Wednesday, October 6, 2021

"The Robbery," Scene A

On August 22, 1978, a little over a month before "The Robbery" aired, the Revised Shooting Script came in.  There will be some cuts, so let's get to it.

The first couple pages have markings, I think for timing, so I'm going to just show you what that looks like:


They left out Carmine's "exhausted" line.  Jake and Laverne don't bother to close the door onscreen. 

They omitted Shirley saying, after Carmine calls Jake a bum, "It's not our place to judge, Carmine."

Otherwise, the opening scene is unchanged, so I don't really have any thoughts, other than they of course carefully timed all this.

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