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

[Heikki R]

"Armies of the Night" is really a good book. As is another "nonfiction
novel" of his, "The Executioner's Song" (never saw the TV adaptation).
These two books are much, much better than his "fictional" novels in my
opinion.

One can only hope that they have the courage to contrast Mailer's personal
violent impulses with his participation in the anti-war movement. (A
potentially fruitful conflict.) Would John C. Reilly be too softy to play
Mailer?

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:59 AM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "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.
> ​
> 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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