(Fade in to BELLE's cottage, seen from POV of GASTON and LEFOU.)
LEFOU: Heh! Oh boy! Belle's gonna get the surprise of her life, huh
Gaston.
GASTON: Yep. This is her lucky day!
(GASTON lets go of a branch, which swings back and hits LEFOU in the mouth.
GASTON turns to the band, wedding guests and others, apparently just out of
sight of BELLE's cottage.)
GASTON: I'd like to thank you all for coming to my wedding. But first, I
better go in there and... propose to the girl! (MINISTER, BAKER,
and OTHERS laugh heartily. Camera pans quickly to show BIMBETTES
crying their eyes out. To LEFOU) Now, you Lefou. When Belle and
I come out that door--
LEFOU: Oh I know, I know! (He turns and begins directing the band in
"Here Comes the Bride." GASTON slams a baritone over his head.)
GASTON: Not yet!
LEFOU: (From inside the instrument, with his lips sticking out the
mouthpiece) Sorry!
(Cut to interior of cottage. BELLE is sitting in a chair reading her new book.
There is a knock at the door. She puts the book down and walks to the door.
She reaches up and pulls down a viewing device. She peeks through and sees an
anachronistically accurate fish-eye view of GASTON. She moans, and pushes the
door open.)
BELLE: Gaston, what a pleasant...surprise.
GASTON: Isn't it though? I'm just full of surprises. You know, Belle.
There's not a girl in town who wouldn't love to be in your shoes.
This is the day...(GASTON pauses by a mirror and licks his teeth
clean.) This is the day your dreams come true.
BELLE: What do you know about my dreams, Gaston?
GASTON: Plenty. Here, picture this. (GASTON plops down in the chair and
props his mud-covered feet up on BELLE's book. He begins to kick
off his boots and wiggle his toes through his hole-y socks.) A
rustic hunting lodge, my latest kill roasting on the fire, and my
little wife, massaging my feet, while the little ones play with
the dogs. (BELLE looks positively disgusted. GASTON gets up
next to her face.) We'll have six or seven.
BELLE: Dogs?
GASTON: No, Belle! Strapping boys, like me!
BELLE: Imagine that. (She picks up her book, places a mark in it, and
puts it on the shelf.)
GASTON: And do you know who that wife will be?
BELLE: Let me think.
GASTON: (Corners BELLE ) You, Belle!
BELLE: (Ducking under GASTON'S arms) Gaston, I'm speechless. I really
don't know what to say.
GASTON: (Pushing chairs and things out of the way until he reaches BELLE
and traps her against the door) Say you'll marry me.
BELLE: (Reaching for the doorknob) I'm very sorry, Gaston, but I just
don't deserve you. (She twists the knob and the door opens (this
time outward). BELLE ducks under GASTON as he tumbles out the
door and into the mud.)
(The wedding band begins to play "Here Comes the Bride." GASTON's boots are
thrown out of the door (now opened inward) and the door is slammed shut. LEFOU,
who is directing the band, looks down and sees GASTON's legs sticking out of the
mud, and a PIERRE's head sticking up. LEFOU cuts off the band, and GASTON's
head pops up, with the pig on top of him. He tilts his head, and the pig slides
down his back.)
LEFOU: So, how'd it go?
GASTON: (Picks up LEFOU by the neck) I'll have Belle for my wife, make no
mistake about that! (GASTON drops LEFOU into the mud.)
LEFOU: (To PIERRE) Touchy!
PIERRE: Grunt Grunt.
(GASTON walks off, dejected, and the focus returns to the cottage. BELLE pokes
her head out the door.)
BELLE: (To the chickens) Is he gone? Can you imagine, he asked me to
marry him. Me, the wife of that
boorish, brainless...
Madame Gaston, can't you just see it
Madame Gaston, his little wife
Not me, no sir, I guarantee it
I want much more than this provincial life...
(BELLE walks into the pen and feeds the animals, then runs off singing into an
open field overlooking a beautiful valley)
I want adventure in the great wide somewhere
I want it more than I can tell
And for once it might be grand
To have someone understand
I want so much more than they've got planned
(PHILLIPE runs into the open field. BELLE looks at him, disturbed that MAURICE
is not with him.)

Yay! Rehersal! And...I'm the first one here! lol. Guess I have time to have a quick snack before we start then...mmmm! *opens packet of sweets*

Naomi x

The Beast is here..like always..I really dont like calling myself that! lol