A few notes I can share... scenes 218-220 were indeed shot- they're included in a daily shooting report I have. I have one photo of Quentin close-up with the candelabra, and you can tell from the background that they are at the bottom of the staircase, about to separate.
Good to know. There are so many stills of Quentin with candles that sometimes it's hard to know which are simply publicity poses and which are for actual scenes. For example, back in '09 I used this for the seance -
- in the original slideshow for NoDS even though I was pretty sure it wasn't from the seance, but I cropped and enlarged it so it would look like it
could be. (And the really funny thing is that at this point I have no idea where I've stored the original.)
One thing to keep in mind in many of the scenes, is that the dialogue in many of the scenes was all adjusted, tweaked, revised slightly on-set, which makes things play a little more naturally
We've certainly noticed that. There aren't many scenes where everything is delivered as scripted.
but has been sheer hell from a dialogue re-looping standpoint because there's no document that exists which accounts for all the on-set changes. Lots of trial and error and frustrations in the booth, I can tell you!
I can just imagine!
The basement/skeleton scene loss is a huge disappointment to me, and I believe that dialogue would have been significantly revised in filming, probably dropping the Laura laughing line and having some minimal lines of explanation to clarify that the skeleton is Charles, and he's lying atop Angelique's coffin, with her inside it.
IMO, dropping the Laura laughing line would have been a good move.
I was thrilled to find that contact sheet, as it always appeared to be some shot of Angelique's body rotted to nothing and hanging there, and intriguing, but impossible scene to match to any of the scripts.
Exactly!