{"id":1740,"date":"2019-12-13T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2020-01-17T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:42:37","slug":"vitruvian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2019\/12\/13\/vitruvian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Vitruvian Man"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0<\/h5>

Dear <\/i><\/span>Mary Harron, <\/i><\/a><\/p>

I so enjoyed your film American Psycho.<\/span>\u00a0 I heard of your recent project, The Other Vitruvian Man<\/span>, and would like to pitch an alternative ending to the film.<\/i><\/span><\/p>

I would enjoy discussing this with you further.\u00a0 Please have your assistant contact my assistant, and we can do lunch.\u00a0 Perhaps that newly renovated restaurant near the old Studio 54<\/a> is appropriate.<\/i><\/span><\/p>

Thank you for your consideration,<\/i><\/span><\/p>

M. Nostredame<\/i><\/a><\/p>

…<\/p>

The master is alone in his peculiarly shaped <\/span>room,<\/span>
with golden curtains, framed faces hanging on the wall,<\/span>
and scent of French fries and burnt bovine breast.<\/span><\/p>

STAGE RIGHT:<\/span><\/strong>
The orange wig intentionally placed upon the manikin\u2019s scalp.<\/span>
Navy suit and long red tie draped as if the plastic figure <\/span>
is dressed in its Sunday best.<\/span><\/p>

The slightly hunched, thick-middled, ruddied man sits on the velvet chair,<\/span>
with its intricately detailed arm rests,<\/span>
made from a mold, not hand-carved.<\/span><\/p>

He speaks intentionally, cadence less like a preacher<\/span>
more like a monotone salesman, expression less like a prideful grin,<\/span>
more like a contemptuous winking smirk.<\/span><\/p>

He explains how he bought and sold his soul for us,<\/span>
how he tempted the evil of lands, and brought forth heroes.<\/span><\/p>

He explains how he finished his job, you see,<\/span>
just as he promised.\u00a0 He has drained the swamp, in<\/span>
in his own manner, as a matter of fact. After all<\/span>
he is exactly what he says he is: A very stable genius.<\/span><\/p>

He explains he knew it had to happen, and<\/span>
only could with a common enemy.<\/span>
He explains he made the choice it would be him.<\/span><\/p>

He explains how he is, in fact, the modern Christ<\/span>
sacrificing himself on the oval, for our sins.<\/span><\/p>

Camera rolling, sun setting,
authorities knocking on bolted doors.<\/span>
He explains how it is our turn now,
to take the reigns, to select our destiny.<\/span><\/p>

He has no more explaining to do.<\/span>
It is demo time.<\/span>
He fires, the door falls.<\/span><\/p>

STAGE LEFT:<\/span><\/strong>
The SWAT team finds him lying alone, in a pool with the eagle.<\/span>
Aside, a firearm naked of serial number, and<\/span>
powdered with explosive dust.<\/span><\/p>

END SCENE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>

…<\/p>

 <\/p>

image: The Smithsonian<\/a><\/em><\/h6>
this piece was originally <\/em>published here on 10\/13\/2019<\/em><\/h6>

 <\/p>

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Dear Mary Harron,<\/p>\n

I so enjoyed your film American Psycho.\u00a0 I heard of your recent project, The Other Vitruvian Man, and would like to pitch an alternative ending to the film …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Other Vitruvian Man | Hokis, Senior Editor\n\n\"He explains how he finished his job, you see,\njust as he promised.\u00a0 He has drained the swamp, in\nin his own manner, as a matter of fact...\"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,213,164,168,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","category-poetry","category-politics","category-the-white-house-occupant","category-united-states"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Indelible-Images-Vitruvian-Man-manuscript-631.jpg?fit=631%2C300&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}