NOTING NIL Cue. NOTTING HILL FILM) Bemenpiay: (Drait: Second Draft February 12th 1998 (© Noting Hl Pictures Lid 1967 “WvevuvvuUUEEY‘TITLES. ROMANTIC MUSIC PLAYS THOUGH THE CREDITS, WHICH ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS. FIRST, EXQUISITE, MYSTERIOUS SHOTS OF OUR STAR, ANNA FARRELL - THE GREAT MOVIE STAR OF OUR TIME- AN IDEAL - THE PERFECT STAR AND WOMAN = HER LIFE FULL OF GLAMOUR AND SOPHISTICATION AND MYSTERY. COUNTERPOINTED WITH THAT... VOX POPS, INFORMAL INTERVIEWS WITH PEOPLE, OUTSIDE CINEMAS, BOTH AMERICAN AND BRITISH VOICES. TALKING ‘(ABOUT WHY THEY LOVE THIS EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN. THE WHOLE OF HUMAN LIFE SEEMS TO BE THERE - AND EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ‘ABOUT ANNA. ‘THE FINAL PERSON OFF THE STREET IS WILLIAM, 35, RELAXED. PLEASANT, INFORMAL... WILLIAM ferry; ven cally seen he fT esjun walking by- ive here... 1. THE STREET OF NOTTING HILL. MANY DAYS. WE FOLLOW HIM AS HE WALKS AWAY, WILIAM(VIO) | never meant to getle in Notting Hill - Dut my wife was very keen - and as the ‘years past, don't know, I've grown to love it. ‘THE CAMERA WALKS ALONG PORTOBELLO.... ‘The market... ‘THE VEGETABLE END OF THE ROAD... ‘with everything loudly recommended ina language that’s certainly not English... STALL-OWNER Hedihe. Hedihe. Geteba mato he. ‘WILLIAM ‘The radical hair-dressers where girs walkin looking like Winona Ryder... ‘A DELICATE PRETTY GIRL ENTERS THE SALON... ‘and come out looking like the Cookie Monster... ‘A QUITE SIMILAR GIRL EXITS WITH A HUGE THREADED ORANGE AND GREEN BOUFFANT. ‘The casual graffiti: WE PASS A ‘NO PORKING’ SIGN. ‘They just love Clint Eastwood films round here...PASS-THE CINEMA, SHOWING A MOVIE STARRING AND DIRECTED BY “CLIT EASTWOOD’ leven like the weekends, withthe antiques stalls [AFRANTIC CROWDED PORTOBELLOMARKET {fall of thousands of people from abroad buying antique totally authentic Indian sculptures of... Mickey Mouse {A MAN HOLDS A LARGE CONVINCINGLY AGED SCULPTURE OF MICKEY MOUSE. ‘And I love the fact that my friend Tony's always been here... SHOT OF TONY PROUDLY SETTING OUT A BOARD SAYING‘ GRAND OPENING SATURDAY LUNCH" and that my wayward sister works inthe loca record store and is 0 bad at her job. [ALITTLE RECORD STORE. HONEY WITH HER BRIGHT RED HAIRIN PLATTS, IS CHANGING THE WINDOW DISPLAY AND NOT DOING IT WELL. dso si where|spgd natn yeu abou mye nd soins where sandy enue ears ig aoe wif edge ieee efor nn mb oe ne Parson ord tt adler Where \WE ARRIVE OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE. IN A LITTLE MEWS JUST OFF THE PORTOBELLOROAD. ‘nd now lead a strange balf-life with a lodger called. 2. INT, WILLIAM'S HOUSE. DAY. ‘WILLIAM Spike! THE HOUSE HAS FAR TOO MANY THINGS INIT. DEFINITELY A TWO-BACHELOR SPIKE (VIO) Even be. Hey, you couldn't help me with an incredibly imporant deci ‘could you? WILLIAM Tiss important in companion 10, let's say, whether to forgive third world SPIKE APPEARS IN THE CORRIDOR. AN UNUSUAL LOOKING FELLOW. HE HS, Se ATER UNUSUAL FACIAL HAIR AND AN UNUSUAL WELSH ACCENT: VERY WHITE AS THOUGH His FLESH HAS NEVER SEEN THE SUN. HE WEARS ne ee eee RM HAARAN A