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50 Cent Forced To Rename Film By Author Chinua Achebe
Besides providing sophomore World Lit. classes with a damn fine read, Chinua Achebe hasn't been showing up on the radar screen much these days. His 1953 novel Things Fall Apart (a phrase that first appears in W.B. Yeats' 1919 poem "The Second Coming") is nothing short of a 20th century classic, but that didn't seem to bother 50 much when he made a $1 million bid to buy the title for his upcoming football movie. You've got to admire ol' Curtis's ear for a badass line of verse, but unfortunately for the rapper-entrepreneur, Achebe's lawyer was having none of it: "The novel with the said title was initially produced in 1958 (that is 17 years before rapper 50 Cent was born), [is] listed as the mostly read book in modern African literature, and won’t be sold for even $1 billion." Hard to argue with precedence. In the face of such resistance, 50 had to settle with the title All Things Fall Apart.
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