[percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 176, Issue 3

Michael Larson larsonovic at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 16:45:08 EDT 2022


Karl, two questions: 1) Do you think Percy was enamored of scientism? 2)
What do you think he was after in Thanatos?

Mike Larson

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>    1. Re:  Adaptation of Walker Percy Novel ?The Second Coming? -
>       Aaron Magnani (Producer) (Karl M. Terrell)
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> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2022 18:00:15 +0000
> From: "Karl M. Terrell" <kterrell at stokeswagner.com>
> To: "janetcantor37 at yahoo.com" <janetcantor37 at yahoo.com>, "Percy-L:
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> Subject: Re: [percy-l]  Adaptation of Walker Percy Novel ?The Second
>         Coming? - Aaron Magnani (Producer)
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> I would hope, though, that any moviemaker of Thanatos would not cheaply
> politicize it as a critique of liberalism (either in the broad classic
> sense or under the ?liberal? label in American politics), or as an
> endorsement of the current right-wing?s fetishistic misunderstanding of
> expertise based on real science.
>
> Percy was after something altogether different.
>
> Karl Terrell
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> On Nov 5, 2022, at 11:16 AM, janetcantor37--- via Percy-L <
> percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
>
> ?
> I would like to see any good adaptation of any Percy novel.
>
> I think the easiest for adaptation would be The Thanatos Syndrome.
>
> It is wild enough to illustrate today's choices about how our authorities
> handled Covid and vaccinations, and about how the ruling class imposes its
> ideas of what is going on in the planet and casually ruins our lives and
> our economy as they go about it. Look how the novel matches how do gooders
> who think they know what is best for everyone else often forget that
> others' personal freedom and happiness must not be ignored while they are
> "helping" the world.
>
> There is also that plot about Nazis in the novel that comes from Percy's
> own pivotal experience of seeing some Nazi Youth when he was a young boy
> and being viscerally changed by that and never forgetting that scary
> feeling. There is so much talk about Nazis these days, even that subplot is
> relevant.
>
> A side comment: Percy hated the Nazis and used that subplot in an attempt
> to give the reader the same terror he understood about tyranny and how it
> can become normalcy so easily. He was balancing that against the "good
> intentions" of those who were wrongheadedly giving the happy juice to
> everyone to bring peace and calm into the world. Yet someone in my book
> group, a very intelligent woman read that and hated the book because she
> didn't like the way Percy was minimizing and mocking the Holocaust. She
> missed Percy's point completely.
>
> Another woman there made the pithiest comment on the novel. "Just because
> we are able to do something does not always mean we should do it."
>
> I think The Thanatos Syndrome could be a perfect novel to adapt today.
>
> Wouldn't it be wonderful if movie makers could at last see that these
> novels were prescient and could entertain us yet give us all food for
> thought.
>
> I wonder if any adaptation of The Second Coming could be successful. It
> isa strange story, but if it could be pulled off, it could be magical.
>
> Janet Cantor
>
> On Saturday, November 5, 2022, 10:38:07 AM EDT, Henry P. Mills III <
> wppdirector at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Percy-L:
>
> Members may be interested in this news of a future Percy novel film. Is
> the Second Coming more adaptive to the big screen than the Moviegoer?
>
> I wonder what novel members of the community think would be best suited
> for a feature-length film? It?d be interesting to hear the community?s
> responses.  Is Second Coming the most likely one?
>
> Best wishes,
> Henry Mills
>
>
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> Aaron Magnani Developing Film Adaptation Of Walker Percy Novel ?The Second
> Coming?; Peter Arneson Set As Screenwriter
>
> Aaron Magnani has optioned screen rights to Walker Percy?s New York Times
> bestseller The Second Coming, with plans to develop the novel for film.
> He?s currently in search of a director for the adaptation and will produce
> via under his Aaron Magnani Productions banner. Peter Arneson adapted the
> script and will executive produce.
>
> The story centers on a wealthy, suicidal widower who searches for proof of
> God but finds much more when he meets a young woman fugitive from a mental
> hospital. Influenced by the real-life suicides of Percy?s father and
> grandfather and suspected suicide of his mother, the plot combines comedy,
> tragedy and romance, with themes of alienation and redemption.
>
> ?This story is very relatable to the world we have been living in,? said
> Magnani. ?And the adaptation is as much a director?s piece as an actor?s
> piece and incredible character study.?
>
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