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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: March 24, 2024, 12:48:27 AM »
More revisiting of how Scene 124 is scripted:
And so far as "today's quote" goes, it was yesterday's, March 22nd's, this time around, and the reference to the 22nd's slideshow will be the 25th's this time around...
Continuing Scene 124 (using Grayson's script):
Strack
Traskand then the others file down the stairs.
Angelique stares coldly ahead, holding herself aloof
124 CONTD CONTD 124
from her persecutors. One of the men holds a
blood-soaked kerchief to his face. Charles is the
last to appear. He has already resigned himself
to her fate. As they are about to go down the
next flight, Sarah suddenly runs in, throwing her
arms around Angelique's waist.
And that's when today's quote -Page 62/Scene 124 - Sarah: 'No! No! I won't let you take her! She is good! She is good!'
- comes up.
And as far as differences in the dialogue go, playing over the outset of this section of the scene is actually unscripted voiceover by Carlotta: "She walked down the stairs so proudly. They were all afraid to touch her. I suddenly knew I would never see her again. I ran to her. I couldn't let her go" - though whether or not that was always planned as a continuation of the scripted voiceover from earlier in the scene or as a replacement for it when the earlier part of the scene wasn't included in the film, who knows? (It has been mentioned that after the marathon editing session David Selby and John Karlen were called in to dub new stuff to help to make what remained make more sense, but I've never seen it mentioned that Grayson also was.) - and the end of the unscripted voiceover actually plays over Sarah's lines, which are actually "No! No! I won't let you take her!" with the "She is good! She is good!" part completely dropped. (Though it may have been shot but was simply cut because right after Sarah says that she won't let them take Angelique, the camera switches from shooting like today's capture -
- and focuses on a close-up of Charles that we will see as part of tomorrow's slideshow.
And as far as differences in the directions and the descriptions go, there is actually a clasp of thunder as the film makes the switch from Scene 122's proclamation by Strack that Charles shall watch Angelique die to Scene 124 and Carlotta's unscripted voiceover regarding how Angelique descended the stairs - and the interesting thing is that Angelique seems to stare at Laura almost the entire time she walks down the stairs, and the smug look on Laura's face, as can be seen in the following capture -
- is absolutely priceless as Angelique reaches Laura in the second floor corridor! And if looks could kill, Laura might have been dead there and then given the way -
- Angelique looks at her. And what's also interesting is that as Angelique moves away from Laura, she has a slight smile on her face -
- as if she already knows her impending hanging will be far from the end. Though one other thing is that we don't see one of Strack's henchman, presumably the one Angelique scratched in Scene 85, holding a blood-soaked kerchief. In fact, we haven't even seen him in the scene at all yet - and the explanation for why that is will be coming in a future post...
And there are no notes in either DC's or Grayson's script for any of this section. In fact, there are no notes for any of Scene 124. Though one thing I haven't mentioned yet is that the end of Scene 124 is different/longer in DC's script from the way it is in Grayson's - and we'll deal with that once we've reached the 22nd's installment of the slideshow...
And to give you something else to look forward to, on the 23rd I'll be sharing the very first article published for the film that features photos taken of some of the first scenes shot for the film. It you've never seen the article, you might be surprised which scenes were soon to be shot after shooting began with Angelique's funeral...
And so far as "today's quote" goes, it was yesterday's, March 22nd's, this time around, and the reference to the 22nd's slideshow will be the 25th's this time around...