Abstract
This article distinguishes a scène clé from a scène forte or powerful scene in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. The key scene is a moment of dramatic transition and of metaphoric and symbolic intensity. The Stonehenge scene is a nodal point of psychological intensity and diegetic change but it is also ambiguous : this scene forbids any possibility of visualizing the landscape and so it produces fertile or fecund doubt. The key scene is both a troubling absence and presence. In his film, Polanski does not translate this ambiguity and so does not produce a key scene.
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