Cleopatra’s Mountain
A Screenplay by
Andrew Lansdale
A ball-busting American
entrepreneur, Carla Valentine, has a bee in her bonnet. Her business
conglomerate is incomplete and she has an ambition to become the ‘darling
of Wall Street’. She sets her sights on a private business enterprise,
owned by an even more private and reclusive businessman. His subsidiary
companies would neatly dovetail into Carla’s, but he is a reluctant
suitor.
At their first
meeting, they take an instant dislike to each other. She calls him arrogant and
overbearing. He calls her plastic and a fraud, a cosmeticly-manufactured sham.
This meeting
ends with much antagonism. He told her the only way to sort it out was for the
real ‘him’ and the real ‘her’ to go on a camping trip
in the mountains: jeans, tee-shirts, tents and no make-up, frilly underwear or
similar accoutrements. “Hell would freeze over first,” she screams
at him.
But the next
scene sees them embarking on their adventure with hiking boots, rucksacks and
little else. Will their real selves
get on together or will the alliance be a non-starter?
Only time will
tell.