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!WELCOME
BACK
ALSO
TO THE
SLIGHTLY CHANGED
WWW.ZONEWARSONFILM.ORG!
Wild.
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There can be
no more exceptions
or privileges.
Everybody must be equal...
The power of peace
must be dominant.
- Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky
!'Nuck said,
Brother Vol!
!!!!Mir
Peace
Salaam
Shalom!!!!
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!EXIT 2023
2024'S ZONE WARRIOR
GETS HIGH ON YOU
AND THE ENERGY YOU SHARE
CUTS WRIGHT ON THROUGH
THE ALLEGORICAL FICTION AND FILMS
OF THE DAY!
- Gardevil,
with thanks to Neil Peart
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THE SMART PHONE
HAS BECOME THE NEW RETINA
OF THE MIND'S I.
THUS,
THE MEDIUM IS
THE TEXT MESSAGE.
- Doctor Brian O'Blivion
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"I often say
that there are two languages:
the words that I wrote-
the words you can understand-
and behind that,
there's a silent language."
- Jon Fosse,
winner of the
2023 Nobel Prize in Literature
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"It sounds silly,
but when people talk about
Jane and Finch
or Downsview,
certain images
come to mind,
and a lot of those images
don't have the beauty...
There's so much history
and impact
that comes out of our community
that gets overlooked
because of media narratives
that have been there
for decades."
- Kayode Brown,
CEO of BGRAPHIC,
TORONTO STAR,
Together section,
Sunday, January, 21, 2014,
p. A16.
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RIP
ELEANOR COPPOLA
1936- 2024
The world will miss
your Soul of Lightness.
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RIP
NORMAN JEWISON
1926-2024
"THEY CALLED HIM
MISTER JEWISON!"
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!Whoops!
!Happy!
belated
20th anniversary
to
Sir Peter Jackson,
Viggo Mortensen,
Elijah Wood,
Sir Ian McKellen,
Bernard Hill,
Andy Serkis,
and
the rest of
the talented cast and crew
of
the daylit, allegorical,
CGI enhanced, Ozian themed
and
implicitly Jason Reitman toasting
and
George Lucas roasting
indie animaction film
THE LORD OF THE RINGS:
!THE RETURN OF THE KING [2003]!
and
!Happy
belated
25th anniversary
to
Lana and Lilly Wachowski,
Keanu Reeves
Carrie-Anne Moss,
Laurence Fishburne
and
the rest of
the talented cast and crew
of
the twilit, allegorical,
CGI enhanced, Ozian themed
and
implicitly Lucas toasting
and
Vic Morrow roasting
indie docufeature film
THE MATRIX [1999]!
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!!Feel free
to
drop by the
Zone Warriors
section
and
ponder
the
slightly re-revised
"essay"
on
the film art of
Sarah Polley,
the completely rewatched,
rethunked, re-revised
and
expanded "essay"
on
the film art
of
Ben Affleck,
and
also feel free
to ponder
the re-revised
Lee Ang
"essay"
for
mind bending insights
into
the daylit, allegorical,
CGI enhanced and Ozian themed
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
indie docufeature film
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE
ALL AT ONCE [2022]
and
the first thoughts
on
the twilit, allegorical
and
CGI enhanced
indie docufeature films
RIDE WITH THE DEVIL [1999]
and
GEMINI MAN [2019]!!
!!Make sure you also
drop by
the
Zhang Yimou
"essay"
for slightly revised insights
into
the twilit, allegorical
and
Ozian themed
docufeature film SHADOW [2018]
and
the daylit and allegorical
docufeature film
CLIFF WALKERS [2021]!!
!!!'NUCK SAID!!!
****
RIP
SRV
Gone
but never forgotten.
!Thank you
for
TEXAS FLOOD [1983]
and
COULDN'T STAND THE WEATHER [1984]!
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Well, luckily for us all,
2022
ended the dread
fortieth anniversary year
of
the helicopter crash
that killed
actor/writer/director Vic Morrow
and
child extras Renee Chen and Myca Le
around 2:20 pm in the early morning
of
July 23, 1982
on
the George Folsey jr. produced
John Landis set
of
the twilit, allegorical,
computer generated imagery enhanced,
Landis and Steven Spielberg
executive produced,
Frank Marshall produced,
and
Kathleen Kennedy associate produced
Landis, Spielberg, Joe Dante
and
George Miller
docufeature film
TWILIGHT ZONE:
THE MOVIE [1983].
!Thank God for that!
Alas,
while that dire and infuriating
anniversary year
has been left behind,
we are still
trapped
in
the
fortieth anniversary year
of
the release
of
TWILIGHT ZONE:
THE MOVIE
on
June 24, 1983.
So we have gone
from the frying pan
into the fire,
people.
!Frak!
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"...Quite the movie fan
is Holly Gibney
(although she hasn't been in
an actual theater
since the previous spring),
and she enjoys
Hollywood tentpole movies
every bit as much as art films.
