And moving on to the next four scenes as scripted:
158 INT - STAIRS TO TOWER - DAY 158
A frightened Tracy stands at the door, key in hand. Finally unlocking the door, she opens it and ENTERS THE ROOM
159 INT - TOWER ROOM - DAY - TRACY'S P.O.V. 159
The painting on the easel is covered. The room is a mess. The cot looks as if it had been slept in. Tracy ENTERS THE SHOT, leaving the door open. She crosses to the easel. She lifts off the cover and is shocked by what she sees. The picture is now completed. The reality of the situation shocks her. It is obvious Quentin has been completing Charles' unfinished portrait. The picture now includes a man who looks very much like Quentin and who stands in front of the half-clad Angelique. In his arms he carries the limp figure of a girl. The girl's face is Tracy's. It seems she is an offering to Angelique.
160 EXT - COLLINWOOD DRIVE - DAY - HIGH ANGLE 160
Quentin's car drives into the portico and stops. In a moment the door opens, and Quentin gets out. As he crosses to the house, PAN TO THE TOWER where Tracy can be seen through the windows, still looking at the picture. She crosses to the windows where she stands trying to puzzle it out. Suddenly, she looks down and reacts to the sight of Quentin's car.
161 INT - TOWER ROOM - DAY 161
as Tracy moves quickly to the door and is about to EXIT. She hears the SOUND OF QUENTIN'S VOICE O.S.
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And that's when today's first quote -
Page 74/Scene 161 - Quentin (O.S.): 'Carlotta -- have you seen my jacket? I can't buy a damn thing without my wallet.'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
161 CONTD CONTD 161
Quickly Tracy jumps back and closes the door from inside. She fumbles with the keys. Before she can put the key in the lock, the SOUND OF QUENTIN'S VOICE can be heard -- this time at the base of the Tower stairs.
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And that's when today's second quote -
Page 75/Scene 161 - Quentin (O.S.): 'Never mind, Carlotta. I'll check the tower.'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
She hears him coming up the steps. Quickly, she moves to the other side of the room, holding her breath, staring at the door.
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And when it comes to what's different with the dialogue, the interesting thing is that the words are pretty much as scripted but the order of the lines is changed because first Quentin says "Carlotta, have you seen my jacket?" and then he says "Never mind. I'll check the tower. Can't buy a damn thing without my wallet." And not all of it is delivered off screen, but more on that below...
And when it comes to what's different with the descriptions and directions, DC actually added additional info for the setting of Scene 158 -
158 INT - STAIRS TO TOWER - DAY - LOWER TOWER 158
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- so no doubt that's why we actually see Tracy come up the tower stairs, after which she comes to a stop at the door, hesitates, looks down at the key in her hand, but then reaches to unlock the door, though she doesn't enter the room - and Scene 159 is not shot from Tracy's P.O.V. because, as can be seen in the following capture, it starts off -
- with a shot of the door from the inside (as we hear the key turn in the lock), and then after the door opens, we actually see Tracy -
- peer inside - and after she enters she looks about the room, but we don't see that the cot looks as if it had been slept in because we don't see the cot at all because almost immediately Tracy crosses to the easel and uncovers the canvas - and from there things progress as scripted - but when it comes to Scene 160, Quentin's car doesn't drive into the portico because it actually stops quite a bit -
- short of it, after which we do see Quentin get out and run toward the front door - and after the camera has panned to the tower, we actually see Tracy through the windows as she still stands at the easel trying to puzzle the painting out, and that's the only stuff that's shot from outside - when Tracy turns from the painting, things are back to being shot from inside the tower - and she doesn't cross to the windows to stand and puzzle things out because her intent is to leave as she moves by the window and toward the door, but she stops in her tracks when she sees (we don't) Quentin's car - and at the start of Scene 161, Tracy is still looking out the window when all of a sudden she hears Quentin's voice as he says "Carlotta, have you seen my jacket?" off screen, and she quickly turns -
- and moves down to close the door -
- as we hear Quentin say "Never mind. I'll check the tower" - however, we don't see Tracy fumble with the keys to try to put the key in the lock because immediately after Tracy closes the door the camera pans to the lower tower where we actually see Quentin approaching as -
- he says "Can't buy a damn thing without my wallet" - and when things switch back to inside the tower, we don't see Tracy quickly move to the other side of the room because what she actually does is -
- plaster herself against the wall by the door, holding her breath as she hears Quentin's footsteps coming up the stairs.