atypical hollywood life

Dear Luke:

I don't know how you've been in Los Angeles lately, but I don't feel good at all in the UK, and even though it's not my first time in the city, the weather here still seriously affects my mood.

The weather in London in December is like a child’s face. It is always so unpredictable. It may be sunny and sunny in the morning, but it will be cloudy or even pouring rain in the afternoon.I now finally understand what it means to say that London is a city that lives in the rain.

I woke up in the morning, the sun was shining brightly, I turned on the TV to watch the weather forecast, it was windy but not rainy, I was very happy, and I went out with a small backpack.Halfway there, it was pouring rain, but I didn't bring an umbrella, so I could only hide from the rain under the eaves of the corner coffee shop.When I finally decided to have a hot drink and wait for the rain to stop and the waiter brought orange juice to me, the rain suddenly stopped again.This weather is really bad.

In addition, the winter here is too wet and cold. I have to turn on the heating every day in my life here to feel alive. This is really painful.

Regarding what you said about entering a new school and being excluded by your classmates, I think you should probably participate in some school club activities to alleviate this situation.It is true that fencing is a very interesting sport, but it is really too isolated from the masses. I think baseball or rugby, which most American boys like, can make you better integrate into the new environment.Or you can also try to make a girlfriend. The sweet love affair of young people will always make you forget some not so happy things.

Thankfully my work will soon be over and by then I will be back in my warm house enjoying the dry air and God knows every breath I take during this season in London feels like I'm inhaling A breath of ice vapor into my poor lungs.

But aside from the damn weather, London is an interesting city, full of old little shops.The strange things inside really make people can't help but marvel at the creativity of human beings.In addition, London's architecture is also very distinctive, maybe I can collect some postcards of British local architecture and scenery for you before returning to New York.So don't forget to check your mailbox in time.

Yoda

Margaret clicked the send button to send an email to Luke's little friend.

When she was in high school, she was not excluded by her classmates, but she was not the popular kind of student.At that time, she was still too young, and her classmates were too different in age from her. Except for a few classmates who got along well, most of the rest took an attitude of ignoring her.So she doesn't know much about the life of high school students.And her netizen kid Luke has just transferred to Los Angeles from another place, and it is difficult to adapt to the new life for a while, and he is even excluded by the male classmates in the class.It's not a good thing for a teenager in his teens.

Margaret, as an elder who is deeply trusted by the child, of course has to advise him. The child asked her some questions before, and Margaret's answers were very meaningful, which probably deepened the other party's understanding. Her trust, some things that were not easy to say to her parents turned to her.Margaret felt that she should shoulder the task of guiding a child who yearned for the life of an actor, and gave him a lot of guidance.This includes the learning tasks of learning more knowledge to enrich oneself and improve one's own conditions.Margaret felt a sense of duty to the young child, at least not to be an empty-headed fellow, she thought.

In fact, the acquaintance of Margaret and Luke was really an interesting accident. The little boy misspelled a letter in the email to the elders, and the email was sent to Margaret's mailbox.And Margaret's character... Well, anyway, after reading this inexplicable email, the little girl who realized that the other party sent the wrong person pretended to be a middle-aged woman with a successful career and played the game of netizens.From the beginning of 96 to now, the two met through a wrong email, and now they are good friends.

This made Margaret feel that the fate of people is really a wonderful thing, especially the fate in the Internet age.You never know if it's a dog you're talking to, and the little guy code-named Luke doesn't know that he's not talking to a very experienced middle-aged woman but a girl who hasn't turned 16 yet.It's fun, isn't it?

Whether it's fun for 'Code Luke' is a matter of opinion.

Margaret closed the notebook and fell back on the bed.Speaking of Master Yoda, she suddenly wanted to go to the fencing club to find someone to exercise.Unfortunately, it's still raining outside, so I really don't want to move.I went to a bookstore in the morning and encountered two rains. This frequency is really enough!This unlucky place is not as good as the city of angels in Los Angeles, which is full of sunlight and ultraviolet rays!

The filming is still going on, and there are fixed working hours every day, which is an advantage for a company produced by a big studio like "The Phantom of the Opera".If it is an independent film with a small investment, of course it will be so convenient.On the contrary, it doesn't look like this kind of big investment is rigidly restricted by various rules.

In addition to shooting, Margaret will also wander the streets and alleys of London to find some things lost in time. For example, she once found a set of silver antiques.These included a locket inlaid with turquoise, an exquisite silver pocket watch, and what surprised her most was that besides these and other silver jewelry, there was actually a very delicate emblem-patterned watch in the jewelry box. The ring and the family crest on it belonged to a family that had long since disappeared in the long river of history, but Margaret liked the pattern of blooming lilies very much.

