Trump, when considered as a fictional character

[gotsnowgotslush]

The New York Times is carrying an article with an interesting approach, in the SundayReview section.
It is tucked away in Loose Ends.

May 20, 2016

"Notes on Your 'Rise of the Donald' Pitch"

Who is Jesse Armstrong, the author of the article ?

He was born in the UK

2 April 2015

"The co-writer of Bafta award winning Peep Show and The Thick of It, has written a bravura debut novel about a student theatre troupe’s mission to Bosnia during the 90s war"
Co writer of Oscar nominated "In the Loop."


Title of Jesse Armstrong's novel-

Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals

http://www.theguardian.com/books/20...ign-policy-goals-jesse-armstrong-review-funny

http://www.penguin.com/meet/publishers/blueriderpress/

The scenario of the New York Time's article, is that a director has responded to a writer's pitch.

The pretense is that the writer has invented Donald Trump, as a character.

The director is highly critical about every aspect of the writer's creation.

The real kicker-

9) It may do for some collegiate parody to have a bloated plutocrat bragging about his "size" in a presidential nomination debate, but for a proper piece of work ? You need to up your game!

Bad Boy, Donald Trump, has turned the tables on the GOP ?

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/21/russell-brand-byron-bad-boys

 

[Iceprincess12]

Tease with a fictional character, mention author, divert to talk about author, throw in a kicker, then bring up the gop...

Still scratching my head on the kicker. Uk peeps have lost the ability to be ironic is what I got out of the #9 quote. I assume you picked the best one and this reinforces my belief that I haven't missed out on anything by not clicking your links (I don't click anyone's links)

The problem with this idea is that Trump is already a fictional character!. He is a self-made larger than life money machine. Maybe the UK author missed that part too

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Lionel Shriver: Donald Trump's too far-fetched for fiction

11 May 2016
At a Guardian event in London on Tuesday night for her latest novel The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047, which is set in a future America where the economy has crashed, Shriver said: “I honestly think that if you put Trump in a novel before last year, it wouldn’t work. It would seem too far-fetched. You would be accused of writing farce; you would be accused of being condescending about the American people.

You’d also be criticised as a novelist for not coming up with a more beguiling demagogue. This guy is crude, he’s a buffoon, he can’t string a grammatical sentence together, he’s unappealing. I can just hear the editorial lunch now: ‘You’ve got to do something about this guy, there has to be something appealing about him otherwise he wouldn’t have this constituency.’”

Link

http://www.theguardian.com/books/20...ver-donald-trumps-too-far-fetched-for-fiction

Her book, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

The novel features the first Latino US president and a prosperous Mexico building a wall to keep American migrants out, two elements Shriver said she hadn’t anticipated would be so relevant to current events while she was writing it. She told the audience that The Mandibles is “not a celebration of the demise of the US” and that she felt “sorrowful about what has happened to my country”.

(She was born in America, she has lived in the UK for over twenty years.)

 

[Iceprincess12]

Are you from the UK? I'm confused why we care what they think.

Unless they want to talk about their kink capital of the world status, I'm not listening. They offer no new insights into Trump, no one does, he isn't that deep.