It seemed that all work on Last Call was coming to a standstill. Leonard was avoiding meetings to discuss any aspect of moviemaking. We talked at work sure, but there was no roundtable discussion to discuss our artistic expressions. It began to seem that he felt it was a waste of time. At least as long as we were languishing in pre-production. What was the point of talking about production if we weren’t getting there?
Principal characters in Last Call were Rook and Monique. Their names looks and hobbies may have been taken from people I had encountered on the road of life. But the soul of the characters they were Leonard and his longtime girlfriend. Just like Rook and Monique they too had their ups and downs, and their complicated relationship was also on and off. And just like Rook and Monique, for better or worse they just couldn’t stay away from each other. The only real difference was that in the course of the story Monique found herself with child. And Rook has to come to terms with the impending fatherhood, get a respectable grownup job and embrace the future. You know that stuff they say about Life imitating art? Well Leonard was about to become a father.
When he told me this, I now realized the impetus for going full speed ahead on his dream like this. The clock was ticking. He was going to have to get a respectable grownup job and embrace the future. I think he felt that this was his last shot while he had no responsibilities. Like Eminem he wanted to lose himself in the moment, own it and never let it go. But it just wasn’t happening. Time was running out and the project was at a standstill. This time though the dream died a slow miserable death. I saw this guy who for awhile now had been excited to come to work, just kind of sink back into old behavior. His life now was only about the three w’s. Wake up. Work. Warcraft.
Shortly there after the path he now found himself on took him away to Texas to be with his family and accept Fatherhood. And I was left behind to fend for myself. In a sort of limbo. Didn’t really know where to go from there. The domain name expired. Leonard hadn’t given me any of the details to keep it going. Vanessa Diaz our lead actress hopeful moved away to Los Angeles to try and become a star. The date of the ultimatum had now come around, but our partnership had already ended.
**soundtrack to this blog entry. The Door’s – The End**
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