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awhilesince · 4 years ago

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Tuesday, 28 August 1827 (travel journals)

11 1/2

Breakfast at 6 – off from Geneva at 7 20/60 –

at 7 50/60 Chesne, very good village Geneva to Bonneville 6 lieues)

at 8 20/60 little village of Annemasse, 1st village in Savoy, Bonneville to Sallenche 6) and shew our passports –

at 8 50/60 (having passed the village of Vetra at unawares – it must be very inconsiderable) handsome 2 arched stone bridge (1 arch very large the other very small, over the nearly dry torrent Ménoge –

at 9 1/4 picturesque, scattered village of Nangy – the rocks (southwest) over Geneva, remind me of the Elwsig (Lusig) rocks over Langollen – fine open valley all along – roomy for the air to circulate – Mrs and Miss B– [Barlow] complained of the cold – I merely felt the air delightfully bracing – the hills about Geneva to as far as Nangy, remind me of H–x [Halifax] – Everywhere the valley and hills sufficiently wooded –

at 10 picturesque little village of Contamine – the Arve (not much water now – the very broad bed almost all dry) winding beautifully all the well wooded fertile valley – good deal of corn in the valley, and on the hills – good deal of flax drying – young buck wheat – clover – mowing it 2nd time – orchards – good land – hedges generally on each side the road – oaks and willows – a little Indian corn – very few vines since Geneva, near Bonneville –

stopt at the ‘les Balances’ Bonneville (a tolerable little town) at 11 5/60 – came upstairs to write – 1/2 hour before I could begin – had near spoilt all my things – the Table had been just oiled, and not 1/2 wiped – They say the Swiss are on all sides (the protestants who are much cleaner and richer than the Roman catholics) are much cleaner than their neighbours – but, according to the woman who shewed us the cathedral at Geneva on Sunday, the catholic population increases much faster than the protestant – the former has 6 or 7 or even more children per family; –the latter (particularly those in more easy circles) has seldom more than 2 per family – I fancied this kind of management had been principally confined to the higher orders in France –

off from Bonneville (should not like to sleep at the Inn – not very clean, but the people very civil

at 1 25/60 – town, a ville, surrounded by fine picturesque rocky hill partly green, partly bare and hoary – immediately cross the Arve over good stone bridge (at the end left, a new handsome Tuscan column surmounted by a statue of the King in his robes, in honour of Charles Felix King of Sardinia) who visited the town some time ago) and, according to Galignani, enter the valley of Cluse – snow mountains in the distance (left) in front of us – 2 little hop grounds just out of town – cutting line – fertile valley – clover, young buckwheat, Indian corn, potatoes Kidney beans – orchard trees – like a garden – poplars and willows along the road side, and the chief wood hereabouts –

at 1 55/60 stone bridge over little stream –

at 3 10/60 the Arve winding beautifully – Green, wooded hills (right) bare, and savage (left), – snow mountains to the left in front, and pretty little village of Oogu (Vaugi? Vougy) at 3 1/4 – Jane thinks this valley ‘beautiful, lovely – the next to the Rhinthal and the Splugen’ (road from Splugen to Chiavénna) – so far, Jane rather disappointed – tho’ tis a pine valley –

at 2 3/4 little stone bridge over little torrent – at 2 55/60 another such stone bridge over ditto, and fine gorge right, and orchards, and picturesque scattered village of Siongy Scionzier and midway the village

(at 3) good stone bridge over good stream – neat, picturesque church – very fine walnut trees – and 2 or 3 little green hedged paddocks at the end of the village – valley wider, and finer – very pretty – fine just here, tho’ do not see the Arve –

At 3 10/60 narrow one arched, boulder-stone-paved steepish stone bridge over the Arve (ver[y] fine gorge right) and enter the beautifully situated, but rather narrow streeted little town of Cluse – all the women busy dressing hemp – tremendous mountains just above the Town – wind thro’ the town to the right, and Turn along the fine gorge which we just peeped down (right) from the bridge – (between Cluse and the village next before very large apple and pear trees and (2 or 3 of the largest cherry Trees (like fine large forest trees) I ever saw in my life) the gorge (the valley of Maglan) now, at 3 1/4, very fine – the Arve close, right – its waters light-green-white-muddy-blue – its broad bed and the road take up all the breadth of the valley –

