Fic: 30x30 {11} 'Written All Before', Shosanna & Fredrick

[piecesofalice]

Last week, I was eaten by a large monster with several gapped teeth and large reddish eyes. No joke! No bad excuse!*

_{* this may be a joke and/or bad excuse for being so damn busy.}

ELEVEN
"Written All Before"
Inglourious Basterds (Shosanna Dreyfus & Fredrick Zoller)



11. Written All Before
Inglourious Basterds-verse, 11th September 2009

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There's a beautiful irony to the entire process. The end, justified by the means, her red dress touching scarlet on a floor she'd probably have swept yesterday; his white jacket against a ladybird-coloured mess, and it's beautiful.


Because she's certain she knew this is How It Would End, from the moment he gave her Romeo and Juliet overtones as she stood on a ladder, slightly dizzy, and watched her family die again and again and again.


Because she's certain he'd probably go after the bastard responsible, string Landa up in any other time or any other place - but still, he shot her with the veracity of his image up on the screen and the poetry of everything and something not written by WIlliam Shakespeare.


Nothing is enough, she felt. Her breath shallow as his fluttered alongside - and she'd be damned if she died before him.


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Fin.

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RE: Shosanna and Zoller. I'm not entirely sure I 'ship them in the traditional sense, mainly because I don't. Except I do. Except I don't.

QT is very good at making awfully nasty characters into sympathetic human beings, which he did extremely well with Zoller. There's something juvenile and naive about him, a reall gung-ho war hero who's not entirely sure why or what he did exactly. And QT is very good about slamming home that the characters he's just made you kind-of-reluctantly like, aren't nice people by any stretch of the imagination.

And that's probably why they intrigued me, as a set - they reflected a lot in each other, because, really, they were two people who, in any other world, would probably be okay with each other. Their circumstance and overwhelming sense of duty made them so tragic, it's almost epic.

(And Marcel was awesome)

(And Mélanie Laurent and Daniel Brühl are <3)

(And whatever, they're characters in a QT film, their main motivations are probably CANDY and MORE CANDY)



I shouldn't admit this was written to Mika's new album, should I? MOOD KILLER

Comments

[theonlytwin.livejournal.com]

i went to the big shebang movie premier where qt hisself got up on stage and talked about how amazing australia and australians were. it was the kind of crowd that laughed at all the french and german new wave references, but also the stabbings! i then presented a seminar on him and his emotional grey area characters (stuntman mike cries like a little girl, vince reads novels, hans landa let shoshanna live) and his crazy awesome music (the hugo stiglitz theme tune was stolen from 1970's blaxploitation film slaughter, bowie bowie bowie for shoshanna's warpaint, and oh yes steeler's wheel) under the pretense of film studies. oh, university. you are too damn dopey to give up.

in conclusion, yes.

[piecesofalice.livejournal.com]

See, to me, that's a good crowd. All I had was a couple eating Grill'd so loudly I was about to go Hugo Stiglitz on their asses. Was that in Sydney?

Heeeeyyyy one of my first major essays was on QT's use of music and the feminine ideal. UNIVERSITY RULZ! Do you have a copy of your seminar laying around?

[theonlytwin.livejournal.com]

it was an awesome crowd, and yes, it was at the glittery capitol theatre in sydney. man, i loathe people who make noise during movies, i get really snobby and crazy. if you had gone stiglitzian, i would have provided your backing track.

i think i slightly deleted the seminar notes because i was so sick of it. what i have left is my notes and a zip file of music and images. it was a joint project, so me and my partner dressed up in the requisite reservoir dogs outfits, started at the end, interrupted each other a bunch and threw candy ears into the audience. i could give you my speech notes?

[piecesofalice.livejournal.com]

See, I was getting all cranky and my roomie couldn't hear them so she thought I was crazy so I got cranky about that, then some guy laughed WAY TOO LOUD and...yeah. We saw 500 Days of Summer last night and there were about four people. That's how it should be.

I would love to read them - only if you don't mind, though. I know my speech notes are the most bizarre things ever (and retro, due to my not being in uni for three years). I bought the Basterds screenplay today, so that's my lunchies reading tomoz.