But I realize now that the deep change began on the first day I brought her to San Francisco. You know what San Francisco does to people who have never seen it before. All of it happened to Madeleine, but with such an intensity as to be almost frightening. She was like a child came home. Everything about the city excited her: she had to walk all the hills, explore the edge of the ocean, see all the old houses and wander the old streets: and when she came upon something unchanged, something that was as it had been, her delight was so strong so fiercely possessive! These things were hers. And yet she had never been here before. She had been born and raised in the East. I liked it at first, of course. I love this place; I wanted my bride to love it. But then it began to make me uneasy. Her delight was too strong; her excitement was too intense, it never faded; her laugh was too loud, her eyes sparkled too brightly; there was something feverish about the way she embraced the city. She possessed it. And then one day she changed again ... and a great sigh settled on her, and the cloud came into her eyes....
Vertigo (1958)
ELSTER'S VOICE
A screenplay character in Vertigo (1958).
- lines
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- words
- 282
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- dialogue
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Sample dialogue
But I realize now that the deep change began on the first day I brought her to San Francisco. You know what San Francisco does to people who have never seen it before. All of it happened to Madeleine, but with such an intensity as to be almost frightening. She was like a child came home. Everything about the city excited her: she had to walk all the hills, explore the edge of the ocean, see all the old houses and wander the old streets: and when she came upon something unchanged, something that was as it had been, her delight was so strong so fiercely possessive! These things were hers. And yet she had never been here before. She had been born and raised in the East. I liked it at first, of course. I love this place; I wanted my bride to love it. But then it began to make me uneasy. Her delight was too strong; her excitement was too intense, it never faded; her laugh was too loud, her eyes sparkled too brightly; there was something feverish about the way she embraced the city. She possessed it. And then one day she changed again ... and a great sigh settled on her, and the cloud came into her eyes....
scene 20, source scene 21 — INT. ERNIE'S RESTAURANT - (NIGHT)Did she hurt herself?
scene 146, source scene 147 — INT. SCOTTIE'S APARTMENT - (NIGHT)I don't know what happened that day: where she went, what she saw, what she did. But on that day, the search was ended. She had found what she was looking for, she had Game home. And something in the city possessed her.
scene 20, source scene 21 — INT. ERNIE'S RESTAURANT - (NIGHT)Scottie, what happened? She's not home, yet.
scene 146, source scene 147 — INT. SCOTTIE'S APARTMENT - (NIGHT)Scottie ... Madeleine is twenty-six. Carlotta Valdes committed suicide when she was twenty-six.
scene 146, source scene 147 — INT. SCOTTIE'S APARTMENT - (NIGHT)
Bookends
Scottie ... Madeleine is twenty-six. Carlotta Valdes committed suicide when she was twenty-six.