Before we get into today's quote, we have several other scenes to deal with:
193 EXT - ROAD - COLLINWOOD GROUNDS - NIGHT 193
As Alex' car comes ROARING TOWARD CAMERA.
194 INT - ALEX' CAR - NIGHT 194
The anxiety shows in his face as he recklessly pushes the car in an effort to get home as quickly as possible. Suddenly he hits the brake and swerves out of control as he is blinded by enormous lights on the road ahead.
195 EXT - ROAD - NIGHT 195
Gerard sits in his jeep, parked in the middle of the road. Alex' car can be seen in the B.G. careening through the underbrush by the side of the road.
INT - GERARD'S JEEP - NIGHT
as Gerard, throwing the jeep into gear, ROARS OFF after him.
196 SERIES OF SHOTS 196
As Gerard proceeds to constantly harass Alex by ramming the rear of his car and sideswiping him.
EXT - RAVINE - NIGHT
as the two cars come careening TOWARD CAMERA, Gerard's jeep finally pulls alongside Alex' car. Then, with one quick move, viciously side-swiping him, sending Alex' car off the road through the trees, down the rocky ravine.
|
End of sequence.
And even though there is no scripted dialogue, during what's presumably Scene 195, Alex ad libs -
"Son of a bitch." And as far as differences in the descriptions and directions go, in the film we actually see Gerard earlier than in the script because after we see Alex in his car, in what could presumably be a Scene 194A, we see that, unlike how Scene 195 describes his first appearance in the sequence, Gerard has hidden his truck -
- by the side of a building and is lying in wait for Alex -
- with a devilish smile on his face - and when it comes to Scene 195, Alex' car doesn't actually go off into the underbrush at the side of the road because Alex is able to swerve out of Gerard's way and remain -
- on the road - however, after that, Gerard does manage to pull out in front of Alex (which is what prompts Alex to call Gerard a son of a bitch) and -
- force Alex' car off of the road - but Alex does manage to get back on the road, and after that is when, in Scene 196, Gerard pulls up behind him to ram the rear of Alex car, to sideswipe (and, yes, the script does indeed misspell sideswipe once by making it hyphenated) him, and then eventually to force him off the road, though not into a rocky ravine -
- but to crash into a tree.
And finally, I wonder if we should read anything into the fact that Gerard couldn't seem to keep his hand off his gearshift during these scenes?