Resident Evil: Afterglow
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seriousficSo you know that the Resident Evil franchise, in addition to being modern masterpieces of cinema, are also the most penetrating queer subversion of genre fiction ever done with predominantly female action heroes. But did you also know the scripts are even more gay? In the movie, when Alice finds an amnesiac Claire, they just go off and land at zombie prison. But in the screenplay, Claire goes into withdrawal when separated from Vi-bad-gra, forcing Alice to nurse her back to health... feeding her, washing her, and cutting her fingernails, with the script helpfully pointing out that Claire's "torn and tattered clothes reveal more than they cover." Also, the first thing a memoryless, feral Claire tries to do is jump Alice, but then, you knew that. Then come scenes like this:
Alice wakes suddenly, gun in hand. Claire is sitting on the end of her bed.
CLAIRE
You were my friend?
ALICE
I like to think so.
CLAIRE
(hesitant)
Was I… a good person?
ALICE
Yes… why would you ask that?
CLAIRE
I don't know… I have the feeling I let people down.
ALICE
You're not the only one.
Alice sits by Claire.
ALICE
We struggle, we fight… we watch our friends die. Survival is pain.
CLAIRE
Is it worth it? The pain?
It's a question Alice has often asked herself – as she sat alone in the dark. After a beat—
ALICE
Someone has to go on. Otherwise what is all this for?
That they had to cut out because Rizzoli & Isles was going to sue them for "straight besties who are totally straight sleep in the same bed and talk about their feelings." All of this canon h/c finally leads to...
Claire comes round. She had briefly passed out.
CLAIRE
Chris!
Claire embraces her brother, overjoyed.
CLAIRE
(choked)
I thought I'd never see you again…
CHRIS
It would take more than the end of the world to keep me from my little sister.
BENNETT
(cynical)
Isn't that sweet.
But no one is paying any notice to Bennett. Claire turns to Alice. Embraces her. Finally knowing her for the friend she is—
CLAIRE
I remember now. Thank you – for what you did for us.
[…]
ANGEL
Can I get you anything?
CLAIRE
Yeah…
(looks around)
…a gun. Large caliber, automatic.
Alice smiles at her friend—
ALICE
Nice to have you back.
Plus, in the beginning, zombie Madonna gets shot. Yes, Madonna is a disgusting, mutated creature that feasts on the flesh of the innocent, and in the movie she'd play a zombie!
Alice wakes suddenly, gun in hand. Claire is sitting on the end of her bed.
CLAIRE
You were my friend?
ALICE
I like to think so.
CLAIRE
(hesitant)
Was I… a good person?
ALICE
Yes… why would you ask that?
CLAIRE
I don't know… I have the feeling I let people down.
ALICE
You're not the only one.
Alice sits by Claire.
ALICE
We struggle, we fight… we watch our friends die. Survival is pain.
CLAIRE
Is it worth it? The pain?
It's a question Alice has often asked herself – as she sat alone in the dark. After a beat—
ALICE
Someone has to go on. Otherwise what is all this for?
That they had to cut out because Rizzoli & Isles was going to sue them for "straight besties who are totally straight sleep in the same bed and talk about their feelings." All of this canon h/c finally leads to...
Claire comes round. She had briefly passed out.
CLAIRE
Chris!
Claire embraces her brother, overjoyed.
CLAIRE
(choked)
I thought I'd never see you again…
CHRIS
It would take more than the end of the world to keep me from my little sister.
BENNETT
(cynical)
Isn't that sweet.
But no one is paying any notice to Bennett. Claire turns to Alice. Embraces her. Finally knowing her for the friend she is—
CLAIRE
I remember now. Thank you – for what you did for us.
[…]
ANGEL
Can I get you anything?
CLAIRE
Yeah…
(looks around)
…a gun. Large caliber, automatic.
Alice smiles at her friend—
ALICE
Nice to have you back.
Plus, in the beginning, zombie Madonna gets shot. Yes, Madonna is a disgusting, mutated creature that feasts on the flesh of the innocent, and in the movie she'd play a zombie!
