Moving on, beginning with Scene 24:
CUT TO:
24 EXT - QUENTIN - TRACY - HIGH ANGLE 24
CAMERA THROUGH SECOND FLOOR STAIRWELL WINDOW as if someone is watching. From this angle, Quentin, back is to the CAMERA so that his face is not re- vealed. As he turns to say something to Tracy, revealing his face, ZOOM IN TO CLOSE-UP.
25 EXT - SECOND FLOOR STAIRWELL WINDOW - DAY 25
Angle from below reveals Carlotta observing the scene. ZOOM IN TO HER CLOSE-UP as she reacts.
26 EXT - COLLINWOOD - DAY - MEDIUM ANGLE 26
as Quentin closes the trunk and in one quick motion sweeps Tracy off her feet, intending to carry his bride across the threshold.
27 INT - SECOND FLOOR STAIRWELL - CARLOTTA - DAY 27
TRUCK IN TO HER CLOSE-UP as she watches them.
28 INT - FOYER - DAY 28
as Quentin carries Tracy in he gives her a big kiss. HOLD FOR A MOMENT and then Carlotta interrupts them from O.S.
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And that's when the first part of Monday's quote -
Page 8/Scene 28 - Carlotta (O.S.): 'Mr. & Mrs. Collins?'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
Quentin and Tracy are momentarily embarrassed, caught unawares.
CARLOTTA - CLOSE-UP
She is smiling and friendly.
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And that's when the second part of Monday's quote -
Page 8/Scene 28 - Carlotta: 'I'm Carlotta Drake, Welcome to Collinwood.'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
28 CONTD CONTD 28
BACK TO SCENE
as Quentin puts Tracy down.
QUENTIN Thank you, Miss Drake.
CARLOTTA Carlotta, please.
She is looking them over carefully, in female fashion. Tracy offers her hand.
TRACY Hello, Carlotta.
CARLOTTA (taking her hand) It's so good to have you here -- I do hope you'll find everything to your liking, Mrs. Collins.
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End of scene.
And so far there are still no differences between the way DC's and Grayson Hall's scripts are written - however, in DC's script Scenes 25 -27 have a box drawn around them and a big X in the box, which means that DC didn't intend to shoot them. But despite that, or more likely before she was aware that those scenes weren't going to be shot, Grayson Hall added a note in her script that reads "See that it's him at last the answer to the dream".
And when it comes to anything different in the dialogue, again, there's quite a bit. After Tracy and Quentin come up to the entryway of Collinwood and Tracy peers through the glass doors, in an unscripted bit of dialogue she says "Oh no, I don't think I'm going in there", but in another bit of unscripted dialogue, Quentin says "Yes, you are" - and after they enter, Quentin says in yet another bit of unscripted dialogue "Can you believe it? It's all ours", and then they both laugh lightly - and after Carlotta greets them from off screen, once she comes on screen, she switches things up by actually saying "Welcome to Collinwood. I'm Carlotta Drake" (and Grayson made some notations in her script to be "pleasant and straight" and "almost preoccupied with looking at him + her) - and while Quentin responds to Carlotta as scripted, Carlotta's line to address her by her first name is dropped - and rather than "Hello, Carlotta", Tracy says "How do you do" - and Carlotta's greeting to Tracy and her hope that everything will be to Tracy's liking is also dropped. (And I'm surprised that Grayson didn't make a notation about Carlotta saying it's so good to have Tracy at Collinwood because as we'll definitely find out along the way, clearly that's not how she feels because she has a definite agenda in mind, so chances are the line would have been delivered with that subtext in Carlotta's mind.)
And so far as the directions and descriptions go, as can be seen in this capture -
- Scene 24 was not shot through the second floor stairwell window but through a third floor window of the tower - and because it's shot from so high up, Quentin's face is nowhere near recognizable and there is no zoom in to a close-up of him because he simply closes the door to the car and he and Tracy move toward the portico, each carrying a piece of luggage and leaving the rest of their luggage behind the car - and as already mentioned above, Scenes 25 -27 are dropped - and when it comes to Scene 28, as already somewhat alluded to, Quentin doesn't carry Tracy into the foyer because, as can be seen in this next capture -
- both of them simply carry their piece of luggage into the entryway, though as Quentin remarks that all of Collinwood is theirs, they do hug before Carlotta exits the foyer to greet them - and after Carlotta welcomes them and introduces herself, she shakes Quentin's hand as he thanks her, and then she shakes Tracy's hand as Tracy greets her - and it's interesting to note that DC's script has an added notation that the camera was supposed to pan to a 2 shot of Carlotta and Tracy when Tracy greats her and Carlotta is so nice to her, but given the way the scene actually plays in the film, apparently that idea was also dropped because what actually happens is, in camerawork that's unscripted, Scene 28 dissolves into the start of the upcoming Scene 29...