CASCAVEL SCRIPT SAMPLER

SCRIPT SAMPLER - CASCAVEL MOVIE (EST SUMMER 2021)

The Characters:

Anne-Louise Bartlett, Lady [Anne Hathaway]
Age: 20
Profession: Zoo Director
Personality: very private, bold, mysterious, polite, courageous, dramatic, determined and mildly seductive.

Charlotte Higgins [Emma Watson]
Age: 19
Profession: Zookeeper | Waitress | Harpist
Personality: Innocent, submissive, charming, slightly inappropriate/inconvenient, mildly introspective (shy), determined yet insecure and slightly curious

Daniel Slatter, Lord [Daniel Radcliffe]
Age: 25
Profession: Businessman | Aviator
Personality: rigorous, seductive, over-confident, selfish, sarcastic, possessive and slightly aggressive

Louis Matthews [Hugh Laurie]
Age: 57
Profession: Buttler | Ex-Military
Personality: highly educated, honorable, loyal, mysterious, privative, protective and suspicious


The Story:
	Welcome to Great Britain, the year is 1939 before the outbreak of World War II, Charlotte Higgins is a young harpist who just moved away from her parent’s small farm to London City, in order to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a professional harpist, she found herself a job as a Zookeeper at The London Zoo, this job will enable her to provide for herself and also a place for her to live in London (lodging inside the premises), there, she will meet Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett, another young woman who inherited The London Zoo at age 12 after she lost both her parents.
	Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett took charge as Zoo Director at age 18 and has been renovating it ever since for the past 2 years, the biggest change is in The New Reptile House, now called the “The Cascavel Alley", where she shows her obsession with snakes by creating a path with all the 36 rattlesnake species known to mankind and presenting “The Cascavel Show”, a show devoted to worship her most precious snake, “Cascavel”, chasing, ambushing and feeding from a live rat. Her Buttler Louis Matthews has been with her for many years and assists her daily in her professional life.
	What initially was seen to be a fairly common and easy job for Charlotte Higgins, would prove it to be extremely challenging after she discovers that she is the one in charge of taking care of the The London Zoo’s snakes, which she is extremely afraid of. Louis Matthews quickly finds out about the situation and talks to Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett about it, she then approaches Charlotte Higgins to address the situation.
	Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett deeply connects with Charlotte as she attempts to aid her personally, training her to do her job properly. She also discovers by accident that she is an aspiring harpist after seeing her practicing inside her lodging.
	 Lord Daniel Slatter, a powerful businessman who owns an airplane factory starts visiting The London Zoo with more frequency, he is brief, and its only there to show his interest in Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett, but his mild advances are quite ineffective.
	After a short amount of time, Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett starts receiving complaints from some zookeepers, questioning Charlotte Higgins ability to get things done independently, they ask her to find a substitute for her as the problem is hurting their ability to fulfill their own jobs.
	Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett is reluctant in firing Charlotte Higgins because of their friendship, she then decides to speak with a few friends and end up finding another job for her as an waitress in a good upscale restaurant, she also decides to allow her to keep living in the The London Zoo’s lodgings at no cost.
	Charlotte Higgins starts working in this restaurant and is soon noticed by Lord Daniel Slatter, who goes there regularly and recognizes her as the girl who used to work in The London Zoo.
	Charlotte Higgins goes to a park during her day off to play the harp and meets Lord Daniel Slatter once again, who gets enchanted by her playing, sparkling his interest in her.
	Lord Daniel Slatter starts going even more often to the restaurant with the sole purpose of seducing Charlotte Higgins and they soon start an intense romance. She looses her virginity to him. When Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett finds out about their relationship, she gets oddly jealous and seems disapproving of their relationship.
	Lord Daniel Slatter takes Charlotte Higgins's to his factory and flies over London with her, even though she was initially afraid she ends up enjoying the ride.
	Charlotte Higgins is still working in the restaurant and her behavior has been changing dramatically, her friendship with Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett starts to fade away.
	Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett sneakily starts reaching to Lord Daniel Slatter pointing flaws in Charlotte Higgins’s manners and behavior with the intent of steering him away from her and seducing him herself .
	Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett starts having a secret affair with Lord Daniel Slatter.
	Charlotte Higgins plays a Harp Concerto in Royal Albert Hall all arranged by Lord Daniel Slatter, she performs an unseen new piece composed by a Russian friend of him. After the concert Charlotte Higgins finds Lord Daniel Slatter kissing Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett and is devastated, he abruptly breaks up with her and confess that he is in love with Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett.
	Lord Daniel Slatter starts a serious relationship with Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett and it quickly escalates to a marriage proposal. Louis Matthews is dazzled, he can’t comprehend the whole situation as Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett had never shown any interest in him before. Charlotte Higgins is asked to move away from her Lodging in the The London Zoo and goes back completely ruined to her parents farm in the country-side.
	Lord Daniel Slatter marries with Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett in a big wedding ceremony.
	After the wedding, Lady Anne-Louise Bartlett and Lord Daniel Slatter head to his mansion to have their wedding night, at the bedroom he starts to agonizingly die over the floor while she nervelessly have a flashback that shows that she poisoned him with Cascavel’s poison and why she did it.
THE END.