Unpublished Screenplay ~~- Cinder

Synopsis


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In this scene, CINDER (me dog)
fights STEPMOTHER (rabid dog)
for LIFE, LOVE and WEALTH (bone).
CINDER wins.

--------( C O N C E R N )
Cinder sees a masked figure pour poison into the snoring mouth of her mother.
Her mother dies.
Cinder lives wracked in sadness, alone in the house, because her father must travel on government business.

--------H O P E
Father imports a wonderful new stepmother and her two angelic daughters.
Cinder and the girls play with great affection.

--------F E A R
Cinder sees the masked figure cut the brakes on her father's carriage.
Father dies, careening over the cliff near their house. Cinderella barely survives the crash.
Stepmother claims that the father intended to commit suicide because he was crazy.

--------S C O R E
Cinder finds the mask-costume in stepmother's room.
Stepmother denies Cinder accusations.

--------P A I N
The stepsisters perform a series of horrifying tricks to try to drive Cinder crazy:
They pour spiders into her mouth while she sleeps;
They bathe her toothbrush in snot;
They fill her toothpaste tube with feces;
they water-torture her;
they put a coyote in her room to eat her kittens / bunny babies;

All the while the stepmother brings witnesses to see Cinder's manic reactions.
The the stepmother shows staged scenarios indicating that Cinder is nuts.
Cinder's stepmother and stepsisters chain her in the basement while they go to the royal ball.

--------P O W E R
Cinder escapes from the basement, staggers to the royal ball in rags.

--------D I S A S T E R!
The king throws raggedy Cinder into the dungeon.

--------T R I U M P H!
The Prince comes into the dungeon, listens to Cinder's story, believes her.
Cinder walks into the ball, dances with the prince, bathed in the love cascading from his eyes.
Stepsisters and stepmother flee in terror.
The guards chase them down and shackle them.