1. Interesting to think about "The Interview" in relation to the literature of assassination (& narratives of assassination).
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2. Narratives imagining the death of a real, existing political leader are contentious, for good reason!
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3. After JFK's assassination, some were made uneasy by movie Seven Days in May (1964) about attempt coup against liberal president.
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4. Many found JG Ballard's 1967 story "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race" in bad taste.
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5. Nicholson Baker's 2004 novel "Checkpoint" is about character trying to talk someone out of killing George W. Bush.
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6. Most recently Hillary Mantel's "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher" imagines alternative world attempt to kill Iron Lady in 1983.
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7. All these works were (and some still are) controversial even when written after death of person imagined being killed.
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8. One thing at work here is the widely held superstition that if you think about something bad happening you make it more likely to happen
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9. There's also the fear, I suppose, of incitement. That a work of fiction will give someone idea to kill a leader.
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