I remember that I was still in high school when I bought the Chinese translation of "84 Charing Street" by Yilin Publishing House. At that time, there were only two factors that attracted me to this book: 1. Beautiful cover printing and collection of books. 2. The author Helen is a true genius. Unbuckled Austin fans, I habitually put this book on the shelf after I bought it, until yesterday I re-watched "you've got mail" starring Meg Ryan and Hanks, a favorite of my junior high school days. 1. Western movies with the theme of bookstores have always been irresistible to me. I habitually began to search for all relevant information. Fortunately, I found this adaptation of the 1987 film starring Anthony Hopkins. Under the load of the electric donkey. Hopkins is worthy of being Frank's best choice. The humor and tenderness concealed under the rigid and serious face are perfectly expressed by him. Among them, the scene where he stays in the office to read a poem when his expectations fail, is not in the original book, but now It seems that this arrangement can be said to be a stroke of magic:
"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. ”
As we all know, the down-and-out Helen didn't come to the place of her dreams in London until Frank passed away, (in fact she has been there no less than a hundred times - in her dreams) It's a pity that 84 Charing Street is already gone. The building was empty, and the London she longed for was not what she had read in English literature, but it didn't matter to her, no matter how much the world she lived in ran counter to her vision, she would not Feeling lonely - she already has her own domain, a rich kingdom that may be outdated but enough to meet all her expectations, and she is the queen there.
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