at 3 3/4 an auberge? 3 little cannon, and a man wishing to know if we would have them fired to hear the echo among the mountains – another man apparently an aubergiste wanted us to stop to see the Grotte de Balme (vide Ebel. Cluse. page 96.) 1200 feet up the mountain (seemed about 1/2 way up) and 620 ‘pas’ long – said we had quite time enough – could not get to Chamouni tonight – asked what time it would require – ‘vingt minutes pour monter à cheval – la route très bonne’ – observed a zigzag path cut from the bottom of the mountain to the cavern – the mouth 1/2 closed up so that one could not enter without paying – Everything herabouts is done to catch the eye and Empty the pocket of strangers – to have had the cannon fired would have cost us 2/. – valley wider beyond, and beautifully wooded (right), and the mountains by and by wearing into a gradual slope –

at 4 5/60 the picturesque village of Maglan picturesque little good church – good deal of beech wood – the wood of the mountains hereabouts chiefly beech? –

at 4 1/4, little stone bridge over dry little bed of torrent – at 4 1/2 little stone bridge over ditto ditto, and fine ripple cascade (Nant d’ Orli) (i.e. as it were, one long thin line of cascade) left –

at 4 35/60 a board put up on which in large letters ‘Place de’ Echo de Nant d’ Arpenas’ and a man and one little cannon – he wanted much to fire it for us assuring us it was very curious –

at 4 40/60 small stone bridge over dry torrent –

at 4 3/4 stone bridge over the stream from Nant d’ Arpenas, really curious – stopt a few minutes to see it – the water lost in spray Till collected lower down into 8 or 9 ripples forming a little cascade near and down to the bottom – Descends from a little cleft at the Top of the mountain – the jet (not large) projected so far, the rock quite dry underneath it for the first 50 or 60 feet – falls 800 feet – (vide Ebel. article, Cluse) the sun of which we had had but little during the day just made his appearance to shew us a beautiful little Iris round the cascade at the bottom – just beyond the cascade the strata of the rock curious

then

then apparently a jumble – reminds one strongly of the action of water – I have seen instances of this kind before among these Swiss mountains – along the Simplon road, and along the Valais – Low hemp uncut –

at 5 stone bridge over torrent – fine view of Sallanche (right) on the other side the river – bed of river very broad – looking almost dry, tho’ there is in fact a strong broad stream – rosemary hedges full of yellow berries –

at 5 20/60 neat little hamlet or village and neat little church of St. Martin – and Mont Blanc a nice looking little Inn – immediately cross handsome 1 arched narrowing, stupish bridge over the Arve, and at 5 35/60 alight à la Belle Vue, at Sallenche, a picturesque little Town, (very handsome church) at the foot of high finely wooded and grass clothed mountains – not one peep of Mont Blanc –

began to write at 6 – but soon gave up to see the clouds gradually clear off from the mountain – 1st sight of it at 6 ¼ – stupendous – astonishing – worth while to come all the way to see it – capital house for a view of it – had been Twice before today quite clear – stood gazing 20 minutes at the 3 huge summits –

Dinner from 6 35/60 to 8 20/60 – for the 1st ¼ hour gazing at the mountain till clouds hid him again at about 6 50/60 – the setting sun upon him magnificent – 2 hills catching the reflection of the rays from the mountain, seemed as if on fire – Ive stood gazing in mute wonder –

at 8 50/60 music 2 or 3 clarionets – very fairly played – very fine day – not much sun – but warm enough for me –

reference number: SH:7/ML/TR/2/0015 - 16

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ggeorgetteh · 7 years ago

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THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT

By Grace Halliday

PROLOGUE

EXT- tree lined street, Paris, pigeons and people walking, considerably quiet/ no crowds.

JULES

(voiceover)

“Quand j’avais huit ans vieux que mon père a moi et mon frère à tout, comme ce parc comme vingt minutes de notre maison et c’était une journée très ensoleillée et le parc était si belle et verte. Voir comme à Paris, son vraiment sale, comme vous voyez tous ces pigeons et les rats, mais ce parc était vraiment sympa, oui”

(When I was eight years old my dad took me and my brother to just, like this park like twenty minutes away from our house and it was a really sunny day and the park was so beautiful and green. See like in Paris, its really dirty, like you see all these pigeons and rats, but this park was really nice, yeah)

INTERVIEWER

(voiceover)

“And what did you do at the park?”

