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Me and Orson Welles

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Three Versions of the Same Script

GILES BLOCK: Here you can see the film script and >points< here you can see some of Shakespeare’s lines here. But on the film script, you can’t get the whole of a Shakespeare line on one line because the shape of the film script has to be narrow and so to mark the ends of the lines we have this forward slash >points< “O, now you weep, and I perceive you feel the dint of pity. These are gracious drops” and there’s another forward slash there. And it’s essential because these ends of lines are almost always emotional points in a line. Here we had to have this other script where you’ve got the whole line written out, >points< "O now you weep, and I perceive you feel the dint of pity. These are gracious drops."

GEORGE COULOURIS (as ANTONY): O now you weep, and I perceive you feel the dint of pity. These are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you when you but behold our Caesar’s vesture wounded? Look you here. Here is himself, marred as you see with traitors.

PLEBIAN ONE: Caesar!

PLEBIAN TWO: Caesar!

PLEBIAN THREE: O piteous spectacle!

PLEBIAN ONE: Traitors!

PLEBIAN FOUR: Revenge!

ALL THE PLEBIANS: Revenge! Revenge!

(MUSIC STARTS)