Moving on to the next scene, this is how it's scripted:
135 EXT - MEADOWS - DAY - LONG LENS 135
Holding hands, they stroll through the meadows. She stops to pick a flower. He watches her.
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And that's when today's quote is scripted -
Page 67/Scene 135 - Quentin: 'Do you have any idea how much I need you?'
- to come up, followed in the script by:
She looks up into his face as he draws her to him.
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End of scene as scripted.
And as far as any difference in the dialogue goes, Quentin actually says "Do you know how much I need you?", plus it's delivered under completely different circumstances.
Which brings us to the myriad of differences in the directions and descriptions. Scene 135 does indeed begin with Tracy and Quentin holding hands as they stroll through a meadow - but she doesn't stop to pick a flower, nor does he watch her while she does so or deliver today's quote or draw her to him after she looks up into his face. They simply stroll up to and underneath a cherry blossom tree, pushing branches of flowers -
- out of their way as they go - and then things switch to a completely different location - which brings us to revisit Scene 71A as scripted:
DISSOLVE TO:
71A EXT - RAILROAD FOOTBRIDGE - DAY 71A
as they stroll hand-in-hand with the river in the B.G.
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Scene 71A does not take place in the film as it currently stands. It seems to have been moved to play along with and after Scene 135 comes up because, as can be seen in the following capture, after Scene 135 things switch to Quentin and Tracy under the railroad footbridge -
- with Tracy throwing a rock into the river, and then after she sits down, Quentin strokes her cheek, delivers today's quote from Scene 135 -
Page 67/Scene 135 - Quentin: 'Do you have any idea how
much I need you?' - and then she kisses him, nuzzles his cheek, and -
- rests her head on his chest, none which is scripted for Scene 71A or Scene 135 or, more likely, a nonexistent Scene 135A. So who knows why things are done that way in the film? DC may have simply thought Scene 71A wasn't needed where it was placed in the script (possibly because it's part of a montage or romantic moments between Quentin and Tracy) and it worked better following Scene 135 with Scene 135's bit of dialogue. I suppose we'll never know. But things do indeed work well the way they are.
And finally, after I posted about it the other day, I figured that I should have posted the photo I've used for the graphics for Scenes 116 and 134 so that people could also read the caption that 16 Magazine gave it. So, here it is:
And as I said, you will note that David Selby and Kate Jackson are both wearing the same clothes that they wear in the strolling in the meadow portion of Scene 135.