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Unless something is done very soon, warns Barnabas, there will be a catastrophe right here at Collinwood. What are you talking about? asks Liz. After we left the West Wing room, says Barn, we came down to the foyer and found the house in ruins-the beams had collapsed, the floors were covered with leaves, no power at all-the house was in a complete shambles. Julia adds, we couldn't imagine what had happened, the entire place was deserted--we went to the cemetery and saw Mrs. Johnson, who was putting flowers on David's grave. This horrifies Liz. Yes, says Barnabas, according to the tombstone, David had died in 1970. You must have imagined it! insists a stricken Liz. You must listen, says Barn, as don't have much time to prevent what's going to happen. Time for what? asks Quentin. The disaster is due to happen very shortly, says Barnabas. Exactly what do you think is going to happen? asks Quentin. I wish I knew, says Barn-Julia and I found everyone completely changed in the future, everyone either unable or unwilling to tell what caused the catastrophe.[/spoiler]
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177 EXT - COTTAGE BEDROOM - NIGHT 177
as the CAMERA TRUCKS IN ON the sleeping Alex, all
of the SOUND SLOWLY DISAPPEARS until it seems as if
the sound track itself has been removed. The feel-
ing this creates is one of oppressive dead air.
When we are on ALEX' EXTREME CLOSE-UP, HOLD as he
begins to writhe and thrash about. All the following
ACTION WILL BE IN SLOW MOTION. Finally, clutching
his throat, his eyes open wide as he tries to scream.
Although his mouth opens again and again, there is
no sound.
WIDE ANGLE - SLOW MOTION
With Claire asleep in the F.G., and totally oblivious
to what's happening, we watch Alex struggle with the
invisible horror. Suddenly, the horror seems to
take on a visible entity, as a whole mist-like vapor
starts to envelope his body. Slowly Alex' movements
begin to subside as the life is being drawn from him.
CLAIRE - CLOSE-UP - SLOW MOTION
Although still asleep, it seems as though she has
suddenly become aware of the danger, As she opens
her eyes and tries to sit up, she is barely able to
move. Through a tremendous effort, she is finally
177 CONTD CONTD 177
able to turn her head to Alex. WIDEN at reveal Alex,
now completely enveloped in the mist and barely
moving. Claire tries to scream. No sound can be
heard. She is finally able to reach the bed table
between them and knocks over a glass.
GLASS - CLOSE-UP - SLOW MOTION
as it falls to the floor and shatters soundlessly.
PAN UP in time to see Claire finally reach a lamp,
turning it on.
WIDE ANGLE - NORMAL SPEED
as the lamp illuminates the room, ALL SOUND RETURNS.
The white mist disappears and Claire is quickly at
Alex' side.
And that's when the first part of today's quote -Page 83/Scene 177 - Claire: 'Alex! Oh, my God, Alex!'
- is scripted to come up, followed in the script by:
Alex opens his eyes, gulping in all the air he can
handle, as he frantically gasps for breath.
And that's when the second part of today's quote -Page 83/Scene 177 - Claire (sobbing hysterically): 'Alex! -- oh, Alex! ... Please be all right!...oh, Alex...'
- is scripted to come up.
End of sequence.
And as far as all the difference go, of which there are many, they'll wait until my next post (mostly because I haven't had lunch yet and I'm starving! )
... she sees what's happening to Alex - and after momentarily stopping dead in her tracks -
- and screaming, she reaches for the floor lamp but knocks -
- it over in her frenzy - but once she does turn -
- it on, the other light also comes back and the mist-like vapor that envelopes Alex' body -
- disappears - and as we can see in today's capture -
- she rushes to Alex side, desperately trying to revive him, until -
- he does indeed revive. So, all that means that a lot of what's scripted to happen in Scene 177 doesn't actually happen in the film. And in some ways that's too bad because much of what was scripted would have been quite interesting to see. But who knows if things were changed because it would have been too costly or too complicated to shoot, or perhaps for some other reason? Though at least some of the planned effects were reworked and used. And actually, I think having Angelique's spirit arrive and transform into the mist-like vapor was actually better than how it was introduced in the script.
One thing that's very interesting, though, it that one can easily tell that there are three distinct cuts in the background music for Scene 177, so apparently it's quite likely that footage was removed for time during the marathon James Aubrey imposed editing. And that sort of ruins how things were to play in slow motion. But perhaps they still do in the 129 minute version...
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