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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #495 on: July 17, 2017, 08:58:22 PM »
And while we wait for our host to get its act together, let's wrap up Scene 133 (or 133A) (and keep in mind that as far as the script is concerned, this is all still taking place outside the mausoleum):

       He backs off until he finds he's backed into the wall
       of the mausoleum.  He has nowhere to go.  She moves
       in on him, her face white and expressionless.  She
       holds her arms out to him.  He puts his hands up to fend
       her off.  She takes one of his hands in hers.  He goes
       white with fear at her touch.  Her skin is ice cold and
       clammy.  He knows this is the touch of death.


133    CONTD                                        CONTD 133

And that when yesterday's quote -

Page 59/Scene 133 - Carolyn: 'Don't be frightened, Todd. We're going to be together -- in a world very different from the one you know now -- a world without end.'

- comes up, but in the script things look like this:

        /-------->
       /                     CAROLYN
      /          Don't be frightened, Todd.  We're
     /           going to be together -- in a world
     |           very different from the one you
     |           know now -- a world without end.
     |________________________
     | TODD'S POV - CAROLYN  |

       A look of sheer lust comes into her eyes.  She opens
       her mouth, baring two great fangs and she closes in
       on his neck.  A FINAL SCREAM OF HORROR ESCAPES HIS
       LIPS.

End of scene.

But again as we know, that's not quite how things play in the film because things in the film are taking place inside the mausoleum. But even at that, Todd doesn't back away after he expresses his shock - and next we see Carolyn standing there as she begins by -



- saying "Don't be frightened, Todd" - and then we see his reaction -


-again before Carolyn, as can be seen in yesterday's capture, begins to move toward him -


- saying, with fangs already bared, "We're going to be together -- in a world very different" and shot from below as she moves closer and closer -


- saying "from the one you know now -- a world without end" - and as she is almost upon him, she reaches out to him (no taking his hand in hers) and opens her mouth wider -


- to move in to attack him -


- whereupon he closes his eyes (though, as much as I enjoy Don Briscoe's work in hoDS, his vampire attach reaction is pretty lame compared to Michael T. Weiss' full out orgasmic eye fluttering
Quote from: Watching Project 2 on September 29, 2008, 11:43:53 PM
...
And here are the commercial bumpers for Ep #2 that give a peek at what's to come in the next act:

[spoiler]
<a href="http://www.dsboards.com/1991/0114_Bumper_1.swf" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.dsboards.com/1991/0114_Bumper_1.swf</a>[/spoiler]
in the restaging of this in the '91 series when Joe gets attacked by Daphne) and there is no final scream of horror or any sort of audible reaction from Todd - and Carolyn greedily drinks -


- Todd's blood.
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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #496 on: July 17, 2017, 09:08:40 PM »
Well, I had the most success I've had these past two days because I was just able to upload 7 more captures for reply #490 before things went haywire again...

Maybe I'll actually get to upload the captures for reply #495 above before August...

Plus, now that Todd has been attacked, which figures in the article, I want to upload/share the first article printed for hoDS...
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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #497 on: July 18, 2017, 01:24:44 AM »
Well, I just manged to get another 7 uploaded, which means all but the last capture for reply #495 is on display...
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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #498 on: July 18, 2017, 01:39:14 PM »
That's really an... exceptional shot of Todd for today's show, MB.  Great work!

And once again... I'm so very glad people can't read my mind on the Internet...

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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #499 on: July 18, 2017, 07:04:54 PM »
So far today no luck at all at uploading. Hopefully later...
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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #500 on: July 18, 2017, 08:58:17 PM »
While the never shot Scenes 129 through 132 are pretty much exactly the same in the novelization as they are in DC's script, Scene 133 is not:

