And now we need to deal with several scenes in DC's script that come up before the ones in which tomorrow's quotes appear:
38 EXT: OLD HOUSE - NIGHT 38 an upper window From the door of the OLD HOUSE, we see the glare of a flashlight approaching. There is a flash of lightning. Maggie carries a flashlight.
39 MAGGIE'S POV - OLD HOUSE 39
It is a dark, deserted, somber old house.
40 MAGGIE - MEDIUM - APPROACHES DOOR 40
as she hesitates, suddenly a little fearful. Then resolutely, goes to the door. She opens it, flashes her light in the dark interior. The CAMERA PANS with the flashlight. We see the remnants of what once must have been a beautiful house. There is furniture; some covered with dust sheets, some not. The paint and paper are peeling. Maggie walks a few steps inside the house, leaving the door open.
41 INT: OLD HOUSE - NIGHT 41
as Maggie enters. We see her apprehensive, worried face above her flashlight.
MAGGIE David!
There is no answer. Maggie enters the drawing room, flashing her light around the room.
41 CONTD CONTD 41
MAGGIE David! she turns to cam 42 INT: STAIRS - SHOOTING DOWN 42 1st Maggie comes up the stairs. x to next stairs
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End of scenes - though certainly not the end of the sequence.
And when it comes to what is different with the dialogue, Maggie actually calls out -
"David!" - at the doorway before she even enters the house rather than after entering - and she doesn't call out to him a second time after she enters the drawing room.
And when it comes to what is different with the descriptions and directions, what we actually see in the exteriors is only bits and pieces of what's described in the script because we actually see Maggie walking -
- with her flashlight - and as the camera pans with her, the Old House -
- becomes visible - after which we then see Maggie from the side, shot from what does appear to be an upper window of the house (could it be David watching?) -
- as she walks along - however, at no point in any of this is there lightning.
And once we get to the interiors, Maggie does appear and hesitate at the doorway -
- but there's no opening of a door or even an indication that a door still exists - and when Maggie enters the house, we can't tell that it must have once been a beautiful house because we don't really see anything except for dilapidation, no furniture covered with dust sheets, or not, and no paint and paper peeling, not even when Maggie looks in the drawing room because all we see is Maggie shining her flashlight around -
- but nothing of what she sees - and we don't see Maggie turn to camera at the end of that scene as DC wrote in his script that she would - and it isn't until Maggie begins to go up the stairs that we see sheets -
- but we can't really tell what they cover - and as Maggie ascends the stairs, unscripted, a cat jumps at her and frightens -
- her and she screams, after which the cat -
- meows from the shadows (possibly laughing at her in its own way
), and Maggie tries -
- to pull herself together - but we only see her go up the first set of stairs about halfway, so we never see Maggie reach the top and cross to the next set of stairs as DC wrote in his script that she would.
And coming shortly, how all that plays in the original draft...