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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: November 03, 2023, 12:52:04 AM »
Two more posts worth revisiting regarding the scripted version of Scene 80:
It's interesting that the quote from the script for today is:Page 30A/Scene 80 - Quentin: 'But I didn't see you. I saw a child...holding a teddy bear...'
Though as we know, what Quentin actually says in the film is "But I didn't see you. I saw a child...holding a doll...", and that's exactly what we saw him see. Apparently at some point after the script was written, it was changed to a doll.
I'm supposing (hoping) that the teddy bear was changed to a doll because otherwise it would have been rather anachronistic. What Quentin saw in his vision was something that happened around hundred years before the development of teddy bears. (And commercially produced stuffed toys didn't appear until just a couple decades or so before the teddy bear.)
I didn't even think of that, KMR - in 1810 Teddy Roosevelt wouldn't even be born for something close to 40 years! Having Sarah holding a teddy bear would have been very wrong!! Plus, like I said, I think a doll just works so much better (and for a variety or reasons that we'll be getting into later).