  It was as if some unseen presence were guiding him
on, making him venture further into this city of the dead.
He walked with a purpose, not looking to right or left,
giving no thoughts to the phantoms or evil shadows of
this lonesome place . . . until at last he came to stand
before the mausoleum.
  He stared at it with sad eyes, his thoughts all of
Carolyn. The night was dark and it was very quiet. He
had never liked graveyards even in daylight, but all at
once he found the atmosphere here peaceful and inviting.
He felt closer to his dead love than at any time since
he'd last said goodbye to her. He bowed his head to
say a silent prayer.
  It was while he stood there before the mausoleum with
bowed head and lips moving wordlessly that he suddenly
felt the touch of something on his shoulder! He whirled
around with a look of horror on his handsome face to
find himself staring at a pale, ghostly Carolyn! He backed
away from her but she followed him.
  "Oh, my God," Todd gasped.
  He kept backing until he was against the granite wall
of the mausoleum. Now he had nowhere to go. There
was no chance of escape! Carolyn came to him re-
lentlessly, a macabre phantom with her face white and
expressionless. She held out her arms to him.
  "No!" he cried.
  "Todd!" she whispered softly.
  "I must be mad!" he gasped.
  She took one of his hands in hers. "See? I'm real! I'm
here with you!"
  His terror increased with the touch of her hand. Her
skin was ice cold and clammy.
  "Your touch is like death," he said hoarsely, the words
escaping his lips without thought.
  Carolyn told him in a thin voice, "Don't be frightened,
Todd."
  He was staring at her in disbelief. "David said he saw
you. No one would listen to him!"
  "Perhaps that was for the best."
  "But he did see you!" Todd gasped. "Just as I'm seeing
you now!"
  "He did," she assured him. "Think how lucky we are,
Todd. We're going to be together. Together in a world
very different from the one you know now. A world
without end!"
  A look of sheer lust came into her eyes. She opened
her mouth, baring two great fangs, and then she pounced
on his neck. There was a final scream of horror from the
unfortunate Todd as she held him in the vampire em-
brace.

And here's an interesting question to ponder: I wonder if Carolyn would have killed David if she had succeeded in attacking him?
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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #501 on: July 18, 2017, 09:52:23 PM »
Setting up the current scene:

134    INT:  HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY                          134

       CLOSE SHOT of Todd lying in bed in a semi-delirious
       state, making UNINTELLIGIBLE SOUNDS, tossing and
       turning.  CAMERA PULLS BACK to reveal Julia by the
       bed.  There is a NURSE present, giving Todd a blood
       transfusion.  Julia holds up a hypodermic needle.  She
       is wiping it when the door opens and Stokes enters
       with Roger.  Roger looks at Julia.

And that when yesterday's quote -

Page 59/Scene 134 - Julia: 'They found him wandering outside the cemetery this morning -- barley conscious --'

- comes up.

And when it comes to the dialogue, the descriptions, and the directions, most things are actually quite different - the scene opens, not on a shot of Todd in bed, but on a shot of the hospital room with Julia and Todd reflected in a mirror across the room and a nurse appearing at the door across the room as she carries a bottle of blood -



- and there's not a sound heard from Todd - and as the nurse walks into the room, she delivers an unscripted -


"I've got the blood here, doctor."

- to which Julia replies, practically off camera, with an unscripted -


"Good."

- and as the nurse proceeds to work with the transfusion bottle as Todd rests in his bed, through the already opened door a deputy can be seen -


- out in the halfway guarding the room, and he turns as if someone approaches - and a few seconds later the deputy nods to whoever it is - and it's -


- Roger, not Stokes, who comes into view but is soon followed by Stokes as they -


- make their way into the room as Julia actually begins to tell them "They found him wandering around" and concludes with -


- "outside the cemetery this morning -- barely conscious --" with Julia also in the shot, as can be seen in yesterday's capture.
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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #502 on: July 18, 2017, 10:25:28 PM »
The movie Carolyn probably would have killed David if she had the opportunity. As both vampire victim and vampire predator, carolyn seemed very determined to get what she wanted. She didn't seem especially concerned about the consequences either.
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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #503 on: July 18, 2017, 11:37:41 PM »
Still can't get through today to upload anything...
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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #504 on: July 18, 2017, 11:39:50 PM »
Quote from: Gothick on July 18, 2017, 01:39:14 PM
That's really an... exceptional shot of Todd for today's show, MB.

Do you really think so?  [wiseguy]

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And once again... I'm so very glad people can't read my mind on the Internet...

