Tuesday, January 05, 2021
“Backwards Continuity is Not a Category, Is It?”: Script Supervisor Steve Gehrke on Tenet
Filmmaker Magazine: In the world of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, people from the future have figured out how to reverse the entropy of people and objects, making them “time inverted. Effect precedes cause for inverted objects and people. Inverted bullets return from bullet holes and swirl back into the barrel of the guns that fired them, a fight between an inverted soldier and a soldier operating on regular time looks like a freak-puppet show, and reverse speech sounds like the dream speak from the Red Room in Twin Peaks.
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I am a huge fan of non-linear stories. I am not a fan of continuity errors, even if it is a guitar that was carried in, not in the building, and then carried out again. Tenet is an incredible challenge to continuity and script supervisors such as Steve Gehrke. I love that Gehrke chronicles his experience, while ever-changing, as a script supervisor. It is an important point that he makes about collaborating with every department. It makes sense that he does, but it is an underappreciated art. When he said he is “a safety net for every department”, he reminded me of a stage manager. The difference is the stage manager has more of a responsibility to bring continuity from performance to performance; it is harder to have a prop disappear by chance in the middle of a scene only to reappear later than in different takes recorded on different days. Gehrke has a take to take and scene to scene responsibility to continuity. I think this article helped me to understand the inner workings a little bit more and have more of an appreciation for Christopher Nolan as well.
-Ariel Bernhard
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