Back To The Tale Of Juliet And Her Romeo And Striped Pajamas/Pyjamas

First things first: Romeo and Juliet for an immature/Middle School audience (IM by Jenni's Film Association).
First, I would rename all of the characters after someone in the school (example using Foks High: Juliet=Bella, Edward=Romeo, Mike=Paris, etc.) as so to bring the play into more...modern terms. And the conflict with the parents and all is relevant, because tey're from rival gangas (like in West Side Story, also based off of R&J)Of course, we wouldn't be talking in Elizabethan english either. No one would have swords, and no one would be biting their thumbs (they'd have guns or knives and be flipping people off). And for communication purposes, Romeo and Juliet would have their handy-dandy cell phones. Also, there'd be a lot more explectives. And in the end, we use a drug overdose as the method for Romeo's suicide (making the school angry) and Juliet instantly cuts too deep (she began to become anorexic and started to cut herself when Romeo was expelled for a gang fight) (which could make the school expell me, perhaps). Kinda like Lia from Wintergirls.I suppose that my version for immature audiences would come off as a sort of comedy, mixed in with some serious high-school stereotypes.

Or we could do the Romeo and Juliet conspiracy plot. (See my blog post from two weeks ago) It could be called (drum roll please)

5,773 Degrees

"A red sun rises; blood has been spilled this night."

-Legolas (Orlando Bloom)

 (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002, directed/screemplay by Peter Jackson, based on the novel by JRR Tolkien)

Pyjamas. Pajamas. Tyre. Tire.
Weird. Weyrd.
But all the same, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas/Pyjamas was AMAZING. The end was a bit predictable, and the likely hood of that happening is like, 1 to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and that's what made the end so shocking and sad that I didn't cry.
So, the story revolves around an nine-year-old boy named Bruno, who is living very comfortably in Berlin with his mother, older sister Gretel (who is apparently a Hopeless Case), and father (who is a Nazi commandant), during WWII.  Bruno's grandparents also live two blocks away. The family is very wealthy and has a maid (Maria), a cook (who is called Cook), and a butler (Lars). One day, Bruno comes home to find Maria packing all his things. Mother tells him that they are moving. Upon arrival, Bruno is deeply annoyed. The new house has only three stories, including the basement (compared to a five-story home back in Berlin, if you count the room on top with the window and the basement) and there's no one around to play with other than Gretel, who is nearly thirteen. At the new house, which Gretel has told Bruno is called "Out-With" (yes, I know exactly what that sounds like, and it's increasingly obvious where- or what- Out-With is), the family acquires four new servants: a man, Pavel, to help the cook with miscellaneous tasks, and three new maids, who whisper quietly to themselves and don't talk to anyone else. The family has been told that they are to remain there "for the foreseeable future." From his window, Bruno can see a fence. A very tall fence, streching on for ever, with bales of barbed wire at the top. After about a month at Out-With, Bruno decides to go exploring, even though he has been told that the fence is Off-Limits-At-All-Times-With-No-Exceptions. He comes across a boy wearing striped pajamas, sitting on the other side of the fence, named Shmuel. The boys develop a forbidden friendship and the story becomes bone-chilling from there on.
I've found a clip for the last part of the movie for the book. This is by far the most unbelivable part of the book. If you haven't read the book, then I recommend you click here first and follow the videos to par two, part three, four, five six and so on. There are nine parts, but the credits start in part eight.
Warning: This content has been rated M (for mature audiences) by Jenni's Film Association (JFA) for something words cannot describe. Sadder than sad. More awful than anyone could ever imagine.
Click here to see the end (Part 8/9) of the movie. 


And the quote for the week comes from The Boy In The Striped Pajamas (the book, not the movie):
"Despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go."

:'(

-Jenni