Setting up the new scene:
CARD Room 148 INT: LIBRARY - COLLINWOOD - NIGHT 148
Julia and Roger are seated. Maggie is standing next to Jeff at the window. CAMERA TIGHTENS on Roger, who rises and crosses to the fireplace.
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 67/Scene 148 - Roger: 'If only we knew who did this to her!!'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
JULIA - CLOSE UP as She reacts. Julia Reacts
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And when it comes to the dialogue, the description, the directions, and the notations, the way Scene 148 is shot, with so little of the room being seen, it's hard to tell if the location was changed from the Library to the Card Room or not (however, something I'll be sharing later on today, just might clinch the location for us) - but be that as it may, the scene does not begin with a shot that shows that Julia and Roger are seated and Maggie is standing next to Jeff at the window, nor does the camera tighten on Roger as he rises and crosses to the fireplace, and that's all because the opening shot simply shows Roger's hands as he reaches -
- for a decanter (presumably brandy because, as you may recall, in cut Scene 7 Roger is seen -
- reading in the Card Room with a decanter and a brandy glass on the table) and a brandy glass (Yea for brandy making it into the film!!
) - and as we can see in today's capture, as Roger begins to pour himself a brandy -
- as he delivers today's quote, which he does exactly as scripted, Julia comes into focus as she begins to look up from her tea (presumably, judging by the way she swirls the cup at the outset of the scene) and then really begins to react by -
- looking up at Roger, followed by looking away -
- possibly with a subtext of fear that the expression on her face may betray that she knows more on the subject than she's let on - and throughout all that Maggie, also with a cup of tea, is seen in the background by the window. (And the fact that Maggie already has a cup of tea in her hands might contradict what was originally planned for the scene because the novelization of Scene 147 reveals that Maggie isn't just somewhere else in the room when she appears at the window, she has actually just entered the room when she walks over to Jeff. (And the novelization also points out that Maggie seems "perfectly calm," so quite possibly she's over her argument with Jeff over Barnabas.))