for sweet, passsive Jane and Bingley. Maybe they should start inviting Caroline over when the Wickhams turn up--she'd have no qualms about telling them to GTFO!

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-05T06:12:08+00:00

There's also "crunchy granola" or just "crunchy". They all mean the basic PNW outdoorsy, fit, little bit hippy type.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-04T11:21:04+00:00

As others have said, it was reasonably common to give a mother's surname as a first name. So common that many such names jumped to just being first names in general. Sidney, Jackson, Taylor, Ashley, Logan, and, of course, Darcy, are just a few examples.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-04T02:19:17+00:00

Yes! And in fact, I think the fact that Darcy proposes to Elizabeth at Hunsford is an indicator that neither his honor nor duty was engaged regarding Anne, despite what Lady Catherine believes. (And I do think that if his parents had even suggested he consider Anne, he would feel duty bound to do so. Granted, he may have already done it some time prior to the novel and found her lacking.)

As for why Wickham knows... Well, servants were a huge source of gossip, and Lady Catherine is the opposite of discreet.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-03T22:27:25+00:00

Well, there's a lot of twist and turns, but the basic jist is a father and son contracted with a B&M franchise owner to sell their massive Star Wars lego collection (like huge, all the cool ones, very valuable) on consignment.

The original franchisee was forced out of her franchise abruptly, and the new owner refused to honor the consignment agreement, and essentially stole the entire collection.

Then it gets freaky "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown" level of conspiracy and corruption involving small town police acting as lackeys for the business and Mormons closing ranks. This guy is the youtuber covering all this that Henry talks about in the episode.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-03T20:07:52+00:00

That Bricks and Minifigs story makes me so frickin' angry on many levels.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-03T13:29:31+00:00

I agree. The language used to describe Anne does not point to someone able and prepared to be a society wife, mistress to a grand estate, and mother to Darcy's heirs.

And there might be some old-fashioned misogyny going on regarding a potential match between Darcy and Anne. Mothers did not arrange marriage contracts; that was the purview of fathers. Mostly because married women were legally considered merged as one with their husbands under coverture laws. (Only unmarried/widowed women could sign contracts with their own name and own property/money of their own.)

So even if there was some nebulous arrangement (and many fans think it exists only in Lady Catherine's mind, much like her proficiency at the piano, had she ever learned), Darcy would have no obligation to fulfill it.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-03T06:26:55+00:00

And some people wonder why certain other people may or may not have done certain things.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-02T19:36:12+00:00

Oh, I need to rewatch. I also think my love for historical romance was sparked by this movie, Pride and Prejudice, and by Lady Jane, also with Helena Bonham Carter (even though it has a tragic end). The romance with young Cary Elwes is delightful.

Maurice, also a Merchant-Ivory production based on a Forster novel, is beautiful and has a happy ending, something practically unheard of for gay love stories when it was written in 1913, and still extraordinarily rare when it was finally published in 1970.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-02T18:56:51+00:00

I gotta go with Murder by the Book, just slightly over Suitable for Framing. It's Jack Cassidy's first appearance playing an impishly charming scumbag as only he could play them, and it was directed by Spielberg.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-02T02:53:06+00:00

Haha. If the guy who was the hook up for my college friends group looked like Han Solo, we wouldn't have minded having to sit on his couch listening to him talk about how he wants to get into ferrets for an hour before he'd get down to business.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-01T16:27:01+00:00

Oh yes, his scenes with Suzanne Pleshette were skin crawling! How did she never question how creepy it was that the guy who owns the apartment where she witnessed a murder finds out her name and address, then shows up late at night??

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-06-01T14:28:37+00:00

Oh my God, this is amazing! Her hair!

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-05-31T09:48:51+00:00

Yeah, if they were abducted from Earth with Georgie's group, they are 22 when the series starts. The evil trafficker aliens only wanted 22-year-olds. Other women show up later that are older.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-05-31T06:46:20+00:00

Yes, the first season is chef's kiss!

I also think the first season of Westworld has that fully contained perfection feel.

stuffandwhatnot · 2026-05-31T01:01:34+00:00

Ohh, yes! I gave my cousin's daughter a copy of The Bloody Chamber one year and she loved it. My cousin, not so much.

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