{"id":3830,"date":"2014-06-15T00:05:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/must-see-movie-an-interview-with-the-director-of-test\/"},"modified":"2014-06-15T00:05:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:05:17","slug":"must-see-movie-an-interview-with-the-director-of-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/must-see-movie-an-interview-with-the-director-of-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Must See Movie: An Interview With the Director of &quot;Test&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Must See Movie: An Interview With the Director of &quot;Test&quot;<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01a511cdac6e970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-06-14 at 9.39.53 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01a511cdac6e970c-500wi\" title=\"Screen shot 2014-06-14 at 9.39.53 PM\"><\/a><br \/><span><strong>An amazing dance sequence from &#8220;Test&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span><span><span>BY <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/nathaniel_r.html\" target=\"_blank\">NATHANIEL ROGERS<\/a><\/span><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01a511cdaaa2970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ChrisMasonJohnson\" src=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01a511cdaaa2970c-200wi\" title=\"ChrisMasonJohnson\"><\/a>TEST<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;may sound like a generic title but the fine new <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> indie by that name is anything but. Chris Mason Johnson&rsquo;s <em>Test<\/em> follows Frankie (Scott Marlowe) a young <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> dancer in San Francisco in 1985. He&#8217;s the troupe&#8217;s new understudy. He&rsquo;s learning a dance he might never get to perform. The threat of AIDS looms large &mdash; a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">female<\/a> dancer worries about the sweat from her <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> partner and reminders are everywhere (papers, graffiti, whispered dialogue). It&rsquo;s not <em>just<\/em> the dance; Frankie&rsquo;s beginning a life he might never get to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He and his dancer friends are varying degrees of worried about AIDS and the topic of a new test for it keeps peppering the conversations. Will Frankie take it?<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out you can make a 1985-set AIDS movie that doesn&rsquo;t follow the typical beats. The dance environment gives <em>Test<\/em> a surprising visual appeal but, as the director (pictured left) reminds when we settle into our interview, it&rsquo;s also not fully an AIDS movie in the way we think of them.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every other AIDS movie has been about death and dying, <em>understandably<\/em>. I think it&rsquo;s safe to say that [<em>Test<\/em>] is about the fear of getting sick, it&rsquo;s not about being sick. It&rsquo;s just as much about dance as anything else.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Queer cinema has seen better days so it&rsquo;s a thrill to see an indie this fresh again that speaks so personally to the LGBT audience. <em>Test<\/em> is in the top 25 <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/movie\/test\/id876607768\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a> indie charts and the early success is well deserved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sex scenes, masculinity debates, and dancing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2014\/06\/must-see-movie-test.html\" target=\"_self\">AFTER THE JUMP <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01a511cda9fb970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Test-sex\" src=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01a511cda9fb970c-500wi\" title=\"Test-sex\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chris Mason Johnson&rsquo;s first feature <em>The New Twenty<\/em> was about a group of friends hitting 30 and though it had a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couple<\/a> of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> characters it was a decidedly more mainstream effort. <em>Test<\/em> is a huge leap forward artistically and the director&rsquo;s voice is clear. Why is that? &ldquo;Part of it is practice,&rdquo; he admits, adding humorously &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the boring answer!&rdquo; He directed, wrote, edited and produced this new film after a more commercial project fell through. &ldquo;The more interesting answer is I had a much stronger sense of what I wanted to say and what I wanted to do. And it was much more personal.&ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson began his career as a dancer and paired with his talent behind the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">camera<\/a> this grants <em>Test<\/em> a rare authenticity, especially for a micro-budgeted indie with &ldquo;light suggestions of period&#8221;. Johnson jokes that they just had to kind of point the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">camera<\/a> <em>up<\/em> for lack of 1985. Joking aside, he knows just where to put the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">camera<\/a> and I thank him profusely for letting us actually <span>see<\/span> the dancing rather than editing the movement into abstraction. He shares a list of inspiring films that got dancing right &ldquo;<em>Cabaret &#8211;&nbsp;<\/em>Bob Fosse was an amazing director of dance,<em> Pina <\/em>did a genius job,<em> The Red Shoes <\/em>of course,<em> Hair, Saturday Night Fever, Pennies From Heaven<\/em>&nbsp;the Christopher Walken number is incredible.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01a3fd1e2671970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Test-marlowewonders\" src=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01a3fd1e2671970b-500wi\" title=\"Test-marlowewonders\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course this all works in no small part because he hired actual dancers. I tell him I imagine it was tremendously difficult to cast.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yeah, it really was,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;The analogy I use is that a lot of people can carry a tune but they can&rsquo;t do opera. This is sort of the opera equivalent of dance. Natalie Portman [in <em>Black Swan<\/em>] had a body double and we didn&rsquo;t want to do that &#8212; The whole fun is seeing a real person do it. I met with different dancers and read them on <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">camera<\/a> &#8211; tricked them into auditioning to see if they were natural.