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Moving on to how the portion of Scene 199 is scripted before we reach today's quote:

- this post to learn how the beginning of Scene 199 plays in the film and how yesterday's quote -

"If he's just wounded..."

- fits into it...

 

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If you want to learn about or refresh your memory concerning the background of yesterday's quote -

Page 95/Scene 199 - Tracy: 'But I know we hit him.'

- and/or today's quote -

Page 95/Scene 199 - Claire: 'Quick. We've got to get back inside.'

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Wrapping up Scene 199, starting with how it was scripted to begin:

- this post and to learn about the differences in the dialogue, the descriptions and the directions...

 

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Scene 199 - part 1:

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Scene 199 - part 2:

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Before we get to the scene that's come up in today's slideshow, we have one other scene to deal with first:

- to learn how Scene 200 was originally scripted, how dialogue was added to it, and how things are different from how the directions and directions were scripted...

 

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Two stills associated with Scene 200:

First up, this one -

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Famous Monsters of Filmland caption: "James Storm as Gerard is caught red-faced. The red is blood."

- a cropped and horizontally flipped version of which was shared as part of the Famous Monsters of Filmland NoDS article.

And this one -

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- a cropped and horizontally flipped version of which was shared as the cover for Famous Monsters of Filmland issue:

...

 

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Cut from The CBS Late Movie showing:

• ...
• Tracy and Claire's screams as they see the bloodied Gerard and he begins to lunge at them.

Apparently on CBS, perhaps all three networks, one could see a bloodied face for only so long, even at something like 2:10am ET/1:10am CT. Other than this CBS broadcast, I never saw NoDS on any channel except the cable ones that didn't edit it, but I wonder how much of that shot of Gerard might have been cut by stations that did edit the film?

 

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And speaking of those screams, here's how Scene 200 currently plays in the film -

- but in the 97 minute version (and the 129 minute version) as one can hear in the video below, Tracy's and Claire's screams last approximately 2 seconds longer and the camera stays on the bloodied Gerard (sadly, I don't have that footage) as he lunges toward them -

- (yes, I've changed my mind because contrary to what I wrote back in 2016 I now believe he does indeed lunge toward them because when one examines Gerard frame by frame one can see that at the end of what's currently in the film he does begin to move toward them...)

 

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Before we leave the previous sequence, ...

 

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Catching up as we're -

Moving on to yesterday's scene - and as the graphic I put up for the slideshow indicated, it plays very differently in the film from the way it's scripted. First up, the scripted version:

And now the way Scene 201 actually plays in the film:

- to learn how improvised dialogue in Scene 201 plays in the film and figures into yesterday's quote -

"That crazy son of a bitch - he almost killed me."

- and how the scripted descriptions and directions are different from what actually takes place...

 

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Cut from The CBS Late Movie showing:

• ...
• Everything from after the point Quentin spots Alex on the ground outside his car, calls his name, and runs toward him. Apparently it's was all cut because after Quentin joins Alex, once again Alex refers to Gerard as a son of a bitch and Quentin's question and Alex' answer refer back to that, so it would have made no sense to include Quentin's and Alex' follow-ups when what they were following up had been cut.

 

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A still associated with Scene 201 -

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- which has been shared on page 198 of the 35 Anniversary DS Memories book.

 

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Scene 201:

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If you want to learn about or refresh your memory concerning the background of yesterday's quote -

Page 96/Scene 202 - Claire: 'It's Gerard...he's got her. He tried to kill us...he tried to kill us...'

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Moving on to yesterday's scene. And as the graphic I put up for the slideshow indicated, it's a scene that does not appear in the film as it currently stands - however, it's not on the list of unrecovered footage - so, it, or some variation thereof, may very well be in the 129 minute version:

- this post. And I've recently come across yet another stash of NoDS materials which just so happens to include a list of the recovered footage and Scene 202 is on the list -

"A selection of scenes cut from the 129-minute version that have been recovered:
...
In the cottage, Quentin and Alex find a sobbing, terrified Claire who tells them that Gerard attacked them and abducted Tracy.
..."

- and speaking of the stash, it includes materials I would have shared previously but didn't know I had, so I'll be going back to certain posts to add those materials. I'll post an alert after I've done so in each case...


 

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Yesterday's graphic for Scene 202 -

- was made by somewhat cropping a version of this still -

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- which to my knowledge has never been officially published anywhere. I first came across it when I bought a copy from Ohlinger's in 1996...