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Caption This! - Vicki's Arrival-Burke's Revenge-Matthew Morgan-Introducing Josette / Re: Episode #0057
« on: November 22, 2023, 11:16:32 PM »
If it didn't work with Vicki, maybe it'll work with Maggie!!
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At the time I posted this -And here's the third as well as another one of the rare stills to preview Scene 85:
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- I didn't realize the still had been used on the back cover of the NoDS DVD/Blu-ray packaging -
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- though neither shows as much as the actual still, with the Blu-ray version showing the least.
(Also, I never realized Lara Parker's billing isn't what it should be based on the opening credits. She should be third after Grayson Hall and before John Karlen, yet she's after Nancy Barrett, which, probably not coincidentally, is how she's billed on the posters. But everyone else is billed in the exact order they are in the opening credits. Odd. But I'm sure there was some reason...)
Here's the first as well as one of the rare stills to preview Scene 85:
(Click here for a 700X476 version)
Here's the second as well as one of the rare stills to preview Scene 85:
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And here's the third as well as another one of the rare stills to preview Scene 85:
(Click here for a 700X476 version)
You may have been sensing a theme with the first three. But even though today's is the last of that set, we'll certainly continue to see stills of Charles and Angelique making out because the majority of the stills from Scene 85 focus on that. But when it comes to tomorrow's, it has a significance that the ones I've shared so far do not...
Lab - Yaeger returns. He opens the safe and takes out the antidote. I don't relish being Cyrus again, he says to himself, but that lawyer must be brought into line, and soon! He reluctantly drinks the antidote and feels the pain of transformation.
It certainly sounds that way to me.
I'm sure you're right, MB. It all leads up to the very ending of the movie.
...
But getting back to DC's version of Scene 85, I almost wish the rewrite had been the way things played out on screen. It certainly would have been far more sinister than the way things do play out, which is much more ambiguous (though there may really be a reason for that - one that we'll get into after dealing with the whole script). And the way things were originally written in Grayson's script is positively dull by comparison to both the film and the rewrite.
When it comes to DC's script, Scene 84 and the setting and first descriptions of Scene 85 are exactly the same as they are in Grayson's script, so I won't repeat them. Things get very different once DC's script reaches its Page 35:
(Revised 3/31/71)
85 CONTD CONTD 85
ANGELIQUE (O.S.)
We can't stay like this forever.
You must finish the picture.
CHARLES (O.S.)
Why?We have all the time in
the world.
RACK FOCUS to the B.G. where Angelique and Charles
are embracing.
ANGELIQUE
We haven't.You must finish it
because when you do, you will give
me the most marvelous gift of all -
Charles looks at her, not understanding.
this time life will imitate art.
I know you merely planned to paint
it to torture her, but that's not
enough. My darling, you must do it.
CHARLES
No.
ANGELIQUE
Don't you want us to be like this
always. Must we constantly be
leaving each other? How can you
hold Laura? How can you touch her?
CHARLES
When I do, it's you I hold, it's
you I caress.
ANGELIQUE
We are in each other's souls, Charles.
We can't escape it.
They kiss.
You willmake the picture come true.
CHARLES
Yes.
ANGELIQUE
Then you must paint, my darling.
Tonight. It must be done.
There is a POUNDING ON THE DOOR.
And when it comes to the dialogue, as I'd mentioned previously, none of it is in the film as scripted - and it's not really even in the film exactly as the changes that were made to some of the crossed out parts. Speaking of which, notations in DC's script make the following replacements in the dialogue:And as for what the actual differences in the dialogue, the descriptions, and the directions are when it comes to Scene 85, that will still wait until an upcoming post... But one thing I will say now, or rather ask is if I'm the only one who comes away from reading DC's version of Scene 85 with the impression that Angelique is actually encouraging Charles to kill Laura?
- Angelique's "you must do it" is replaced with "you must bring the painting to life"
- Charles' "No" is replaced with "But why - we have each other - that's all that counts - she doesn't even exist for me"
- The entire section of dialogue beginning with Angelique's "Don't you want us to be like this always? ..." right through to Charles' ending with "... it's you I caress" is not only crossed out but X'd out and it's all replaced with Angelique saying "As long as she's here, we could never really have each other"
- And Angelique's "You will" is replaced with "I want you to"
- And after Angelique's "make the picture come true", "Please - promise me" is added.