Sunday, April 6, 2008

Romeo n Juliet

I read the fan-fiction that Ross suggested and it gave me an idea to write this:)
The point for my fan-fiction is 'To find a true love is difficult', based on Romeo and Juliet. All characters from Shakespeares. I wanted to have the feeling of both old-fashioned like a fairy tale and modern style too. For instance, in the movie Romeo(Leonardo Di caprio) and Juliet, it was kind of mixture?, there were some cars, but also some ancient stuffs. So, in the story, I made contrast clearly between writing and conversation.

Once upon a time, there was a young and handsome man by the name of Romeo Montague. Romeo was in love with Juliet… and Beatrice and Desdemona and who knows who else. Romeo loved women more than anything in life, except himself. In fact, Romeo was in love with just about any girl who wore a dress and that was his problem. Beatrice was one of his ladies who loved Romeo. One day, she became suspicious, when her eagle eyes spotted lipstick on Romeo’s collar. She wondered whose soft lips had made such a perfect impression on Romeo’s collar. Beatrice was a very clever girl, some people said perhaps, even a little too clever. She promptly decided to dress up as a man and put on a hat and a false moustache. To find a Romeo, she went out to a pub in a neighbourhood where Romeo frequently attended. It was densely filled with noisy, drunken people. Well timed! With a smile and a manly swagger, she took a seat closer to Romeo. Beside Romeo sat Benedick, Beatrice’s brother. Beatrice was enjoying herself immensely. They began to prattle on all about women and their foibles. As Romeo uttered each complaint Beatrice’s grin grew tighter and revenge, like a small dark fire ignited inside her. Needless to say, Romeo was proud of his gift for speech and he considered it just one of his many weapons to capture the hearts of women.‘Why don’t you get a girl friend, Benedick? I can introduce some of mine. You know I have hundreds of women. They become mine within a day. Easy peezy. I met a new girl last night in a nightclub, and she is damn hot and sexy compared to Desdemona! Desdemona is too gentle, follows me whatever I do, agree with me all the time and it is boring now. My next girl, Juliet, is pretty but she is a bit dumb.’Beatrice’s nails dug forcefully deep into the wooden chair.Romeo continued to brag.‘Another one, Beatrice is interesting girl so I used to have fun with her but she is unkind and weird in some way. You know what? She also had plastic surgery!! If you ask me I reckon she needs still a bit more.’Romeo and Benedick laughed out loud. Just then, Beatrice stood up promptly and get out of the pub as she could bear it no longer. She ground her teeth with vexation and was eager for revenge. The next day, she directly spread a rumour everybody about Romeo that he is a playboy, crazy about women and a braggart. It was circulated real fast. Juliet happened to hear of it, too and couldn’t believe it at first, because she firmly believed him no matter what they say. She thought it was an idle rumour. Nevertheless, it appeared to be true by others’ witness, and constantly kept hearing gossip from surroundings. It was doubtful whether the rumour was true or not. That night, Juliet turned her step toward to Desdemona’s home with a fretful state of mind and was told everything that had happened thoroughly and with great attention to detail. They were good friends and both loved Romeo. The terrible truth about Romeo was almost too much for Juliet to bear. Everything she knew about Romeo was not real, but fake. She started to shed a shower of tears, but soon repressed her tears.
‘A Liar, you broke our faith. You betrayed my trust in you.’
She thought. Desdemona spoke words of cheer while thinking of a big plan and suggested Juliet to act that is… She hesitated for a moment and then…
Few days later, Juliet

Finally my work’s done up to here. I was thinking about revenge but the ending…get married is too boring? Happy ending is just same as others, normal ordinary stories? or break up is what you would not expect or no ending and imagination is responsible for readers to take?? I think I should think about this more..