And when it comes to the start of the dialogue, the descriptions, the directions and the notations for the section of Scene 127 that I previously laid out, Liz doesn't get up so obviously she doesn't cross to the window. However, she does call the Roger, and one might presume that he face would be seen while she does so, but one would be wrong when someone like DC is involved. As we saw in the capture I shared yesterday, Liz is seen in the background as she cocks her neck as if she's getting reading to say something, but when she does say the dialogue that DC added to his script, which she does so just as DC added it, the camera shifts to -
- shooting her from behind, and of course that makes perfect sense, right, because just because the topic of discussion is Liz' daughter, why would one want to see Liz' face - and unlike how DC's script indicates that Roger would then be seen in close-up, he's seen from the exact same distance as the above capture when he delivers his first line covered, which he delivers exactly as scripted - and there's no need to switch back to shooting from behind Stokes in what we'll presume is really the "MASTER" and not the "MASER" shot because the camera shot remains unchanged when Stokes delivers his first line covered, which he actually delivers as "I think it would be a good idea if Maggie were to take the boy to his room" - at which point as Maggie makes her way to him -
- in what will be the start of different parts of David's dialogue becoming rearranged, he actually asks "Why don't you believe me?" as he still stands in place - and once she reaches him, Maggie puts her hand on David's waist and says an unscripted/ad libbed -
- after which David begins to move away from the table as -
- he insists "I saw her" - and as he begins to walk around the table with Maggie, Julia, who has been paying very close attention to David, nods in the affirmative to Stokes - and soon it's an emotional Roger who begins to move around the table -
- in David's direction, and as Roger nears him he reaches out to hold David's -
- shoulders (which is one of the very few moments when the aspect ratio of the VHS is preferable because -
- one can not only see Roger's entire hand on David but that David is reaching out to Roger as well (and with the VHS Todd's face doesn't get cut off as Roger moves past him)) as David says "She called to me, Father" - and then the camera switches to the shot in today's capture as -
- David actually says "I think she wanted to hurt me. ... Please believe me", upon which he gabs onto to Roger and holds tight while -
- begging "Please believe me, Father, please", which prompts Roger to become even more emotional and to say an unscripted but added to DC's script -
"It's all right, David" - and the camera changes angles again as Roger goes on to give a classic though unscripted but added to DC's script Collins response -
"We'll talk about it later." - and for now we'll hold off on getting into what Maggie actually ad libs.
And rather than criticize DC, one does have to commend him for leaving all that emotional David/Roger material in the scene. Who knows what got into him? Or perhaps even someone else talked him into it. But DC is the one that allowed it to stay...