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Chapter 26

He called Kristen and told her that they couldn’t wait till the end of the filming, they had to start giving up using the drugs immediately after celebrating her birthday, but he couldn't go to rehab.

- We might have more chances to succeed in doing it even this way, than if we were far from each other - the girl said.

- You're right. It’ll be so good to be together after so much time that we won't even notice the withdrawal symptoms - Larry said - As an addition, we’re gonna be together every day till the end of the summer. Also, our parents are gonna be here who’re gonna support us - he tried to encourage her.

- Your dad is gonna come, too?

The boy told her the story.

- I’m still afraid of my dad – Kristen said – He’s the one who punishes me too, not Mom – then she shifted into a cheerful voice – In spite of that, do you still call your dad Fish?

- That name already stays on him forever. It would be dead odd to call him somehow else – Larry said.

- To me, the odd thing is if somebody doesn’t call his or her parents Mom and Dad. I haven’t even heard anything like that.

- When I was a small child, my father was a correctional facility-guard instead of being a father. He has worked more than how he had met with me. Besides his family and work, maybe he didn’t have more time to meet with me, even if I would have had time.

- Somehow I didn’t miss Dad when I was in the Philippines; I only missed Mom.

- I’ve had such periods in my life when I even wanted to live with my father. My mother constantly pushed me into acting; I hardly had childhood.

- Are you still happy that you reached a stage when you’re so successful?

- I always wanted to be as successful as possible in it, but first, I wanted it because of money, to earn money already as a kid and to buy what I wanted. I loved going shopping but I didn’t have money, I loved comics, food, planetarium and traveling to my cousins. And money was necessary for these. Then I took a liking to Sidney Poitier, Richard Burton, Michael Douglas, James Earl Jones, Peter O’Toole, Robert Deniro, Gregory Peck and Al Pacino, and I wanted to be such a big star like them. On the other hand, this movie’s actors and director taught me that money’s not what’s important, fame either, but to be as good artists as possible for acting itself, to enjoy the work, that we can work together with other artists, to do our best and to compose something that’s lasting, what we can be justifiably proud of. I’ll miss it when I won’t be able to play because of the withdrawal symptoms.

- And what does the director say to that? – the girl asked tremulously.

- Today I talked it over with him, and he agreed to that. There are hardly any scenes of mine left already, anyway, and it’s still possible to endure this much of them if they’ll be played poorly, and anyway, our lives are at stake, but to him, it’s about his movie of his life. OK, that’s also a huge thing but Francis is like he’s my father, so he was understanding. I’ll also need him as an additional „relative” during giving up using the drug… Although it’s not fair that I’m gonna have one more „relative” than you’re gonna have, as an addition, Martin, Emilio and the other actors are here, too, who I’m friends with, too… I think you should bring more relatives and friends; you’ll need them even more in giving up using the drug without rehab.

- Well, OK, I’ll try it but everybody doesn’t have enough money to come to the other side of the Earth. Maybe they’d like to be vacationing in the Philippines, but if not, they made a huge sacrifice for me ’cause they gave the rest of the summer to me, as an addition, so expensively… I should pay off for the flight for them, but we still don’t have so much money – Kristen got frightened.

- Maybe I can pay for the flight here and back to one or two persons.

More money than this much, didn’t remain to him after he played Jenny’s whole family’s flight.

- Thank you very much but maybe it won’t even be necessary, ’cause maybe they booked the place to their next vacationing place, but that’s also possible that everybody can come who’s important to me, but you are the most important one, anyway, and that’s the essence.

Laurence had arrived the next day, with Lucy and Lemuel. Nowadays, Lucy worked and earned much money, so they could be staying in that luxury hotel where Larry was, which counted a lot for the boy that his family member was close to during giving up using the drug. Laurence was also going to work there, and Lucy could be resting and enjoying the vacation without contributing to the family’s livelihood, because she agreed to spend that much time there how much was necessary. She was already bored with her work, anyway, and she wanted to spend more time with her family and to rest, so it didn’t cause so big loss to her that she terminated her covenant, but if they would be there for a long time, she would have to work there too, not only to look for another job after going home.

Larry had talked it over with his parents already that he was going to start the detoxification already during the filming, with Kristen, after the girl’s birthday, and they agreed with him, too.

On the first day that Laurence and his family were there, the boy was having dinner together with them. They hadn’t met in person for a lot of months already.

- Will you tell us about your girlfriend? – the man asked in the restaurant.

- Kristen’s gonna be fifteen next Saturday – his son said – She just completed her studies in elementary school, and she’s gonna go to high school; either she’ll be a private student here while the filming’s lasting, or we’ll go to high school together in America.

