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« on: December 02, 2023, 12:40:08 AM »
Moving on the revisit how the first part of Scene 87 is scripted:
Setting up Scene 87, which DC has broken up into Scenes 87A and 87B in his script:
87 INT - GALLERY - NIGHT 87A
Tracy, Claire, Alex are looking at the half-finished
portrait as Quentin stares at the portrait of
Angelique on the wall.
87 CONTD CONTD 87
And that's when today's quote -Page 37/Scene 87A - Quentin (O.S.): 'It looks like he was going to add some other people.'
- comes up.
And there's absolutely nothing to get into when it comes to differences with the dialogue, the descriptions, or the directions because, sadly, even though this scene was shot, it doesn't appear in any version of the film. But one thing that is interesting is that even though the scene isn't indicated as a rewrite in DC's script, his version begins with dialogue for Quentin (the above quote) and Alex (coming up tomorrow) that does not appear in Grayson's script's version of the scene.
Picking up from yesterday with today's quote -Page 37/Scene 87A - Alex: 'I wonder why he never finished it... yeah, it's amazing, isn't it? So evil here...so prim over there. The double life of Angelique Collins. I wonder what Charles Collins knew that the others didn't.'
-coming up in DC's script. However, as I'd mentioned yesterday, the dialogue for Scene 87 begins differently in Grayson's version of the script. The first lines are given to Alex and his lines appear like this:
ALEX
Fascinating. So evil here ...
so prim over there. The double
life of Angelique Collins.
So, along with Quentin being given the lines to open the scene, Alex' original lines are expanded upon in DC's script to bring up more questions. Unfortunately though, when it comes to whether or not there may have been even more differences with what Alex actually says, we'll never know because, as I also said yesterday, even though Scene 87 was shot, as evidenced by the still used in today's graphic -
- it doesn't appear in any version of the film.
And it's also worth pointing out that the end of Scene 87 is different in DC's script in more ways than one. But we'll get into that once we reach that point in the scene...
Continuing with Scene 87, we pick up with yesterday's quote, made in response to Alex' musing about Angelique -Page 37/Scene 87A - Claire: 'Here he goes. Another plot for another book --'
- and then today's quote -Page 37/Scene 87A - Alex: 'I've been doing some research.'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
QUENTIN
What did you find out?
But we'll have to wait until the next installment in the slideshow to find out what Alex has found out - but one interesting thing about what he learned is that it does answer a question posed earlier with regard to something Alex said in Scene 59.
And when it comes to DC's script, he added a couple of notations to this section. One indicates that after Claire's lines the camera would pan to include Quentin (recall that his line, which opens the scene, is designated as being delivered off screen). And the other indicates that after Alex' line Scene 87B is to start, even though DC doesn't break things up into 87B until later in the scene, so who knows? But other than those things there's absolutely no way to know if other changes might have been made because, as has already been mentioned, Scene 87 doesn't appear in any version of the film.
Moving on with Scene 87, today's first quote -Page 37/Scene 87A - Alex: 'The servant-girl legend is just that. And after seeing this, my vote goes to her. She'd make some ghost.'
- comes up...
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