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Excerpt from Maybe The Moon |
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The Leprechaun goes literary!
Maybe the Moon is a serious novel by Armistead Maupin. The heroine is Cadence Roth, an obscure actress who is also the world's second-shortest woman. She is unhappy about the lack of recognition and respect for short actors in Hollywood, but sees it as something that she just has to live with. Late in the book she makes a sudden decision to stop accepting the situation and makes a dramatic move to try to change things. What was it that pushed her over the edge? Read on:
"Meanwhile, plans were in the works elsewhere for a film called Leprechaun, a thriller about a little green serial killer who disrupts the peace of an average American household. So much for humanizing us. They might as well have called it Fatal Enchantment. This was all the reminder I needed that drastic measures were in order if I expected to turn my life around."
The author was really on top of current events - the movie hadn't been released yet when this book was published. There are no other references to Leprechaun in the book, and this one came as quite a surprise. Interestingly, the book mentioned a number of other movies but completely ignored the existence of Willow, a movie that portrayed little people in a realistic and favorable light and incidentally had the same star as Leprechaun.
Since Leprechaun hadn't even been made when the book was written, the author also missed the boat when he dissed the Lep. The series is popular because the Leprechaun has a lot of human qualities, and the viewers identify with him in a warped kind of way. Because he's not big and handsome, many of the other characters think they can get away with making fun of him and stealing his property. They are WRONG, of course - this little guy is EMPOWERED, and the fans love the vicarious power trip of watching him pay back all the people who try to abuse him or boss him around.
