abusive, twisted faces shouting, “Fag!”
“Pouf!”
“Homo!”
“Queer!”
“Brown-noser!”
“Ladybird!”
“Sodomist!”
Mortimer sat cringing guiltily in his seat because the abusive, twisted faces were all nice clean-cut faces. Protestant faces. Handsome faces. Faces like his own.
ZOOMING IN ON JOHN JOHN JOHN’S EYEBALLS
Bloodshot. Trapped. As abusive voices quicken, become gibberish.
COMMENTATIOR (Voice Over)
In a time of ticky-tacky conformists, there is a price to pay for being different.
EXT. DAY. DACHAU
The crematoria chimneys seen through a fog.
APPLAUDING HANDS
H-BOMB EXPLOSION
MORE APPLAUDING HANDS
NAPALM BOMBS FALLING ON VIET CONG
STILL MORE APPLAUDING HANDS
TWO MEN FRENCH-KISSING
CU POLICE WHISTLE
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. DAY. BLACKBOARD
A moving hand (ZIGGY SPICEHANDLER ’s) writes:
“MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR.”
After Make Love, Not War had been flashed at the audience in fourteen different languages, Different continued with still more episodes from homosexual life, alarming statistics, and examples of heterosexual atrocities. Then, suddenly, the scene shifted to Canada, Mortimer’s native land, at the end of a National League hockey game at the Forum. A famous ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN , one who was never without his helmet, was named first star of the game and skated round the rink to resounding cheers.
INT. FORUM. GANGWAY
As the PLAYERS make their way to the dressing room, rabid fans are still shouting the DEFENSEMAN’S name. FATHERS hold up their SONS to see him, GIRLS blow kisses.
INT. TEAM DRESSING ROOM
The ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN slumps exhausted on the bench before his locker, drinking beer out of a can. As other players enter they slap him on the back or give him the thumbs-up sign.
ANOTHER ANGLE
ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN kicks his locker open, revealing Playboy magazine pin-ups and a mirror on inside of door.
TRACK IN ON MOTTLED MIRROR
Broken, not of a piece, as is the case in the lives of some human beings.
MIRROR (POV ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN)
His boisterous teammates light cigars, indulge in horseplay, spit, guzzle beer, pick their toes, scratch their groins … as they undress, removing pad after protective pad, strap after strap … gradually dispersing to showers.
ANOTHER ANGLE
ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN now sits alone in dimly lit dressing room. Slowly, wearily, he rises and begins to get out of his pads and straps. As he sits down again, we are bound to notice that one set of straps remains .
ZOOM IN ON ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN
They would appear to be brassiere straps!
ANOTHER ANGLE
As ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN stands up and removes his helmet, we see a lovely sweep of golden hair, now inadequately concealed. This is the head of a YOUNG WOMAN in her prime.
PANNING down.
Her BODY , that of a fabulously vital animal, is one of those which clothes cover without hiding. The ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN sighs … sighs again … her lovely body seemingly flooded with sudden longing …
Still smiling, blinking his eyes
Over the pure white ice steps the driven figure of the Still smiling, blinking his eyes her sensuality seemingly bound in a conformist’s gray flannel suit and Presbyterian fedora. But is it?
Still smiling, blinking his eyes Soft strains of “Swan Lake.”
And here (suddenly, miraculously), where only an hour ago the Still smiling, blinking his eyes handed out murderous bodychecks, giving as good as she got … Still smiling, blinking his eyes now glides with balletic grace over the pure disinterested white ice, when:
FLASH-CUT TO LOUDSPEAKERS OVERHEAD
(in thick Protestant accents)
“DIFFERENT! DIFFERENT! DIFFERENT!”
RESUME LONG OVERHEAD SHOT
As ALL-STAR DEFENSEWOMAN flees.
Mortimer had hardly recovered from this shock when much of what he had seen earlier was now rerun at frantic speed, but intercut with a shot of a nice, well-adjusted man frolicking about his house and garden. So, from the beautiful but agonized young man mainlining heroin into his arm, the scene now shifted directly to the
“Pouf!”
