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(Note: This could appear in a child's paper pop-up book. It
could be done as an old stage play, with cardboard props and
set, stagy acting, overly made-up actors, lit from footlights.
IMAGE: A dark castle on a hill.
Weil is the NARRATOR.
NARRATOR
Once upon a time, a beautiful countess lived in splendid castle
on a hill.
IMAGE: A beautiful woman-the Countess-is looking fondly at
herself in a mirror.
NARRATOR
The countess would look at her lovely face in the mirror,
and search for the tiniest sign that she was getting old.
IMAGE: EXTREME CLOSE-UP of a wrinkle at the corner of the Countess'
eye.
Sound: The Countess gasping.
IMAGE: The Countess staring at the wrinkle in horror.
NARRATOR
One day she found a crow's foot next to her eye.
IMAGE: The Countess is beating a servant girl.
NARRATOR
She got so angry that she beat her serving girl until the
poor virgin's blood spurted all over her face.
IMAGE: The Countess' face is splattered with blood.
IMAGE: The Countess walks over to the mirror and sits down.
She stares at the blood on her face.
NARRATOR
Then something strange happened. The Countess started smearing
her face with the blood.
IMAGE: The Countess rubs the blood into her wrinkle.
NARRATOR
In her wicked mind's eye, she saw the blood make the wrinkle
disappear.
IMAGE: The Countess smiles evilly.
IMAGE: A girl is walking down a wooded path.
NARRATOR
The Countess sent her minions far and wide, searching for
virgins.
IMAGE: A man jumps out and captures the girl.
IMAGE: A torture chamber.
NARRATOR
And the Countess bathed herself in virgin blood.
IMAGE: The virgin's beheaded body lies on the ground. The blood
is flowing into a bucket.
NARRATOR
The Countess cried-
I will live forever, and I will never get old or ugly!
IMAGE: A dozen virgins lined up outside the throne room.
NARRATOR
The Countess soon ran out of local virgins. So she started
a school for upperclass girls at her castle. They came from
far and wide to be finished off.
IMAGE: Virgins being chopped up.
NARRATOR
She went through six hundred upperclass virgins before she
was caught by one girls' angry father.
IMAGE: The queen is in chains.
NARRATOR
The authorities put her servants to death. But because she
was of royal blood, they could not kill her.
IMAGE: The Countess is in a tiny room without windows. Workers
are bricking up the door.
NARRATOR
So they imprisoned her in a little room and bricked up the
door.
IMAGE: The Countess is screaming.
NARRATOR
She lived there, all alone, in the dark, for four years. Until
she died.
IMAGE: Four years pass in an instant. The Countess' fingernails
grow six inches. Her teeth fall out. Her hair turns into a ratty
mess. Her eyes are sucked into her skull.
NARRATOR
And when they finally took her out, she was very, very ugly.
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