The following is satire – get over it. Credit goes to the Times of London for the writing style.
This is the dramatic moment when Mayor Frank Melton is gunned down by someone who still has not gotten over the fact that their candidate lost the last election after knocking down a crack house in Jackson’s Virden Addition, in a gripping new docudrama soon to be aired on WAPT, shortly after their nightly newscast.
Set around October 2007, Frank Melton is assassinated as he leaves an innercity neighborhood after rescuing a 10 year old who he found smoking dope.
Death of a Mayor, shot in the style of a retrospective documentary, looks at the effect the assassination of Melton has on Jackson in light of his work on housing, truancy and economic development.
The 90 minutes feature explores who could have planned the murder, with a ACLU activist wrongly put in the frame.
Derrick Johnson, head of Harvey Johnson’s campaign (and the state NAACP), said the drama was a “thought-provoking critique” of how Jacksonians must feel under the tyranny of Frank Melton and Ben Allen.
He said: “It’s an extraordinarily gripping and powerful piece of work, a drama constructed like a documentary that looks back at the assassination of Frank Melton as the starting point for a very gripping detective story.
“It’s a pointed political examination of what Frank Melton did to the Jackson body politic.
“I’m sure that there will be people who will be upset by it but when you watch it you realise what a sophisticated piece of work it is.
“It’s not sensationalist, or simplistic but a very thought-provoking, powerful drama. I hope people will see that the intention behind it is good.”
The film will premier at the weekly “We Hate Frank” party hosted by the Rainbow Coop in September and was written and directed by Jackson Free Press Editor Donna Ladd, who parenthetically added that though she would never wish that life would imitate film, she still hates that “son-of-a-bitch”.
Magnolia Tribune
