Damsel Page #3

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Rapunzel’s heart races.

YOUNG PRINCE EDWARD (CONT’D)

I’m afraid it’s not yet long enough

to reach.

17 YEAR OLD RAPUNZEL

Might I climb down and jump?

YOUNG PRINCE EDWARD

Still too high, I am afraid.

Rapunzel sinks.

Edward’s face twists with intrigue.

YOUNG PRINCE EDWARD (CONT’D)

I will fashion a ladder high enough

and will return with an army to

free you!

17 YEAR OLD RAPUNZEL

You will? How I hope you will!

Please!

Excitement flitters in the innocent girl’s voice. She melts.

YOUNG PRINCE EDWARD

My loyalty is yours. I vow it, my

princess.

17 YEAR OLD RAPUNZEL

Then, I shall be in waiting until

you’ve returned, Prince Edward of

Thessia!

8.

BRAUN (V.O.)

Rapunzel held young Prince Edward’s

vow dear, locking it deep in her

heart. She fell, madly in love and

waited for him to return, that they

might live together in happiness

forever after.

CUT TO:

EXT. STONE TOWER PRISON - NIGHT

The soldiers’ armor, a metallic clank, as they ride atop

their galloping steeds.

The orange glow of their torches reflects from their silver

gear. 25 knights, lead by Young Prince Edward.

The crest of Thessia’s golden lion, waves.

Rapunzel’s rope of woven hair still hangs from the iron

sconce. Floating high above the ground.

Soldiers urgently move and assemble sections of a grand

ladder.

INT. STONE TOWER PRISON - CONTINUOUS

Edward steps through the window of the bleak cell to find

that all of Rapunzel’s possessions have been cleared away.

CUT TO:

EXT. MOUNTAIN PASS - MORNING

A single white tower rising over an ivory castle.

A man-made fortress among nature’s magnificent beauty.

Nestled among the majestic redwoods, atop a southern

mountain.

A grand staircase stretches to the entryway of the forgotten

structure of stone.

BRAUN (V.O.)

Having learned of Prince Edward’s

plot to free Rapunzel, the witch

took her to a secluded castle atop

a mountain, so that she might never

meet another living soul again.

9.

INT. IVORY FORTRESS - TOWER PRISON - CONTINUOUS

Rapunzel lies sobbing on her new cell’s stone floor.

RAPUNZEL:

Please! I cannot stay here!

Please help me. Please don’t make

me stay here.

Her entire life in solitary confinement. She begs in prayer

through breathless tears.

RAPUNZEL (CONT’D)

I don’t want to be alone anymore.

Help me. Set me free. Give me

freedom!

Her face is stained in tears. Dark circles under her young

eyes.

A white dove lands on Rapunzel’s window seal. She notices it

and wipes her tears away. Catching her breath, she reassures

herself.

RAPUNZEL (CONT’D)

He will come. He will come. He

will find me.

FADE TO:

INT. IVORY FORTRESS - TOWER PRISON - DAY (20 YEARS LATER)

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