JULES

(voiceover)

“Oh, oui, Désolé, euh, alors nous sommes allés à ce parc et mon père m’a mis sur ses épaules et nous marchait dans le flux. Puis mon frère et moi étions en cours d’exécution et en cours d’exécution, et il y avait des papillons... Papa courait derrière nous. Puis nous sommes arrivés à la porte, à l’extrémité du parc, il a été verrouillé, et tout ce vous avez pu voir au loin était grands roseaux, si grand. Et j’ai vu le paradis. Comme, oh mon Dieu (en riant) ne dites pas n’importe qui d’autre cela ! J’ai l’air aussi stupide, mais j’ai vu des lions et oiseaux arc-en-ciel et tout était brillant. Et c’est le moment le plus heureux de ma vie. Je m’ennuie de mon père.”

(Oh, yeah, sorry, um, so we went to this park and my dad put me on his shoulders and we walked down the by the stream. Then me and my brother were running, and running and there were butterflies… Dad was running behind us. Then we came to the gate at the end of the park, it was locked, and all you could see in the distance was tall reeds, so tall. And I saw paradise. Like, oh my god (laughing) don’t tell anyone else this! I sound so silly, but I saw lions and rainbow birds and everything was sparkling. And that was the happiest moment of my life. I miss my dad.)

INTERVIEWER

(voiceover)

“Do you like ballet?”

JULES

(voiceover)

“Tu te moques de moi ! Non !”

(Are you kidding me! No!)

TITLE SCENE

Black screen with blood-red text- ‘Leader of the Pack by the Shangri-las’ playing in the background

Title- The Kids are Alright

Screenplay by Grace Halliday

Directed by Grace Halliday

Music by-

The Shangri-las

Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Beatles

Robert Schumann

T.Rex

Chuck Berry

Alex Turner

Starring-

Actor as Jules Durand

Actor as Alexandre

Actor as Raphael

Actress as Madame

Actor as Piano man

SCENE 1

EXT. A French cottage in a hilly mountainous area by the sea. There is smoke coming from the top of the chimney. Madame is making coffee, warming her hands by the fire. There are pictures of herself and her brother on the mantelpiece.

MADAME

(voiceover)

“L'ENFANCE… est si… décisif. C'est notre terrain d'essai, mais personne ne nous a dit cela. Certains garçons pauvres mis en place à l'échec. Ils sont tous mes garçons ; tout le monde. Vous pointez sur un petit garçon dans cette école et il n'y ! Je sais que son nom, son nom est important pour moi. Je sais qu'ils ont tous des anges à l'intérieur d'eux, et je vois ces anges, quand ils dansent. Mon frère et j'ai utilisé à la danse à travers cette plage, juste en bas du chemin, vous auriez vu en marche. Comme les fées sur le sable nous étions. C'est comme voler, la danse, c'est ce que l'on ressent. Je dis à mes garçons. Je crois que secrètement ils veulent savoir le secret de voler. Mais seulement je sais ! Ils vont découvrir quand ils sont prêts. Lorsque mon oiseau-garçons sont prêt à voler”

(childhood… is so… decisive. It’s our testing ground, but no one ever told us that. Some poor boys set up to fail. They are all my boys; everyone. You point to one boy in this school and there! I know his name, his name is important to me. I know they all have angels inside of them, and I see these angels when they dance. My brother and I used to dance across this beach, just down the path, you would have seen it walking in. Like fairies on the sand we were. It’s just like flying, dancing, that is what it feels like. I tell my boys this. I think secretly they want to know the secret to flying. But only I know! They will find out when they are ready. When my bird-boys are ready to fly)

Jules walks in to the cottage- wrapped in scarfs, jackets, and wearing mittens. He sends snow flying through the wooden door.

MADAME

“Vous venez à l'intérieur rapidement silly boy ! Vos muscles se geler !”

(Quickly come inside you silly boy! Your muscles will freeze!)

Jules wipes feet on the mat and takes off jackets and scarves. He walks to into the kitchen space and looks in her cupboard for food.

JULES

“Détendez-vous ! Détendez-vous ! Il faudrait quand même me faire de toute façon danse”

(Relax! Relax! You would still make me dance anyway)

MADAME

“Vous êtes magnifique quand on danse… est-ce que vous avez dit Alexandre il voit sa mère jeudi ?"

(You look beautiful when you dance… did you tell Alexandre he is seeing his mother on Thursday?)

JULES

“Oui”.

(yes)

MADAME

“Bon. Son père sera bientôt fini sa phrase... Je pense qu'ils discutent de déménagement en Belgique”

(Good. His father will be finished his sentence soon... I think they are discussing moving to Belgium)

Jules picks up a chocolate cherry tart and bites into it.

