What made Darcy fall in love with Bridget?

I wondered this too...

partly, it must be because, just like for Bridge, most of the other stereotypically good matches are taken. His 'law partner' Natasha is really mean about people, at least Bridge wouldn't be as snidey or say such things straight-faced.

the main reason, though, is that she is fun and bubbly and has the brass neck to say exactly what comes into her head, almost, without any cynical manipulative careerist rubbish. She doesn't **really** care that Mark is really well off, for example, or really know how knowing a 'top barrister' would enhance her rep. She cant necessarily stop herself from doing some pretty embarassing things, but she has always given her best and thrown herself in at the deep end. I am guessing Mark's first wife was clever and 'sensitive' in the sense of socially adept, but not actually sensitive in the sense of loving and caring. Bridget is socially awkward, but she is more caring, imo. My Dad married someone like B, and although at first it was a bit of a mystery to me, I think this is probably the appeal - that and a very attractive bottom, lol!

She used to run around naked in his swimming pool, which would do it quite nicely.

I think what he liked about her, was that she was the type of girl who would pick herself up from the ground everytime. She was the only one dressed up as a bunny in the party, but instead of hiding or going away, she just stood there strongly, facing the embarrassment, and she was persistent like that, everytime. She was able to face him proudly after he was mean to her. She was also fun, different, she just said what she thought, instead of containing herself. In many ways she was the opposite of Darcy who was a regular Eton kind of English boy who never really had any fun and was always composed. We often fall in love with people who are our opposites, because we find attractive in them, what we wished we had in ourselves, and being with them makes us somehow complete. It may sound cliche, but if you think about it, that's quite true in our romances. I think the reason he fell for her, was all of those little things he might have found irritable or annoying at first, basically her flaws. Yes, we may like people for their qualities, but we love them for their flaws. And if we use the Pride and Prejudice theory, in which the Bridget Jones diary and film were based on, he dismissed her at first because his parents were trying to push him onto her, so his first instict was to bring out her flaws. But than after seeing her reaction to his meanness he felt guilty, sorry for her, and more opened to apologize and maybe make up for it, and in this effort to be opened to her, he was able to get to know her better, and thus fall for her.

she wasn't putting on an act or trying to impress in a big way. she was just herself and that must have been refreshing for him, even endearing

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let's not go to camelot, it is a silly place

Darcy thought she was fun and funny.

I think Mark envied Bridget's sense of fun! That scene where she and Daniel are in the boat laughing, you can see Mark longingly looking at them wishing that it were him instead of Daniel. I think it was at that moment that he started to have feelings for her.

I just brought this point up in another post. I read the book long ago and can't remember, but have recently seen the movie and always have thought the same thing with every viewing, why did he fall for her. He really didn't seem interested at all in the opening scene. My honest and only theory is that he took notice of her when he saw Daniel was interested. After that, I think he enjoyed her playfulness. She was the opposite of Natasha. On the surface, Bridget/Daniel and Natasha/Mark were better matches. On another note, I would have loved to have seen Mark's ex-wife. I kept imagining some gorgeous, young Japanese woman, but I have to say that whole exotic wife thing didn't seem very Mark Darcy.

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