It’s a genuinely reprehensible novel, one which uses blunt racism as wallpaper. The conspirators infiltrate the “cosmopolitan racial goulash” in wigs and disguises. When the Organization eventually captures Southern California, it stages “the Day of the Rope,” hanging race traitors from trees and telephone poles across the Southland. It’s Hollywood imagery in the service of an unfilmable story.
But is it unfilmable? Cinema has a long history showing us things we don’t want to see. Just in the last ten years, audiences have championed trends both technical (3D-CGI, forays across the uncanny valley) and social (torture porn, Star Wars films that are sucky instead of fun) that would have baffled moviegoers of the 80s. Cultural goalposts only feel fixed in the moment: Lolita, Naked Lunch, and Lord Of The Rings were each considered unfilmable in their day.
Politically, what passed for far right in the 90s is basically centrist by today’s standards. Tea Partiers are a demographic, not a fringe, one that could reward a Turner film handsomely at the box office or Netflix queue. Surely, somewhere deep in the bowels of Hollywood, shadowy executives are spitballing ways to bring Macdonald’s work to the big screen.
The fact that it’s an awful idea doesn’t mean it won’t happen—it just requires certain conditions.
- Filming the Unfilmable, by Sam McPheeters, September 12, 2013.
2. Despite the regulatory efforts hustled in as a result of public panic and a political class desperate to be seen doing something, the initial problems remain, and the next crisis could be even worse. Among the major problems: risky loans to those who can’t repay them. Liberal advocacy groups such as Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), pushed lenders such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to grant loans to borrowers who couldn’t afford repayment.
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