ABSTRACT
In Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget's humiliation was the crack through which Mark Darcy fell for her. Bridget seems to be almost continuously embarrassing herself. Whether it's blowing a speech, or accidentally dying her soup blue for her dinner party, or being caught on camera sliding down a fireman's pole, her butt in full close-up on live TV, Bridget is fully and completely vulnerable and human. Sometimes the crack comes immediately, even during The Meet. In Gone With the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara, thinking they are alone, has just poured her heart out to Ashley Wilkes, declared her love for him, and only to be coolly informed that he is going to marry his cousin Melanie. Then Scarlett, unable to get her emotions under control, grabs a China figurine and lets it fly. In Walk the Line, when June Carter and Johnny Cash first have a chance to talk in that late-night coffee shop, June's low self-esteem becomes quickly apparent.
