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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: Today at 12:14:24 AM »
Resisiting what actually happens in the film's version of Scene 177:
...... she sees what's happening to Alex - and after momentarily stopping dead in her tracks -
- and screaming, she reaches for the floor lamp but knocks -
- it over in her frenzy - but once she does turn -
- it on, the other light also comes back and the mist-like vapor that envelopes Alex' body -
- disappears - and as we can see in today's capture -
- she rushes to Alex side, desperately trying to revive him, until -
- he does indeed revive. So, all that means that a lot of what's scripted to happen in Scene 177 doesn't actually happen in the film. And in some ways that's too bad because much of what was scripted would have been quite interesting to see. But who knows if things were changed because it would have been too costly or too complicated to shoot, or perhaps for some other reason? Though at least some of the planned effects were reworked and used. And actually, I think having Angelique's spirit arrive and transform into the mist-like vapor was actually better than how it was introduced in the script.
One thing that's very interesting, though, it that one can easily tell that there are three distinct cuts in the background music for Scene 177, so apparently it's quite likely that footage was removed for time during the marathon James Aubrey imposed editing. And that sort of ruins how things were to play in slow motion. But perhaps they still do in the 129 minute version...
It's interesting to note that I just checked my audio tape and the cuts to Scene 177 also appear in the 97 minute version of the film...
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