Shining Through ♥ Danielle's Weekly Blog Post #6

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Prologue...Let's rewind back to Tuesday. Danielley's feeling super, despite the fact that Danielley's family members have fallen victim one by one to a mysterious stomach flu. Danielley goes to bed. Danielley wakes up three hours later. Two hours later. Ten minutes later. Fifteen minutes later. Danielley wakes up for the Wednesday. Feeling poopy. Danielley goes to school and manages to drink several bottles of water before the Pep Rally. Danielley feels whoozy. Danielley goes to doctor for a scheduled appointment where they feel the need to jam sharp, shiny things into Danielley's flimsy arm. Danielley calls her grandpa and gets movies for her history blog. Danielley then takes the sleeping pills (which is ironic because Danielley is also suffering from mono) and sleeps for sixteen sweet hours. Danielley's history movies arrive the next day. Danielley puts off watching them, on the grounds of watching movies while one is supposed to be sleeping is not wise. Danielley sits down to watch them today. Danielley neglected to read the back to learn that they were from the seventies and were also in black and white. Danielley learns that her VCR is less than up to snuff. Danielley is sad :( Danielley finds a movie in her extensive library. Danielley is glad... though still tired.Actual Blog...Moral of the story, while the Nuremburg Trials sounded exciting, having no visual and a very pooptastic monotone narrator equals Danielley sleep sleep time. *sigh* However, eventually I did find a movie I actually enjoyed. Now, to tell you about and what I learned from a fictional dealy.So, the movie pretty much centers around this lady named Linda, played by Melanie Griffith. Her father was a German Jew and her mother was Irish. She learns German from her paternal grandma, but being as how Germany was pretty much the most hated country ever in the early 1900's, she had to keep it secret. And being as how Judaism was pretty much the most hated religion ever in the early 1900's, it was probably wise to keep that under wraps, too. So, in 1940 she's in her twenties and she's off to make money for the fam. She works as a secretary for Ed Leland, played by Michael Douglas. He's pretty nifty. That's right. I said nifty.Well, Linda lets out that she's bilingual and starts translating stuff for Ed. Linda's a big movie buff (there were a lot of spy movies back then) so she suspects from the start that Ed's a super secret agent from all the lingo he's throwing around. Sooner or later this war movie ends up getting romantic, as nearly all movies seem to, and they're smitten. After Pearl Harbor and America gets involved, Ed finally admits he's a spy. Mostly because he's off to Washington, and he's a Colonel in the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). When one of his big informers hidden in Berlin gets assassinated, he has to find a replacement. Linda talks him into letting her do it. Her paternal cousins were still in Berlin hiding from the Nazis in a basement. Like Ann Frank. Only different. Obviously.Ultimately it was a very interesting movie, and I don't want to spoil the ending for anybody who hasn't seen it, but... Spoiler Alert! One of her super spy compadres who she thought was her friend turns out to be a Nazi, kills her cousins, and ends up getting shot by Linda. How's that for a twist?! And while being a super spy, she gets some super sweet intelligence about where some bombs are being built. Sa-weet.What I really enjoyed about this movie was that it was interesting and still packed with some awesome information. Also, it was as old as me. And awesome. Like me :P It was based on a book written in 1988 by Susan Isaacs. And was obviously very well researched and believable. Terms like Luftwaffe (German air force) and blitzkrieg (lightning warfare) in nearly every line while they were in Germany. There really were spies during WWII but I, personally, have never really heard much about how they put their lives on the line. If you haven't seen this movie yet, you really should! :D

[Mr. Bruns]

Excellent job!!