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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: May 11, 2024, 03:32:20 PM »
Wrapping up revisiting how Scene 174 is scripted:
And as far as "yesterday's quote" goes, it was indeed yesterday's quote, meaning it was May 10th's this time around, and "today's quote" is indeed today's, May 11h's, quote.
... beginning with yesterday's quote, Alex' reply to Claire -Page 81/Scene 174 - Alex: 'I've got to break through to him. If I can only get him to admit that it has to be at least more than a coincidence...we've got a shot.'
- coming up, followed in the script by:
TRUCK IN to the portrait.
174 CONTD CONTD 174
And that's when today's quote -Page 82/Scene 174 - Claire (O.S.): 'Well, it'll have to wait until morning.'
- comes up.
End of scene.
And as far as the dialogue goes, Alex actually says "Honey, I gotta break through to him some way. If I can just get him to admit that it's at least more than a coincidence, we got a shot" - however, the first part of Alex' actual dialogue ("Honey, I gotta break through to him some way.") is delivered off screen as the camera continues to truck in -
- on Charles Collins' portrait and then holds on it - and as can be seen in today's capture -
- Claire doesn't actually deliver her line off screen.
And when it comes to the descriptions and the directions, the camera doesn't truck in on the portrait after Alex' lines because, as we've already discussed, it did so before yesterday's quote and into the first part of it - and the scene actually ends with -
- Alex taking a sip of his drink as things soon begin to dissolve into upcoming Scene 175...
And as far as "yesterday's quote" goes, it was indeed yesterday's quote, meaning it was May 10th's this time around, and "today's quote" is indeed today's, May 11h's, quote.