Screenplay: The Mirror
Published Sunday May 18th, 2008 from Camarillo, CA. Listening to the hum of a fan, feeling average.

This was for my Spring 2008 semester English M10A class at Moorpark College. It's kinda dumb, but I'll post it anyway due to the lack of posting lately.

Screenplay

This is the story of that which happened to Snow White’s evil step-mother Queen before she gave the poisoned apple to Snow White. It’s an existential battle we never heard as children. Evidently, the Queen was much more disorganized than she let on and by some irony of fate misplaced one of the apples she intended for Snow White. It was a misplaced apple the Queen would come to enjoy herself on the night the Queen learnt the comb did not successfully terminate Snow White.


INT. QUEENS BEDROOM

The Queen stares at her mirror, watching her movements reflected in it.
QUEEN
Mirror, mirror upon the wall, who’s the fairest fair of all?

QUEEN 2
(After awkward pause, shrieking) I art the fairest of all!

QUEEN
Huh? (pause) Who are you!?

QUEEN 2
I’m the Queen! Who are you!?

QUEEN
I’m the Queen!


Few awkward, confused moments of silence pass by as they exchange glares.
QUEEN 2
Uh.. You think you’re the Queen… That’s not possible because I’m the real Queen. You are merely my reflection.


QUEEN 2 begins to walk away from the mirror.
QUEEN
Wait! If you walk away you’ll vanish for I am the real Queen!

QUEEN 2
(Turning back to face QUEEN) Hm..

QUEEN
(laughing) Never-mind though, I’m leaving now so you’ll vanish anyway!


QUEEN begins to walk away from the mirror.
QUEEN 2
Wait! If you’re so sure you’re the real Queen, then you certainly won’t mind me leaving first.


As QUEEN 2 begins to turn away from mirror, QUEEN desperately turns back to face it.


QUEEN
Wait!


An awkward pause elapses as they silently stare at each other.
QUEEN 2
Quite the predicament.

QUEEN
(in agreement) Mhhhhhh… (pause) How do we know which one of us is the real Queen?

QUEEN 2
That’s difficult to say. What is reality anyway? Nothing more than perspective.

QUEEN
(pausing to looking around, past QUEEN 2) Your reality looks exactly like mine.

QUEEN 2
(looking around, past QUEEN) Yours… Strikingly like mine.


QUEEN
(pause) Perspective, eh? From my perspective, you’re nothing but my reflection.

QUEEN 2
It’s all relative… (pause) Mirror, mirror on the-

QUEEN
What are you doing?

QUEEN 2
I’m the real queen. Mirror, mirror-

QUEEN
No!


They pause and glare at each other like cowboys in the wild west about to draw their guns and fire a shot.
BOTH QUEEN’S
(quickly, racing to beat each other) Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest fair of all!?


QUEEN fades and MIRROR phases into reality.
MIRROR
O Lady Queen, though fair ye be, Snow White is fairer far to see. Over the hills and far away, she dwells with seven dwarfs to-day.

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