MADAME

“Vous naughty boy ! Oh, et je suppose qu'on vous a dit qu'elle Maxine a trouvé deux cigarettes dans votre crayon cas hier ? Comment voulez-vous propulsez-vous dans l'air avec un corps fatigué… malade… hein ?"

(You naughty boy! Oh, and I suppose you Maxine told you that she found two cigarettes in your pencil case yesterday? How do you expect to propel yourself into the air with a… sick… tired body huh?)

JULES

(giggling)

“Oh je ne veux pas laisser à Alexandre ! Il allait me présenter à cette fille qu'il a rencontrés à l'angle shop”

(Oh I don’t want Alexandre to leave! He was going to introduce me to this girl he met at the shop)

MADAME

“Ouais ? Eh bien bonne chance à son”

(yeah? Well good luck to her)

Jules laughs.

Madame Smiles.

INT. Jules joins Madame on her couch, with his head on a pillow in her lap, Madame stroking his hair. Madame looks out worryingly.

SCENE 2

INT. the following is a surreal type scene set in a theatre. Schumann’s Waldscenen.9 Clavierstücke, Op.82:7 Vogel als Prophet plays.

Madame and Jules are on a wooden dinghy boat on a dark icy sea. They approach the shore, to find a white beach with ballerina in flowing white dresses dancing across the sand. They watch together, Jules head resting on Madame’s lap. Madame leaves the boat and joins the girls. She motions for Jules to come and join them, but he nods his head and stays on the boat. He looks tired and sea-sick.

Snowy house.

Black and white theatre/ Charlie chaplin type. Woman motioning.

School windows.

SCENE 3

INT. Shots of the staircases and quiet corridors of Madame’s ballet school. You notice the beautiful Parisian architecture and spirally staircases, the sun streaming through the art-deco windows.

MADAME

(in her office, siting proudly in her fur throne-like chair)

“Je sais ce que les gens disent au sujet de cette école. Mais je ne m'inquiète pas. Si ils ont vu les luttes quotidiennes de ces enfants qu'ils s'inclineraient à moi et pleurer, que moi, une femme normale s'avère sauver les jeunes enfants. Nous prenons les enfants de douze à dix-huit ans, ceux qui sont à risque. Je sais ce qui se passe dans ces rues et j'ai toujours dit frère : "regardez-moi ! Je n'aime pas la personne que vous êtes en train de devenir !" (rires) J'ai mes mains sur mes hanches avec un peu d'aire de froufrous sur debout sur un tabouret, en remuant le dîner au-dessus de la cuisinière. J'avais onze ans. "Maintenant, écoutez-moi ! Je suis votre soeur et vous m'aimez tellement que vous devez rester ici, avec moi !" mais que pouvais-je faire pour lui ? Comment puis-je le garder occupé dans notre petit appartement ? C'est ce que ces garçons ont besoin, ils ont besoin de quelque chose pour les occuper, et à construire et pas seulement la force physique, mais la force mentale. Peut-être que je vois mon frère dans l'ensemble de leurs visages tristes et veulent faire tout mieux- peut-être que c'est mon expiation”

(I know what people say about this school. But I don’t care. If they saw the everyday struggles of these kids they would bow to me and weep, that I, a normal woman is saving young children. We take children from twelve to eighteen years of age, those who are at risk. I know what happens on those streets and I always told me brother: “look at me! I do not like the person you are becoming!” (laughs) I would have my hands on my hips with a little frilly apron on standing on a stool, stirring dinner over the stove. I was eleven. “Now listen to me! I am your sister and you love me so you have to stay here, with me!” But what could I do for him? How would I keep him occupied in our little flat? That is what these boys need, they need something to keep them occupied, and to build not only physical strength, but mental strength. Maybe I see my brother in all of their sad faces and want to make everything better- maybe this is my atonement.)

INTERVIEWER

“But, you were only eleven years old… am I correct?”

MADAME

“Oui”

(Yes)

INTERVIEWER

“Then, how would you have been able to protect him from the world, from your father… at eleven years old”

MADAME

“Je… Je ne sais pas… parfois, les garçons vont entrer dans un combat, commençons à poinçons. Ils sont envoyés à mon bureau à 9 h le soir et je suis tellement marre. J'ai réveillé à 2:00 le matin avec cris d'un insomniaque de 13 ans… et parfois je me demande pourquoi j'ai dû passer par ce., pourquoi j'étais celui qui avait pour abriter les garçons perdus de Paris. Je suppose que la protection est une façon de montrer l'amour, il n'est pas la meilleure façon… mais c'est la façon dont j'exprime mon amour : pour mes élèves et mon frère. Cela signifie que j'aime.”

