Hey guys, I have a great idea for an opera “ripped from today’s headlines”!
The first scene depicts an American journalist getting his head cut off by Islamic savages. I’m talking everything from beginning to end including our hero’s blood curdling screams and the blood spilling out of his severed head. Now that you’ve gotten your audience glued to their seats, everything that follows is a gripping flashback to the lives of the butchers and the oppression they suffered at the hands of “infidels.” What a cool way to show they’re human beings just like you and I, and put the flesh on the bones of their “motivations”! Just wait till they hear the executioner’s aria!!
Talk about evenhandedness, context and artistic expression!
This thing is bound to garner boffo reviews from the critics – especially from the all-powerful Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times. And here, for no extra charge I’ll even throw in the title: The Untimely Death of James Foley.
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