Dans le cadre de la séquence d’anglais intitulée “gangsters on screen”, les élèves de Terminale devaient, en tâche finale”, écrire le pitch d’une nouvelle saison de la série Peaky Blinders en y incluant un nouveau personnage, le lexique vu en classe et les 2 points de grammaire étudiés.

Ils devaient enfin travailler avec une IA générative pour créer une image de leur nouveau personnage. Voici leur travail.

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Only 2 days later, the smoke awakens him. Members of Thomas Shelby’s group set fire to the place where he and his family live. This upends his way of being forever and ruins his life. He has to flee to Canada not to be in the grip of them until the end of the war. He fights alongside the Americans in the Second World War, so in 1946, he is a former soldier. He is upended and is haunted by the images he has seen during the war.

Fuelled by a desire of revenge that dates back to this event, he decides to do everything in his power to come back to Birmingham and to take his revenge on Thomas Shelby, the hoodlum.

Once there, he manages to find out from a child working at the Lucas factory that Tommy is still in Birmingham.

One evening, he receives a letter from Thomas Shelby indicating his willingness to meet with him to discuss a future burglary together. It is the perfect opportunity to get rid of him. His nerves are on edge. He can finally take revenge on behalf of the population for all the misdeeds they have committed and wreak havoc and unrest by killing him.

He takes his rifle and conceals it in his large bag, which he uses to distribute parcels and hide letters from Peaky Blinders members. Will he succeed, the audience will find out.

In season 2, the stories of the mobsters in the Peaky Blinders gang intertwines with the life story of a new protagonist forever linked to the Shelby family.

Physically, his fingers are deformed from a war wound, and he has rings on his fingers. He wears a long hood, typical of the period, and always wears a bowler hat to conceal his true identity when he is not with the mob. He has a cigarette at the end of his hand near his face and a reddish scar on the left side of his face.

A new unexpected partner

In 1933¸ Adolf Hitler comes to power in germany and begins to establish an authoritarian regime.

Six years later, he commands the invasion of Poland and threatens european peace. At the same time,  England, has been  at  peace  since 1918. The memory of the WW1 has almost been wiped out, the veterans have settled down and are living quietly with their families or have joined the police force. However, while England is pacified, its population begins to face more and more dissident groups of people. More precisly, in Birmingham, a British city, a little group of mobsters exercise terror by violents actions and have the total control of the city. The local police is devastated, they lack means during the war. Faced with this critical situation, the Police decides to denounce the Peaky Blinders as Nazies in order to mobilise national forces against these outlaws.

It is still necessary to find a man who could accept the dangerous mission of gathering information that would define the Peaky Blinders as Nazis, someone who loves justice, someone strong who hates Nazis.

Bryan is an ex special forces who took his retirement after WWI where he covered himself in glory for his bravery, his extraordinary strength an especially because of his inflexible determination. Victorious of the Verdun and Somme’s battles, he got some medals and the « Légion d’honneur ». He is briefly hired  by the police  and he quickly put to work on the field.

Several weeks after intences spying, he  discovers many weapons, money and letters, but nothing about their Nazi’s membership. One day, he decides to follow the mobsters.

The solitary wolf of Birmingham 

Bob, 30 years old, grew up on the tough streets of Birmingham, much like the Shelby family. However, instead of joining a gang, he chose to forge his own path. A loner known for his efficient work ethic, he operates as a fixer, discreetly solving problems for those who can pay. His scars are reminders of the attack that claimed his family’s lives when he was 15,which simbolises his difficult past. Preferring to stay in the shadows, he avoids conflicts with the Peaky Blinders and their rivalries.

One day, Finn Shelby, the youngest brother, seeks his assistance. The Peaky Blinders have a problem with a new gang smuggling weapons into Birmingham. Finn asks him to locate their hideout. Bob agrees, but only for the money.

After conducting a investigation, Bob discovers that the gang is using an old warehouse near the canal. During his mission, he is ambushed by two gang members but he manages to kill one of them and narrowly escapes,but he was hurt.

Bob reports his findings to Tommy Shelby, who offers him a position within the Peaky Blinders. However, Bob declines, because he prefers to stay independent. Before departing, he assists the Shelby family to kill some person of the enemy gang.

Bob then disappears into the misty streets of Birmingham, but his name continues to circulate, surrounded by mystery and respect. 

Gabriel, Selim, Ilyes.

A woman in a gang’s world

The story is set in London, Birmingham. But in the 1930s, after the « Black Thursday ». The workers’ demonstrations have caused many upends. Some demonstrators are wanted by the police. Maia, a young nurse who joined the Shelby family after saving one of their members, is hiding and taking care of some of them. Helping as many people as she can is her goal. Many factories have been closed because of the « Black Thursday », so the streets are now filled with homeless people. Because of that, many of them are joining the gang. So the number of members have increased a lot. Unfortunately, because of the economic crisis, the Shelby family is making less and less money, so they have to work even harder, theft, bootleging, bookmaking… everything is good as long as it makes money. Because of that, they take more risks, but the police is trying to get rid of them. And without money, no bribery is possible.

