Screenplay ~~- Princess Grizzly

GrizzlyBeard Parades To Help Furious Fria

3447 Characters =~3.4Min. Reading Time

HOURS LATER:

The dusky evening air echoes with sound of a marching BAND, an approaching royal parade.

Princess Fria struggles open her eyes.
She can't see over the dead cow lying on top of her.
She fights to get out from under the cow.
No way.
She's pinned.

Fria arches her head to see Prince GrizzlyBeard standing atop his gold-plated carriage.
His royal parade marches up the dirt road in front of the shack.

Prince GrizzlyBeard sees Princess Fria's scabby feet sticking out from under the dead cow (like the shoes of Oz's dead wicked witch).

PRINCE GRIZZLYBEARD
Musicians, stop!

The musicians comically abort their music.

PRINCE GRIZZLYBEARD
Silence everyone!

The crowd-noise dies down.

PRINCE GRIZZLYBEARD
(smirks at Fria)
Your "Majesty", what are you doing underneath a cow?

Fria's eyes dart, embarrassed, nervous.

PRINCE GRIZZLYBEARD
Prin- I mean, Fria - Do you need … HELP?

Bugs crawl on the dirty face of the blushing Princess.

PRINCE GRIZZLYBEARD
Princess … I see you … there's no use hiding.

Paraders giggle and whisper.

Princess Fria fights to get out from under the cow.
She collapses in desperation.
She clumsy-bats the ground.

PRINCE GRIZZLYBEARD
Soldiers, go get her … HIGH-ness … out from … DOWN there under that dead cow. (laughs)

PRINCESS FRIA
No! Go away! I don't need your help!

PRINCE GRIZZLYBEARD
Your "magnificence," single wenches require MALE assistance.

PRINCESS FRIA
I'm Mrs. Singer SongMan now! And my husband is more man than you and all your assassins, Prince Hairy Buns!

The parade-crowd gasp in shock.

PRINCE GRIZZLYBEARD
I insist - soldiers, free Miss Fria.

PRINCESS FRIA
No! Get out of my farm! I can feed myself!

PRINCE GRIZZLYBEARD
Bu-

PRINCESS FRIA
Are you deaf, Prince Shaggy Dog? Go! I never want to see your gorilla-face again!

GENERAL TERRORR
If you won't cut off her head, sire, I will!

Prince GrizzlyBeard draws his sword.
He storms toward Princess Fria.

PRINCE GRIZZLYBEARD
I promised your dead father, King Victim, the next time I saw your horrible frigid face, you would die!

PRINCESS FRIA
You killed my Father, but you're not man enough to kill me!

Prince GrizzlyBeard towers above Princess Fria.
He lifts his sword high enough to thrust her through.

PRINCE GRIZZLYBEARD
You are my subject! I hold your life in the palm of my hand!

PRINCESS FRIA
You hold NOTHING!

GrizzlyBeard's beard shakes in the rising wind.
He throws his sword down into the ground by Fria's ear.

Princess Fria slams her eyes shut in fear.
Prince GrizzlyBeard storms back to his carriage.

PRINCE GRIZZLYBEARD
(angry)
Horses! Onward - HO!

The parade moves on down the road.
The crowd giggles at Princess Fria:

CROWD
(marching on)
Ha ha ha!

Still under the lifeless cow, Princess Fria's bony, poop-sprinkled face breaks into tears.
The sky above her dumps rain into her eyes.

DISSOLVE TO:


OUTSIDE AT THE SHACK AT NIGHT: (SHORTLY LATER)

Hail falls. It bats Princess Fria's forehead, eyes. {OUCH!}

Time lapses: Over several painful rain and hail-drenched hours, Princess Fria wedges herself out through the mud under the cow.

She lumbers to her feet, staggers into the dark shack.