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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: August 15, 2023, 05:32:00 PM »
Revisiting how Scene 28 is scripted:
...
28 INT - FOYER - DAY 28
as Quentin carries Tracy in he gives her a big
kiss. HOLD FOR A MOMENT and then Carlotta
interrupts them from O.S.
And that's when the first part of Monday's quote -Page 8/Scene 28 - Carlotta (O.S.): 'Mr. & Mrs. Collins?'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
Quentin and Tracy are momentarily embarrassed,
caught unawares.
CARLOTTA - CLOSE-UP
She is smiling and friendly.
And that's when the second part of Monday's quote -Page 8/Scene 28 - Carlotta: 'I'm Carlotta Drake, Welcome to Collinwood.'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
28 CONTD CONTD 28
BACK TO SCENE
as Quentin puts Tracy down.
QUENTIN
Thank you, Miss Drake.
CARLOTTA
Carlotta, please.
She is looking them over carefully, in female
fashion. Tracy offers her hand.
TRACY
Hello, Carlotta.
CARLOTTA
(taking her hand)
It's so good to have you here --
I do hope you'll find everything
to your liking, Mrs. Collins.
End of scene.
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... after Carlotta greets them from off screen, once she comes on screen, she switches things up by actually saying "Welcome to Collinwood. I'm Carlotta Drake" (and Grayson made some notations in her script to be "pleasant and straight" and "almost preoccupied with looking at him + her) - and while Quentin responds to Carlotta as scripted, Carlotta's line to address her by her first name is dropped - and rather than "Hello, Carlotta", Tracy says "How do you do" - and Carlotta's greeting to Tracy and her hope that everything will be to Tracy's liking is also dropped. (And I'm surprised that Grayson didn't make a notation about Carlotta saying it's so good to have Tracy at Collinwood because as we'll definitely find out along the way, clearly that's not how she feels because she has a definite agenda in mind, so chances are the line would have been delivered with that subtext in Carlotta's mind.)
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... and it's interesting to note that DC's script has an added notation that the camera was supposed to pan to a 2 shot of Carlotta and Tracy when Tracy greats her and Carlotta is so nice to her, but given the way the scene actually plays in the film, apparently that idea was also dropped because what actually happens is, in camerawork that's unscripted, Scene 28 dissolves into the start of the upcoming Scene 29...