Showing posts with label yorrick kaine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yorrick kaine. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Donald Trump is fictional...

I loved this piece in the Guardian which identified several cinematic foreshadowings of the great man [irony]:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/aug/02/films-donald-trump-citizen-kane-gangs-of-new-york

Apart from Bill the Butcher, Charles Foster Kane, Howard Beale and Greg Stillson I can also see an echo of Trump in the character of Yorrick Kaine, a fictional escapee from the Bookworld,  in Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde.