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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!!
****
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
to
James Cameron,
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Kate Winslet,
and
the rest of the fine
cast and crew
of
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
to
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"
on
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!!
****
!Happy 20th
anniversary
also
to
Sir Peter Jackson
and the
very talented
cast and crew
of
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]!
****
By the way,
the thoughtful look
at
the Dune series
by
Frank Herbert
has also
been re-re-re-revised
for
greater
incandescent illumination,
so
feel free
to
click on
the recently revised
Terry Gilliam
"essay"
to return
to
the weirding way!
****
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,
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
on
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].
****
"...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)
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"...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
****
"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 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
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
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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