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« on: December 04, 2017, 06:44:21 PM »It's been very interesting to see just how much material seems to have been cut after Old Barn's murder of Julia and attack on Maggie.
Sadly some things, like Stokes and Roger planning to do research in Collinwood's tower library (interesting how in NoDS there's no hint whatsoever the tower was ever used as a library (more evidence that NoDS takes place in a parallel Collinwood?)) and then carrying the research out, were completely dropped. Though, as we'll see when I get back to the script, other things, like the current version of Scene 218, are rewrites.
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I seem to recall that some of this did show up in the Ross novelization but it's been far too long for me to remember details.
Yes, the dropped things and the original versions of what was rewritten are in the novel and will be shared.
One thing that I do find interesting in the novel is there's a scene between Julia and Mrs. Johnson when Julia returns to Collinwood after giving Barnabas the overdose and before she packs in her room. I haven't checked to see if it's listed on the original shooting schedule like so many other scenes that also appear in the novel but not in DC's version of the script.
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I don't think one of my favorite scenes of the final portion of the movie will show up at all in the slideshow. It's when Stokes visits the abandoned Old House. Very brief but so atmospheric and understated.
Unfortunately there wasn't any dialogue in that sequence to share in the slideshow - but I'm sure I'll share at least a capture once I get to it in the script...