- Does she have any brother or sister? – Lucy asked.

- No.

- Where does she live? – Lemuel asked.

- Not far away from us, in the neighboring street. And what’s up with you guys?

- Lemuel was the runner-up in a poetry-reciting competition at the end of the school year – his father said.

- Aha; that’s good.

After dinner, Larry had time to call Kristen because the joint eating and talking wasn’t scheduled for late.

- Well, do you know already when you guys are gonna come? – the boy asked.

- On Thursday, in the afternoon. If we spend a little time together before the detoxification, at least we bear it more in the beginning when the joy of we’re together again is still recent. Mom said it. And at least you’ll have more time to also be with your dad until we arrive.

- Have you succeeded in speaking to some of your close relatives and to your best friends already?

- Yeah. Alyssa and my two cousins Bree and Jason are gonna come; the others don’t know yet but my other cousins surely aren’t gonna come. They said they were gonna be vacationing together in Miami, and they’ve already booked the quarters. I think those of my grandparents who are common with them, are gonna go with them, too.

- Aha. It’s the same, two other grandparents of yours and other friends are still there, too. On the other hand, I called you ‘cause tonight, I was talking with Fish, and it came up that you’re gonna be a private student during the detoxification and that you’re gonna go to high school, and it came into my head that if the work won’t be going well during the withdrawal symptoms, then studying won’t be going, either. I think we should postpone a year. And anyway, we spend the time together, this distracts our attention much more than studying; then the withdrawal symptoms are gonna be much more tolerable.

- And what to say to my future classmates?! That I failed?! Or the truth, and then they will think that part of it that somebody put that drug into my drink, is only a lie?! – the girl broke down.

- If you’re doing the year till the end during the withdrawal symptoms, the same things surface, just then you really fail; you would make the detoxification even more unbearable by struggling with studying in vain…

- You’re right – Kristen said in a low voice and extremely bitterly.

Next day, during breakfast, Larry had told his mother that Kristen and he wanted to postpone the school year.

- This is unambiguous. It’s impossible, studying and to be filming during withdrawal symptoms. And it’s so hard without rehab that studying beside detoxification wouldn’t work to Kristen either – Hattie said.

Then they were eating without uttering a word.

- Probably we’ll die, right? – the boy asked later.

- Certainly not! – his mother said in a reassuring voice, and took her son’s hand – If you two don’t succeed in doing the detoxification till the end, you two will be very ill, but probably not so much that you two die. And so many friends are gonna surround you, and you’ll feel so good with Kristen that you’ll surely succeed in doing it! And me and your father are also here, too, and two of your best friends too – then she switched over to an officious voice – You’ve spoken to Kristen to call her loved ones, haven’t you?

- Evidently – Larry said sullenly.

- That’s OK then – the woman’s voice was similar.

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alwaysahiccupandastrid · 5 years

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Reasons to watch “Stardust” (2007)

“Stardust” is one of my absolute favourite fantasy movies and yet it’s supremely underrated? Which is why I want to give everyone reasons to watch it - I’ve tried to leave out massive spoilers but you know, beware if you haven’t seen the film and would like to!

First of all the original book was written by Neil Gaiman, who also wrote Good Omens (well, he wrote it with Sir Terry Pratchett I think) and Coraline.

The cast of this film is incredible; the lead is played by Charlie Cox, who has since gone on to do The Theory of Everything and Marvel’s Daredevil. Claire Danes plays a fallen star called Yvaine, and she’s both beautiful and hilarious. Michelle Pfieffer plays a witch who wants to eat the star’s heart; Robert DeNiro plays a gay sky pirate who likes to cross-dress; David Kelly (Grandpa Joe in Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) plays the old man guarding the wall who somehow knows how to knock people about; the narrator is Ian McKellen; there are 7 princes, some of whom are already dead, some who die in the film, and they’re played by people like David Walliams, Rupert Everett, Mark Strong, etc. Peter O’Toole appears briefly as the dying king, Ben Barnes plays a younger version of Tristan’s father, Sienna Miller plays a spoilt girl called Victoria who Tristan at first wants to marry, and her suitor is played by Henry Cavill. Ricky Gervais plays Ferdy, who’s not in it a lot but is hilarious. Honestly, the list goes on and on!

