February 14, 2025 • 8 mins
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Bridget Jones finally has some luck in her life; she has a great job as a screenwriter, her family and a new boyfriend; the fact that he is over twenty years younger than her isn't the only thing that is causing problems.
September 5
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks at by.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Now just the kind of thing the news seem to
look behind. I can keep you here this time, the
make the best of it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I'm perfect.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Oh that's cool. This is a Livia Dean that songs
called It isn't perfect but it might be. It's actually
her new song for the new Bridget Jones film. Francisca
Rudkin is our film reviewers. She's with us this morning,
killed a good morning. I have something very very embarrassing
to admit to you this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You've never seen a Bridget Jones.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I've never seen a Bridget j oh jack Ah, Yeah,
I just, I just, I mean you know that I'm
bad with seeing films. I still even seen The Godfather either,
But yeah, so I've never seen a Bridget Jones film.
And I had to google how many Bridges Jones films
have been this morning, So you know, I'm just I
want to give you a sort of sense of how
as to hell, Well, I've kept up with all of this,
(01:13):
but there is a new Bridget Jones film out and
it's following well a bit of a what's become a
bit of a theme at the moment, women shacking up
with younger men. We've hander col Kiman do it, and
Hathaway's done it. Now Bridget Jones is doing it too.
Let's have a listen to Bridget Jones Mad about the Boy.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Bridget, you're a widow with two wonderful children. Advice to
you is put your own orxygen mask on first. You
just have to get late shout is right.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Oh my god, it's been four years now.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You're actively a nun. I've set you up on tender What.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Okay? That's Bridget Jones Mad about the Boy? Tell us
about a Francisca.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
So as you'vele this is the fourth film and apparently
the final film in this series that began back in
two thousand and one.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
They always say that, they always say that, they always
say that rom can't.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Based on the books by and Fielding and the Bridget films, Jack,
I've always been about a woman who's trying to find
her dream job or dreamman, work on herself and her
self esteem and things, and over the years there's been
a lot of hilarity we have shared with Bridget and look,
I would recommend going back and watching the first film,
when she slides down a fire station poll onto a
TV camera, it was a laugh out loud, absolutely hilarious moment,
(02:28):
and I think that's what we love about Bridget. This film, though,
takes a little bit of a turn. It is a
rom com, but it is also about grief. I found
it a little bit old fashioned in its approach, in
this sense that some of the lines were a bit nafs,
some of the jokes a bit cringey. I think if
you love Bridget, you'll find it quite sort of familiar
(02:51):
and comforting. I didn't really feel like we were stepping
into a twenty twenty five Bridget, but there is this shift.
There is a shift talking about grief. So there's everything
you'd expect from a rom com. There's the comical meat cutes,
there's crazy supportive friends, there's misunders standings, jokes about internet dating,
you know, lovely scene set with falling snow and grand
(03:13):
gestures and embarrassing situations. So everything you expect from a
rom coms there, but they sort of take a bit
of a turn here. And it's kind of appropriate because
Bridget is in her middle age. She's middle aged, she's
got a couple of kids, and Colin Firth, who plays
Mark Darcy, has passed away and this has caused a
(03:33):
little bit of drama for a lot of people because
he's a much loved character. So it's really about her
four years later, coping with his death and moving on
with life. And her friends are like, come on, Bridget,
you've got to get out and get on with this.
It does actually look I actually kind of welled up
in this film. It does have an emotional kind of
kick to it. It is quite moving. But I wasn't
(03:55):
laughing like I used to at a Bridget Jones film,
although I did take my brother and he laughed quite
a lot. So it's not necessarily a girl's night out.
You could probably go and watch this, But what I'm
trying to say is it didn't have the HILARI it
didn't make me laugh quite as much. I just thought
it was a part of it, just a little bit leaf.
But it does have this kind of new angle, this
really moving part. But I tell you, Hugh Grant and
(04:17):
Emma Thompson save the day. They both starre in this,
and they're in look briefly, but they are absolutely brilliant
and they did bring a smile to my face and
I had a giggle, so they kind of saved the day.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, okay, so that's some Bridget Jones made about the boy.
What what do you think about this theme at the moment,
we're not overstating it, right, there seems to be a
bit of a at the moment women with the younger men.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, yeah, to be honest with there's not a huge
amount of films based three happen. Yeah, I know. And
also Emma Thompson, how I just mentioned a couple of
years ago, was in another great film called Good Luck
to Juleo grand You're true, is true, but I tend
to think, you know, you know, women do date younger
men and it's absolutely fine, but.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It just seems like there's a it's a it's a
sort of familiar narrative art at the moment, maybe it's a.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Little bit of a thing, but you know, maybe that's
just coming off the back of finally we're sort of
accepting that, you know, middle age actors and actresses and
lives can be just as interesting and complex and fascinating
as you know, a couple of young twenty year olds.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
For yeah, true that yeah, yeah, no, very good. Okay,
So let's bridget jones Man about the boy's showing in
cinemas at the moment, also showing in cinemas something completely different.
