And now what's different about Scenes 253 and 254 and beyond:
For Scene 253 things are not shot in the Master Bedroom but we simply see Tracy go up the stairs to the doorway of the room -
- to look around for a few seconds and then she turns back to the gallery, and coming down the stairs she apparently notices something because she says an unscripted -
"Hey, what are you doing?"And then at the start of Scene 254, unlike how it's scripted to begin, we don't simply see a large armchair with its back to the camera and then a hand suddenly appear on the arm of the chair because we actually see Quentin sitting in the chair and in another unscripted bit, we hear Tracy say to him -
"Quentin, will you come on. I've been waiting for you."- and while that is followed by a close-up of Tracy with a very confused look on her face -
- she doesn't actually call out to Quentin - but when the shot returns to Quentin in the chair, we hear her ask an unscripted -
"Now, why were you just sitting there when you knew...?" - but she doesn't finish the question because Quentin starts to get up, but afterward he simply stands -
- in front of the window - at which point Tracy asks an unscripted -
"Quentin, what's the matter?" - and after we see Quentin come limping toward her, we hear Tracy say an unscripted -
"Quentin..." - and then we see an extremely confused Tracy complete her thought by asking an unscripted -
"Quentin, why are you limping?" - and then after the camera has begun to move in close on her face as she shows an expression of -
- shock and concern, Tracy asks an unscripted -
"What happened?" - and then as the camera moves up Quentin's body as he moves closer to Tracy, she begins to ask -
"Your face...""What did you do to...?" - (though, obviously, we've only seen his face in silhouette) - and then Tracy senses another presence as she turns -
- to see -
- Angelique entering - and after Tracy gasps then crys the first part of yesterday's quote -
"Oh no..." - with a look of sheer terror on her face, Tracy begins to back up against the wall -
- and then she screams out the remainder of yesterday's quote -
"...oh, God, no!" - and follows with unscripted screams of -
"No! No! No!""No, no." "No, no!""No! No, no..." - and then on a frozen image of Quentin, an unscripted UPI news bulletin prints out -
- the full text of which as -
- as it fades off the screen for the closing credits.
And coming up in a future post, some questions about that ending...
And, of course, while Quentin does indeed have the scar, his hair is not completely gray. But then, Charles having gray hair had already been dropped in the film. And obviously Tracy doesn't back away to the entrance of the Master Bedroom because she backs away against a wall in the gallery next to entrance to the bedroom.
But other than all these things that we've just gone through
, there's nothing different about how the end of the film actually plays.
And before we close out this post, I want to share a rarely published still of Angelique from this scene -
- as well as mention that coming up in a future post will be some questions about how the film ends and how it relates to a few things we learned along the way in the script. So, until then...