Revisiting posts related to the Tarrytown vs. Collinsport issue:
Also, revisiting a comment I made in the previous post, it's interesting how the boutique is described as "a very New York shop" and not "a very New York-like shop". Could it really be that the reason Scenes 81 & 82 are described as being set on a Tarrytown street is because in this film Collinwood is really located in Tarrytown, NY and not in Collinsport, ME?! I don't believe there are actually any references in the script to Collinsport or Maine. Or are the references to Tarrytown and New York simply oversights that crept into the script because they knew they would be shooting at Lyndhurst?
Okay, MB, I was all ready to go with this idea of NODS being set in a parallel universe with Collinwood in Tarrytown instead of Collinsport. (Mainly because it just feels like it's in a parallel universe anyway.) But then today's quote threw that idea out the window, at least for me. Tracy saying that being in the shop makes her feel like she's "back in New York" would be a weird thing to say if she's only 30 miles up the Hudson.
The script definitely sends mixed messages. But like I also said, most likely the references to Tarrytown and New York are simply oversights that crept into the script because they knew they would be shooting at Lyndhurst (which is something they didn't know when hoDS was first written).
Also, there
is a reference to Maine in the 129 minute version of the film because after Gerard falls to his death on the train tracks below the bridge, Alex remarks, ""Looks like the old Bangor local will be running a little late tonight." And since that remark refers to a "local" train, chances are very good that places the tracks in Maine. But of course, none of the shopping excursion is in any version of the film. Though if it had been, as we'll see once we get back to how Scene 83 is scripted, if the dialogue for Scene 83 stuck to what's scripted, Tracy has a line in which she comments that Gregory's shop makes her feel like she's back in New York, so that would certainly tend to indicate that the shop couldn't be in New York. (It would have also been another clue (in addition to her knowledge about Burton's Gallery, which Alex will question her about in upcoming Scene 138) that Tracy somehow had a New York past.)
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