&rdquo; He settled on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levydance.org\/about\/company-artists\/scott-marlowe\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Scott Marlowe<\/strong><\/a>, a handsome dancer who gives an unforced engaging performance nailing Frankie&rsquo;s nervousness and conflicting emotions around the test itself. But he&#8217;s truly electric when he&#8217;s dancing. &ldquo;We workshopped for about six months. He thought it was free acting lessons, I thought it was free rehearsals so it was kind of a win-win.&rdquo; The second lead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2807339\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Matthew Risch<\/strong><\/a> is a Broadway actor and dancer.<\/p>\n<p>We reach the topic of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> scenes and I wonder if that&rsquo;s easier with dancers who are used to performing shirtless and are, by profession, attuned to their bodies and physicality. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s always difficult to film <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> scenes,&rdquo; he says, discarding my theory. And then, rather unexpectedly, he recounts the shit he got from some members of the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> community when <em>The New Twenty<\/em> came out and the straight <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> scenes were &#8220;robust&#8221; and the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> scenes weren&#8217;t, which he thought was right for the plot and those characters. With <em>Test<\/em> &ldquo;I wanted to prove I wasn&rsquo;t squeamish about that.&rdquo; &nbsp;He&rsquo;s very happy about the chemistry between his leads. They filmed the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> scene on Matthew&#8217;s last day of the shoot. &ldquo;It felt really real. If you have a four week shoot, you can&rsquo;t redo and redo.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>One of the most striking story beats is Frankie&#8217;s struggle to &#8216;dance like a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>.&#8217; It opens up dialogue about the enduring topic of performative &ldquo;masculinity&rdquo; that is so prevalent in <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> culture. Was that always in the screenplay?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01a511cdabc0970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Test-dancehand\" src=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01a511cdabc0970c-500wi\" title=\"Test-dancehand\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Absolutely! It was one of the central motifs from the beginning.&#8221; Johnson was drawing from personal experience. &#8220;As a dancer a choreographer actually did shout at me &#8216;Dance like a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>!&#8217;. I talked to very young <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> dancers in ballet companies and they&#8217;re still going through that. It&#8217;s an aspect of the dance world a lot of people don&#8217;t know about. They assume that because there&#8217;s a lot of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> in it that it&#8217;s <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> friendly and therefore there aren&#8217;t any issues. That&#8217;s not true. Mainstream dance depends on <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> \/ <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">female<\/a> tension like Hollywood. It&#8217;s understandable. You&#8217;re telling a story of erotic tension and we have to believe that. The problem comes when directors can&#8217;t separate out sexual identity from the performance of gender of the body. Instead of saying &lsquo;When you move your arm like this, it&#8217;s a little soft and we need a harder feeling here,&rsquo; they say &lsquo;You&#8217;re too <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>. Don&#8217;t be <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>!&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And this ties neatly back into <em>Test<\/em> itself, which takes place when that message was pervasive and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gays<\/a> were scapegoated. &#8220;Frankie&#8217;s getting the message from all sides &#8216;What you are is worthless and you deserve to die from AIDS. <span>And<\/span> you&#8217;re not even a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> as a dancer.'&#8221; &nbsp;We both agree that things are immeasurably better now however far we still have to go.<\/p>\n<p>As for where this director is going, I&#8217;m happy to report that he wants to do more dance in film. But with the success of <em>Test<\/em> under his belt he&rsquo;s also looking into developing for TV. Even better, because we need these cinematic voices, he says &#8220;I definitely want to stick with queer representation.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>TEST<\/em> is currently showing theatrically in New York but it&rsquo;s also available nationwide to rent or buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.testthefilm.com\/#!video\/ck5g\" target=\"_blank\">On Demand<\/a> and at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/movie\/test\/id876607768\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>. This is a <em>Test<\/em> you should take.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/66281747\">TEST Trailer<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/seriousproductions\">Serious Productions<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Nathaniel Rogers would <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> in the movie theater but for the poor internet reception. He blogs daily at <a href=\"http:\/\/thefilmexperience.net\/\">the Film Experience<\/a>. Follow him on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/nathanielr\" target=\"_self\">@nathanielr<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=4ykX4UkE9wY:YCTamS47zkQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=4ykX4UkE9wY:YCTamS47zkQ:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=4ykX4UkE9wY:YCTamS47zkQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=4ykX4UkE9wY:YCTamS47zkQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=4ykX4UkE9wY:YCTamS47zkQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=4ykX4UkE9wY:YCTamS47zkQ:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=4ykX4UkE9wY:YCTamS47zkQ:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/4ykX4UkE9wY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><br \/>\nNathaniel_R<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2014\/06\/must-see-movie-test.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.towleroad.com\/2014\/06\/must-see-movie-test.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Must See Movie: An Interview With the Director of &quot;Test&quot; &nbsp; An amazing dance sequence from &#8220;Test&#8221;&nbsp; BY NATHANIEL ROGERS&nbsp; TEST&nbsp;may sound like a generic title but the fine new <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> indie by that name is anything but. 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