Moving through the next several scenes before today's scene comes up:
206 EXT - RIVER ROAD - NIGHT 206
as the jeep APPROACHES CAMERA, it turns off its lights and parks in the cover of some trees.
INT - JEEP - NIGHT
as Gerard looks over at a terrified Tracy, she cringes
206 CONTD CONTD 206
from him against the door, her eyes luminous with fear. Then slowly moving toward her, he places his hand on her leg and starts running it up her thigh. Suddenly, she claws at him as he, growling like an animal, pulls her to him. Viciously he crushes his face to hers. During the ensuing struggle, he in- advertently hits the horn.
207 EXT - COUNTRYSIDE - NIGHT - QUENTIN 207
In their search they have split up. As Quentin, now alone, reacts to the DISTANT HORN, he looks about, then moves off in the direction of the SOUND.
208 INT - JEEP - NIGHT 208
as Tracy puts up a valiant struggle, Gerard suddenly reaches for the door. Opening it, he throws her out of the car and onto the ground. As she tries to scramble to her feet, he jumps on top of her. Then clutching her face with both his hands, he brutally forces his lips on hers.
209 EXT - COUNTRYSIDE - NIGHT 209
as Quentin runs through the night TOWARD CAMERA, he suddenly hears the SOUND OF TRACY'S SCREAMS O.S. He stops for an instant, looks around.
210 EXT - GROUND NEAR JEEP - NIGHT 210
Tracy is clawing at Gerard's face, as she screams.
TRACY Help! Help!
Gerard, grabbing one of her hands, viciously slaps her face. Then he suddenly reacts to the DISTANT SOUND OF QUENTIN'S VOICE.
QUENTIN (O.S.) Where are you?
Before she can answer, he clamps his hand over her mouth.
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And as far as any difference in the dialogue goes, Tracy's "Help! Help!" is dropped because she simply screams - and rather than the scripted "Where are you?", Quentin actually calls out "Tracy! Tracy!"
And as far as any difference in the descriptions and directions goes, there's quite a bit different in the film. In scene 206, after Gerard pulls into the trees, shuts off the truck (again, not a jeep) and turns to her, Tracy tries to get out -
- of Gerard's truck but he pulls he back inside as she screams -
- prompting him to put his hand -
- over her mouth as he shushes her and growls, and then she -
- calms down (and at this point is when in the 97 and 129 minute versions of the film Gerard moves his hand down Tracy's thigh and toward her crotch) - and in Scene 207, we simply see Quentin come running down a path -
- after which he just stops -
- and looks around - and Scene 208 is nothing like scripted because it opens with Tracy and Gerard kissing (although, if I'm remembering correctly, in the longer versions we actually see Gerard remove his hand from her mouth, and as she quivers, he moves in to kiss her) -
- until Tracy can reach for and -
- push the horn - and then in Scene 209, Quentin actually reacts to hearing the horn in the distance and then he moves off -
- in its direction - and then Scene 210 is nothing like scripted because it begins with Gerard stopping Tracy from -
pushing the horn - after which Gerard grabs a screaming Tracy and once again puts -
- his hands over her mouth - and as Quentin runs through the countryside -
- calling out to Tracy, that gets the attention -
- of Gerard - and after Tracy makes a low moaning sound -
- Gerard shushes her again.
And unfortunately, because much of Gerard's part ended up on the cutting room floor, it remains mostly unclear in the film that the reason Gerard sets his sights on Tracy is because Quentin replaces him in Angelique's, uh, affections from the very first night that Quentin arrives at Collinwood.