The revenge of Christmas

In the cold season of winter close to the christmas period, the group of mobsters of Tommy Shelby are reunited, to plan a prominent burglary, to rob an astronomical amount of money from an  opponent group of mobsters. Their opponents hide the amount of money in a grim storage of Birmingham. The plan is to rob them during the night. The opponents are indeed  burglarized by Tommy Shelby and his gang approximately between two and three a.m. They surround the storage with rifles and machine guns in all black outfits so as not to be recognized. Faced with the numerical superiority of Tommy Shelby, they prefer to capitulate. All the witnesses are killed, exept Johnson who is hiding and sees everything. Seized by an uncontrollable hatred and an huge despair, he got into his head, to avenge all his friends, no matter  the cost.

Dorothea

In the 1920s, Birmingham was a city in full effervescence and very grim, marked by industrialisation and social tensions. At the heart of this unrest was a mob, the Peaky Blinders, who ruled the streets. This mob was famous because its members wore caps with concealed razor blades, and carried rifles and machine guns.

Among the Peaky Blinders, one woman stood out for her intelligence and daring: Dorothea. She comes from a working class. She is twenty-three years old, blond hair, has blue eyes, she is a villain, hoodlum and her best qualities are being a dissembler and a liar.

Thanks to false documents and a perfect false story, she managed to get herself hired as a secretary.She started spying at twenty-three on her birthday.

Sensitive information was quickly discovered by Dorothea. Offensives against the Peaky Blinder were prepared by the police and most importantly on the day of a general strike. After falling many times, the police began to suspect bribery. After a lengthy police investigation. Dorothea was accused of corrupting the police. And unfortunately for the Peaky Blinders,  the police got rid of Dorothea/Darling.

Hugo, Marianna et Margot

A new spy.

It was a rainy and cloudy afternoon.  Birmingham’s train station was dived into the grim smoke of surrounding factories.  John Peter, the inspector of the city police, was waiting under the pouring rain for a « special agent ».  This agent was a part of one of the most important anti-criminal operation the United Kingdom had never seen, created to dismantle mobs all across the country.  The Shelby family was one of the biggest criminal organisation in Birmingham, an opportunity for the government to apply its new policies against gangs.

His homologue from London depicted this agent, a young woman, as particulary clever and cunning.  He said that despite her beauty and charm, he should keep an eye on her and above all  not let her blow her cover by mistake. « She likes thinking she is the main piece of the plan so you will have to deal with her arrogant personnality », said his correspondant, « the fall of the Shelby family is primordial for the achievement of the operation ».

« It is not really important today but you must know more context ».  After that, Elia knew that the achievement of the mission depended on her infiltration, charm and persuasion skills.  The police officer enhanced the description of the plan during two more hours after which he let her leave the office.  She took a cab to go to her hotel on the other side of the city and took some rest in her room.

Even if Elia had to complete this mission, she would like to do it by her own methods, something more direct and punchy.  On the next day, she left her room earlier to take a walk in the city under the morning sunshine.  At the same time, Thomas Shelby was drinking an Irish Coffee in the pub in which he preferred to go, the barman was part of his gang.

Eleonor, a Birmingham girl, lived there her whole life, her father was the manager of the Birmingham race course. That’s why she was very attached to the city. She was a tall woman with long blonde hair, often in a bun, her eyes were green and she had freckles, her face was thin, she was skinny, she was 24 years old. She would sometimes have a cap on her head to hide her hair and pretend to be a man. She was looking confident and determined. Her biggest dream was to become a comedian and really wanted to help people. During world war two, she was sent to France at the front to be a nurse, she saw so many horrors, and saved many lives. She was very traumatized by the deaths and the injuries. When she came back to England, Eleonor lived five years in London and she restarted her career as a comedian with a lot of roles.

At her home she did a retrospective about the war and then she decided to create an orphanage on the ruins of the theater. Her new project was decided. She promised herself to give all the children a wonderful childhood, to forget all the horrors they saw. She created this new institution. The first kid who was rescued by the orphanage was Tom. He was 9 years old, his father worked as a bookmaker, he was making bets on horses. At this time the mob of the Peaky Blinders was still in action. During the war, the violence had increased in the slum, and his dad died in a combat between mobsters due to bribery. His mother died later, she died of suicide because she never recovered from the loss of her husband. Tom was traumatized when Eleanor found him, living with hoodlums.  She decided to give him a new start. She really wanted to make all the children smile.