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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: December 23, 2023, 07:52:00 PM »
Revisiting how the last part of Scene 100 is scripted:
As far as "today's quote" goes, it was December 22nd this time around.
As far as "Sunday's" quotes go, they're today's, December 23rd's quotes this time around. As far as "Monday's quote" goes, it will be tomorrow's, December 24th's quote this time around. And as far as "today's quote" goes, it will be December 25th's quote this time around.
Continuing on with DC's B portion of Scene 100:
100 CONTD CONTD 100
QUENTIN CLOSE-UP
QUENTIN
But still -
And that's when today's quote -Page 43/Scene 100B - Tracy (gets up, crosses to him): 'Don't worry about me...the important thing now is to figure out why it happened.'
- comes up.
And when it comes to what's different with the dialogue, Quentin's "But still -" is dropped in the film - and what Tracy actually says "Don't worry about me...the important thing is to try to figure out why it happened" - and strangely enough when it comes to that line, while DC's script indicates "(gets up, crosses to him)", Grayson's script simply indicates the odd "(to him)".
And when it comes to what's different with the descriptions and directions, Quentin actually gets up after yesterday's second quote where Tracy reassures him that he stopped what he was doing to her once he realized what you were doing, but he doesn't actually cross to the window - and more than likely that's because his "But still -" was dropped, so there's also no close-up of Quentin - what we actually see of Quentin, as can be seen in the following capture -
- is a medium shot - and when Tracy joins him, as can be seen in today's capture -
- it remains that way - we don't actually see Tracy get up because she simply comes from behind him to join him. But what's interesting is that DC's script has a notation that Quentin would indeed be shot in close-up for the "But still -" line and then the camera would pan to a 2 shot as Tracy crosses to him - but obviously, if the close-up was shot, it wasn't used in the edit of the film that we're familiar with.
As far as "today's quote" goes, it was December 22nd this time around.
Wrapping up DC's B portion of Scene 100, beginning with Sunday's first quote, Quentin's response to Tracy saying the important thing is to figure out why what happened with Gerard actually happened -Page 43/Scene 100B - Quentin: 'I know...and how are we going to do that?'
- coming up, followed by Sunday's second quote -Page 43/Scene 100B - Tracy: 'Let's go to bed. I'm sure it'll seem easier tomorrow.'
-coming up, followed by Monday's quote -Page 43/Scene 100B - Quentin: 'Aren't you...afraid to sleep in the same room with me?'
- coming up, followed by today's quote -Page 43/Scene 100B - Tracy (hugging him): 'No...darling...no...'
- coming up.
And as for what's different with the dialogue, Quentin actually says "I know...how we gonna do that?" - and to that Tracy actually replies "Well, let's go to sleep. I'm sure it'll seem easier in the morning" - and after Quentin actually asks more directly "You're not afraid of me?", Tracy actually reassures him with "No...no...", with the "darling..." part dropped.
And as for what's different with the descriptions and directions, Tracy doesn't so much hug Quentin as she nuzzles up against his neck - and interestingly DC's script has a notation that when it comes to Tracy's last line in the scene, the camera would tighten in on Tracy and Quentin's 2 heads - but as can be seen in today's capture -
- there isn't any tightening of the camera at all - things are shot from exactly the same distance as the two captures posted in reply #221.
And tomorrow the slideshow will begin yet another sequence that's different in Grayson's script from the way it is in DC's. But more on that tomorrow...
As far as "Sunday's" quotes go, they're today's, December 23rd's quotes this time around. As far as "Monday's quote" goes, it will be tomorrow's, December 24th's quote this time around. And as far as "today's quote" goes, it will be December 25th's quote this time around.