The owner of the store is an elderly man with a pair of small round glasses. Seeing that she liked the ring very much, he gave her a set of wax candles as a gift for her purchase of these things.This made Margaret happy to buy a bunch of things again, and the happy old man couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear.

Margaret was completely wrapped up with Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman in early March.The rest is some trivial plot and the story after Christine's death.The whole film was cut from the two and a half hours scheduled by Andrew Webber to a little more than one and a half hours, and almost an hour was cut off. Bazilla brought in his old partner Craig Pierce to work together on the screenwriting , completely overthrowing some of Andrew Weber's original ideas.

Buzz is a real expert in movies. He deleted all the plots in Andrew Weber's original script that would be annoying to the audience, and changed the ones that were not deleted. For example, the Viscount Shire The duel with the Phantom in front of Christine's father's grave.Buzz felt that the Phantom was defeated by the Viscount Shire and had to ask Christine to plead to save her life, which was the biggest flaw in the movie, so he deleted it mercilessly.

He also had a big fight with Andrew Webber for this.Andrew thinks this scene is very important, but Buzz thinks this scene is superfluous.Because it doesn't represent anything, and it doesn't even contribute to the plot of the movie. Most importantly, this scene completely destroys the image of the Phantom.The phantom in the movie is not very pleasing, and in addition to such a scene where someone spared his life but wanted to take Christine away forcibly, there is no sense of mystery and a sense of mystery in the original musical. powerful.What's the difference between this and a young rascal who can't get the love of a woman and resorts to all kinds of despicable methods?

Buzz's words made Andrew Weber speechless.

On the other hand, he also changed some of the ambiguous plots between Christine and the Phantom. Buzz thinks that Andrew Webber's letting three people fall into this polyamorous relationship together in the film is purely superfluous and unnecessary.If you want a commercial movie to sell, you absolutely can't have a vacillating heroine.This is not a literary film that explores women's psychology and spiritual world.An annoying heroine, even if Margaret is an Oscar queen, don't try to take advantage of it, especially when the hero is very miserable, and the second hero is a very infatuated childhood sweetheart.This is simply recruiting black people for the movie.He couldn't figure out what was going on in Andrew Weber's mind at all.There are so many wonderful plots.It would be strange if it could sell well.

In fact, after working together for more than half a year, Buzz discovered that Andrew Weber is a very willful person.Because before the filming of "The Phantom of the Opera" was finished, he was already thinking about making a sequel, and he even came up with a decent script.Buzz didn't even know what to say after reading the script.Christine actually had a child with Phantom, this is not a shock at all, but a shock to the eyes, right?This wayward gentleman actually asked him how he felt about the sequel script?Will Margaret like the script after reading it and continue to act in it?After all, the sequel deviates from the scope of the original musical, and can better utilize her strengths both in terms of lines and in digging into the character's heart.

For Andrew Weber's whimsical idea, Buzz was very speechless.He really wanted to shake this guy who was both an artist and a businessman hard enough to wake him up.In the end, it was the artist's side that had the upper hand, and there was such a naive idea.If he really showed the script to Margaret, he would definitely be laughed at and shot back to his poor hairline.

Although he has only worked with Margaret on two films, one of which has not yet been finished, Buzz knows Margaret as well as those friends around her.

This is a very arrogant girl.Baz Luhrmann said so about Margaret.

This kind of arrogance will not be reflected in ordinary life. On the contrary, Margaret in life is a very lively girl who loves to laugh and makes people unconsciously want to get close.This strange feeling is mainly reflected in the movies Margaret took over.This little girl attaches great importance to the script of the movie, she must choose a good enough one, or choose the one she likes.Buzz is well aware of how many scripts Margaret, a legendary Oscar queen, has received in this year, but she chose "Phantom of the Opera" and signed the contract after Buzz finished revising the script.And the reason why he dared to quarrel with producer Andrew Weber on the issue of the script was because Margaret supported him behind him.She is the absolute big name in this movie, and she is also a box office guarantee.Although Andrew Weber is the producer, he is not the only producer, as well as the supervisor sent by Warner Studios.

When the director and the heroine stand in the same position, the producer will also consider their opinions, not to mention that compared to Andrew, an artist who plays music, the producer sent by Warner is obviously more convinced that a blockbuster movie has been made. The film's directors Baz Luhrmann and Margaret.

The calm filming work did not bring any changes to Margaret's life. After returning to the United States, she went directly to her apartment in New York to pet cats.Nancy packed her groceries and luggage after she left the small town of Pasadena to film in London, and returned to Long Island with Q and James.

Until a phone call from Norman Brewster ended her life of grabbing food with Q every day.

"Margaret, you have to come to Los Angeles, something is wrong with the leading man in the movie."