Dealing with the new scene:
23 INT: MAUSOLEUM - NIGHT 23
CLOSE UP of Willie's face as he enters. He is fright- ened. The CAMERA TRUCKS IN BACK of him and PANS what he sees with his flashlight: the two marble caskets in the center of the room. The wall with the indi- vidual vaults and, high above the door, a CARVED STONE DOVE.
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 10/Scene 23 - Willie: 'The Lion's head watches the dove.'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
Quickly, he jerks his flashlight's beam to the oppo- site wall. WHIP PAN to the LION'S HEAD, with the ring in its mouth. DOLLY IN TO CLOSE UP.
WILLIE (OS) And in the womb beneath the hill, The secret flame glows bright and still ...
WILLIE
He frowns, shaking his head, not knowing what to do. CAMERA PANS him as he walks around tentatively. He settles against the wall. His eye falls on the lion's head and the ring. He touches it. It moves. He is surprised. He pulls the ring out of the mouth. There is the SOUND OF A WALL MOVING. He releases the ring, as SHOT WIDENS. The wall is a secret door that has opened. Willie slowly, tentatively approaches it. He stands in the dark opening, shining his flashlight inside.
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End of scene - though just the beginning of the parts inside the mausoleum.
And what's interesting as far as the dialogue goes, Willie actually reads "The Lion's head watches the dove", which is what he actually said in Scene 19 and which is actually written on the paper when we see him read from it in Scene 22 (though it's weird that in Scene 19 it's scripted as "The Lion's Head looks down at the dove" and the last lines are scripted as "And in the womb beneath the Hill. The secret fire glows bright and still", yet they're scripted as "And in the womb beneath the hill, The secret flame glows bright and still", which is also how they read on the paper in scene 22. Although, Willie saying those last lines is dropped in this scene.
And where do we start with all the differences with the directions and descriptions? We do not see a close-up of Willie's face when he enters the mausoleum because we see him full body, descending stairs -
- and shining his flashlight around while the camera is quite obviously in front of him and not behind him, as scripted - and once he enters the crypt, two marble caskets are nowhere to be seen because it's a room with -
- vaults on the walls - and after Willie discovers the lion's head, there is no dolly in to a close-up of it, and he simply goes over to it and almost immediately, which is when it's actually in close-up -
- pulls the ring in its mouth (if there was any frowning, shaking of his head, not knowing what to do, walking around tentatively, settling against the wall, and eventually Willie's eye falling on the lion's head and the ring, all of that was cut) - and we also don't see Willie slowly, tentatively approach the door or stand in the dark opening, shining his flashlight inside because he simply smiles excitedly -
- and moves to go inside -
And even though it won't be a part of the slideshow this time around, Willie reciting the last two lines of the clue was a part of the original hoDS slideshow -
hoDS: Scene #23 - Willie (Off Screen): 'And in the womb
beneath the hill, A secret flame glows bright and still.' - because they're included on the Fest's 1999 Movie Calendar of quotes for January 12th.
And believe it or not, with just a couple of exceptions for a bit more descriptive phrasing, the original draft of Scene 23 is nearly exactly the same as it appears in DC's script, so I'm not even going to bother to share it. One thing, though, is that the scene concludes by saying that there is a zoom in to a close-up of Willie before he goes through the door because presumably his flashlight has apparently revealed something inside, but that was dropped in both DC's script and the film...