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« on: September 24, 2013, 08:59:53 PM »they really went through a lot of trouble and expense for Vicki's escape from windcliff sequence. it was obviously a location shoot that likely took several days. remember those were among the first images we saw from the film?
the resulting footage was only used for a few seconds in a flashback.
The sequence involving Vicki's escape from Windcliff was shot at Beckenham Place Park on the evening of July 26, 2011 between the hours of dusk and 2am - or so a few tweets made that day and some subsequent articles posted on the Internet told us. However, the supposed involvement of the dogs (that was mentioned by the SimonandLiz Hayhurst Consultancy, who were granted official access to the location - and who probably provided the best photos of the shoot) never did make it into the film. Presumably as guard dogs at Windcliff they would have chased Vicki as she made her escape across the grounds. But we may never know. (And it's interesting how dogs seem to be cut out of DS films because Gerard's dogs had their entire parts cut from NoDS. Though at least in the case of Scene #106(Tracy goes to the stables to ride and encounters Gerard and the dogs) DC supposedly didn't think the dogs acted vicious enough.)
And one other thing that's interesting about the the shooting at Beckenham Place Park was that there was supposedly a second day of shooting involving Helena Bonham Carter. If so, that stuff wouldn't seem to have appeared in the film either. But wouldn't it have been interesting if Julia had been at Windcliff at some point during Maggie's stay - though whether Julia would have been aware of Maggie as a patient there is anyone's guess...