Thursday Threes: The Answer

Way to look alive out there, folks! Nice turnout for a Thursday Threes (which are by nature a little harder, less searchable on IMDB than the Tuesday version... though, um, still Googleable, I guess).

Jim was first with the correct answer, and I believe this is the same Jim who won Tuesday's Threes--looks like there might be a new Threes sheriff in town! Jim takes home (or rather, makes at home) the construction-paper medal, while Nichol and Matthew S. came in second and third. Well done, everyone!

So who was in The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, and Love Actually? The answer is just an Inviso-Text highlight away!

Why yes it was Colin Firth, giving voice to Scrooge's nephew Fred in A Christmas Carol this weekend.I'm a big fan of Firth, especially when he squares off against Hugh Grant in the Bridget Jones rom-coms. Of course, couldn't give you those as a clue--far too easy.

Instead I went with one of the first big films many of us saw Firth in, 1996's The English Patient. (Though I do vaguely remember him as the title character in Valmont, the other film version of Les liaisons dangereuses, but I was such a fan of the Stephen Frears, Malkovich-Close Dangerous Liasons one, I never gave Firth's adaptation much of a chance.) (And of course, just before The English Patient, Firth made a big splash in Britain as Mr. Darcy in the television mini-series version of Pride and Prejudice. So much so that long before Firth ever signed on to play Mark in Bridget Jones, the character was described in the book as looking like Colin Firth as Darcy in P&P.)

All of these tangents are my way of stalling on the fact that I have not seen the English Patient in about 13 years, not since it was in theaters. I know, I know... I should revisit it again sometime... when I have lots of caffeine and No-Doze on hand. Anyway, Firth played Geoffrey Clifton, the husband of Kristin Scott Thomas.

In Shakespeare in Love (a film I still dearly adore, even if yes, over the years its charms wear a little thin), Firth played yet another cuckolded spouse (to be), as Lord Wessex the man Gwyneth Paltrow's character is arranged to marry.

And of course in Love Actually (one of my favorite rom-coms and holiday movies--the annual viewing of which is coming up soon), Firth is Jamie, the--surprise!--cuckolded writer who goes to the South of France to finish his book and falls in love with his housekeeper.

Comments

[Trevor L.]

Lethal Weapon, Antz, Dream Girls. All have Danny Glover (that is, if he's in Antz)

[Trevor L.]

ignore that last post, wrong page. Colin Firth is good, but I didn't like any of these movies. Of course, that's cause' I'm a dude.

[mike rowbottom]

leonardo decaprio