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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: April 29, 2024, 02:44:10 PM »
Revisiting how Scenes 160 & 161 are scripted:
And as far as "today's" quotes go, they were April 27th's this time around.
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160 EXT - COLLINWOOD DRIVE - DAY - HIGH ANGLE 160
Quentin's car drives into the portico and stops. In
a moment the door opens, and Quentin gets out. As
he crosses to the house, PAN TO THE TOWER where Tracy
can be seen through the windows, still looking at the
picture. She crosses to the windows where she stands
trying to puzzle it out. Suddenly, she looks down and
reacts to the sight of Quentin's car.
161 INT - TOWER ROOM - DAY 161
as Tracy moves quickly to the door and is about to
EXIT. She hears the SOUND OF QUENTIN'S VOICE O.S.
And that's when today's first quote -Page 74/Scene 161 - Quentin (O.S.): 'Carlotta -- have you seen my jacket? I can't buy a damn thing without my wallet.'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
161 CONTD CONTD 161
Quickly Tracy jumps back and closes the door from
inside. She fumbles with the keys. Before she can
put the key in the lock, the SOUND OF QUENTIN'S
VOICE can be heard -- this time at the base of the
Tower stairs.
And that's when today's second quote -Page 75/Scene 161 - Quentin (O.S.): 'Never mind, Carlotta. I'll check the tower.'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
She hears him coming up the steps. Quickly, she
moves to the other side of the room, holding her
breath, staring at the door.
And when it comes to what's different with the dialogue, the interesting thing is that the words are pretty much as scripted but the order of the lines is changed because first Quentin says "Carlotta, have you seen my jacket?" and then he says "Never mind. I'll check the tower. Can't buy a damn thing without my wallet." And not all of it is delivered off screen, but more on that below...
And when it comes to what's different with the descriptions and directions, ... when it comes to Scene 160, Quentin's car doesn't drive into the portico because it actually stops quite a bit -
- short of it, after which we do see Quentin get out and run toward the front door - and after the camera has panned to the tower, we actually see Tracy through the windows as she still stands at the easel trying to puzzle the painting out, and that's the only stuff that's shot from outside - when Tracy turns from the painting, things are back to being shot from inside the tower - and she doesn't cross to the windows to stand and puzzle things out because her intent is to leave as she moves by the window and toward the door, but she stops in her tracks when she sees (we don't) Quentin's car - and at the start of Scene 161, Tracy is still looking out the window when all of a sudden she hears Quentin's voice as he says "Carlotta, have you seen my jacket?" off screen, and she quickly turns -
- and moves down to close the door -
- as we hear Quentin say "Never mind. I'll check the tower" - however, we don't see Tracy fumble with the keys to try to put the key in the lock because immediately after Tracy closes the door the camera pans to the lower tower where we actually see Quentin approaching as -
- he says "Can't buy a damn thing without my wallet" - and when things switch back to inside the tower, we don't see Tracy quickly move to the other side of the room because what she actually does is -
- Tracy plaster herself against the wall by the door, holding her breath as she hears Quentin's footsteps coming up the stairs.
And as far as "today's" quotes go, they were April 27th's this time around.