Let's have a listened to September fifth.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Ready, camera got good morning.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I'm Jim McKay speaking to you live from the Olympics
in Unich, West Germany.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So you want to bring in the palotics? How about politics?
It's by a mush Do you hear where I was going? Shots?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That is, of course the nineteen seventy two Munich Olympics,
synonymous with the hostage crisis involving the Israeli athletes. Tell
us about September five.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, so this is a really tense, well written and
sharp smart film. It's received in OSCAR nomination for Best
Original Screenplay. In our Cinemas at the moment. Look, this
has been captured before on Film Munich, Steven Spielberg's film
and One Day in September, both, you know, both very
good films. This thim is retold from the perspective of
(06:23):
the ABC's sports crew who are in Munich to broadcast
the Olympics, who find themselves witnessing this terrible attack and
broadcasting it live. And the film doesn't take it's not
political statement. Actually, it's more a statement on the voyeuristic
nature of TV journalism and the difficulty of the ethics
(06:45):
involved in getting it right. So we're in a world
where there's no cell phones, using landlines and walkie talkies
we're using you know, you're shooting on film which needs
to be developed. It's a very manual process putting this
to air live, so you had the challenges of getting
the right information out there and not putting out unchecked statements.
You know. They realize that this is the first time
(07:06):
something like this has happened and they are being able
to broadcast it live. But then they realize the terrorists
can also see this, and so they are and they're
sort of directly influencing what's happened. So it sort of
takes a look at the difficulty of knowing how to
present information live and do it properly and do it
(07:28):
well without causing more harm and having those conversations about
hang on a minute, the parents of these you know,
Israeli hostages are watching this live. You know, like there
was just all these thoughts and they're all things which
we think about today. You know, how often do you
hear the police say, hey, please do not put up
videos that you shot of a car accident as you
drive past it. We think we're still thinking about all
(07:50):
these things today, but sort of within, you know, using
different technology. But look, it's I thought it was very
very well put together, very tense, very much from that.
It's all coming to you from the control room of
this TV studio to an interesting new take on this event.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Nice okay, that's September five, that's also showing in cinemas.
Francisca's first film was, of course, Jones Mad About the Boy,
and all the details for both those movies is on
the News Talks EDB website. Thank you, Francisca. We will
catch you again next week.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks EDB from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks at by.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Now just the kind of thing the news seem to
look behind. I can keep you here this time, the
make the best of it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I'm perfect.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Oh that's cool. This is a Livia Dean that songs
called It isn't perfect but it might be. It's actually
her new song for the new Bridget Jones film. Francisca
Rudkin is our film reviewers. She's with us this morning,
killed a good morning. I have something very very embarrassing
to admit to you this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You've never seen a Bridget Jones.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I've never seen a Bridget j oh jack Ah, Yeah,
I just, I just, I mean you know that I'm
bad with seeing films. I still even seen The Godfather either,
But yeah, so I've never seen a Bridget Jones film.
And I had to google how many Bridges Jones films
have been this morning, So you know, I'm just I
want to give you a sort of sense of how
as to hell, Well, I've kept up with all of this,
(01:13):
but there is a new Bridget Jones film out and
it's following well a bit of a what's become a
bit of a theme at the moment, women shacking up
with younger men. We've hander col Kiman do it, and
Hathaway's done it. Now Bridget Jones is doing it too.
Let's have a listen to Bridget Jones Mad about the Boy.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Bridget, you're a widow with two wonderful children. Advice to
you is put your own orxygen mask on first. You
just have to get late shout is right.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Oh my god, it's been four years now.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You're actively a nun. I've set you up on tender What.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Okay? That's Bridget Jones Mad about the Boy? Tell us
about a Francisca.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
So as you'vele this is the fourth film and apparently
the final film in this series that began back in
two thousand and one.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
They always say that, they always say that, they always
say that rom can't.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Based on the books by and Fielding and the Bridget films, Jack,
I've always been about a woman who's trying to find
her dream job or dreamman, work on herself and her
self esteem and things, and over the years there's been
a lot of hilarity we have shared with Bridget and look,
I would recommend going back and watching the first film,
when she slides down a fire station poll onto a
TV camera, it was a laugh out loud, absolutely hilarious moment,
(02:28):
and I think that's what we love about Bridget. This film, though,
takes a little bit of a turn. It is a
rom com, but it is also about grief. I found
it a little bit old fashioned in its approach, in
this sense that some of the lines were a bit nafs,
some of the jokes a bit cringey. I think if
you love Bridget, you'll find it quite sort of familiar
(02:51):
and comforting. I didn't really feel like we were stepping
into a twenty twenty five Bridget, but there is this shift.
