Re: Norman Mailer’s ‘Armies of the Night’ Set for Big Screen Adaptation

[David Kilroy]

"Fashionable"...! Like Selma, or Steal This Movie, or the Chicago 8, or The
U.S. vs. John Lennon, or Let the Fire Burn...

We're living in an era where *the* largest, most widespread protest to U.S.
military-industrial policy was 2003.  Protest is kind of in the shitter,
isn't it?  Maybe not around the U-bend but it's about to follow that
harmonica, Jackson.  Protest gets us nowhere, cf. Ferguson.  Protest has
been co-opted to sell movie tickets, to sell us the spectacle of protest.
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Mailer was one hell of a writer here & again, but if we are to be sold
another finger-shaving from filmmakers I'd prefer it be based off the
writings of someone who has never attempted to stab his wife.  If we must
pretend film can change the politics of violence let's at least aspire to
something resembling credibility...
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