: Bean dancing to “La Mer” by Charles Trenet with Sabine, Stepan, and the entire cast. Would you like the full original shooting script (PDF format) or a specific scene’s exact dialogue?
Ticket inspector: “Your ticket, sir.” Bean pats his pockets, pulls out a string of garlic, a rubber chicken, then finally the ticket. The machine rejects it – Bean shoves it in upside down.
They arrive via a parade of marching band cyclists (Bean attached to the back of one).
She invites them to lunch. Bean mimics everything she does: drinks wine, eats mussels, even scratches his nose at the same time. Sabine has to attend a screening of her art-house film. Bean and Stepan watch too. The film is slow, black-and-white, with no dialogue. Bean gets bored. Mr Bean Holiday Script
The full shooting script runs about 110 pages, so I’ve summarized the main acts. Written by Robin Driscoll & Simon McBurney (story by Rowan Atkinson) OPENING – LONDON (EXT/INT – MORNING) Rainy street. Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) in his Mini Cooper, washing the windscreen with a toothbrush. He stops at a charity collection – instead of money, he tosses in a half-eaten lollipop.
Stepan tries to order “pommes frites” – Bean misunderstands, produces a potato from his pocket and mimes a French fry.
At the screening: Emil’s film begins – it’s meant to be a serious Russian drama. Instead, the projector shows Bean’s footage: Emil shouting “I love you!” then cut to a seagull, then the mime, then Bean eating oysters. : Bean dancing to “La Mer” by Charles
Bean accidentally presses “record” on his video camera, capturing everything, including Emil shouting: “Stepan! I love you! You are my son!” (This will be key later.) Bean boards the wrong train again – the same carriage as Stepan, who is traveling alone to Cannes (his father to follow). Bean tries to buy a sandwich using toy money from a Monopoly game.
Bean pays with Emil’s credit card. Signature: He draws a smiley face. Waiter is unimpressed. A famous actress, Sabine (Emma de Caunes), picks them up. Her car breaks down. Bean “fixes” it by kicking the bumper – it works.
Bean’s video camera is still recording – he splices in his own footage (dancing street mime, his own holiday shots) and plays it over the film’s projector. The audience thinks it’s a surreal masterpiece. They applaud. The machine rejects it – Bean shoves it in upside down
Audience laughs and cries. Emil is horrified – then the crowd gives a standing ovation. Emil embraces Stepan. Bean is a hero. Bean on the Cannes beach, in his swimming trunks and tweed jacket. He walks towards the sea. A wave hits him – he pulls out his video camera from under the water, still recording.
He can’t understand French announcements: “Ce train va à Cannes.” Bean nods. Then: “Ce train ne va pas à Cannes.” Bean doesn’t notice.
The real director faints. Bean, Stepan, and Sabine race to Cannes. Bean wants to catch Emil before he screens his film (which is just the video of Emil crying “I love you, my son!” – which Bean accidentally recorded instead of Emil’s actual movie).