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inspired by @pumpkinpaperweight 's critique of the SGE movie

A reimagining of how they could have done the Gavaldon scene in the movie

The scene starts with the two girls at the lake. Sophie is packing cucumbers and Agatha is flicking matches into the lake. The sun is setting behind them.

We had the Storian narrating in the beginning and we keep that, "In the village of Gavaldon two girls sat at a lake. One was good and one was evil." But we don't cut to close ups of the girls. Instead we get closer to the back of their heads and at "good" Agatha turns her head to say something we can't hear. Sophie turns and replies at "bad". The camera stills "The Schoolmasters perfect pair" and then we cut to in front of them and key into their conversation.

"Agatha you have to stop worrying."

"How can I when your still obsessed with that silly story about the School for Good and Evil?"

"It's not silly Aggie! Tonight we'll both go to our new schools. I'll meet my prince and you'll..."

"Be a witch." Agatha says spitefully aggressively tossing a match into the lake.

"Make new friends?" Sophie says haltingly.

"This is nonsense. Just don't do anything stupid."

"I won't."

"Promise?" There is a close up on Agatha's pinky. We cut to Sophie's face before back to Agatha' hand.

"Promise." They seal the pinky promise.

We then cut to Sophie going home, her father is already home, nailing something down. "Father must you ruin my window?"

Then they give a bit of exposition about the kidnapping and they talk about Belle (that girl from the beginning of the book who brings her dad lunch and cut her hair off) and the scene ends with Sophie sitting on her bed holding a fairytale frowning as her father nails her door shut, locking her in and hopefully the Schoolmaster out.

We cut to Agatha and her mother with a similar shot of Agatha frowning on her bed holding reaper but the repetitive noise that we hear isn't a hammer it's Callis dancing as she packs singing the SGE song she sang in the book. Agatha insults her, calls it hogwash. Calls admonishes her and then starts wondering about ingredients. Agatha sets Reaper off her lap and pulls her pillow over her head.

Camera moves downward into the darkness of underneath the bed and we see some books under Agathas bed to allude to the fact she reads the stories too. Maybe some more exposition about the bookshop and the connection between the books and the kids but this time narrated by the storian.

Then the camera pans up again and it's night Agatha is tossing and turning in her sleep before she jolts awake. She throws on her coat and the shot changes to her marching towards Sophie's house. Because I mentioned Sophie being shut in, only her window will be open, cause that's the only things she would be able to pull off since the door is boarded from the outside.

Instead of just standing outside the window for a bit the Schoolmaster will be immediately present, zooming past Agatha into Sophie's room and pulling Sophie out the window.

Then we have the chase scene through Gavaldon and Agatha latches onto Sophie's feet, claws her way up Sophie and starts trying to wail on the Schoolmaster to get him to let go. She stops when they lift off the ground so high that as Sophie's father tries to grab her out of the sky he can barely jump high enough to tap the edge of Agatha/Sophie's shoe (whichever is closer to the ground.

Instead of them bouncing up a tree Schoolmaster just drops them in the nest.

End of Gavaldon scene

Edit 1: Added-Maybe some more exposition about the bookshop and the connection between the books and the kids but this time narrated by the storian

The opening scene of Sinister (2012)

DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE (2024)