( I… I don’t know… sometimes the boys will get into a fight, start throwing punches. They get sent to my office at 9:00 at night and I get so fed up. I get woken up at 2:00 in the morning with yelling from a thirteen year old insomniac… and sometimes I question why I had to go through this., why I was the one who had to shelter the lost boys of Paris. I guess protection is a way of showing love, it isn’t the best way… but it’s how I express my love: to my students and my brother. It means I love.)

SCENE 4

EXT. Montage. Francois Hardy’s Il est tout pour moi plays.

Jules and his two friends, Alexandre and Raphael run out of the school on their break. They jump and yell in the air “Liberté, Equalité, Fraternité!” (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity).

They go into public bathroom and put on thick layers eyeliner and dark eye shadow, leaning over each other to see themselves in the tiny chipped mirror. Then they go into a boutique store- eating chocolates. They sit with chocolate all over their faces, dazed and warm.

They go back to the school on a bus. All three sit on a small seat, heads resting on one another. Alexandre looks out the window, and Raphael and Jules, on either side of him, have their heads on his shoulders. Cuts to a new shot of Jules, Alexandre and Raphael at the back of the bus singing Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles.

JULES, ALEXANDRE AND RAPHAEL

(singing merrily)

Here Comes the Sun, Here Comes the Sun,

et je dis que c'est bien

Little Darling, c'est été un long hiver froid seul

petit chéri, c'est que depuis des années il a été ici

Here Comes the Sun, Here Comes the Sun

et je dis que c'est bien

Little Darling, le sourire revenant aux faces

petit chéri, il me semble que depuis des années il a été ici

Here Comes the Sun, Here Comes the Sun

et je dis que c'est bien

sun, sun, sun, ici il s'agit

petit chéri, je crois que la glace fond lentement

petit chéri, Il semble que depuis des années c'est clair

sous le soleil, sous le soleil,

et je dis que c'est bon

c'est bon

SCENE 5

INT. Jules dorm room that he shares with another boy from the school aged 12.Jules opens the door and presents his room to the interviewer.

JULES

“C'est elle”

(This is it)

The camera pans around room. There are two beds, all neat and made. The bed sheets are red. There are football posters. Jules side features large posters of Nick Cave. One wall is covered in family photos. A bass guitar sits by the bed. Pillared candles are lit.

Jules looks around his room.

JULES

“J'aime Nick Cave. Il est si fantastique. Regardez-le ! Cheveux hérissés, noir comme les corbeaux, les corneilles. Il est comme une créature d'une autre planète. Vous le savez, il n'a jamais lavé ses cheveux, il serait dye il noir, feuilletez-le, puis dowse dans hairspray. Il est cool.”

(I love Nick Cave. He is so fantastic. Look at him! Black spiky hair, like ravens; crows. He is like a creature from another planet. You know, he never washed his hair, he would dye it black, flick it down, then dowse it in hairspray. He’s cool.)

INTERVIWER

“Who are the other people, in these pictures over here?”

JULES

“Oh, c'est ma famille”

(oh, that’s my family”)

JULES

(Jules takes one photo off the wall and points at each person)

"C'est la mère, Ophelia, père, Axel, et ma petite soeur Adrienne. Elle est mignonne n'est-ce pas ?"

(This is mother, Ophelia, father, Axel, and my little sister Adrienne. She’s cute isn’t she?)

JULES

(Jules looks into the photograph, as if lost in a memory)

" De toute façon, suffisamment de trucs gnangnan que"

(Anyway, enough of that soppy stuff)

(Jules laughs to himself. The other boy in the room laughs with Jules)

OTHER BOY

(laughing)

“URGGGH ! Ne pense pas à eux, il vous apporte la misère !"

(URGGGH! Don’t think about them, it brings you misery!)

JULES

"J'aimerais être dix ans de plus"

(I wish I could be ten years old again)

INTERVIEWER

“Why is that?”