I'm sure you're not the only one with certain thoughts prompted by that capture!!  [ghost_nowink]  [naughty]
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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #505 on: July 19, 2017, 03:52:08 AM »
I just got tomorrow's graphic for the slideshow uploaded - but that was it...
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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #506 on: July 19, 2017, 03:51:03 PM »
Thanks, MB!  I don't recall today's cut/unshot line from Liz at all.  I wonder if that was in the Dan Ross book as well.  Even though I know I read it at least 3 times, I have practically no memory of much of it.  One of the few things I do remember is Barnabas giving Julia a glass of sherry when she visited the Old House, and her appreciative comment:  "Dry!  Lovely!"  I could really hear Grayson saying that line. 

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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #507 on: July 19, 2017, 04:08:15 PM »
Well, I just got off the phone with our host's support and the good news is they are aware of the problem and have been working on it. The bad news is it may take until sometime tomorrow to fix it. But I will continue to try to upload files in the interim. And I will keep posting even though few if any of the captures in the posts will be showing up until everything is finally fixed.
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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #508 on: July 19, 2017, 04:22:08 PM »
Quote from: Gothick on July 19, 2017, 03:51:03 PM
I don't recall today's cut/unshot line from Liz at all.

Sadly it's what looks like it would have been another great Liz/Roger scene. After Roger gets confirmation from Julia that Todd was attacked by Carolyn, he goes with Stokes and Sheriff Patterson and some of his men to open Carolyn's coffin. Liz walks in while they're doing so and has a huge fit. A few stills of Roger, Stokes, Patterson and deputies exist, but I've yet to see any of Liz.

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I wonder if that was in the Dan Ross book as well.

It is - and there's a bit more to the beginning of the scene than there is in DC's script. There's also more to Scene 134 as well as a scene that's not in DC's script of Roger and Stokes meeting with Sheriff Patterson to make arrangements to check out the mausoleum.

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One of the few things I do remember is Barnabas giving Julia a glass of sherry when she visited the Old House, and her appreciative comment:  "Dry!  Lovely!"  I could really hear Grayson saying that line.

I don't remember that. But that's not surprising because I haven't read the whole novel since 1970. This time around I'm moving through the scenes as they come up in the slideshow.
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Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« Reply #509 on: July 19, 2017, 06:26:09 PM »
Wrapping up Scene 134:

                             ROGER
                 Carolyn?

       Julia nods.  Stokes looks at Roger, whose face is somber
       and grim.  It's clear now that he's prepared to place
       some credence in what Stokes has been saying.  Julia
       now leans in toward Todd's arm with the needle.  CAMERA
       FOLLOWS her and MOVES IN CLOSE on Todd's arm.  As the
       needle is injected, CAMERA WHIP PANS TO CLOSE SHOT -
       TODD.  There is perspiration on his brow, a bandage
       on his neck.  His head has been rolling back and forth.
       Now as the needle stikes, his face becomes a mask of
       pain and bulging veins and he SCREECHES AT THE TOP OF
       HIS VOICE.

And that when yesterday's quote -

Page 59/Scene 134 - Todd: 'Carolyn!!'

- comes up.

End of scene.

And when it comes to the dialogue, the descriptions, and the directions, what Roger actually asks is -


"Are they sure it was Carolyn?"

- and after Julia nods -


- her head in the affirmative, Stokes and Roger don't share any sort of looks at each other, which is unfortunate given Roger's attitude when last we saw him; a shared look between Stokes and Roger would have definitely indicated, as the script says, that Roger is now prepared to place some credence in what Stokes has been saying; but no - but what Stokes does do is deliver an unscripted -


"Today, the sheriff put a curfew on the town. From now on
no one will be allowed to go out after dark."

- as Julia moves closer to Todd with the hypodermic in her hand, and the camera does indeed follow Julia and then move in close on Todd's arm - and after the nurse swabs -


- Todd's arm, Julia injects -


- the contents of the hypodermic - however there isn't any whip pan to a close shot of Todd, nor does there appear to be perspiration on his brow, nor is theer any indications that his head has been rolling back and forth - and after the needle "stikes", which I presume should be "sticks", Todd's face doesn't become a mask of pain and bulging veins because what does actually happen here is that oddly Todd seems to take little -


- notice of what's happening - but, as we can see in yesterday's capture, soon his reaction changes as he "screeches" out -


- Carolyn's name.
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