Valentine's Day Countdown

Thought this would be a fun way to see if I can get into the feel of the holiday. I will post a different scene from my favorite movie and TV couples that I find unbearably romantic every day until the 14th. All of these are like a Snuggie for my heart and I am happy to share them with you. Please feel free to comment and even suggest some of your own.

 #10 Mark Darcy likes Bridget Jones just the way she is from Bridget Jones' Diary.

The scene starts with Mark Darcy coming down the stairs behind Bridget who is disconsolately putting on her sweater after a disastrous dinner with a bunch of smug marrieds. 

Mark Darcy: I very much enjoyed your Lewisham fire report by the way.

Bridget Jones: Thank you.

Mark: Yeah...well. It didn't work out with Daniel Cleaver then?

Bridget: No, it didn't.

Mark: I'm delighted to hear it.

Bridget (She is getting frustrated at this point): Look, are you and Cosmo in this together.  I mean, you seem to go out of your way to make me feel like a complete idiot every time I see you and you really needn't bother. I already feel like an idiot most of the time anyway. With or without a firemen's pole.

The door bell rings

Bridget: That'll be my taxi. Goodnight.

Mark: Look, uh, I'm sorry if I've been...

Bridget: What?

Mark: I don't think you're an idiot at all. I mean, there are elements of the ridiculous about you. Your mother's pretty interesting. And you really are an appallingly bad public speaker. And, um, you tend to let whatever's in your head come out of your mouth without much consideration of the consequences... But the thing is, um, what I'm trying to say, very inarticulately, is that, um, in fact, perhaps despite appearances, I like you, very much. 

Bridget: Ah, apart from the smoking and the drinking, and the vulgar mother and... ah, the verbal diarrhea.

Mark: No, I like you very much. Just as you are. 

At this point, they are interrupted and the scene comes to an end. Or you can follow this link to watch for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS8UffaEf60

There are many scenes from this movie that I love. Some others are the two of them cooking while she makes blue soup and the end where she chases him through the snowy streets of London in nothing but her knickers and ends with the perfect kiss. But it is this scene that sets the stage. I have always related to Bridget. I am that girl who smokes too much (although not anymore), drinks too much (sometimes) and is inappropriate at times (more than I would like). And this man, who you can tell sees the path he should take. A women who is his "equal" but does not make him feel happy or passionate or alive. All she can give him is status. Or he can choose our Bridget. A girl who is clumsy, a little more plump then she would like and unsure of herself with an embarrassing family and crazy friends. She is just trying to get through the world the best way she knows how.They both needed each other, two sides of the same coin. This movie is funny and touching and warm and real and even all these years later I can watch it and it always makes me smile.