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Current Talk '24 I / Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« on: January 31, 2017, 04:18:04 AM »
And here's the original draft's version of Daphne's stalking, attack, and her discovery by Jeff:
Maybe it's just me, but I actually find the series of shots section to be rather thrilling. But when it was changed to Daphne having brought her own car, that obviously eliminated the need for her to go out to wait for a bus and all that followed there. And if Jeff had been listening to music in his car, I wonder what Robert Cobert tune would have been playing? And it's interesting that both here in the original draft and in DC's script's version there is supposed to be a hood mount shot with Jeff and an insert shot of Jeff's foot hitting the break peddle of his car, but nothing like either makes it into the film. And I also find it interesting that Scene 36 here in the original draft is actually very close to how Scene 36 actually plays in the film...
27 EXT. WOODS - NIGHT 27 Daphne walks through the woods. There is the SOUND OF DISTANT THUNDER. There is a flash of lightning. Daphne stops, looks at the sky, begins walking a little faster. As she does she hears the SOUND OF SOMETHING - OR SOMEONE - IN THE BUSHES at her side. She stops, turns, looks. DAPHNE'S POV - THE BUSHES The branches move as if someone has passed by. But then again, it could have simply been the wind. 28 DAPHNE 28 CAMERA TRUCKING IN FRONT OF HER. She starts to walk quickly. Not running. She hears the SOUND OF A DOG HOWLING. THE SOUND IS SO MOURNFUL that she stops. Then she hears the sound OF A TWIG SNAPPING behind her. The bushes RUSTLE. She suddenly is afraid. She runs TOWARD CAMERA. 29 EXT. ROAD LEADING TO MAIN GATE - COLLINWOOD - 29 NIGHT SHOOTING THROUGH GATES LONG LENS. Daphne running down the lane to the gates, opens them. She passes through them, closes them carefully. 30 EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - OUTSIDE MAIN GATES - 30 NIGHT Daphne approaches a bench by the side of the road. Ob- viously this is the bus stop. She looks up the dark road for signs of the bus. She checks her watch ner- vously. There is THUNDER, LIGHTNING. 31 SERIES OF FAST CUTS 31 Daphne looks up the road, hoping desperately to see lights. She hears the SOUND OF THE GATES CREAKING. She turns to them. One of them is now open. Daphne starts to walk toward Collinsport. She walks very fast. The CAMERA TRUCKS ALONG SIDE of her. We see her in profile as she strides along the road. CAMERA STOPS TRUCKING with her as she EXITS SHOT. - it ZOOMS into the bushes to a PAIR OF FEET - MALE - IN BOOTS. The feet do not move. Daphne's feet as they walk along the roadside. 31 CONTD CONTD 31 The boots, starting slowly to walk. They step on a twig. BREAK it. Daphne hears the sound. The boots walking. Daphne, a SOB ESCAPTING HER LIPS. She starts to run. The boots quickening their pace. The SOUND OF THE HOWLING DOG is CLOSER. CAMERA is in front of Daphne. She hears the NOISE OF RUNNING in the bushes, looks over her shoulder. 32 REVERSE - ZOOM TO CLOSE UP DAPHNE 32 as she sees someone or something. She stops, frozen with fear. A HAND with a RING on it, a large unforget- table ring, worn on the first finger, grabs her by the throat. She is SCREAMING, struggling. A SECOND HAND joins the first. The hands are strangling her. The SCREAMING stops. 33 EXT. CEMETERY - GATES 33 LONG LENS THROUGH THE GATES, UP THE ROAD, HEADLIGHTS beam into CAMERA. 34 EXT. CAR - NIGHT - HOOD MOUNT SHOT 34 JEFF CLARK, handsome, young, drives his convertible, listening to the ROCK and ROLL BLARING FROM THE RADIO. His face suddenly registers alarm. 35 INSERT SHOT 35 His foot hitting the brake. 36 JEFF'S POV THROUGH WINDSHIELD 36 A woman staggers across the road. |
Maybe it's just me, but I actually find the series of shots section to be rather thrilling. But when it was changed to Daphne having brought her own car, that obviously eliminated the need for her to go out to wait for a bus and all that followed there. And if Jeff had been listening to music in his car, I wonder what Robert Cobert tune would have been playing? And it's interesting that both here in the original draft and in DC's script's version there is supposed to be a hood mount shot with Jeff and an insert shot of Jeff's foot hitting the break peddle of his car, but nothing like either makes it into the film. And I also find it interesting that Scene 36 here in the original draft is actually very close to how Scene 36 actually plays in the film...