Rumpelstiltskin Storyline Plot

Today, my group and I really dug deeper into changing the Rumpelstiltskin storyline into a Film Noir style short film. We also discussed how characters can be fitted into different film noir character types. Here are those notes:

Storyline

• There is a secret business of money forgery 
• (KING) is the ‘Corrupt Official’ that is the overlord of this business and (ANNA) works for him along with very few others
• They are so rich that they pay assassins to kill anyone who may be suspicious of being in knowledge of their secret business
• (ANNA)s father likes to get drunk because (some tragic backstory that bella can easily come up with)
• A detective goes to a bar after a longs hard day’s work
• One day (ANNA)s father gets too drunk in the same bar and spills the beans about (KING)’s business “they makes money and don’t need to do anything but press a print button.” 
• He was telling this to his drunk friends so they wouldn’t have remembered that (ANNA)s father was telling them that “if you wanna make some more cash come to *address* on *day of week*”
• The detective overhears this in the bar and decides to investigate
• The detective becomes close to (ANNA) to trick her into letting her join the money-forgery
• (ANNA) has a contemplating look in her eyes as she doesn’t know whether to assassinate the detective or not bc she knows about the company, but then decides that she can be in on it
• When the detective is in, we see a lot of the relationship between (KING) and the workers
• (ANNA) then somehow finds out that the detective is actually a detective and kills the detective

As homework, I also made notes of my contribution and ideas to the storyline

for ending* - The detective gives (ANNA) a jacket to wear while working because she was cold and (ANNA) feels something in the pocket and we don’t see what it is yet. Later, (ANNA) goes and speaks to the detective and they say something along the lines of:

ANNA: (suspicious of detective) You’re happy to be making all this money, right?

DETECTIVE: (nods) It’s pretty convenient

ANNA: Pretty convenient? It’s damn right convenient, this is how we are able to live our lives … Just out of curiosity; have you told anyone about us?

DETECTIVE: (frowns and shakes head) Of course not…

ANNA: (using her femme fatale attitude) You do know what would happen if the word got out, wouldn’t you?

DETECTIVE: Yes…

ANNA: We pay assassins to take out any person that could be suspicious of being in knowledge of our little money making business down here.

DETECTIVE: I know…

ANNA: Well you should’ve drilled that into you head before you got yourself in this mess (or some sassy line before she kills him)

Straight after she says this, Anna then has someone else kill the Detective right in front of her. She chucks a ‘cop badge’ on top of the dead detectives body which is what she found in the jacket earlier.

• the detective (suspensefully) stops the car, takes out her keys, searches for her wallet in her bag and walks into a dark area
• she opens the door and loud people talking noises is heard
• anna’s father regularly sees tee detective in the bar and greets the detective quite enthusiastically (because he is drunk) as she walks in
• detective gives a small smile and wave ad reaches the bar and asks for ‘the regular’ looks around the pub of drunk people
• when the bartender gives the detective her drink and the detective overhears anna’s father say “hey listen up, I have a secret to tell you… but don’t tell miss detective over there because this is some bad stuff” the detective listens in “I’m not actually as rich as you all think I am” he begins to tear up* “My daughter makes fake money… like monopoly money… but real” somehow the drunk people all steer away from that convo and are all happy cheery again
• OR THE FATHER COULD BE BOASTING ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY HE HAS and then says “oh lets be real. my daughter works for (KING) in forging money, I’m not that rich”
• This grabs the detectives attention 
• Later on in the story, instead of the badge being found, anna’s father could actually recognise the detective at (KING)s underground forging place and anna’s father says to ANNA very worriedly “what’s Detective whatshername doing down here?” and (ANNA) gathers that the detective is actually a detective. The Detective didn’t know that Anna’s father was down there (because the detective and anna’s father see each other in the bar) and telling (ANNA) that she’s a cop
• Then the conversation between ANNA and the detective commences.