Setting up how the scene that began on last Saturday in the slideshow begins in DC's script:
DRAW 188 INT: DINING ROOM - OLD HOUSE - NIGHT 188
CLOSE SHOT of two candles burning on a table. CAMERA PULLS BACK to show Barnabas and Maggie. They have finished dinner and are sipping champagne. He gazes at her adoringly. She is smiling at him. For a moment neither of them is aware that Willie has entered the room and is standing there watching them. Then Barnabas turns and sees him, but pays no attention to the concerned look on his face.
BARNABAS What is it, Willie?
188 CONTD CONTD 188
WILLIE I just wondered if you wanted anything else.
BARNABAS More champagne?
MAGGIE Oh, no, Barnabas -- not for me. I must get back to Collinwood. I want to be ready for David's exams tomorrow.
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And when it comes to the dialogue, the descriptions, the directions, and the notations, some things are different in the film and even appear in a different order - and because of that I'm going to hold off on getting into the first quotes in the slideshow from this scene so that we can first get into how the scene actually begins in the film:
The scene has indeed been switched from the dining room to the drawing room - but one thing that is not indicated in the script is that there's a dissolve from Scene 187 to Scene 188 and the music box tune continues to play over the beginning of Scene 188 even after the dissolve has completed and even though the music box in not actually playing in Scene 188 -
- and as we can see from the dissolve, Scene 188 does not begin with a close shot of candles burning on a table with the camera then pulling back to show Barnabas and Maggie sipping champagne but rather with a close shot of a candelabra on a totally different table from where Maggie and Barnabas begin to be seen sitting - and while it will eventually become apparent that Maggie is sipping champagne, Barnabas is not - in fact, as the dissolve is still progressing, Barnabas asks -
"More champagne?" - which is scripted but not to take place quite yet - and Maggie actually replies -
"Yes, thank you." - which is very different from what Maggie is scripted to say - and it's quite clear that Willie is not in the room yet - and as we'll see in an upcoming post, the subject that Barnabas brings up next in the film is not scripted to take place until almost the very end of the scene and wouldn't come up in the slideshow until this past Monday...