Zone Wars on Film

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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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!Congratulations

James Cameron

and

his visual effects wizards

Richard Baneham,

Daniel Barrett,

Joe Letteri,

and

Eric Saindon

their Oscar

for

Best Visual Effects

for

the daylit, allegorical

and CGI enhanced

animaction Zonebuster

AVATAR:

THE WAY OF WATER [2022]!

!Congratulations

also

to Guillermo Del Toro,

Alex Bulkley,

Mark Gustafson,

and

Gary Ungar

for

their Oscar

for

Best Animated Film

for

the daylit, allegorical

and all CGI

animated film

GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S

PINOCCHIO [2022]!

!More

congratulations

Sarah Polley

for

her Oscar

for Best Adapted Screenplay

for

the daylit and allegorical

indie docufeature film

WOMEN TALKING [2022]!

!And,

last but not least,

congratulations

Daniel Roher,

Alexei Navalny,

and the rest

the producers

and

the talented crew

the allegorical

indie documentary film

NAVALNY [2022]

for their Oscar

for

Best Documentary!

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Alas,

we are still

trapped in

the

20th anniversary year

of the

TZ disaster,

with the

20th anniversary year

the release

TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE

fast approaching.

However,

despite the

twilit doom and gloom,

feel free

check out

the revised

and

expanded thoughts

on the

twilit, allegorical

and

Ozian themed

Quentin Tarantino

indie docufeature film

PULP FICTION [1994],

and

the slightly re-re-re-re-revised

thoughts

the twilit, allegorical

and

Ozian themed

indie docufeature film

JACKIE BROWN [1997],

the twilit and allegorical

indie docufeature film

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

[2009],

the twilit, allegorical

and

CGI enhanced

indie docufeature film

DJANGO UNCHAINED [2012],

and

the twilit and allegorical

indie docufeature film

THE HATEFUL EIGHT [2015],

and

shocking new insights

into

the daylit and allegorical

Drew Goddard

indie docufeature film

BAD TIMES AT

THE EL ROYALE [2018]

in the Tarantino "essay"

the Zone Warriors section!

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!I have also

finally finished

revising and rewriting

the "essay"

David Lynch

in the

Zone Warriors section,

now complete

with

astounding insight

into

the twilit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced

and

implicitly Lynch roasting

Todd Field

indie docufeature film

TAR [2022].

Feel free to also

check out

the "essay"

Frolickin' Frank Miller

and

Rockin' Robert Rodriguez

for some

additional insights

into

the twilit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced

and

implicitly Lynch addressing

Steven Soderbergh

docufeature film

THE GOOD GERMAN [2006].

Make sure you also

drop by

the Kathryn Bigelow

"essay"

for new insight

into

the twilit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced

and

Ozian themed

indie docufeature artbuster

STRANGE DAYS [1995]

and

the twilit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced

and

implicitly Bigelow toasting

Michale Coldeway

Michel Lemire

hand animated film

HEAVY METAL 2000 [2000],

and

the Stanley Kubrick

"essay"

for new insight

into

the allegorical

Pietro Germi

indie docufeature film

DIVORCE ITALIAN

STYLE [1961],

and

the twilit, allegorical,

and Ozian themed

indie docufeature artbuster

EYES WIDE SHUT [1999].

Also check out

the slightly revised

Guillermo Del Toro

and

Denis Villeneuve

"essays",

the edited

and

no longer rough cut

the new

and

expanded

Jason Reitman

"essay"

complete with some

new thoughts

the twilit, allegorical

and

CGI enhanced

Darren Aronofsky

indie docufeature film

BLACK SWAN [2010],

the twilit, allegorical

and

CGI enhanced

Sir Ridley Scott

indie docufeature artbuster

THE LAST DUEL [2021],

and

a trio of

daylit, allegorical,

and CGI enhanced

Clint Eastwood

indie docufeature films,

and

click

the Terry Gilliam link

to read

the completely

rewritten, revised

and

mostly finished

"essay"

Frank Herbert's Dune Saga.

while you are at it.

!! CYB' HALUD!!

****

!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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"...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

Tim Bachman

Russell Banks

Jeff Beck

Ethan Bespflug

Robert Blake

Earl Boen

Ricou Browning

Anthony Ciccone

Carole Cooke

David Crosby

Tarek Fatah

Ed Fury

Michael "Micky" Geller

Paul Grant

Peter Hernndorf

Juliet Hulme

Barry Humphries

Al Jaffee

Michael Lerner

Gina Lollobrigida

Hazel McCallion

Murray Melvin

Lloyd Morrisett

Tyre Nichols

David Onley

Jansen Panettiere

Tatjana Patitz

Lisa Marie Presley

Mary Quant

Andrew "Andy" Rourke

Tom Sizemore

Stella Stevens

Ray Stevenson

Tina Turner

Nicholas L. Webber

Raquel Welch

Tom Whitlock

Cindy Williams

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