There is a shift talking about grief. So there's everything
you'd expect from a rom com. There's the comical meat cutes,
there's crazy supportive friends, there's misunders standings, jokes about internet dating,
you know, lovely scene set with falling snow and grand
(03:13):
gestures and embarrassing situations. So everything you expect from a
rom coms there, but they sort of take a bit
of a turn here. And it's kind of appropriate because
Bridget is in her middle age. She's middle aged, she's
got a couple of kids, and Colin Firth, who plays
Mark Darcy, has passed away and this has caused a
(03:33):
little bit of drama for a lot of people because
he's a much loved character. So it's really about her
four years later, coping with his death and moving on
with life. And her friends are like, come on, Bridget,
you've got to get out and get on with this.
It does actually look I actually kind of welled up
in this film. It does have an emotional kind of
kick to it. It is quite moving. But I wasn't
(03:55):
laughing like I used to at a Bridget Jones film,
although I did take my brother and he laughed quite
a lot. So it's not necessarily a girl's night out.
You could probably go and watch this, But what I'm
trying to say is it didn't have the HILARI it
didn't make me laugh quite as much. I just thought
it was a part of it, just a little bit leaf.
But it does have this kind of new angle, this
really moving part. But I tell you, Hugh Grant and
(04:17):
Emma Thompson save the day. They both starre in this,
and they're in look briefly, but they are absolutely brilliant
and they did bring a smile to my face and
I had a giggle, so they kind of saved the day.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, okay, so that's some Bridget Jones made about the boy.
What what do you think about this theme at the moment,
we're not overstating it, right, there seems to be a
bit of a at the moment women with the younger men.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, yeah, to be honest with there's not a huge
amount of films based three happen. Yeah, I know. And
also Emma Thompson, how I just mentioned a couple of
years ago, was in another great film called Good Luck
to Juleo grand You're true, is true, but I tend
to think, you know, you know, women do date younger
men and it's absolutely fine, but.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It just seems like there's a it's a it's a
sort of familiar narrative art at the moment, maybe it's a.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Little bit of a thing, but you know, maybe that's
just coming off the back of finally we're sort of
accepting that, you know, middle age actors and actresses and
lives can be just as interesting and complex and fascinating
as you know, a couple of young twenty year olds.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
For yeah, true that yeah, yeah, no, very good. Okay,
So let's bridget jones Man about the boy's showing in
cinemas at the moment, also showing in cinemas something completely different.
Let's have a listened to September fifth.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Ready, camera got good morning.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I'm Jim McKay speaking to you live from the Olympics
in Unich, West Germany.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So you want to bring in the palotics? How about politics?
It's by a mush Do you hear where I was going? Shots?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That is, of course the nineteen seventy two Munich Olympics,
synonymous with the hostage crisis involving the Israeli athletes. Tell
us about September five.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, so this is a really tense, well written and
sharp smart film. It's received in OSCAR nomination for Best
Original Screenplay. In our Cinemas at the moment. Look, this
has been captured before on Film Munich, Steven Spielberg's film
and One Day in September, both, you know, both very
good films. This thim is retold from the perspective of
(06:23):
the ABC's sports crew who are in Munich to broadcast
the Olympics, who find themselves witnessing this terrible attack and
broadcasting it live. And the film doesn't take it's not
political statement. Actually, it's more a statement on the voyeuristic
nature of TV journalism and the difficulty of the ethics
(06:45):
involved in getting it right. So we're in a world
where there's no cell phones, using landlines and walkie talkies
we're using you know, you're shooting on film which needs
to be developed. It's a very manual process putting this
to air live, so you had the challenges of getting
the right information out there and not putting out unchecked statements.
You know. They realize that this is the first time
(07:06):
something like this has happened and they are being able
to broadcast it live. But then they realize the terrorists
can also see this, and so they are and they're
sort of directly influencing what's happened. So it sort of
takes a look at the difficulty of knowing how to
present information live and do it properly and do it
(07:28):
well without causing more harm and having those conversations about
hang on a minute, the parents of these you know,
Israeli hostages are watching this live. You know, like there
was just all these thoughts and they're all things which
we think about today. You know, how often do you
hear the police say, hey, please do not put up
videos that you shot of a car accident as you
drive past it. We think we're still thinking about all
(07:50):
these things today, but sort of within, you know, using
different technology. But look, it's I thought it was very
very well put together, very tense, very much from that.
It's all coming to you from the control room of
this TV studio to an interesting new take on this event.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Nice okay, that's September five, that's also showing in cinemas.
Francisca's first film was, of course, Jones Mad About the Boy,
and all the details for both those movies is on
the News Talks EDB website. Thank you, Francisca. We will
catch you again next week.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks EDB from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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