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Complete This Phrase / Fill In The Blank(s) - Vicki's Arrival-Burke's Revenge-Matthew Morgan-Introducing Josette / Re: Episode #0059
« on: January 16, 2024, 11:04:54 PM »
OMG - THAT is perhaps one of your FUNNIEST ONES yet!!
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"Vicki, there is no fire-breathing dragon living under the staircase!!"
You were worried about the dinner, says Carolyn--there, you see what you ought to have is a housekeeper and cook--it's silly for you to do all that. Why are you suddenly so interested in a housekeeper for Collinwood? asks Liz--do you think we owe something to Sarah Johnson? Yes I do, says Carolyn, Mr. Malloy worked for our company, so in a way, Mrs. Johnson did, too--she must feel almost like a widow now--she has no place where she feels needed. I'm glad you're so considerate, darling, says Liz. Besides, grins Carolyn, she's a great cook. Ah ha! says Liz. That's only one reason, says Carolyn. I'm relieved to hear there's nothing but good food on your mind, teases Liz. Then you will ask her? says Carolyn. I'll think about it, promises Liz and walks toward the stairs. Carolyn closes the window, smiling, pleased.
The following is a list of scenes that are still lost and which are not present in the 129 min version recovered in 1999.
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EXT.STABLE. Tracy enters stable while Gerard watches from scaffold. INT.STABLE. Dogs attack Tracy. Gerard molests Tracy. INT.HORSE PART OF STABLE. Tracy leaves on horse.
A scene that appears in the script before the one that contains tomorrow's quote:
107 EXT - GROUNDS - COLLINWOOD - DAY - WIDE ANGLE 107
It is a beautiful sunny afternoon. Alex is riding
a bicycle TOWARD CAMERA. There are a number of
books in the front basket. In the B.G. the ram-
bling greenhouse can be seen.
ALEX - TRUCKING SHOT
CAMERA TRUCKS IN FRONT OF ALEX HOLDING HIM IN
CLOSE-UP. Suddenly he catches something out of
the corner of his eye, O.S. He stops.
End of scene - but just the beginning of the next sequence...
And so far as any differences in the dialogue go, well, there obviously aren't any differences because there isn't any dialogue.
And so far as any differences in the directions and descriptions go, the greenhouse isn't actually seen in the background as Alex rides his bicycle - and Alex is never actually seen in close-up, only medium or wide shots such as these:
Wrapping up Scene 106A and moving beyond, first by picking up the script from where we left off:
Tracy looks back.
And that's when today's first quote -Page 47A/Scene 106A - Tracy: 'Why not?'
- comes up, followed by today's second quote -Page 47A/Scene 106A - Gerard: 'You won't see very much...it burned down -- over one hundred years ago.'
- coming up, followed by the scene concluding in DC's script with:
She looks at him then rides out.
However, it was DC's intent that Tracy not listen to Gerard and to ride out to the location of the former mill because at the top of page 48 in his script he's handwritten:
106A EXT - RAVINE - BURNED MILL
As Tracy rides in and looks
it over
And chances are the reason it's also indicted to be Scene 106A is most probably because DC added it to his script before Scene 106 was split into two scenes with the rewrite being Scene 106A.
And when it comes to the dialogue, the descriptions, and the directions, there's nothing to comment about with comparison to the film because none of this sequence appears in any version of the film. What is a shame, though, even though ultimately we were never going to see it, is that they dropped how Tracy was going to be unable to bear Gerard's presence any longer...
And supposedly the reason why Scenes 105 through the second 106A don't appear in the film is because DC was quite unhappy with the performances of the two dogs playing Brutus and Tar. According to Richard Shore, who was the Director of Photography on the film, the dogs looked "absolutely savage" and "everybody was terrified of them" - however, when it came time to shoot them terrorizing Tracy, "the dogs turned out to be extremely friendly and would not growl or bark menacingly." And Shore goes on to say that "It took forever for the trainer to goad them into looking mean." But apparently DC still wasn't satisfied with the result and decided to cut the entire sequence. And that's quite unfortunate because the 106A scenes definitely show that Tracy has good reason to be worried about Quentin because at least half of what he told her earlier in Scene 104 was a delusion, not to mention it clued in the audience to the fact that Charles' personality was somehow encroaching in on Quentin's personality.
An interesting aside is that the dog trainer was given an extras role in the film. And IF I'm remembering things correctly, I believe it was as one of the men who was involved in the hanging of Angelique. It's funny how he made it into the released film in a significant way but his dogs didn't. (However, they do appear more significantly in the 129 minute version of the film in Scene 48 -
- and they're talked about in Scene 50.)
And tomorrow we will begin a new sequence that is actually in the film - however, it's also the only sequence from this month's slideshow that actually does appear in the film...