Picking up with Scenes 31 and 32:
31 INT - FIRST FLOOR STAIRWAY - DAY 31
ANGLE from second floor landing as they climb the stairs TOWARD CAMERA.
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And that's when Sunday's quote -
Page 10/Scene 31 - Carlotta: 'As a child I used to hide here. They had so many parties then. All the guests...were so elegantly dressed and the candles were always burning.'
- comes up, followed by Monday's quote -
Page 10/Scene 31 - Tracy: 'You lived here as a child?'
- coming up, followed by Tuesday's quote -
Page 10/Scene 31 - Carlotta: 'My mother was the housekeeper.'
- coming up, followed by the script shifting to Scene 32:
32 PAN WITH THEM as they reach the second floor and 32 walk by CAMERA heading for the Gallery. As they pass the steps leading to the third floor, Quentin stops.
GROUP - HIGH ANGLE
QUENTIN What's up there?
CARLOTTA Nothing you would want to see now.
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And that's when Wednesday's quote -
Page 10/Scene 32 - Quentin: 'Is that the tower I saw from the outside?'
- comes up, followed by today's quote -
Page 10/Scene 32 - Carlotta: 'Yes. It's used for storage now.'
- coming up, followed by the script continuing with:
They start walking again as Quentin hesitates for a moment longer, still looking up the stairs TOWARD CAMERA.
32 CONTD CONTD 32
Finally, he turns away and EXITS THE SHOT.
HOLD on empty corridor as their VOICES and FOOTSTEPS TRAIL OFF.
CARLOTTA (O.S.) The master bedroom is this way. It affords a beautiful view of the front grounds.
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End of scene.
And so far there are still no differences between the way DC's and Grayson Hall's scripts are written. However, in DC's script he has notations for Scene 31: "Hand Held," "also HIGH FROM 2nd FLOOR hold all the way," and "Try a side track all in profile CU as they go up stairs" - and for Scene 32 he has the notation: "Cut Too: HIG ANG" (no doubt meaning a high angle). Though the interesting thing is almost none of that is how things were shot in what was used in the film. And Grayson's script also has a notation for Scene 32, but more on that when we get to the differences in the dialogue.
And when it comes to any differences in the dialogue, Carlotta actually says "As a child I used to hide here. So many parties in those days. And the guests were so" over the end of Scene 30 as she, Tracy and Quentin disappear up the stairs and mostly off screen - the only part that's delivered during Scene 31 and on screen is "elegantly dressed. And the candles were always burning" - and when Tracy questions if Carlotta lived at Collinwood as a child, it's actually said at the end of Scene 31 and into the beginning of Scene 32 and mostly off camera - and Carlotta's actual reply is "Yes. My mother was the housekeeper" (and it's interesting how Carlotta isn't actually speaking of her own childhood - but of course, no viewers would actually pick up on that this early in the film) - and when Quentin looks up and inquires what's up higher than where they are, Caroltta actually replies with "Oh, nothing you'd be interested in now" - and after Quentin asks if it's the tower, Carlotta simply replies with "Yes", with the "It's used for storage now" dropped - and after disappearing off screen, what Carlotta then actually says is "The master bedroom is this way. It has an excellent view of the front grounds" (and that's where in Grayson's script she's made a notation crossing out "affords" and substituting "has" - though there isn't any notation crossing out "a beautiful" and substituting "an excellent").
And so far as the directions and descriptions go, as can be seen in this capture -
- Scene 31 isn't actually shot from the second floor landing as they climb the stairs toward the camera because it's actually shot almost completely the opposite, from the library doorway on the first floor as they climb the stairs away from the camera - and at no point is Scene 32 shot on the second floor because, as can be seen in this next capture -
- it's shot from the third floor landing of the stairwell (and hand held), which means we don't see them walking by the camera as they're heading for the Gallery, or passing the steps leading to the third floor - and while they do start walking again as Quentin hesitates for a moment longer, but on the second set of stairs leading to the second floor landing while still looking up TOWARD CAMERA toward the tower, he's not actually looking up the stairs - and things don't hold on the empty second floor corridor as their voices and footsteps trail off because things actually hold on that second set of stairs leading to the second floor landing as Carlotta explains about the view from the master bedroom.