And with today's concluding quote from the scene -
[spoiler]1972 (Deleted) - Julia: 'First true thing you've said all night.[/spoiler]
- obviously Julia reveals that she's not having any of Elizabeth's attempted explanations for Barnabas' odd behavior. But what's also obvious from the scene is that Elizabeth and Julia are friends and the type of friends whose relationship can withstand a bit of prickliness, which is no doubt why Julia refered to Elizabeth as "the bitch" when describing her to Vicki earlier in the film. And no doubt, especially given her "loathe" comment directed at Julia, Elizabeth would say the same of Julia under the right circumstances.
And as I said at the outset when this deleted scene started in the slideshow, I'm really quite disappointed that this scene was cut. It's fantastic on just so many levels. And the fact that it was cut really makes me even more disappointed that we didn't get any sort of commentary from director Burton, or editor Chris Lebenzon, or even any one or some combination of the many producers because any one or more of them might have told us what the reasoning(s) was(were) behind the deleted scenes being cut.
And getting back to something I'd mentioned in one of the spoilered sections from yesterday's post (though which isn't really a spoiler in and of itself) is that it would be very interesting to know if there really was a scene scripted/shot in which Barnabas took David for a walk. The current deleted scene is listed as Scene #59 on the Blu-ray, and the upcoming scene in the slideshow, which is also a deleted scene - and one one which happens to feature Barnabas and David in David's room - is listed as Scene #61, so there is a missing Scene #60. And there is possible photographic evidence for the walking scene because there's a behind the scenes photo that could quite possibly be from the shooting of it:
Not only is Gully McGrath wearing the same turtleneck that David is wearing in the dining room scene (a turtleneck he doesn't wear in any of the outdoor beach scenes in the film), but he's also wearing David's coat (a coat he doesn't wear in any of the outdoor beach scenes in the film, though a coat David does indeed wear (with a completely different turtleneck) when they visit the dilapidated Collins Cannery building). So...
(And special thanks must be extended to Midnite for finding that color photo. I mentioned to her yesterday that I was positive I'd recently come across a B&W photo of Depp and McGrath shooting an outdoor scene in which David was wearing the coat, but that for the life of me I couldn't seem to locate it. (I was practically positive that it was in The Visual Companion book, which I looked through recently - but it's not.) So, Midnite went above and beyond by combing through her stuff and the Internet and she came across the color photo, which is even better potential evidence for the walking scene because we can see the color of the turtleneck David is wearing.
Thanks so, so much, Midnite!
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