Setting up the current scene:
138 INT: CELLAR, OLD HOUSE - NIGHT 138 Barn stands near WIDE ANGLE of dark basement/with two coffins in b.g. One is open, one closed. /CAMERA SLOWLY BEGINS TO TRUCK IN as the coffin opens. By the time THE CAMERA IS IN TIGHT on the coffin it is open and we see Carolyn there, her eyes open. Carolyn rises as SHOT WIDENS to include Barnabas standing over her.
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And that's when today's first quote -
Page 61/Scene 138 - Barnabas (OS): 'You are never to go near Todd again!!'
- comes up, followed by today's second quote -
Page 61/Scene 138 - Carolyn: 'I want him and I am going to have him. I need him.'
- coming up.
And when it comes to the dialogue, the descriptions, the directions, and the notation, the scene doesn't open with a shot of the two coffins with one open and one closed because they're -
- both closed - and the camera doesn't slowly begin to truck in a coffin opens because at first we see Barnabas enter though an alcove -
- in the background (which almost makes his entrance like one he might make on the daytime show) - and soon he makes his way toward his coffin -
- after which, as the camera then begins a slow truck in, Barnabas makes his way around his coffin toward Carolyn's coffin as he looks down at it -
- and then he begins to walk around Carolyn's coffin -
- and as he reached the end of it and is about to walk out of frame, Carolyn's arm begins to open -
- the lid - and then the camera goes in tight on Carolyn's coffin and we see her inside -
- and after she sits up -
- Barnabas soon walks by -
- and after he gets all the way past the coffin, he turns to look in Carolyn's direction -
- and delivers today's first quote - and the shot doesn't widen to include both Barnabas and Carolyn because, after all, we're never allowed to actually see a vampire getting out of a coffin - but soon thereafter Carolyn comes into view -
- and she delivers today's second quote -
- though she actually delivers it as "I want him and I'm going to have him. I need him", and I love the none too pleased look on Barn's face at her defiance.
And this scene shows us an important thing about DC's directorial style as it pertains to this film: If he doesn't have a long hallway for someone to walk down before the important stuff in the scene actually begins, he'll stage things so someone has to walk all around objects in the room before the scene actually begins!!
And I've often wondered why Barnabas is up and out of his coffin, and apparently has been for a while since he already has his cape on, but Carolyn isn't up and out of her coffin? But I guess we're not supposed to ask that question...