Continuing with DC's script's version of Scene 56, as well as Scenes 57 & 58:
TRUCK IN ON LAURA
She begins to laugh, lowly at first. Gabriel grabs her hand but her laughter grows as Strack continues.
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And that's when today's first quote -
Page 20A/Scene 56 - Strack: 'Angelique Collins has departed this life for a far better one - a world without tears or pain.'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
Laura's laughter builds. Gabriel, tight-lipped, holds her in a vise-like grip. Sarah tries to run to stop her. Mrs. Castle restrains her. Strack looks hard at Laura. She stops laughter.
ANOTHER ANGLE
Strack nods to Pallbearers, who pick up the coffin. They all watch as the Old Caretaker opens the gate.
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And that's when today's second quote -
Page 20A/Scene 56 - Strack: (loudly, trying to top the laughter) 'And so we commend her spirit to a just and forgiving God. Amen.'
- comes up, followed by script continuing with:
They carry the coffin into the mausoleum.
57 EXT - CEMETERY - 1971 - DAY - NORMAL COLOR 57
The sun is shining again and all is quiet. The CAMERA is shooting from the other side of the deserted cemetery and Quentin can be seen still sitting on his horse on the other side of the trees. START A SLOW ZOOM IN AS HE SHAKES HIS HEAD IN BEWILDERMENT. Finally, he decides to take a closer look. He tries to spur his horse forward but he won't move. All of a sudden, it rears on its hind legs and with a whinny of fear wildly gallops off in the opposite direc- tion as Quentin tried futilely to control him.
58 EXT - ROAD - DAY 58
as the horse and Quentin charge into view The horse moving sideways and out of control, is thundering toward the road. Suddenly, a car
58 CONTD CONTD 58
driven by CLAIRE JENKINS ENTERS THE SHOT just as the horse runs into the road. She slams on her brakes. The horse rears and as they almost collide, Quentin finally regains control.
CLAIRE Quentin!
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End of scene and end of sequence.
And again, though there are differences between the way DC's and Grayson Hall's scripts are written, there aren't any notations in either for this sequence.
And as for any differences in the dialogue, Strack actually says "Angelique Collins has departed this life for a far better world - a world without sorrow ... or pain" - and he directs the "or pain" part at Laura, which stops her laughter, so he doesn't need to say his next lines loudly to try to top her laughter.
And as for the differences when it comes to the directions and descriptions, we don't actually see Gabriel grab Laura's hand to stop her from laughing, but he does shake her - and we don't see Sarah attempt to run to stop Laura from laughing, so we also don't see Mrs. Castle restrain her, however, briefly, as the following capture shows -
- we do see both Mrs. Castle and Sarah look over at Laura as she laughs - and rather than nodding to the pallbearers, Strack simply steps out of the way as the caretaker opens the gate to the mausoleum and enters as the pallbearers begin to follow him - and from that point almost nothing plays as scripted because with Scene 57 we simply Quentin looking over in shock, then he rides the still quite tame horse over to the opening in the fence to the cemetery, dismounts, ties off the horse, and goes inside and begins to walk toward the mausoleum - and with Scene 58 we simply see Claire driving her car along the road, coming to a stop when she apparently sees Quentin, and then waving and calling out to him - after which Quentin turns in her direction as he stands at the gate to the mausoleum and then waves back - to which Claire motions him over - and after a look back at the gate, Quentin backs away and then turns to leave the cemetery.
And my next post will pick up where we left off yesterday and will deal with the remainder of the ways the sequence differs in Grayson's earlier version of the script...