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Phillip's avatar

The elites are hyenas who mistake themselves for leopards. Instead of reading Brooks, they should have read Lampedusa. This is what poor choices in reading gets you.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Everyone should read Lampedusa

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Phillip's avatar

True. But, nonetheless, I suspect that Netflix would inevitably adapt it: the Risorgimento portrayed as an Italic civil rights uprising, Tancredi played as a sexually conflicted community organiser in love with a feisty girl from the Global South, the Prince of Salinas a proto-Boomer in awe of the wisdom of the young...

Reading has become as archaic as Sicily under the Bourbons.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Don't forget a racially diverse cast, Sicily is pretty close to Africa!

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Phillip's avatar

The cast would have to be inclusive. Papuans, Tamils and Filipinos all welcome. Ditto troons and furries. The casting couch must be decolonised so that it affirms everyone who identifies as an actor can reclaim their power. Every entertainment must become a struggle session. Blend the sensibility of Fellini with Brecht and the early John Waters.

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