Holy shit, keep going.…to take Shakespeare's Coriolanus (based on the life of the Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus) and, according to Jones, "make a rap film out of it set in South Central during the L.A. riots—that was Steve's idea."
Oh shit, this is gold.A copy of excerpts of the screenplay that was shared with The Daily Beast—The Thing I Am, written by Jones and Bannon—includes rap music, racial tensions aplenty, looting, gangster "foot-soldiers," and chaos at "ground zero of the 1992 L.A. riots."
Don't you dare stop now.Coriolanus's Menenius Agrippa, a senator of Rome, is recast as "Agrippa, 'Mack Daddy' of South Central, an ORIGINAL GANGSTA (O.G.) upper-echelon Blood."
The rap lyrics were penned mostly by Jones and the son of Wendy Colbert, Bannon's assistant. "Steve [then] added stuff—all the 'dudes' are him," Jones recalled. "It's not strictly rap. It's more Shakespeare in rap [music]."
Whitey."You choose. To act and die—or lie 'neath whitey's boot!" the gang-member version of "BRUTUS" declares, standing on a chair, "talking trash, shouting to be heard."
What kind of whiskey-induced, paranoid fever dream would possess a man, the Tea Party's Leni fucking Reifenstahl for that matter, to twist Coriolanus into a parable about the LA Riots? And if Bannon was, as Jones suggests, "all the 'dudes'" in the film, does that mean that Steve Bannon sees himself as "Agrippa, 'Mack Daddy' of South Central, an ORIGINAL GANGSTA (O.G.) upper-echelon Blood?"With Bannon now seemingly running the country by prodding his boss to sign executive orders, living out his Leninist fantasy of destroying the state and rebuilding it in his own perverted image, we may never know.Lead image via Wikipedia.Follow Noisey on Twitter."Die, die, die!" the crowd roars back.