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The Mouse: A Comedy Film Script

The document is a 3 scene film script about a mouse and a butler named Jeeves. In scene 1, Jeeves arrives at work at an old mansion. In scene 2, Jeeves discovers a mouse gnawing on a spoon and chases it with mouse traps. Scene 3 depicts an escalating battle between Jeeves and the mouse as they run through the mansion, with Jeeves ultimately knocking over and smashing a valuable vase, causing him to flee the property in fear of his job.

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The Mouse: A Comedy Film Script

The document is a 3 scene film script about a mouse and a butler named Jeeves. In scene 1, Jeeves arrives at work at an old mansion. In scene 2, Jeeves discovers a mouse gnawing on a spoon and chases it with mouse traps. Scene 3 depicts an escalating battle between Jeeves and the mouse as they run through the mansion, with Jeeves ultimately knocking over and smashing a valuable vase, causing him to flee the property in fear of his job.

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Unit 3 Film Script The Mouse DRAFT 3

Written By Dhuran Modha

SCENE 1 - THE ENTRANCE SET IN AN OLD ARTEFACT BUILDING ON THE GROUNDS OF A MANSION OWNED BY SIR. ERNEST GAFFNEY MERCER, A FAMOUS EXPLORER/ARCHEOLOGIST. EXT. The door of the outbuilding of the room, DAY FADE IN Camera pans up and around the house CUT TO: Camera panned into the keyhole as Jeeves turns the key CUT TO: Character's face as he opens through the door and then follow the character's face backwards into an office CUT TO: Camera Behind his head as he sits down at his desk to work

00:00:21

FADE OUT SCENE 2 - THE MOUSE INT. The entrance hall, with wooden pillars, high ceilings with old ancient paintings on the walls, statues and ornate artefacts on plinths and stands CUT TO: Pan past a portrait of Sir. Ernest Gaffney Mercer establishing image CUT TO: He walks to the fuse box and turns on the lights and looks around the room, he then looks at the clock and notices the time INSERT (12.23) He proceeds to look around the 2 rooms to check the artefacts are in acceptable condition and notices a mouse sitting in the corner gnawing at a spoon used in the middle ages JEEVES [LOOK OF HORROR] MOUSE [WINKS] The mouse then runs away and Jeeves runs the opposite direction to the storage room and picks out handfulls of mouse traps with a triumphant grin on his face. 00:00:55

FADE IN SCENE 3 - THE BATTLE The camera pans down to the scatter of mouse traps strewn across the floor, the mouse runs behind him silently stealing the cheese from traps until Jeeves looks around and sees him. JEEVES [ANGER] The mouse runs through the four different rooms and Jeeves follows suit, setting off the traps as he goes. The mouse darts around the exhibits, knocking off the vases, masks and sculptures which Jeeves catches and precariously balances in his arms. The mouse runs back into the entrance hall and looks at Jeeves who has now put down the artefacts in a pile on the floor and has the mouse cornered next to the most valuable artefact Mercer has found, a vase from Biblical times. CUT TO: Front door as Mercer walks in MERCER [SHOCK] JEEVES [FEAR] Jeeves spins around and knocks over the vase which triggers a chain reaction of every other artefact being smashed or broken. JEEVES [APOLOGETIC] CUT TO: EXT. OUTSIDE OF THE OUTBUILDING. DAY There is an explosion of screaming from the room and Jeeves is seen running down the front path with all of his belongings. The mouse now chewing on the Jeeves' suitcase as they run out of shot FADE OUT. END. 00:01:45 00:01:35

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