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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: February 03, 2024, 08:52:18 PM »
Revisiting how Scene 111 is scripted in Grayson's script:
It's interesting how Grayson's script's version of Scene 111 is at times very similar to DC's script's version but also different. And in certain instances I actually like bits of the dialogue in the original better than the rewrite. But I'm sure they had their reasons. For one thing, the sections about Tracy being in danger are more heavy handed in the original and, to me, telegraph too much of what's to come, so it was good that those aspects were softened.
So, without further ado, the original version of Scene 111:
111 INT - LIBRARY - DAY 111
as Quentin listens to Alex, a look of disbelief on
his face.
ALEX
Yes, she disappeared. Now don't
look at me that way. I got there
only seconds after. And she was
gone. Then the whole place fell
on my head.
QUENTIN
What are you trying to tell me?
ALEX
I think it was Angelique.
QUENTIN
OK, come on. So you saw a girl --
ALEX
No, man, it's true. That's why I
was coming here -- to tell you what
I found out. Now, obviously, I've
become a threat to her.
Quentin looks at him, just shaking his head. Alex
looks at his reference books, puts his hand on them.
ALEX
Right from your own library --
According to these, Angelique
Collins was married to a man named
Gabriel -- but was really in love
with his brother, your favorite
painter, Charles. It broke the
family apart. Any of this familiar
to you?
QUENTIN
Why should it be?
ALEX
Because of those little scenes of
yours.
QUENTIN
Oh, Alex -- they don't mean a thing.
ALEX
Yesterday you said you wanted to
talk about them.
111 CONTD CONTD 111
QUENTIN
Well, now I don't.
ALEX
Why? Because of last night?
QUENTIN
Alex -- I told you I just thought
Gerard was a burglar.
ALEX
Then why were you screaming, "She's
mine, brother. She's mine"?
Quentin just stares at him. He has no answer.
I think you were acting out one
of those daydreams. You were
Charles and you thought Gerard
was Brother Gabriel. You were
fighting over...
QUENTIN
Angelique, of course.
ALEX
Quentin, what were you doing in
the tower at two in the morning?
TRUCK IN ON CLOSE-UP OF QUENTIN. He hesitates.
He is not going to tell him about the "dream".
QUENTIN
I was working.
ALEX
By candlelight? You spend a lot
of time in that room.
QUENTIN
What in God's name are you trying
to get at?
ALEX
You're going to laugh at it...but
I think you're drawn to that room.
I'm afraid you're being taken over
by Angelique.
QUENTIN
You're right. I am laughing.
111 CONTD CONTD 111
ALEX
Well, don't.
TRUCK IN on Quentin.
There is no doubt that Charles
despised his wife Samantha. The
book says she died of drowning
and then he disappeared forever.
But suppose he killed her?
Quentin looks at him as if he is crazy.
QUENTIN
I guess according to that logic
then I'll try to kill Tracy --
right?
ALEX
It's possible.
QUENTIN
Well -- but I don't despise Tracy.
ALEX
I think you will -- if you can't
keep from going to that room.
QUENTIN
Alex, have you gone all the way.
Now you're telling me I can't stay
out of a room. I have never known
you to be so wrong before. No
matter what happened last night,
I am in complete control of myself --
ALEX
Well, if you are, then humor your
old buddy and stay away from there.
QUENTIN
All right, Alex! Enough!...I'll
think about it. But you do some-
thing for me --
Alex looks at him.
Don't give Tracy any of your crazy
theories.
ALEX
You've got a deal.
It's also interesting how "daydreams" is spelled correctly in Alex' dialogue in this version...