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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Trump presidency is too bizarre for a movie or a tv miniseries.
It's going to have to be an opera, something like Wagner's Ring cycle. Nothing but opera can handle really insane drama. The composer of Nixon in China, John Adams, disagrees and explains why he wouldn't write an opera about Trump:
The thing with Nixon was he was interesting because he was vulnerable. His weaknesses were marvelously mixed up with his idealism. At the moment in Nixon in China where he comes off the plane, and he greets Zhou Enlai, he sings this aria about being aware of himself as president, and being like the Apollo astronaut. He's the pilot who's piloting the ship through shoals. You can believe that there's a part of Nixon that is actually noble despite all his paranoia and his faults.
I couldn't imagine doing that with Trump, because there's just nothing there except this raw, very dangerous ego, and overwhelming vanity. Maybe if I live that long, I will find some story that reflects this crisis, but I would have to approach it from an oblique angle.
But he said that shortly after the election, and since then things have become weirder by orders of magnitude. While he's right about Trump himself, there's a whole cast of characters who could populate a really wild avant-garde opera.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Enough.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,704 posts)Tons of them about WWII and Hitler.
ornotna
(10,801 posts)Something along the lines of Ichi the Killer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichi_the_Killer_(film)
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)Thanks for posting the link. Interesting guy
And this is just perfect:
KPN
(15,646 posts)or miniseries ends. Could be really good.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)KPN
(15,646 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Yep, he could do it up right proper, making it hilarious and disparaging enough that the tRump name burns in infamy for a hundred years.
ornotna
(10,801 posts)That was my second choice.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,704 posts)But I still think opera is the best vehicle because it specializes in over-the-top and implausible drama.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I know it's bad, but I couldn't resist.
JI7
(89,250 posts)Mueller and what they were doing which the public did not see.
Trump himself would be a sideshow . Putin should get more focus with all the crap he is doing and the troll farms and how he is handling the puppet Trump.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)thbobby
(1,474 posts)I have heard about porn shows with horses or other animals (disgusting). A porn star with an orange piece of shit? Not my cup of tea, so to speak, but what could be more disgusting?