Wrapping up Scene 99, first by picking up after Quentin realizes what he was doing to Tracy:
Tracy is in shock as Carlotta ENTERS THE SHOT.
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 42/Scene 99 - Carlotta: 'Mr. Collins! What happened?'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
Then she sees Gerard - the blood from the claw marks on his face. She rushes to help him as Quentin shakes his head wordlessly, unable to explain.
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End of scene.
And when it comes to what's different with the dialogue, the descriptions, and the directions, we don't actually see Tracy in shock after Quentin realizes he was strangling her because the scene immediately shifts to Carlotta arriving and almost immediately kneeling to examine her nephew, which means that she doesn't speak to Quentin before seeing Gerard - and what Carlotta actually says is "Mr. Collins!", first with shock, and then "Mr. Collins!" with a great deal of incredulity - and so, considering that Carlotta is already at Gerard's side, she doesn't rush to help him when scripted - and nor does Quentin shake his head wordlessly, unable to explain because what Quentin actually does, as can be seen in the following capture -
- is wordlessly cling to Tracy in shock.
And Grayson has some notations in her script for this section. And as you can read below, they start off with "Animal excitement", which perhaps harkens back to Carlotta and Gerard's murdering of the hippy, which was never shot, but perhaps Grayson didn't know that at the time she wrote that notation in her script. And then she writes "Touches blood", which Carlotta doesn't actually do in the take used in the film, but she does do in
this publicity shot for the scene (and I've always thought that it's interesting that Carlotta is pointing in the photo used for
the lobby card for this scene but she doesn't actually do that in the film either - but then, some of the lobby cards for NoDS are quite different from what happens in the film - one isn't even shot is the same room that the actual scene takes place, but I digress...). And finally she writes something in reference to Angelique. But once again for the life of me I can't decipher the whole thing -
- so perhaps someone else (and you know who you are
) can...