QueerAdaptation by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030053062
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Role of the Script

In this film about making a film reimagining cut footage from another film, the script itself is an adaptation functioning as a queer sensibility. It contains general parameters and guidelines for a queer project but lacks the specificity of typical scripts that prescribe in detail directions for actors and crew. Scripts that allow casts to improvise and ad lib are not uncommon. What is unusual are slippages in and out of scripted and unscripted scenes and dialogue, slippages between documentary and fiction that confuse certainty and contribute to viewer unease. Before the denouement, viewers cannot tell whether the documentary-type scenes are scripted. In one scene, Lauren looks over his script while other crew and cast mill about. Not until Mathews says “cut” is it apparent the scene was purposefully constructed to show Lauren looking at a script. The denouement shows Lauren sitting against a wall in the parking lot with the script in his lap reading to himself. The words he reads from the script are “Val sits against a wall in the parking lot. The script is in his lap. He reads to himself. Val sits against a wall in the parking lot. The script is in his lap. He reads to himself.” These conditions confuse the script’s starting and stopping points and dissolve categorical distinctions, troubling what is real and fake in actors’ performances, including their sexualities.

The role of the script in the film parallels the role of scripts in sexual citizens’ lived realities; wittingly or otherwise, we follow certain scripts and reject others. Unlike those who conform to heteronormative life patterns, queers have fewer cultural scripts to follow, especially when social conditions often demand that queers not be found out. In these circumstances, making a sexual connection depends not on verbal language but on body language, much like cruising, when participants send and receive signals of interest and disinterest, acceptance and rejection .

Narratives that describe the challenges queer individuals face in navigating oppressive heteronormative cultures are familiar, but narratives describing how sexual majorities engage with queerness are less familiar. It is not only the queer minority who must navigate sexual difference and who can tap queer and heteronormative affinities. As queerness increases, nonqueers increasingly must navigate queer cultures without scripts. This narrative, perhaps more than the narrative of queers navigating heteronormative society, is the strength of Interior’s method and message. After Franco and Lauren watch a sadomasochistic scene, Lauren admits his discomfort. He says he would be more okay with the scene if it involved a man and a woman simply because he would be “a little more used to it.” Franco responds to what he finds most bothersome :I don’t like the fact that I feel like I’ve been brought up to think a certain way…. I don’t like realizing that my mind has been twisted by the way that the world has been set up around me, and what that is, is straight normative kind of behavior. And it’s fucking instilled into

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