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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: April 23, 2024, 07:46:06 PM »
Revisiting how Scene 153 is scripted:
And as far as "today's" quotes go, it was on April 22nd this time around.
Moving on to the next scene (which is one of my favorite scenes in the entire film):
DISSOLVE TO:
153 INT - GALLERY - DAY 153
as Tracy, in deep thought, sits staring at Angelique's
portrait, Carlotta ENTERS, carrying a vase of freshly
cut flowers.
CARLOTTA
Oh, Mrs. Collins, I thought
these might brighten the room.
She puts them on the mantel before Angelique's portrait.
CARLOTTA
Aren't they lovely?
TRACY
(ignoring the question)
And that's when today's first quote -Page 72/Scene 153 - Tracy: 'Carlotta, where is Mr. Collins?'
- comes up, followed by today's second quote -Page 72/Scene 153 - Carlotta: 'Oh, didn't he tell you? He's just left for town. He needs some supplies. You do know he's painting in the tower, don't you?'
- coming up.
And so far as differences with the dialogue go, Carlotta's first line is actually delivered as "Oh, Mrs. Collins ... I thought these might brighten the room" - and Tracy actually asks "Carlotta, where's Mr. Collins?" - and the first part of Carlotta's reply is actually delivered as "Oh...didn't he tell you?"
And so far as the differences with the descriptions and the directions go, Scene 153 does not begin with Tracy staring at Angelique's portrait because it actually begins with a vase of daffodils -
- being carried into the Gallery - and because Angelique's portrait is not hung above a mantel, Carlotta actually carries the vase over toward the table that's below where the portrait actually hangs - and after Tracy asks where Quentin is, I do love how Carlotta barely covers a series of facial expressions -
- as she's hardly able to cover her glee that Tracy doesn't know where Quentin is - and a shot of Tracy is actually on screen as -
- Carlotta says "You do know he's painting in the tower, don't you?".
And Grayson's script has several notes for this section of the scene. She writes that Carlotta is feeling well loved and happy - and that Carlotta will remove the dead flowers from the vase and handle one flower lovingly - and while she does handle one flower lovingly, there's no need for her to remove the dead flowers from the vase because the fresh flowers are already in a new vase, so she simply switches vases.
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And as far as "today's" quotes go, it was on April 22nd this time around.