Zone Wars on Film

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!Happy New Year

everyone!

!!All the best in 2023!!

!And good luck

and

may you make

a full recovery

in your real life

super battle,

Jeremy Renner!

!And may Russia

come to its senses,

cease its needless war,

and withdraw all its soldiers

from Ukraine

in 2023!

!Peace and luv

to all!

!!In solidarity!!

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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

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!Happy 25th

anniversary

James Cameron,

Leonardo DiCaprio,

Kate Winslet,

and

the rest of the fine

cast and crew

the twilit, allegorical

and

CGI enhanced

docufeature film

TITANIC [1997]!

!!YOU'RE STILL

KING OF THE WORLD!!

!!AND WELCOME BACK

TO THE TEMPLE THEATRE!!

!Happy 25th

anniversary

also

David Lynch,

Bill Pullman,

Patricia Arquette,

Balthazar Getty

and

the rest of the fine

cast and crew

of the twilit and allegorical

indie moving painting

LOST HIGHWAY [1997]!

Making it fitting

that I have finally finished

revising and rewriting

the "essay"

David Lynch

in the

Zone Warriors section.

Check out

the slightly revised

Guillermo Del Toro "essay"

while you are at it.

!!MERRY CHRISTMAS

DAVID AND GUILLERMO!!

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!Happy 20th

anniversary

also

Sir Peter Jackson

and the

very talented

cast and crew

the daylit, allegorical

and CGI enhanced

indie docufeature artbuster

THE LORD OF THE RINGS:

THE TWO TOWERS [2002]

and

a belated

Happy 20th anniversary

to its first installment

THE LORD OF THE RINGS:

THE FELLOWSHIP OF

THE RING [2001]!

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By the way,

the thoughtful look

the Dune series

Frank Herbert

has also

been re-re-re-revised

for

greater

incandescent illumination,

feel free

click on

the recently revised

Terry Gilliam

"essay"

to return

the weirding way!

****

Make sure ya

also check out

the

Zone Warriors

section

for

revised "essays"

on the

twilit and allegorical

film art

Ben Affleck,

Luc Besson,

Kathryn Bigelow,

Neill Blomkamp,

Tim Burton,

James Cameron,

Gia (GC) Coppola,

Sofia (SCC) Coppola,

Don Coscarelli,

Alex Cox,

Guillermo Del Toro,

Johnny Depp,

Sir T.V. "Terry Baby" Gilliam,

Sir Peter Jackson,

Angelina Jolie-

the latter slightly re-re-revised

yet more again

and again

and again-

Richard Kelly-

also slightly revised again-

Stanley Kubrick,

David Lynch,

Frank Miller,

Sean Penn,

Sarah Polley-

the latter now

with insight

into

the ironically daylit,

allegorical and CGI enhanced

Jason Reitman

indie docufeature film

TULLY [2018]-

Jason Reitman-

the latter now

with

expanded thoughts

the twilit, allegorical,

and CGI enhanced

docufeature film

MEN, WOMEN

AND CHILDREN [2014],

the ironically daylit,

allegorical and CGI enhanced

indie docufeature film

TULLY [2018],

and

the twilit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced and

Ozian themed

docufeature film

GHOSTBUSTERS:

AFTERLIFE (2021)-

Robert Rodriguez,

Richard Rush,

Sir Ridley Scott,

Quentin Tarantino,

Slava Tsukerman,

Denis Villeneuve,

and

Gary W. Wright-

the latter

now expanded with

already revised thoughts

on the twilit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

and

implicitly Gardevil addressing

Jon Turteltaub

docufeature film

THE MEG [2018]

and

the twilit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced

and

implicitly Gardevil addressing

Jon Watts

super satirical animaction film

SPIDER-MAN

NO WAY HOME [2021].

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"...This country

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

SUSANNA MOODIE (1970)

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"...There are no interpretations

but only misinterpretations."

- Harold Bloom,

from

THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE

(1973)

Aaaarrggghhh!!!

- poor ol' Gardevil

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"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

STANLEY KUBRICK: interviews,

ed. by Gene D. Phillips

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"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...

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

pp. 102-3

the allegorical

Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon

novel

Memoirs

And

Misinformation (2020)

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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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"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"

Gary W. "Gardevil" Wright

in the

Zone Warriors

section.

!'Nuck said!

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"Power is lost or won,

never created

destroyed."

- Immaculee Constantin,

from p. 100

of the

twilit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced

and

implicitly Gardevil roasting

David Mitchell novel

THE BONE CLOCKS (2014)

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"...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.

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"...The sugar

was sweeter

when you gave

to someone else

to taste."

- Harper Grayson

from p. 206

of the twilit, allegorical

and

CGI enhanced novel

THE FIREMAN (2016)

by Joe Hill

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...life is the same as death

but the soul continues

in the same blinding light

- Ti Jean

from 123rd Chorus

MEXICO CITY BLUES

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"...The truth is always best.

The only trouble is -

what is the truth?"

- Rockie

from

Out In The Open:

life on the street (1997)

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"...Received opinion

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 p 88 and 136

SIN BOLDLY:

Dr. Dave's guide to writing

the college paper (2004).

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"...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

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And

remember,

when in

Mississauga,

always visit

Image Collections,

the

finest emporium

collectibles,

games

and

narrative art

Streetsville,

"...the town in the city"

of Mississauga.

!!'Nuck said!!

****

RIP

Russell Banks

Jeff Beck

Earl Boen

Carole Cooke

David Crosby

Gina Lollobrigida

Lloyd Morrisett

David Onley

Tatjana Patitz

Lisa Marie Presley

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