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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: November 03, 2021, 06:22:06 PM »Is Carlotta's statement that the room was Mrs. Stoddard's when she was a little girl supposed to reassure Quentin? Elizabeth might have a perfectly good reason for haunting the house but would she have appeared as an eight year old?
Well, unlike the script, the film does add Quentin asking, "This was a child's room, wasn't it?" That makes the transition from Quentin's remark about seeing a child to Carlotta's seemingly pulling out of thin air the fact that the room had belonged to Mrs. Stoddard when she was a little girl seem much more seemless. Plus, Grayson made a notation in her script that she felt that while Carlotta watches Quentin exit the room the subtext is that she's thinking Quentin will understand later but he isn't ready to understand. So, she isn't about to tell him the truth yet. The remark about the room having been Mrs. Stoddard's childhood room doesn't in any way explain away anything or even reassure Quentin. In the script it comes across as something one says when one has nothing else to say. Like, well, this was a child's room, not that that really explains what you saw. But note that when Carlotta does feel that Quentin is ready for the truth (well, he demands it, so how can she avoid it any longer) she starts off by bringing up how Quentin had seen the little girl at the window...