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QUENTIN - CLOSE-UP as his eyes roll back and he topples from the chair. |
WIDEN as the three of them jump to his side. |
The rooftop shot of Strack and Gabriel is a strange one, and it is a very precarious part of the roof. Again, just shot for publicity. There are shots in the film that are taken from the rooftop, so at some point a scaffold and some support boards must have been laid across it for access & safety, so that's probably how and why they got up there. As there are some angles from the roof looking down at the hanging, these two must have popped up to take a look between shots.
The staging of the Carlotta seance appearance is also handled slightly differently. The final version opts to show the gallery balcony windows slowly open and she is visible listening to the last few lines of the seance. When she begins to shout though, it cuts to the fast-zoom in to her face. Interesting that they chose to go that way.
A few notes I can share... scenes 218-220 were indeed shot- they're included in a daily shooting report I have. I have one photo of Quentin close-up with the candelabra, and you can tell from the background that they are at the bottom of the staircase, about to separate.
One thing to keep in mind in many of the scenes, is that the dialogue in many of the scenes was all adjusted, tweaked, revised slightly on-set, which makes things play a little more naturally
but has been sheer hell from a dialogue re-looping standpoint because there's no document that exists which accounts for all the on-set changes. Lots of trial and error and frustrations in the booth, I can tell you!
The basement/skeleton scene loss is a huge disappointment to me, and I believe that dialogue would have been significantly revised in filming, probably dropping the Laura laughing line and having some minimal lines of explanation to clarify that the skeleton is Charles, and he's lying atop Angelique's coffin, with her inside it.
I was thrilled to find that contact sheet, as it always appeared to be some shot of Angelique's body rotted to nothing and hanging there, and intriguing, but impossible scene to match to any of the scripts.