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This is an episode that I found really terrifying and almost gut-wrenching, not from any gore, but from the horror the band of thespian vampires commit regarding their victims. What makes it compelling is that the first victim, up on the stage, futilely pleading with the audience - who all thought it was an act - to help her. She's quite innocent, a visiting Belgian to Paris, a wife and mother, simply selected for slaughter just because she's an innocent wife and mother and with no mercy the chorus of vampires turn her into fodder.
And then there's the bloodbath of wealthy Parisians in an elegant chateau, but they deserve it because as their fellow French wallowed in misery from the shortages of war, they used their riches to scoop up whatever limited or rationed necessities or luxuries of life were available. So, at a party using all those resources for their wanton desires, the vampires eradicate them in screams of terror and pain. And we got to see it, in the background, as Louis and Armand were deep in conversation in the foreground, ignoring the mayhem of massacre with shadows in windows turned into splattering of blood and bodies hurtling to the ground with vampires feasting on them. Now that's how to film a horror TV series.
I can't wait until next Sunday.
Wrapping up Scene 185 as scripted (using Grayson's script):
QUENTIN - CLOSE-UP - TRACY'S P.O.V.
Now only a few feet from her, the look of incredible
hate in his eyes burns into the CAMERA.
And that's when yesterday's quote -Page 86/Scene 185 - Tracy (O.S.) (hysterical): 'Quentin!...Quentin! It's me...It's me...please!...'
- comes up in the script, followed in the script by:
Reaching TOWARD CAMERA, with his face almost in the
lens.
And that's when today's quote -Page 86/Scene 185 - Quentin: 'No, Laura. I'm going to make sure you'll never interfere again.'
- comes up in the script, followed in the script by:
TRACY - QUENTIN - HAND HELD
As he grabs her and drags her, screaming and kicking,
to the edge of the pool and plunges her into the
filthy dark water. Holding her head under, she
futilely claws and scratches at his hands and arms.
HOLD ON THIS as her movements become weaker and
weaker, and, finally she starts to sink to the bottom
of the pool. Quentin then slowly rises and moves
AWAY FROM CAMERA.
End of scene.
And when it comes to differences in the dialogue, yesterday's and today's quotes are actually flipped in the film with Quentin's coming first -
"No, Laura. I'm going to make sure you'll never interfere again."
- and Quentin seems to deliver his lines exactly as scripted but Tracy's hysterical delivery is so loud that it appears to cut off the word "again" - and when it comes to Tracy's quote -
"Quentin!...Quentin! It's me...It's me...please!..."
- what she actually says is "No, look, it, it's me!...Stop it, Quentin, it's me!..." and she cries out as she's about to hit the water, and she continues to cry out as Quentin repeatedly dunks her under the water.
And when it comes to the differences in the descriptions and directions, Quentin doesn't actually reach toward camera because as we saw in yesterday's capture above, he reaches around Tracy's throat, but his face is -
- almost in the lens - and as Tracy screams "me!...Stop it", it's actually Laura -
- who Quentin sees before he angrily throws Tracy -
- into the water - though one thing I find very interesting is that Quentin's face shifts to almost expressionless as -
- Tracy is about to fall into the water - but I absolutely love how David Selby inadvertently splashes himself in the face while he's dunking Kate Jackson -
- and especially Quentin's crazed expression as he pulls back after Tracy stops -
- fighting him.
And interestingly enough, even though Carlotta doesn't appear in Scene 185, Grayson has several notes in her script. In part she writes that Carlotta has done what she promised, that Quentin is Angelique's forever, and that she and Angelique are smiling at each other. It can also be made out that Carlotta is kissing the lock of hair (though we never do actually see that lock of hair in the film) and somehow she offers it as a symbol of victory. Also, she writes that they have won because (she believes, anyway, that) Tracy is dead...