And concluding Scene 33 and moving beyond within the sequence:
Carlotta smiles and nods. She EXITS as Quentin
crosses to the window where he stands for a moment
looking out at the sunset.
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 12/Scene 33 - Quentin: 'You know...I have a felling that I'll do better work here than I've ever done before...look at the color of that sunset!'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
34 EXT - COLLINWOOD GROUNDS - QUENTIN'S P.O.V. - 34
EVENING
The sky is a magnificent canvas of colors, in
the F.G. is a large tree with huge spreading
limbs. HOLD on this for a moment and then
CUT TO:
35 EXT - COLLINWOOD GROUNDS - 1810 - QUENTIN'S 35
P.O.V.
SUBCONSCIOUS MEMORY CUT
For an instant the view from the window suddenly
takes on a completely different look. The picture
is now almost devoid of color with a kind of milky
look that makes it seem unreal. It is almost dark
and a heavy ground fog swirls and eddies about.
Suddenly, we notice that a figure of some kind
seems to be hanging from a branch high up in a
tree. FAST ZOOM IN. It is the figure of a woman
in a long dress, a rope around her neck, The
figure is no more that a bleak silhouette so
that it is impossible to tell what she looks like.
TRACY (O.S.)
It's almost like living in a
museum. Isn't it?
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End of scene. Though there's more to the sequence...
And yes, while it's still the case that there aren't any differences between the way DC's and Grayson Hall's scripts are written up to this point, once again DC's script has a notation that we'll get into below.
But so far any differences in the dialogue go, after Carlotta leaves and the camera is back to being on Quentin as he walks to look out the window, in a bit of off screen unscripted dialogue Tracy muses "That's our housekeeper. She makes me feel like she invited us here" (she's obviously already picking up vibes from Carlotta) - and then she adds "It's beautiful, isn't it", which may have been scripted for later in the sequence, but more on that after we get to that section of the script - and what Quentin actually says is "I got a feeling I'm gonna do better work here than I've ever done before in my life", with no reference to a sunset, but why that is will become obvious below.
And so far as any differences in the directions and descriptions go, we don't see Carlotta smile or nod at Tracy before she leaves the room to get the salad, but as can be seen in the following capture -
- Carlotta does give a look in Quentin's direction before she leaves (because, after all, for Carlotta the scene is all about Quentin) and she gives a little smile to herself as she turns to leave, no doubt because as she leaves the camera pans back to Quentin to show that he's still looking at Angelique's portrait - and even though DC's script has a notation that indicates that as Quentin is starting to look out the window at the sunset, Tracy is supposed to reach the table and to start to leaf through a book, that is never seen here because 1) the camera remains on Quentin throughout that portion of Scene 33, and 2) and more importantly, last time we got into that she already did much of that as she told Carlotta how much she liked the Gallery - and while it could possibly be late enough in the day to be close to sunset, the sunset as described in the script is not what Quentin sees when he looks out the window because what he actually sees, as can be seen in the next capture -
- is an overcast view (remember, it was raining when they arrived) with some spring-flowing trees in bloom and other trees getting their green leaves - and when things change over to the 1810 memory, things may not be in as sharp a contrast as they would be had Quentin seen the sunset as described, but as can be seen in this next capture -
- the 1810 memory is certainly of a decidedly bleak scene and as the script indicates, "almost devoid of color" - and it's interesting that after the camera does zoom in on the figure in the tree -
- one can tell that it's a woman (thanks mostly to the hair and style of shoes), but what's more interesting is that there are a few publicity stills for the film that depict
a much more discernible figure of a woman hanging in the tree (one of which was obviously used as a basis for the
A version of the NoDS poster, and at least one that actually depicts
a skeleton with just the tattered shreds of clothes remaining, but in its case no such shot is actually ever seen in the film - and a final point is that the dialogue that is scripted for Tracy at the end of Scene 35 is actually delivered off screen over a shot of Quentin at the end of Scene 34 just before the cut to the 1810 memory.
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