I am your biggest fan, no, scratch
that, I am a fan among many, amongst the many you have accumulated over your
30-movie career, a fan that needs you to acknowledge us just like the other
artists do. A fan that wants a moment of your time.
It surprises me how much devotion
you have accumulated from your fans, how many put you up on a website and how
many times you scream that you never read them or answer their repeated mails to
you.
I remember when I hitchhiked several
miles just so that I could get to the nearest theatre that was showing “The
Gift”. A risk now, when I think about it but I was optimistic and driven by
the critical acclaims you had garnered in that movie to want to see it myself,
and settle the burning curiosity inside me, with my own review. It was
excellent: one of your most excellent roles yet.
But the point of my letter is this:
sometimes I wonder if you ever do care for your fans, do you ever acknowledge
us. Do you ever surprise us with a gift or a smile? I know you care; you have it
in you to love and have loved greatly in your life. But you do and don’t show
it, either way.
One of your most devoted fans who
had put up one of the best sites on the web in your honor died some weeks ago.
It hurt me. It hurt me more than it would probably have hurt you. But you
didn’t know her and nether did I. But I am certain you never for once visited
her site.
All I want to know is this; show
your fans you do care. You are one of the few mediocre actors (mediocre in that
you don’t have an Academy Award and you don’t ever have the best reviews in
all your movies but still your fans stay true; never leaving, never faulting)
around who has the greatest and most devout followers in this business. (The
other people I know are the boy bands, and even they show their fans some love.)
Anyway, what I am trying to say is
you can at least support us; please buy a computer then put your name through a
search engine and see what you come up with, open up an official website to
address your fans, rumors and other oddities that might occur in this business.
Then set up an MSN chat to talk to your fans, if possible charge a fee, but get
to know us, as we have come to know you, though through news, interviews and
articles on you, (that are not always so true) but we want to hear your word for
it, and watch your expression as your fans address you. This is necessary. I
don’t know why but I know it is.
And if you don’t think it is,
please remember that the love a man has gained from people he shows no love to,
will one day just fade away like a wilted flower.
We are the people you make the movies for, and we are the ones who sit in
the theatre cheering your name. Most of all we are the ones who grieve for you
whenever we hear you are in pain. And if that's not love, I don't know what else
is. No matter what you think, I think that you have the gift of love from your
fans and you should be proud of that, and of us. As we are proud of you.
Call on us sometime.
That’s all I have to say.
Take
care of yourself as always.
Signed: A fan among many.
All
responses to this letter can be sent to:
Aphys Corner.