https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:48:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/08/20/flowers-for-aaron/ Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:48:14 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=177 I’m always on the look out for traces of past pop culture in contemporary offerings. Perhaps in honor of The Bourne Legacy I should call this DNA or something, but I don’t know enough science to work the term into an apt metaphor. Anyway, it was when super soldier Aaron revealed that if he didn’t get the green pills he’d revert to a mental retard that I had the insight: The Bourne Legacy is merely Flowers for Algernon done as a thriller. Did screenwriting brothers Tony and Dan Gilroy read the Bantam classic as it was being passed around in class, the way I did? If I recall correctly, we … Read more

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