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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: July 10, 2023, 05:12:20 PM »
Revisiting deleted Scene 229:
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CUT TO:
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.
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 ...) 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. ...
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