One of her faves
from the eighties
is Conan the Barbarian,
and her favorite line
from that film
is spoken by a minor character.
"Two or three years ago",
the peddler says of Set
and his followers,
"they were just another snake cult.
Now they're everywhere.""
- a paragraph from p. 17,
and another misquote from p. 326
"...Holly channels The Empire
Strikes Back. "Everything
means something, it does.""
and still another quote from
the all too fittingly
and
ominously twilit p. 382
"..."Excuse my husband, " Emily says.
"He's upset and it makes him
garrulous.""
and
this Fourceful and final one
from p. 389
"...I have a bad feeling about this,
Ba."
from
the allegorical
and
implicitly Stan and Joan Lee roasting
Stephen King
indie docufiction novel
Holly [2023]
that affirmed
the implicit link
of
lonely, eccentric,
indie, solitary,
STAR WARS luvin',
and mystery solvin'
Holly Gibney
to
equally lonely, eccentric,
indie, solitary,
STAR WARS luvin',
and allegory crackin'
Gary Wright.
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"Very few critics
work carefully,
thoughtfully enough.
To see a film once
and
write a review
is an absurdity."
- Stanley Kubrick
from p. 106
of
STANLEY KUBRICK: interviews,
ed. by Gene D. Phillips
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"...The truth is always the best,
the only trouble is-
what is the truth?"
- Rockie
from
OUT IN THE OPEN:
life on the street [1997]
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"...Then
when we in turn
write, speak
or do things,
we release our ideas
out into the environment,
where they can infect
new brains.
Ideas,
like viruses,
thus proliferate
at prodigious rates,
changing at prodigious rates,
as they do so."
- George P. Smith
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"...Received opinion
is
often wrong
and
usually boring;
the text is yours
to interpret...
This ability
to read symbolically,
to view
the very world around us
symbolically,
is at the heart
of
the whole literary
[and cinema games].
To accept things
at first glance
to be
as they appear
on the surface
is to be trapped
in the literal.
To be able
to see
symbolic possibilities
allows one
to begin to make
connections
between things
that at first
seem to have
little to do
with each other."
- Doctor David R. Williams, PhD
from pp. 88 and 136
of
SIN BOLDLY:
Dr. Dave's guide to writing
the college paper [2004]
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"...The Evil
running rampant
around the world
shows no sign
of disappearing.
It hasn't changed
since I became
a Hero for fun.
In other words,
I am having no effect
on society.
I'm not sad about that.
I do this for fun,
so I just need
to satisfy myself."
- from
the intriguingly garish,
twilit, allegorical
and
CGI enhanced
One and Murata Yusuke
indie manga
ONE-PUNCH MAN:
volume one,
p.92.
For some equally garish thoughts
on
ONE-PUNCH MAN,
with "...his lifeless expression
to his bald head
to his unimpressive physique"
[from the Chapters/Indigo Books website],
check out
the
Wright "essay"
in
the Zone Warriors section.
!Wright on!
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...life is the same as death
but the soul continues
in the same blinding light
- Ti Jean Kerouac
from
the 123rd Chorus
of
MEXICO CITY BLUES
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And remember,
when in the Greater Toronto Area [GTA],
always visit
Image Collections,
the
finest emporium
of
collectibles, games
and
narrative art
in Streetsville,
the "Village in the City"
of
Mississauga.
!!'Nuck said!!
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RIP
Saifeddin I.A. Abutaha
Amarakoonmubiayansela G.G. Amarakoon
Iris Apfel
Shawn Barber
James "Jim" Beard
Edward "Ed" Broadbent
Neil Burroughs
Aaron Bushnell
Christopher J. Chambers
John Chapman
Cheng Yixuan
Herbert Coward
Crocus City Hall music center
and audience
Carol Culleton
Pikria Darchia
Alain Derasp
Peter De Vries
Darshani Ekanyake
Jimmy Fagan
Joe Flaherty
Jacob Flinkinger
Laizawmi Frankcom
David Gail
Ashlee Good
Savannah Graziano
Russell Grigg
James Henderson
Nathan G. Ingram
Norman Jewison
Toby Keith
Noor I. Khan
Dexter S. King
James Kirby
Annik Klepser
Madita Klepser
Kinga "Kay" Kriston
Maxim Kuzminov
Anastasia Kuzyk
Lori Ann Lapp
Arlene MacNeil
Lynne Marta
Cindy Morgan
Shawn Murphy
Alec Musser
Alexei Navalny
Christian Oliver
Samuel Paty
Joyce Randolph
Jean-Francois Ratelle
Lee Rigby
Robert Sachs
Melanie Safka
Dawn Singleton
McCanna Sinise
Damian Sobol
David Soul
Faraz Tahir
Nathalie Warmerdam
Donna Warren
Mary Weiss
Ashwini Wickramasinghe
Inuka Wickramasinghe
Rinyana Wickramasinghe
Jade Young
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