Sexual Tension…
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ItsAClassic — 19 years ago(March 18, 2007 04:36 PM)
haha this is such a funny thread
I wouldn't call in sexual tension, but there is a lot of chemistry. Then again, colin would have chemistry with a carrot
Colin has this stare that makes you weak at the knees. Colin can't help that he has the most beautiful bedroom eyes. lol
But really, in context, it's just a fatherly stare that is very much in love and proud of his daughter but I see where the OP is coming from -
mathmaniac — 18 years ago(August 15, 2007 09:18 AM)
It did strike me (several times) that scenes between Colin and Amanda would have been romantic if they weren't related. The biggest problem here is that Colin is good looking and that makes it so.
When Amanda is working as a waitperson at the wedding early in the film and the father-daughter dance is announced, you see the bride say, 'Come on, Dad' and a fat, middle-aged guy steps out to dance with her.
If it were Amanda in the wedding dress and she said, 'Come on, Dad', Colin would step out but it would seem romantic because he's just too darn good-looking!
So, to avoid this whole romantic tension thing, what's he supposed to do? Put a sack on his head through the entire movie? LOL! -
Pinker_Girl — 18 years ago(August 26, 2007 01:35 PM)
SEXUAL TENSION??????????? I strongly disagree with the whole "romantic" aspect between Amanda and Colin. First of all, he's God knows how old, and she's in her early 20s! Maybe it's because he's so darn hot, but there's NO sexual tension!
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Pinker_Girl — 18 years ago(August 26, 2007 01:39 PM)
Actually, it just occured to me now that Amanda and Colin could pull a Tom Cruise nd Katie Holmes thing, but I just don't think that it would work out. I mean, try to picture them kissing. EW. Now him and Kelly PrestonTHEY look cute together, and would make a good couple if Kelly wasn't married to John Travolta.
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FlamingParrot — 18 years ago(November 24, 2007 11:53 AM)
Yes. I started watching the movie at the cocoa puffs scene and thought: hmm, how do they know each other, weren't they supposed to be related or something? She's calling him Henry, maybe they're not. Oh, he's her father, what a pity. Well, she was too young for him in this sort of movie anyway.
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geoh777 — 18 years ago(January 27, 2008 08:42 AM)
Colin Firth has a history of attraction to his leading ladies. Jennifer Ehle is just one example (who could blame him?). She starred opposite him in the BBC production of Pride and Prejudice. Only nine years age difference, however. Meg Tilly was same age. Meg is American (or Canadian) woman (and former actress) with child by Colin Firth.
Nowadays, Colin is an "involved father" says Meg, who gave birth to their son, Will, five years ago. Colin is an infrequent visitor to her remote Vancouver home but she allows Will to visit his dad in England.
http://www.xmission.com/~waynew/intrview9.htm
(interview apparently of 1996)
Any ideas of "chemistry" between Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth probably should be taken in the context of those experiences of Mr. Firth's that have happened years before, and would surely be ongoing today (he has a son in Canada (or elsewhere), after all), I would think deriving to some feeling of strangeness on Mr. Firth's part, considering the storyline of this movie. It would seem to me that his recognized professionalism as an actor would lead to his ability to submerge that in that movie, and even lead the impressionable to infer something which isn't there. -
meitai-imdb — 18 years ago(March 21, 2008 09:46 PM)
Yup, I've always seen it. As other posters have said, it's probably due to the way Firth portrayed Lord Dashwood's sense of loss and longing about the 17 years he's missed with his daughter. And the movie is framed in terms of a daddy-meets-girl story. All of that can read like a romance in many ways.
Other commenters have noted scenes with possible subtext- the Coco Puffs scene, with their rapport and Dashwood's discomfort with talking about what a debutante ball signifies
- the daddy-daughter "date" with the clothes-shopping, etc.
I know that the subtext is totally unintentional but it's there, nonetheless.
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girl20 — 17 years ago(May 14, 2008 07:05 AM)
what do you mean by sexual tensions?! Amanda Bynes is like in her 20's and Colin Firth is at least in his 40's. Correct me if I am getting the wrong idea.
hmmm.so what?
I actually logged on here to see if anyone else had noticed!
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trinity-destler — 17 years ago(June 14, 2008 07:15 PM)
Totally, it was really awkward that they were supposed to be related. Especially the scene where he follows them to America to tell her he loves her. It was so "romantic comedy" and they had such palpable chemistry.
"It's that kind of idiocy that I empathize with." ~David Bowie -
shelle-13 — 17 years ago(June 28, 2008 03:55 PM)
yeah I remember when I watching one scene (I think it was the one where he comes to America to get them) I was thinking, "man, if someone had just tuned in to this movie, they'd think these two (colin and amanda) were together." It is pretty sick, but yeah
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shalmayan-1 — 17 years ago(April 04, 2009 07:02 PM)
I'm sorry, but I had to read through four pages of comments and absolutely no one here realized he was probably thinking of HER MOTHER when she was this age.
That's who he was in love with (always) and he was thinking how much she resembled the love of his life when he knew her all those years ago and what he had missed out with the both of them not in his life all those years. -
garfyldrox — 16 years ago(October 14, 2009 11:44 PM)
I'm sorry, but I had to read through four pages of comments and absolutely no one here realized he was probably thinking of HER MOTHER when she was this age.
EXACTLY!!!
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beautyinabreakdown — 17 years ago(April 05, 2009 08:31 AM)
You guys are right! I watched it after reading all this, and I really noticed it. A few times when he/she went in for a hug I could have sworn they were about to kiss XD
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Nothing like a bit of southern comfort . . . 
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islandboy13v — 16 years ago(August 30, 2009 03:45 PM)
Whoever doesn't think there is sexual tension, is either a moron or in denial because your fantasy would be tarnished.
I like Colin Firth but there's no denying that he had creepy/perverted thoughts running through his mind during the entire taping, especially the scene when she was trying on mini dresses at the market.