JULES

“Qu'en est-il avec les adultes et leurs questions stupides ? Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas être dix encore ? Tout est parfait. Et chaud. Vous n'avez pas de sentiments. Le pas des sentiments troublants de toute façon”

(What is it with adults and their stupid questions? Why wouldn’t you want to be ten again? Everything is perfect. And warm. You don’t have feelings. Not the deep unsettling feelings anyway)

The other boy nods in agreeance.

The camera pans the matches on the floor and the football posters on the walls.

JULES

“Peut-être c'est pourquoi j'ai fait ce que j'ai fait. Je perds feeing. Je n'en ressent que l'loin les choses... comme des fantômes”

(Maybe that’s why I did what I did. I loose feeing. I only feel the far away things... like ghosts)

Jules sits on the floor with his legs splayed out.

INTERVIEWER

(voiceover)

“What are you doing”

JULES

(voiceover)

“S'ÉTEND ! Toute la journée, tous les jours. Vous ne croire à quel point ils s'attendent à ce que nous kick nos jambs”

(Stretches! All day, every-day. You wouldn’t believe how high they expect us to kick our legs)

SCENE 6

EXT. exterior shot of the grand building. It is 10:30pm

INT. outside Madame’s office- boys bleary eyed and sleepy. The boys look very sad and there are some holding each other and crying. Some wait by Madame’s office door- emitting a faint glow. They listen to the shouting inside the door. You can hear mumbling, coughs and sniffles.

JULES

(voiceover)

“Maman l'a dit ! Elle l'a dit ! S'il vous plaît ! Je veux rentrer chez moi, s'il vous plaît… Laissez-moi sortir !”

(Mum said so! She said so! Please! I want to go home, please… LET ME OUT!)

Int. Madame’s office

MADAME

“Nous avons des critères stricts. S'ils ne sont pas prêts alors qu'ils ne vont pas. Je sais que Jules mère. Elle est faible ; elle ne sait pas comment traiter avec lui. C'est pourquoi il apprend le ballet. C'est une discipline en soi. J'ai parlé à sa mère et elle n'est pas prêt de l'avoir non plus. Sa fille, Adrienne, Jules petite soeur a de la difficulté à l'école. Le tempérament de son père n'a pas refroidi”

(We have strict criteria. If they are not ready then they are not going. I know Jules mother. She is weak; she doesn’t know how to deal with him. That’s why he learns ballet. It is a discipline in itself. I have spoken to his mother and she isn’t ready to have him back either. Her daughter, Adrienne, Jules little sister is having a hard time at school. His father’s temper hasn’t cooled)

SCENE 7

INT. Jules dorm room. A weak sunlight streams through the curtains. Clothes litter the floor. Alex Turner’s Stuck on the Puzzle plays.

MADAME

“Obtenez jusqu... Obtenez jusqu!”

(Get up… Get up!)

Madame prods Jules wrapped in his covers in his bed. He ignores her.

MADAME

“Vous avez manqué votre jogging matinal et s'étirer. J'ai eu deux professeurs vous rapport manquant"

(You’ve missed your morning run and stretch. I’ve had two teachers report you missing)

JULES

“Piss off”

MADAME

“Jeune homme tu n'as pas intérêt à me parler de cette façon.”

(Young man don’t you dare talk to me that way)

Madame smacks the mound underneath the covers.

MADAME

“Trois semaines jusqu'à la performance. Vous aurez l'air comme une oie”

(Three weeks till the performance. You’ll look like a goose out there)

JULES

“"Je ne m'inquiète pas".

(I don’t care)

MADAME

“"Est-ce que je vais devoir trouver quelqu'un pour vous sortir du lit ? Les filles sont ici, vous serez humilié"

(Am I going to have to get someone to get you out of bed? The girls are here, you will be humiliated)

Madame briskly walks out of the room.

INT. ballet practice studio. Girls from a nearby ballet school stand at the bar.

Jules does the steps and rolls his eyes. He keeps on pinching one of the girls on the bum and blowing air onto her neck, teasing her.

Jules, in his dress rehearsal makeup and leotard is in the kitchens eating eclairs.

Jules, crying on his bed- hysterical, yet quiet.

MADAME

“D'accord, vous avez eu votre jour de congé. Tout est démêlé ?”

(okay, you’ve had your day off. Everything sorted out?)

JULES

“Oui”

(yes)

Madame walks over to Jules, who is covered in sweat, and gives him an awkward hug and pat on the back.

EXT. Jules rides his bike in the blue afternoon around the school. The sky is a magnificent painting of blue, purple and pink clouds.

SCENE 8

INT. the following is a surreal type scene set in a theatre. Miolin’s 3 Gymnopedies plays.

