Notting Hill

Lesson 1

The film 'Notting Hill' is about a man, named William Fecker. He lives in a blue house with his roommate. His wife left him for another man and he works at a bookstore. One day, Anna Scott, a movie star  came into the bookstore to look for a book. William had a little conversation with her before she left the store. When William talked to another man in that store, the man and William decided to drink some orange juice. William went to the city centre to buy some orange juice and  after that he accidentally bumped into Anna Scott in his hurry and the orange juice flew all over her clothes. He tried to apologize for that and took Anna to his house so she could take a shower and change clothes. William behaved very nervous because it was like love at first sight to him. When Anna came downstairs from showering and said that she had to go, they looked each other in the eyes and finally kissed by the door. But then William's weird and ill-mannered roommate came in so the whole situation became even more awkward than it already was. Anna really had to go. A few days later, William's roommate told him that a girl named 'Anna' had called and said that she was staying in a hotel and that she used a different name, so if William wanted to call her he had to ask for that different name. William called the hotel where Anna was staying and asked for her.

When he arrived at the hotel, he didn't expect that there were more people, journalists to interview the actors about the new film. William didn't saw the film and he pretended that he was a journalist of the magazine Horse & Hounds, otherwise he couldn't speak to Anna Scott. He got 5 minutes to talk to Anna and in that 5 minutes he told Anna that if he was in a dream that moment, he would kiss her. But that magical moment was ruined by a man of the film who came in and listened to the questions of 'journalist William'. It was a very awkward situation and William really didn't know what to ask, because he just didn't saw the film.

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It was very awkward at the house of William’s family. But, when she was there for a while, she realized it was very cosy to be in a family and have love around.  Some truths about the people came out, when they were sitting around the table for brownies as dessert and Anna wanted the last brownie tóó, so she had to tell something about her. She told that she has been on a diet since she was 19 and that she’s famous now, but that it won’t last forever. 
When Anna and William left the house and closed the door, they heard William’s family screaming because they were so excited that they met Anna Scott.

Anna and William went for a walk and they climbed over the fence, so they were alone in the park. They kissed and after that they went to the cinema and to a restaurant to eat.  In the corner of the restaurant, there was a group of men who talked about Anna Scott and her last film. First they were positive about her, but then, they were a little rude about her. William and Anna heard it and William couldn't take it so he went to the men and told them that they shouldn't talk about people they don’t know in real. The men laughed at him and William was going to walk off, but Anna went to that group and did very bitchy at them so she left them speechless.

Anna and William went to Anna’s apartment  but Anna suddenly did very quite and told him that her boyfriend, who first was in America, came back. William acted like he was room-service waiter and Anna and her boyfriend kissed in front of him. William said goodbye and Anna didn't like the situation, you could see it on her face.

William was really sad about it and talked about it with his family.

A couple of days later, Anna showed up at William’s house. She was crying, because she was filmed naked, which makes here photoshoot looks like a porn film.  She didn't know where to go. William said that she could stay by him. Anna was really thankful about that.  Anna was taking a bath, while William’s weird roommate came into the bathroom, with the newspaper in his hand with the photos of Anna in it. He was about to do… things, when he saw Anna taking a bath in hís bathroom. He quickly went out of the bathroom, but came in a second time to check if it was really Anna Scott who he saw. After that he thanked God.

William and Anna practiced Anna’s script together that she had to know for the next week in LA.