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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: April 30, 2024, 06:50:02 PM »
Revisiting how Scenes 166 through 169 are scripted:
And moving on to the next five scenes as scripted:
166 INT - MASTER BEDROOM - DAY 166
as Tracy ENTERS, she crosses to the window and looks
down at Quentin's car still parked in the drive.
Below, Quentin ENTERS THE SHOT. The SOUND OF THE
MOTOR STARTING can be heard.
167 Suddenly Carlotta appears and crosses to the 167
driver's side of the car, where she begins to tell
167 CONTD CONTD 167
him something. After a moment, Quentin nods his
head, looks angrily up at the bedroom window as
Tracy shrinks back against the wall. TRUCK IN ON
HER and HOLD until the SOUND OF QUENTIN'S CAR can
be heard driving off.
168 INT - MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT 168
Tracy lies on her side in bed, her back to the
CAMERA, as she stares out the window at the light in
the Tower Room. Finally, unable to stand it any
longer, she turns TOWARD CAMERA and pulls the blanket
up around her neck. her eyes are filled with tears.
HOLD FOR A MOMENT as the light in the Tower Room
goes out.
169 INT - TOWER ROOM STAIRS - NIGHT 169
The Tower door opens as Quentin ENTERS THE SHOT,
closing and locking it behind him. Pocketing the keys,
he comes TOWARD THE CAMERA and EXITS THE SHOT.
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And when it comes to what's different with the descriptions and directions, for Scene 166 we don't actually see Tracy enter the Master Bedroom and cross to the window to look down at Quentin's car, nor do we see Quentin enter the shot because the scene begins with Quentin already in his car and starting the motor -
- and as Carlotta speaks to Quentin, we don't see him nod his head, but he does look up at the bedroom window, as does Carlotta -
- and it isn't until after that has occurred that we see Tracy in the Master Bedroom at the window and -
- her pull away (and unless someone actually recognizes the blue curtains as the ones in the Master Bedroom, they wouldn't even realize which window Tracy is looking from) - but after the camera does indeed truck in closer on Tracy, we don't actually hear Quentin's car driving off because what actually happens is that the shot of Tracy dissolves into Scene 168 - however, the scene doesn't quite begin as scripted, with Tracy lying on her side in bed with her back to the camera as she stares out the window at the light in the Tower Room, but rather it begins with the camera panning across the Master Bedroom until it comes upon Tracy -
- sitting on the edge of the bed with her back to the camera - and it isn't until after we see Tracy rub -
- her forehead and then look up -
- at the Tower Room -
- (and what an extremely talented person she is to be able to see the Tower Room from an angle that's impossible to see from any window in the Master Bedroom ), that Tracy actually lies down on the bed -
- but facing the camera, not with her back to it, and she doesn't pull the blanket up around her neck, and we don't see the light in the Tower Room go out - but believe it or not, Scene 169 actually plays exactly as scripted ...
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