Jules sits in his wooden dinghy by the white beach when he hears yelling behind him. He looks back and sees his two friends, Raphael and Alexandre, and his sister and mother on a beautiful pirate ship filled with candles and a lion at the stern, keeping watch. They sail next to his boat. Jules is about to jump on when Madame grabs his arm, looks at him sadly, and tries to get him back on to the little dinghy. Grumpy, he sits back down in the boat, while Madame frets over him, trying again the interest him in the dancers on the beach.

SCENE 9

INT. Luhrmann the pianist plays a ballet piece, cigarette dangling from his lips, with a bored expression. He is fat and pretentious. The class stands around the room, catching their breath. Some boys practice steps in the corner. Some hold onto their aching feet.

LUHRMANN

(Voiceover- in a drawl voice)

“Madame leur a appris eh bien, je vais lui donner cette"

(Madame has taught them well, I’ll give her that)

In the background Madame is bossing Luhrmann around.

MADAME

“Changer la clé ! Plus vite… plus vite !”

(Change the key! Faster… faster!)

LUHRMANN

“Ils ne s'inquiètent qu'ils reçoivent peut-être les plus recherchés après une formation de ballet dans le monde. Savez-vous combien cela leur coûterait si ils n'ont pas mis sur cette façade de la "Oh regardez-moi je suis tellement cassée ! Je veux tuer des gens !" Non, je ne voudrais pas vous dire, vous ne pourriez pas même comprendre combien il est”

(They don’t care that they are receiving possibly the most sought after ballet training in the world. Do you know how much it would cost them if they didn’t put on this façade of ‘Oh look at me im so broken! I want to kill people!” No, I wouldn’t tell you, you wouldn’t even understand how much it is)

Luhrmann looks the interviewer up and down in distaste.

LUHRMANN

(voiceover)

“Et maintenant je suis coincé avec ces natures mortes. L'esclave de ce piano dynamité. J'ai été à l'Opéra !”

(And now I am stuck with these low lifes. A slave to that blasted piano. I should have been in the Opera House!)

A montage of the boys running away with his sheet music, sending him evil eyes during lunch, and begging him to play rude songs on the piano.

LUHRMANN

“Je n'ai jamais agi comme eux quand j'avais leur âge. J'étais parfaitement normale, stable, enfant de la provinces. Parfois, je me demande pourquoi elle me dérange. Ils sont tellement capricieux”

(I never behaved like them when I was their age. I was a perfectly, normal, stable child from the provinces. Sometimes I wonder why she bothers. They are so temperamental)

Luhrmann walking to the dance studios, his body heavy from side to side because he is so fat.

LUHRMANN

“Si il y a une chose que je peux offrir les fripouilles, c'est la puissance expressive, transformatrice de la musique. Je veux qu'à la métamorphose dans le délicat papillons des vallées. Pour les rendre cultivé, à apprendre de l'Art Ancien”

(If there is one thing I can offer the scoundrels, it is the transformative, expressive power of music. I want them to metamorphosis into the dainty butterflies of the valleys. To make them cultured, to learn from the Old Masters)

INTERVIEWER

“So you want to save them? Is that it?”

LUHRMANN

“Je suppose que, même si, ils sont joli beaucoup trop loin partis maintenant ne sont-elles pas”

(I guess, although, they are pretty much too far gone now aren’t they)

Luhrmann laughs wickedly

SCENE 10

INT. Shots of the quiet corridors- juxtaposed against the crowded and loud dining hall. Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker No.14 Pas de deux- Intrada.

It is 4:00am and everyone is having breakfast in the dining hall- boys run from tables to table, bleary eyed but incredibly excited. You can see Madame in the corner checking off things on a large, bulky clipboard. It is the day before the performance, the final dress rehearsal.

In the change rooms, Madame makes final adjustments and fittings to a boys striking bird costume. He does fur perfect turns.

BALLET STUDENT

“-Mademoiselle, je… Je ne trouve pas mes collants"

(Miss, I… I can’t find my tights)

MADAME

“Quoi ?"

(What!)

BALLET STUDENT

“"Je pense que je les ai laissé dans la boutique l'autre jour lorsque j'ai été acheter les appartements"

(I think I left them in the shop the other day when I was buying the flats)

MADAME

“Savez-vous combien j'ai à faire aujourd'hui ! Je ne peux pas courir autour de Paris juste pour une paire de collants ! Trouver une autre paire, rendez-vous sur les cuisines et les teindre"

(Do you know how much I have to do today! I can’t run around Paris just for a pair of tights! Find another pair, go to the kitchens and dye them)

BALLET STUDENT

“"Qu'est-ce que je les teindre avec ?"

