Queen Makes Princess Fria Kiss Her Reflection
THEN, INSIDE THE CASTLE IN THE DAYTIME:
Princess Fria runs past the flaming fire hearth, up the grand stairs surrounding the great water tank…
QUEEN ISIX (Unseen voice)
Remember how that farm rat destroyed MY Queen mother!
THEN, INSIDE THE BEDCHAMBER IN THE DAYTIME:
Princess Fria runs into her bedchamber.
She flings herself onto her giant bed.
She cries.
QUEEN ISIX
Soldiers, OUT!
PRINCESS FRIA
I love Prince GrizzlyBeard!
Queen Isix slams the giant oak door. {BAM!}
TIME LAPSES as Princess Fria watches many cycles of sunrises and moonrises flash past her barred bedchamber windows.
INSIDE THE BEDCHAMBER AT NIGHT:
ONE MONTH LATER: Queen Isix storms into Princess Fria's bedchamber.
Princess Fria jolts… runs to stand up against a wall, behind the curtain.
Queen Isix slams the giant oak door.
QUEEN ISIX
So you want to kiss a BOY, do you?
PRINCESS FRIA
Uh… I don' know.
QUEEN ISIX
Never give in to them! -
(hits table)
- They push, and push, and push.—
(breaks a lamp)
—All they want is your…
PRINCESS FRIA
(cowering from lamp)
I was the one kissing him-
QUEEN ISIX
(breaking stuff ad lib)
You think you want males! Oh yes, you feel the mating urge in your bad little heart! -
(breaks cup)
PRINCESS FRIA
Uh huh…
QUEEN ISIX
But it's just chemicals! -
(punches a cabinet)
- A cruel trick of nature -
- a test from the evil one!
(throws a dish)
PRINCESS FRIA
But I like Prince GrizzlyBeard.
QUEEN ISIX
(kicks a desk)
He's playing mind tricks on you…
(chunks a candelabra)
He's just like his Daddy… They're all the same!
PRINCESS FRIA
(tears of fear)
Boys make me happy.
QUEEN ISIX
(hurls China doll)
Men are dirty, disease-packing animals!
Princess Fria runs to Queen Isix.
PRINCESS FRIA
Make me want to stop kissing boys.
Fria hugs Queen Isix's skirt.
QUEEN ISIX
Here's who you can kiss.
{WHOOSH!} Queen Isix spins a golden mirror to face herself and Princess Fria.
Queen Isix kisses her own reflection in the mirror. {SMOOCH!}
PRINCESS FRIA
(gags)
Ugh! Yucch!
Queen Isix evil-smiles at her own reflection.
QUEEN ISIX
Yes, you're the only one I can trust.
Princess Fria giggles.
QUEEN ISIX
Silence!
Queen Isix points her bony finger at the mirror.
QUEEN ISIX
Kiss your Majesty!
PRINCESS FRIA
(yucch)
I don't wanna kiss myself.
Queen Isix grabs Princess Fria by the neck.
She shuffles Fria to the mirror.
QUEEN ISIX
Chicken! Don't be a baby! Kiss your reflection!
Princess Fria mock-kisses, sideways away from the mirror.
QUEEN ISIX
Say, ‘I love you, me.’
PRINCESS FRIA
(shyly)
I love you.
QUEEN ISIX
Louder!
PRINCESS FRIA
(cries)
I love me, me!
QUEEN ISIX
(flings arms)
Never show your emotions.
PRINCESS FRIA
(teary-eyed)
I try to hide my heart.
QUEEN ISIX
Liar! A princess must hold her feelings down so deep inside that even SHE can't say what they are.
PRINCESS FRIA
(scared)
Yes, Mummy.
Queen Isix tucks Fria into bed.
QUEEN ISIX
The greatest love of all is learning to love your SELF.
Princess Fria closes her tender little eyes.
ONE YEAR LATER:
INSIDE THE BEDCHAMBER IN THE DAYTIME:
EIGHT year old Princess Fria bounds out of bed.
She smooches her reflection in her mirror.
PRINCESS FRIA
Good morning, love!
TEN year old Princess Fria smooches her mirror.
PRINCESS FRIA
I'm the me-est me in the world!
TWELVE year old Princess Fria smooches her mirror.
PRINCESS FRIA
Hello beautiful!
FOURTEEN year old Princess Fria tenderly… smooches… her mirror.
PRINCESS FRIA
(infatuated)
I AM the fairest of them all.
SHOCK: Queen Isix holds Princess Fria's shoulders from behind, lifts her into the air. They both face the mirror.
QUEEN ISIX
(pounding crescendo)
No hairy-legs will ever be good enough for my daughter. Promise mummy; now raise your right hand and swear to me, that you will never marry any man, never even touch or kiss a man, not so much as hold hands with a man, until I approve him… in writing. … In triplicate… notarized. … With I.D. … Sealed with king's signet ring. … In China.
PRINCESS FRIA
(hypnotized, nodding 'yes')
I promise, Mummy.
QUEEN ISIX
(drops Fria on her buns)
Swear on my grave. — Cross your heart and hope to die.
Princess Fria scrambles up, snaps to military attention.
PRINCESS FRIA
(crosses heart)
Cross my heart and hope to die, Mummy!
