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...TP: I do, yeah...
...TP: I've had a couple of books turned into screenplays at this point and basically you have no rights once you allow your book to be optioned. But in this case, I was on very good terms with the producers. So I was able to read the drafts and talk to the screenwriters, but it was much more in a consulting role than an "I don't like this, I don't like that" kind of thing. People were curious about my response, but I don't actually think my response response changed their plan...
...TP: It was actually a relatively short time span from book to movie. I think it was about three and a half years ago that I gave the book to the producers and they gave it MTV. MTV financed the development, and they brought director Alexander Payne on board. It was November of 1995 when it started and they were inproduction by November...
...TP: There were two interesting ideas really. In this case, I can't remember which story--the teacher's or the students'--xame first. I was writing the students' story as an attempt to recreate the 1992 presidential election in a high school so that was a fairly allegorical and satirical decision. The teacher's story was much more a serious character study and that came from an anecdote I read in the paper--I believe it was a teacher in a Southern state who had burned a box of votes for prom queen because the students had elected...
...TP: That's a good question. I think high school is a place where people create their identities--and I'm trying to say this the right way--I think that teenagers are a lot smarter than adults give them credit for. I also think that they aren't any more innocent than adults. Maybe that doesn't need to be said when we are dealing with the stuff we are dealing with now, but I felt there's something wrong with the idea that teenagers are morally pure and corrupted by hypocritical adults. And I think Election shows...