The basic story is that Tristan is this boy living in a village called Wall, and he wants to marry this spoilt woman called Victoria. One night, when they’re having a picnic together under the stars, they see a falling star; he promises to bring it back to her before her 18th birthday in exchange for her hand in marriage. He then sets out to bring the star back to his village, but the star isn’t a lump of rock, she’s this ethereal woman who is PISSED at being knocked out of the sky. Crossing the wall that borders “Wall” takes you into this Faerie/Fae land. Everyone is looking for the star too in the Fae world because eating the heart of a star will give you beauty and add years to your life. The necklace/gem that knocked Yvaine out of the sky was sent there by the dying king, and his remaining/surviving sons have to find it if they want to be the next king - and Yvaine wears it as a necklace after falling to earth, so they’re after her too. I don’t want to give too much away but there’s so much going on in this film that later ties together so neatly!

Unlike a lot of romance in movies, the romance in this movie is actually not completely cringeworthy. It’s super sweet and romantic, and develops really nicely.

Robert DeNiro dancing whilst wearing a corset/skirt and make-up, whilst also decorated in sailor tattoos, is reason enough to watch this film frankly.

It’s an epic fantasy which is also reason enough to watch it.

This film is a mix of all kinds of genres and it’s epic: fantasy, romance, adventure, a bit of action, comedy...

Charlie Cox? Is really cute??

There’s a scene where Tristan is talking to his dad about how the old man at the wall beat the shit out of him, and his dad is just like “Tristan, he’s 97...?!?” It’s super hilarious!

The soundtrack is STUNNING?! The cinematography is also STUNNING, holy moly...

Prince Septimus (Mark Strong) is literally the shadiest mofo throughout the whole thing and it’s the best.

Yvaine is super sassy and I love her. It’s really hard not to like her, she’s just so amazing

Near the beginning, Tristan mistakenly thinks that Yvaine is his long lost mother 😂

“But of course! Nothing says "romance" like a gift of a kidnapped injured woman!”

The relationship between Tristan and Yvaine is also hilarious, like their banter is honestly so strong

“Close your eyes and think of home...well that was a great plan! You thought of your home and I thought of mine, and now we’re stuck halfway between the two!” “Oh, you stupid cow!”

Yvaine literally glows and shines whenever she’s happy, and if that’s not the cutest thing then I don’t know what is

At one point Tristan gets turned into a mouse and it’s strangely really adorable?? And it helps move the relationship along between the two characters??

Lamia (the Michelle Pfeiffer Witch) starts off really young and pretty but progressively starts to age and look worse and worse gradually, and it’s so cool to see?

Also shoutout to the moment where she goes to remove some wrinkles from her face with magic and it makes her boobs go from perky to saggy 😂

At one point Tristan, thinking he’s talking to the beautiful innkeeper’s daughter, asks “oh what’s your name” and the girl (who’s actually a farm boy that the witch turned into a woman to help with her ruse to lure Yvaine in) just goes “Bernard” in this gruff manly voice 😂

The princes literally have blue blood, I can’t get over that for some reason

Also all the dead princes make appearances as ghosts, and they’re kind all frozen in the way they’ve died? So one got pushed off a tower window and so his face is smushed to one side and his hair is wind blown in one direction. But their banter is also super hilarious

This film is actually super dark when you think about it, like people literally want to cut someone’s heart out of her chest and eat it?? And the princes are all trying to murder each other

I keep saying about Robert DeNiro but he is literally one of the best parts of this whole film, like in front of his crew he puts on the tough “Captain Shakespeare” act but then in private he becomes so flamboyant and it’s both funny and cute??

“Ever tried to get bloodstains out of a silk shirt? Nightmare!”

There’s a scene where the captain is “cutting” Tristan’s hair and his hair is short until this point...but then it suddenly becomes long out of nowhere and it’s so funny??

“It’s alright, Captain...we always knew you were a whoopsie”

“You better be telling the truth, you two faced dog” “I can get you one of them, actually. Very good guard dogs, they can watch the front door and the back door at the same time”

Victoria getting her comeuppance is honestly the most satisfying thing, like I was cackling like crazy because she really deserves it.

“Grow up, and get over yourself” - LITERAL TEARS FLOWING FROM MY EYES LORD ALMIGHTY

The film has really lovely messages about love and true love and all of that, it’s honestly so wonderful

^ There’s also another speech when Tristan is a mouse that Yvaine gives and it’s literally the most beautiful heartfelt love confession I’ve ever heard. Under any other circumstances, in any other film, performed my any other actress or any other character, it would be cheesey - but in Stardust, it’s perfect.

The ending of the book is super sad and bittersweet, but the movie alters that ending slightly so that it’s happier. I won’t give spoilers but the movie definitely has a much happier feeling to it than the end of the book.

The song that plays over the end credits is “Rule the World” by Take That and I literally cannot hear that song without thinking of this film ♥️ even if you don’t watch the film (which please do!), at least listen to the song!

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