“Homo!”
“Queer!”
“Brown-noser!”
“Ladybird!”
“Sodomist!”
Mortimer sat cringing guiltily in his seat because the abusive, twisted faces were all nice clean-cut faces. Protestant faces. Handsome faces. Faces like his own.
ZOOMING IN ON JOHN JOHN JOHN’S EYEBALLS
Bloodshot. Trapped. As abusive voices quicken, become gibberish.
COMMENTATIOR (Voice Over)
In a time of ticky-tacky conformists, there is a price to pay for being different.
EXT. DAY. DACHAU
The crematoria chimneys seen through a fog.
APPLAUDING HANDS
H-BOMB EXPLOSION
MORE APPLAUDING HANDS
NAPALM BOMBS FALLING ON VIET CONG
STILL MORE APPLAUDING HANDS
TWO MEN FRENCH-KISSING
CU POLICE WHISTLE
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. DAY. BLACKBOARD
A moving hand (ZIGGY SPICEHANDLER ’s) writes:
“MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR.”
After Make Love, Not War had been flashed at the audience in fourteen different languages, Different continued with still more episodes from homosexual life, alarming statistics, and examples of heterosexual atrocities. Then, suddenly, the scene shifted to Canada, Mortimer’s native land, at the end of a National League hockey game at the Forum. A famous ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN , one who was never without his helmet, was named first star of the game and skated round the rink to resounding cheers.
INT. FORUM. GANGWAY
As the PLAYERS make their way to the dressing room, rabid fans are still shouting the DEFENSEMAN’S name. FATHERS hold up their SONS to see him, GIRLS blow kisses.
INT. TEAM DRESSING ROOM
The ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN slumps exhausted on the bench before his locker, drinking beer out of a can. As other players enter they slap him on the back or give him the thumbs-up sign.
ANOTHER ANGLE
ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN kicks his locker open, revealing Playboy magazine pin-ups and a mirror on inside of door.
TRACK IN ON MOTTLED MIRROR
Broken, not of a piece, as is the case in the lives of some human beings.
MIRROR (POV ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN)
His boisterous teammates light cigars, indulge in horseplay, spit, guzzle beer, pick their toes, scratch their groins … as they undress, removing pad after protective pad, strap after strap … gradually dispersing to showers.
ANOTHER ANGLE
ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN now sits alone in dimly lit dressing room. Slowly, wearily, he rises and begins to get out of his pads and straps. As he sits down again, we are bound to notice that one set of straps remains .
ZOOM IN ON ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN
They would appear to be brassiere straps!
ANOTHER ANGLE
As ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN stands up and removes his helmet, we see a lovely sweep of golden hair, now inadequately concealed. This is the head of a YOUNG WOMAN in her prime.
PANNING down.
Her BODY , that of a fabulously vital animal, is one of those which clothes cover without hiding. The ALL-STAR DEFENSEMAN sighs … sighs again … her lovely body seemingly flooded with sudden longing …
Still smiling, blinking his eyes
Over the pure white ice steps the driven figure of the Still smiling, blinking his eyes her sensuality seemingly bound in a conformist’s gray flannel suit and Presbyterian fedora. But is it?
Still smiling, blinking his eyes Soft strains of “Swan Lake.”
And here (suddenly, miraculously), where only an hour ago the Still smiling, blinking his eyes handed out murderous bodychecks, giving as good as she got … Still smiling, blinking his eyes now glides with balletic grace over the pure disinterested white ice, when:
FLASH-CUT TO LOUDSPEAKERS OVERHEAD
(in thick Protestant accents)
“DIFFERENT! DIFFERENT! DIFFERENT!”
RESUME LONG OVERHEAD SHOT
As ALL-STAR DEFENSEWOMAN flees.
Mortimer had hardly recovered from this shock when much of what he had seen earlier was now rerun at frantic speed, but intercut with a shot of a nice, well-adjusted man frolicking about his house and garden. So, from the beautiful but agonized young man mainlining heroin into his arm, the scene now shifted directly to the
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