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Happy Belated 10th
Anniversary
to
Cody, Reitman, Theron
and
the rest of the fine
cast and crew
of the
twilit, allegorical and
slightly CGI enhanced
indie docufeature film
YOUNG ADULT (2011)!
!!Way to
implicitly rip
that poor ol' Gardevil guy!!
Whoo hoo.
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And
REMEMBER:
an even more
IMPORTANT
ANNIVERSARY
arrives
FEBRUARY 2, 2022,
which of course
is
THE 100th ANNIVERSARY
of
THE PUBLICATION
of
the allegorical James Joyce
indie docufiction novel
ULYSSES (1922)!
!SO ON FEBRUARY 2
RAISE
A GUINNESS
OR
A JAMESON
TO JIMMY!
!!SLAINTE CHARAS!!
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DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO ADJUST
YOUR COMPUTER.
This is the latest update
from
the poor ol' Gardevil
coming to you
live n burnin
from
Slotek HQ
deep in the heart
of the
Free Village of Streetsville.
This update concerns
the
already
slightly revised,
twilit, allegorical
and
CGI enhanced
Zonebuster film art
of
James Francis Cameron
and
cannot be stopped.
It can however
be trusted
as it emanates
from the only free
and
honest source
on planet Earth.
A free
and
honest source
dedicated to ensuring
that
audiences understand
the truth
about
the dread allegorical
Zone Wars,
in order to
hold film artists
to account.
Peace and luv...
Out.
- Gardevil
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!Feel free!
to
also check out
the
rethunked,
rewritten
and
revised
"essay"
on
Sarah Polley
to
bask gratefully
in
the refreshing
and
rejuvenating
daylight
of
!Polleywood!,
complete
with
revised looks
at the daylit, allegorical
CGI enhanced
and
implicitly Polley toasting
Tim Burton
animaction artbuster
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (2010),
and
the daylit, allegorical,
CGI enhanced
and
implicitly Polley toasting
Kenneth Branagh
docufeature film
CINDERELLA (2015)
and
an expanded look
at the daylit, allegorical,
CGI enhanced
and
implicitly Polley toasting
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
super satirical animaction film
CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019)!
****
Have also
rethinkered and retinkered
the
Stanley Kubrick
"essay"
yet again,
including
shocking new insight
into
the allegorical
Edward D. Wood jr.
indie docufeature films
PLAN 9 FROM
OUTER SPACE (1957)
and
NIGHT OF
THE GHOULS (1959),
so feel free
to peruse
that one
at your leisure,
o my brothers
and
sisters.
?Wrighty right?
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And
I have rewritten
the
essay
on
the film art
of
the incensing
Denis Villeneuve
just in time
for the lastest
dreaming without dreaming
cinematic return
to Arrakis,
plus
the beginning
of
some thoughts
on
Herbert's DUNE saga
that
you can only reach
by clicking on
the
Terry Gilliam essay,
so
feel free to
check both out
in the
Zone Warriors
section.
Kull wahad.
****
Make sure ya
also check out
the
Zone Warriors
section
for
revised "essays"
on the
twilit and allegorical
film art
of
Ben Affleck,
Luc Besson,
Kathyrn Bigelow,
Neill Blomkamp,
Tim Burton,
James Cameron-
the latter featuring
some slightly revised thoughts
on
Nolan's Batman Trilogy-
Gia (GC) Coppola-
the latter essay
now revised-
Sofia (SCC) Coppola,
Don Coscarelli,
Alex Cox,
Guillermo Del Toro-
now with a revised look
at
the twilit, allegorical
and
CGI enhanced docufeature film
CRIMSON PEAK (2015)-
Johnny Depp,
Sir T.V. "Terry Baby" Gilliam,
Angelina Jolie-
recently revised
for
greater
clarity and comprehensibility-
Richard Kelly,
Stanley Kubrick,
Sean Penn,
Sarah Polley-
the latter essay
now revised-
Jason Reitman,
Richard Rush,
Sir Ridley Scott,
Quentin Tarantino
and
Denis Villeneuve.