(What do I dye them with?)

MADAME

“"Je ne sais pas, essayez une betterave ou quelque chose"

(I don’t know, try a beetroot or something)

Ballet student looks at camera strangely.

Luhrmann runs down the hall, dropping piano music as he goes, puffing laboriously.

In the theatre, boys leap elegantly across the stage.

The halls are lined with boys stretching in tracksuits and baggy jumpers, makeup half done.

Jules, Alexandre and Raphael run down the hall laughing.

On the stage Madame walks around with a ruler, slapping anyone who isn’t doing the right steps.

In the makeup rooms there is hairspray everywhere, a faint glow coming from the mirrors. All the boys have different bird makeup on. Jules uses hairspray in his hair to complete his black swan look.

Jules and Raphael add wear wigs and dresses, acting drag to Chuck Berry’s Never Can Tell. They dance provocatively.

The music changes back to the Nutcracker.

Behind the curtain boys are shaking with nerves and doing jumps to calm themselves down. Jules and Raphael wait for their queue behind the curtain.

JULES

“Qui vient vous voir ?”

(Who’s coming to see you?)

RAPHAEL

“Papa et maman et sa petite sœur. Peut-être même grand-mère. Vous ?”

(Mum and dad and little sister. Maybe even grandma. You?)

JULES

“"Maman est venue. Elle vous demande si madame elle peut recevoir une copie de l'interprétation ou exécution sur CD"

(Mum is coming. She’s asking Madame if she can have a copy of the performance on CD)

The boys dance across the stage.

MADAME

“Jules ! Et les cygnes noirs !”

(Jules! And the black swans!)

Jules walks onto the stage looking incredibly proud and happy, upmost concentration on his face. Luhrmann rolls his eyes. All the boys watch from the wings.

SCENE 11

INT. the following is a surreal type scene set in a theatre. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Op.20 Scene plays.

The boat hits the shore of the white beach, the home of the beautiful young dancers. Madame tries to get out, tumbling into the water. The pianist pulls of his shirt and pants, his fat body only left in his shorts and singlet, and dives into the water to the shore. They are both on the shore with the dancers. They are so caught up in what they are doing that they forget about Jules and go and explore the island. Jules gets out of the boat, as if he was a baby again, and these were his first steps. The beach is silent. The girls don’t stop dancing though. They introduce Jules into the dance, and he dances with them as an ordinary boy who is having fun.

EPILOGUE

EXT. set on a real white sandy beach, with the waves crashing in the distance. The boys from the school look out and walk across the rocks. Some splash water. T.Rex cosmic dancer plays.

JULES

(Voiceover)

"Je pense que je sais que je ne serai pas quitter ici pendant un moment… c'est juste ennuyeux… comme penser de ma ma et Adrienne. Mais j'ai réalisé que je ne suis pas sûre, et ni eux, quand je suis autour. Mais j'ai fini par accepter. Comme c'est ma chambre et ce sont mes frères et Madame est ma mère. Mais ce n'est pas comme si je suis une créature fragile qui doit être à l'abri et tout. Je me sens plus d'espoir ici, comme je peux changer et que vous souhaitez modifier. Je pense qu'ici je vois que ce que je fais est mal- entendu les spiels ces gars trouver quand nous venons dans un jour fatigué ou stressé. Il y a une centaine de reflets de moi dans ce bâtiment. Et tous les gars de tous les jours étaient juste, qui, ont fait de mauvaises décisions. Nous ne sommes pas encore allé aussi loin que cela, sommes-nous ?"

(I think I know that I won’t be leaving here for a while… it’s just annoying… like thinking of my ma and Adrienne. But I have come to realise that I am not safe there, and neither they, when I’m around. But I’ve come to accept that. Like this is my bedroom and these are my brothers and Madame is my mother. But it’s not like I’m some fragile creature that must be sheltered and everything. I feel more hopeful here, like I can change and want to change. I think here I see that what I am doing is bad- hearing the spiels these guys come up with when we come in tired or stressed one day. There are a hundred reflections of me in this building. And were all just everyday guys, who, have made the wrong decisions. We aren’t that far gone yet, are we?)

Jules laughs to himself.

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