Concluding Scene 40 and moving through the sequence as it was scripted, shot, and how it originally played:
First up, today's quote -
Page 14/Scene 40 - Quentin: 'I am. I don't know why ... or how ... I don't really understand it ... but I almost feel as if I had come home at last.'
- which is then followed in the script by:
They are in each other's arms as we slowly
DISSOLVE TO:
41 EXT - FRONT OF COLLINWOOD - NIGHT - WIDE ANGLE 41
It is much later. The house is completely dark. The only sound is the GENTLE MOANING OF THE WIND. Suddenly the strange light we saw in the opening sequence begins to emanate from the Tower Room. CAMERA starts a SLOW ZOOM IN
42 INT - MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT 42
Quentin and Tracy are asleep. The curtains billow gently at the windows. CAMERA STARTS A SLOW TRUCK IN on Quentin as he begins to stir restlessly in his sleep. Finally he rolls over on his back. His eyes are wide open and he seems to be listening intently to some unheard sound. Slowly he starts to rise from the bed as CAMERA TRUCKS back revealing Tracy still sound asleep. Quentin, now out of the bed and moving as if in a trance, puts on his robe and quietly EXITS the room.
43 INT - CORRIDOR - OUTSIDE MASTER BEDROOM - LOW 43 ANGLE
as Quentin ENTERS the shot PAN with him as he starts toward the stairway to the third floor.
44 EXT - COLLINWOOD - NIGHT 44
SHOT favors the windows of the Tower Room, they still glow faintly from the light within.
HOLD on this for a moment as Quentin suddenly appears near the windows and then moves out of
44 CONTD CONTD 44
sight toward another part of the room. RACK FOCUS to EXTREME CLOSE-UP of Gerard, who has been standing there watching, his eyes blazing with hatred.
DISSOLVE TO:
45 INT - MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT 45
Tracy, alone in the bed, stirs, half awake. She reaches out for Quentin, awakens a little more, sees he is gone. Then she falls back to sleep.
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End of scene - though not end of sequence as it will pick up in tomorrow's post with the morning after...
And there are still no differences between the way DC's and Grayson Hall's scripts are written up to this point - but there is a notations in DC's script that we'll get into below...
And when it comes to any differences in the dialogue, the way Quentin's dialogue for Scene 40 works is that he actually says "I guess I will be", and then after they snuggle closer and Quentin kisses Tracy's forehead, he adjusts his head back on his pillow, puts his right arm behind his head, and actually says "I don't know why" - to which Tracy replies with an unscripted questioning grunt - and then Quentin actually continues with "I almost feel like I've come home again" - and Tracy actually replies to that with an unscripted "Well, that's good."
And so far as the directions and descriptions go, I've already explained what happens in Scene 40, but unlike how the script indicates that the end of Scene 40 dissolves into the beginning of Scene 41, in the film it's actually a simple cut to a shot -
- of the front of Collinwood - and the shot does not show any light in the tower room, nor does the shot zoom in - however, in one of the trailers for the film there is a shot of the back Collinwood that zooms in to a light moving in the tower room -
- so it's quite possible that is the shot that was originally intended to be Scene 41 - and DC has a notation on his script that he wanted Scene 45 to come before the section of Scene 44 that deals with Gerard.
And as we know, Scenes 42 through 45 do not appear in the film as it stands. Due to MGM's demanded cuts, they are replaced by a dream sequence that's made up of Scene 126 (though audio only from some of the dialogue from that scene), Scene 145 & 146, and Scenes 101 through 103 (though in Grayson's script part of Scene 101 was originally Scene 67 before a 3/31 rewrite - but more on that when we get to that part of the script).
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