Moving on to the next two scenes:
228 THE BRICK WALL - QUENTIN'S P.O.V. 228
BACK TO SCENE
as they help the still-crying Tracy to her feet, Quentin crosses to the brick wall and stands looking at it. He thinks for a moment, then turns to them.
QUENTIN That's it!
Alex looks at him.
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And that's when yesterday's quote -
Page 105/Scene 228 - Quentin: 'The brick! That was the sound! The sound of brick being laid.'
comes up, followed in the script by:
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229 INT - SMALL ROOM - NIGHT 229
as Alex and Quentin have just about finished ripping out the brick wall, the large iron door is revealed. Quentin grabs the rusted bolt and unlocks it.
INT - ROUND BURIAL ROOM - NIGHT
as the door opens and light streams in, Quentin and
Alex stand in silhouette in the doorway.
THE ROOM - THEIR P.O.V.
The light of their candelabras reveal an aged pine coffin covered with cobwebs and dust. As they ENTER THE SHOT and cross to it, they suddenly see the skeletal remains of Charles Collins. In the B.G., the girls appear at the doorway.
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 106/Scene 229 - Quentin: 'So this is why Laura was laughing at the funeral. They were burying an empty coffin.'
comes up.
End of scene and end of sequence. And the sad thing is, even though Scene 228 was recovered with the 129 minute version of the film, Scene 229 was not. And again, sort of similar to how the rewrite of Scene 218 drops all reference to Quentin having trouble breathing on the night of his dream even though a big thing is made of that in Scene 103, it's odd that Scene 52 makes a point of having Gerard do brickwork so that Quentin will have the sound of it in the back of his memory, yet because all future references seemingly save for Quentin suddenly putting 2 and 2 together (even though we have no idea that he's been trying to place a sound because Scene 218 is not in the film and may not have even been shot) it makes Quentin's eureka moment come from out of nowhere. Not to mention that Scene 229's revelation of the discovery of Angelique's and Charles' remains would certainly seem like a major plot payoff. But apparently not to DC. And as we know only too well, ours is not to fathom DC's thinking. Instead of how things were scripted to build up, we simply get Quentin delivering the scripted "The brick! That was the sound! The sound of brick being laid", presumably along with "Charles Collins is in there!", which DC added to his script.
And similar to cropping Claire out of a still to use in Friday's graphic, I cropped the coffin/skeleton out of the following frequently seen still -
- (though for some strange reason I can't seem to locate the actual version of it that I used that shows more of the skeleton). And I also want to share this rare still of David Selby posing with Quentin's former self (or is it Angelique, as we got into in reply #34 - who knows?)
- an alternate version of which appears in the 30th Anniversary Tribute version of the DS Almanac on page 141.