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Current Talk '24 I / Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« on: January 29, 2017, 08:18:07 PM »
We need to deal with two dialogue free scenes before tomorrow's entry in the slideshow comes up:
End of scene - and end of sequence. However, it definitely needs to be pointed out that in the film Scene 25 does not play after Scene 24 because in the film at this point things jump around. As always, the slideshow will be following along with the order as scripted - but in the film Scene 24 jumps all the way up to Scenes 38 and 39 to Scenes 41 through 44A to Scenes 25 through 37 and then back in order to Scene 52 and onward. And yes, obviously Scenes 45 through 51 are missing - and that's because in DC's version of the script they no longer appear. However, unlike other instances when there has been scenes omitted from the scripts, this time around copies of Scenes 45 through 51 do indeed appear in the original draft and we will get into them after we conclude Scene 44A in DC's script. (And it's also interesting to point out that two lines of dialogue from Scene 46 were actually included in the original hoDS slideshow because they appear on the Fest's 1999 Movie Calendar.)
And obviously, since there isn't any dialogue in Scenes 24 and 25, we have nothing to get into on that front.
But as far as any differences with the directions and descriptions go, in Scene 24, after Willie shines his flashlight around the darkness of the secret room, before he goes over to the coffin, he discovers a torch on the wall -
- and lights it - and Willie grunts in anger as he also discovers that the chains on the coffin -
- very secure - and in Scene 25, it isn't until after Willie pushes off the chains that he opens the coffin's lid - and as DC added to his script, after opening the lid, a hand -
- reaches out of the coffin to grab Willie's throat, though there is no fast zoom to Willie's face.
And speaking of how Scene 25 concludes in the film, ever since first reading the script I've been quite surprised that the grabbing of Willie's throat isn't actually scripted, given what an iconic moment it is in the daytime show...
24 INT: SECRET ROOM - On a marble stand there is a very old coffin, criss- crossed with heavy chains. WILLIE - MEDIUM ANGLE as he enters the secret room he flashes his light along the coffin surface. His face is greedy, shrewd. The jewels must be in there. Willie walks slowly to the coffin, touches the chains. They are very secure. CUT TO: 25 CROWBAR - CLOSE UP 25 CAMERA PULLS BACK. Willie strains to break the chains. WILLIE'S HANDS as they touch the coffin lid. CAMERA TRUCKS BACK as he starts to push up the CREAKING coffin lid. When the lid is up, Willie looks down. We do not see what he does as CAMERA FAST ZOOMS to Willie's horrified face. A hand grabs him. |
End of scene - and end of sequence. However, it definitely needs to be pointed out that in the film Scene 25 does not play after Scene 24 because in the film at this point things jump around. As always, the slideshow will be following along with the order as scripted - but in the film Scene 24 jumps all the way up to Scenes 38 and 39 to Scenes 41 through 44A to Scenes 25 through 37 and then back in order to Scene 52 and onward. And yes, obviously Scenes 45 through 51 are missing - and that's because in DC's version of the script they no longer appear. However, unlike other instances when there has been scenes omitted from the scripts, this time around copies of Scenes 45 through 51 do indeed appear in the original draft and we will get into them after we conclude Scene 44A in DC's script. (And it's also interesting to point out that two lines of dialogue from Scene 46 were actually included in the original hoDS slideshow because they appear on the Fest's 1999 Movie Calendar.)
And obviously, since there isn't any dialogue in Scenes 24 and 25, we have nothing to get into on that front.
But as far as any differences with the directions and descriptions go, in Scene 24, after Willie shines his flashlight around the darkness of the secret room, before he goes over to the coffin, he discovers a torch on the wall -
- and lights it - and Willie grunts in anger as he also discovers that the chains on the coffin -
- very secure - and in Scene 25, it isn't until after Willie pushes off the chains that he opens the coffin's lid - and as DC added to his script, after opening the lid, a hand -
- reaches out of the coffin to grab Willie's throat, though there is no fast zoom to Willie's face.
And speaking of how Scene 25 concludes in the film, ever since first reading the script I've been quite surprised that the grabbing of Willie's throat isn't actually scripted, given what an iconic moment it is in the daytime show...