[Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen You’ve Got Mail but plan to, better not read this.]
I went to New York last week and, one afternoon,
stopped at Books of Wonder. This is
the (excellent) children’s bookshop whose stock was used as background dressing
for the film You’ve Got Mail, and
where star Meg Ryan spent a few days working to get a feel for her character,
the owner of the shop in the film.
During a conversation with one of the assistants, we
talked about YGM, and both of us agreed that we liked it until the third
act and the conclusion. The assistant really
hadn’t enjoyed that.
‘It’s just not good enough,’ she said. ‘I mean, I want
a nice fluffy ending for such a story. And that
didn’t have one. I don’t care if Meg Ryan does find the man of her dreams.
Even if it’s Tom Hanks. She’s lost her
bookshop!’
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Nick
Garlick is an English writer living in the Netherlands. He's published Aunt
Severe and the Dragons, Aunt Severe and the Toy Thieves and Storm
Horse. He has a website:
www.nickgarlick.com
3 comments:
Who could disagree? Mind, if I owned a bookshop, I doubt I'd ever get any work done.
Yes indeed. Regular, hourly checks of the shop would be called for.
I so understand that reaction! It's a lovely film, but there should have been a way to keep her bookshop too!
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