!And!
check out
the
"amazing insights"
into
the
twilit, allegorical,
CGI enhanced
and
implicitly Gardevil
roastin' n toastin'
Jon Watts
super satirical
animaction film
SPIDER-MAN:
FAR FROM HOME (2019)
at the end
of the
lamentable
Gary W. Wright
essay
in the
Zone Warriors
!section!
!Feel free
to also
check out
Chapters 1-9
of the
"insightful"
book
on
George "Lord Stinkious" Lucas!
****
"...This country
is
something that must be chosen-
it is so easy to leave-
and
if we do choose it
we are still choosing
a violent duality."
- Margaret Atwood
from p. 62 of
THE JOURNALS
OF
SUSANNA MOODIE (1970)
****
"...There are no interpretations
but only misinterpretations."
- Harold Bloom,
from
THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE
(1973)
Aaaarrggghhh!!!
- poor ol' Gardevil
****
"Very few critics
work carefully,
thoughtfully enough.
To see a film once
and
write a review
is an absurdity."
- so sayeth Stanley Kubrick,
from p. 106
of
STANLEY KUBRICK: interviews,
ed. by Gene D. Phillips
****
"Once,
we were artists.
!Pure!
But we,
all of us,
we became a distraction,
compromised
for the sake of fame,
comfort,
the approval
of strangers...
We
sing and dance
not to entertain
but to distract people
from the crushing gears
of a capitalist machine
that has no ideals
save for
greed and violence.
And let's not
kid ourselves,
Hollywood
is the best PR firm
the gunmakers
ever had.
What a sick culture...
This is a system
of soul-murder.
And history
will not be kind to us
for our complicity,
because
we know better."
so sayeth
Jim Carrey
on
pp. 102-3
of
the allegorical
Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon
novel,
Memoirs
And
Misinformation (2020)
****
"...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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"The Evil
running rampant
around the world
shows no signs
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
manga
One-Punch Man:
volume one,
p. 92.
Of course,
for
fittingly punchy
"insights"
into
One-Punch Man,
drop by
the
"essay"
on
Gary W. "Gardevil" Wright
in the
Zone Warriors
section.
!'Nuck said!
****
"Power is lost or won,
never created
or
destroyed."
- Immaculee Constantin,
from p. 100
of the
twilit, allegorical,
CGI enhanced
and
implicitly Gardevil roasting
David Mitchell novel
THE BONE CLOCKS (2014)
****
"...A pestilence does not have
human dimensions,
so people tell themselves
that it is unreal,
that it is a bad dream
which will end.
But it does not always end
and,
from one bad dream
to the next,
it is people who end,
humanists first of all
because
they have not prepared
themselves."
- THE PLAGUE
by Albert Camus
p. 30.
****
"...The sugar
was sweeter
when you gave
it
to someone else
to taste."
- Harper Grayson
from p. 206
of the twilit, allegorical
and
CGI enhanced novel
THE FIREMAN (2016)
by Joe Hill
****
...life is the same as death
but the soul continues
in the same blinding light
- Ti Jean
from 123rd Chorus
of
MEXICO CITY BLUES
****
"...The truth is always best.
The only trouble is -
what is the truth?"
- Rockie
from
Out In The Open:
life on the street (1997)
****
"...Received opinion
is
often wrong
and
usually boring;
the text is yours
to interpret...
This ability
to ready symbolically,
to view
the very world
around us
symbolically,
is at the heart
of the whole
literay
(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 p 88 and 136
of
SIN BOLDLY:
Dr. Dave's guide to writing
the college paper (2004).
****
"...Life,
he realized,
was a profoundly
complicated thing.
It was filled with awe
and wonder
and beauty,
but it was also filled
with heartbreak
and
loneliness.
Maybe that was what
made it
so precious.
You could never know
what to expect next,
or who might
step into
or out of
your world.
And the truth was
that we were all
navigating the mystery
together."
- from
the implicitly
Jason Reitman
addressing teen novel
Superman: dawnbreaker (2020)
by Matt De La Pena,
pp. 204-5
****
And
remember,
when in
Mississauga,
always visit
Image Collections,
the
finest emporium
of
collectibles,
games
and
narrative art
in
Streetsville,
"...the town in the city"
of Mississauga.
!!'Nuck said!!
****
RIP
Peter Bogdanovich
Olivier Dundas
Michael Lang
Sidney Poitier
Brayden Smith
****
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