I was curious about the evolution of Darcy costume theater moments all the way from the beginning of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries to the point where we actually get to see him. If you're not watching LBD, GET ON THAT! Right away.
OMG, that Jane as Darcy and Charlotte as Caroline bit remains one of my favorite bits in the early series. "Oh look, your little crush is coming this way...... Are you fake texting?" "It's super important."
I love how their different portrayals of Darcy reveal their interpretation of him. Lizzie’s mocking portrayal shows him as super arrogant and pessimistic (It’s obvious she dislikes him). Jane’s kinder portrayal paints Darcy as socially awkward but gives him the benefit of the doubt. Fitz’s interpretation of Darcy is of someone rigid and formal; I’m pretty sure Fitz mentioned that Darcy needed to loosen up or something like that.
It's also interesting watching how Fitz!Darcy keeps looking "across the table" to where Lizzie was sitting: Fitz has spotted how Darcy keeps watching her. So busted!
The Charlotte-as-Caroline and Jane-as-Darcy conversation, I can literally see in my head as happening between Caroline and Darcy. Like, I can even imagine exactly how those actors would've said it. A brilliant piece of costume theater!
Wow. The Darcy that Lizzie plays is SO different to the Darcy that the others play. They play him as a little prickly but generally just stuffy and a tiny bit awkward. Fitz played him as slightly stiff but well mannered. Lizzy is the only one to portray him as genuinely unpleasant--when she tried to make Charlotte portray him as particularly unpleasant, Charlotte broke character to deny it. Lizzie, girl, you need a serious reality check.
I love Lizzie's Catherine DeBurgh :) And now that we have seen Darcy and got to see him actually be himself, I imagine him saying all of lines that Lizzie, or Jane, or whoever pretends he says and some of them are mean but some of them are quite sweet :) Like when he is trying to take an interest in what she likes, I can totally imagine him doing that :)
I just realized that she did the chin-quivery thing when she showed the stare-off between Darcy and Dickham! So cute, although I'm not quite sure what Jane was doing
Hahahaha I keep trying to picture the "good for dancing" scenario in my head, thinking what kind of music and exactly what Darcy had in mind..... and I can't stop picturing him trying to get Lizzie to dance with him to the "wiggle wiggle wiggle" part from "Sexy and I know it" HAHAHA i wonder what song he was actually playing.
The only thing better than Darcy Costume Theater performed by Darcy is Darcy Costume Theater performed by Jane! "It's super-important." Need I say more?
Poor Darcy, he is so tragically misunderstood, but these clips are so funny. It's great to have them all in one place! Can't wait to see more of him in the LBD!
I surprised myself by being able to recite ALL of Charlotte's impersonation of Caroline Lee VERBATIM. I might have watched that episode "a few times". (CHARLOTTE ROCKS!!! WOOOOOO GURRRRRL!)
The scene where Charlotte is Caroline and Jane is Darcy is so perfect I can't even...and when Charlotte stumbles in on Lizzie being DarcyBot! Her face after! And Fitz is actually a perfect Darcy omg.
No time was wasted there! I'm sure Darcy will (eventually) agree that any time spent trying to get Lizzie to realize that Darcy is her destiny is time well spent.
It does do a wonderful job of showing that whilst Lizzie is being prejudice, Darcy you doofus, the nicest thing you've said about the girl is she's decent enough and you liked her eyes!
This is great. Thank you for putting this together. Too bad it was before Darcy played himself in costume theater. Btw, Lizzie as catherine de burg is too funny!
Maybe when I do an updated one. I think someone on tumblr has a huge spreadsheet of all the costume theater. If you ask around someone will link you to it.
No I agree. I think it's because she's playing her brother, which leads me to want to see Gigi play Darcy. I think out of the people playing Bing she does the best job while still being slightly mocking of the way he talks which is how you'd expect a sister to portray her brother.
