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

[piecesofalice.livejournal.com]

I find myself thinking of an AU where Shosanna and Fredrick got out, somehow, and dealing with the finality of what just happened, and Marcel dying. Then I feel really bad for Marcel! (I really need to just stop worrying about freakin' Marcel and embrace the Shosanna/Fredrick whole)

I was reading the script today, and I really, truly hope the part where Fredrick compares her to his sisters is on the DVDs. It's so telling, and makes his outburst in the projection room make more sense - the idea of being abandoned, almost, the pop psychology of the youngest child growing up without parents - ugh, I just love it.

[suspiriorum.livejournal.com]

That particular AU situation is one I think of frequently, as well. Except I never really warmed to Marcel, partly because I was on the Shosanna/Fredrick train before even seeing the film, due to a promo picture of them I found on imdb.

And a big YES to all of that. Besides his sisters, Shosanna is the only genuine person Fredrick has known (and desired) since he enlisted and so to be rejected ruined him.