Queer Fiction, Straight Film: The (In)Curious Case of Call Me by Your Name
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Adaptation scholars have strived to sever the constraining link between an adaptation and its fidelity to the source, recasting it within a more democratized frame of two independent, equally important texts. Once we attempt to appreciate each text in its own right, however, a new set of questions arise: how would we assess an adaption as adaptation? When the faithfulness to the original has little to do with the quality of adaptation, what kind of infidelity would be necessary for a film to live up to the novel? Call Me by Your Name, directed by Luca Guadagnino and winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, presents a curious case to unpack the complex topic of fidelity. This is because, by eradicating the source novel’s queer core and choosing to become a predictable gay romance, Guadagnino’s film inadvertently offers an opportunity to rethink the current celebration of infidelity; that is, depending on each adaptation’s particularities, fidelity may not be always mediocre nor infidelity inherently innovative. This article argues that, via a normalizing process of adaptation, an “unbearable” queer novel has been sanitized into a homonormative film designed for a wider straight audience, whose clichéd message of first love and growing up belies the tenacious, indelible desire Elio had to grapple with for twenty years in the book. In this sense, Call Me by Your Name’s infidelity to the original invites a reassessment of the precarious borders between simplification and misrepresentation in adaptation.
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Adaptation scholars have strived to sever the constraining link between an adaptation and its fidelity to the source, recasting it within a more democratized frame of two independent, equally important texts. Once we attempt to appreciate each text in its own right, however, a new set of questions arise: how would we assess an adaption as adaptation? When the faithfulness to the original has little to do with the quality of adaptation, what kind of infidelity would be necessary for a film to live up to the novel? Call Me by Your Name, directed by Luca Guadagnino and winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, presents a curious case to unpack the complex topic of fidelity. This is because, by eradicating the source novel’s queer core and choosing to become a predictable gay romance, Guadagnino’s film inadvertently offers an opportunity to rethink the current celebration of infidelity; that is, depending on each adaptation’s particularities, fidelity may not be always mediocre nor infidelity inherently innovative. This article argues that, via a normalizing process of adaptation, an “unbearable” queer novel has been sanitized into a homonormative film designed for a wider straight audience, whose clichéd message of first love and growing up belies the tenacious, indelible desire Elio had to grapple with for twenty years in the book. In this sense, Call Me by Your Name’s infidelity to the original invites a reassessment of the precarious borders between simplification and misrepresentation in adaptation.
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