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« on: December 13, 2023, 12:52:32 AM »
Revisiting the next section of how Scene 88 is scripted:
References to Reply #188 also refer to Reply #1424 this time around.
And here's a series of posts related to the question I posed regarding those shared notes in Grayson's script:
And as we saw our resident brilliant Deciphernator was able to deduce many other notes that I'd shared. But sadly it seems as if even he was stumped when it came to the one I posted back in Reply #1311. But then Grayson's writing sometimes borders on how indecipherable the Egyptian Hieroglyphs were before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, so no one is blaming him.
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Quentin looks TOWARD CAMERA as if it were Carlotta,
who just entered the room.
And that's when today's quote -Page 38/Scene 88 - Quentin: 'What's that?'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
CARLOTTA
Having just ENTERED the room, she holds a gift-
wrapped package.
TRACY O.S.
It's our surprise.
WIDEN as Carlotta crosses to Quentin and gives him
the package.
QUENTIN
What is it?
He starts to rip the paper.
And as far as anything different in the dialogue goes, both of Quentin's lines are delivered exactly as written, but Tracy actually says "That's your surprise", which would seem to make more sense.
And as far as anything different with the descriptions and directions go, we don't actually see Quentin look toward camera as if it were Carlotta who entered the room because, as was already obvious with the last two captures in reply #188, we see Carlotta enter the room, and the camera shot remains at that angle - and before Quentin notices the package, he actually reaches for something on the table and begins to chew it before he asks what it is that Carlotta has - and after Tracy answers off screen that it's a surprise, without the indicated widening of the frame, Carlotta then moves from where she's been standing on screen all along and hands the package to Quentin as Alex sits and pours himself some wine - and Quentin doesn't so much as rip the paper as he lifts the top off the box.
And when it comes to DC's script, he has a notation between Quentin asking "What's that?" and Carlotta's scripted entrance -
QUENTIN
What's that?
INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT
CARLOTTA
- but as can be seen, he doesn't consider it a new scene - and in the film things are no longer shot through the dining room doorway but in the actual dining room beginning with Alex saying "A little more wine for the gentleman", as could be seen in reply #188's captures of Carlotta's entrance into the room.
And when it comes to Grayson's script, she has a notation for the point in the script where Carlotta enters (which just so happens to be in the same place that DC has his notation), but for the life of me I can't really decipher all of her handwriting. See if you can:
References to Reply #188 also refer to Reply #1424 this time around.
And here's a series of posts related to the question I posed regarding those shared notes in Grayson's script:
Let's see. I read it as Specific change around others. Taut tense unbending.
How does that sound to you, MB?
Actually, that sounds perfect and makes me wonder why I didn't see it myself? It was mostly the "specific" that was giving me trouble.
Thanks!
My years of having to decipher extremely creative penmanship from my OTB career sometimes pays off in unexpected ways.
I see. Good to know! And if I have any other deciphering problems, you'll be the first I'll ask!!
Just another part of my reasonably checkered past that has come in handy.
And as we saw our resident brilliant Deciphernator was able to deduce many other notes that I'd shared. But sadly it seems as if even he was stumped when it came to the one I posted back in Reply #1311. But then Grayson's writing sometimes borders on how indecipherable the Egyptian Hieroglyphs were before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, so no one is blaming him.