****
There can be
no more exceptions
or privileges.
Everybody must be equal...
The power of peace
must be dominant.
- Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky
****
!Congratulations
to
James Cameron
and
his visual effects wizards
Richard Baneham,
Daniel Barrett,
Joe Letteri,
and
Eric Saindon
on
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]!
!And
congratulations
to
Sarah Polley
for
her Oscar
for Best Adapted Screenplay
for
the daylit and allegorical
indie docufeature film
WOMEN TALKING [2022]!
****
!Happy 25th
anniversary
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,
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"
on
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 Kathyrn 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
et
Michel Lemire
hand animated film
HEAVY METAL 2000 [2000],
and
the Stanley Kubrick
"essay"
for new insight
into
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 rough cut
of
the new
and
expanded
Jason Reitman
"essay"
complete with some
new thoughts
on
the twilit, allegorical
and
CGI enhanced
Darren Aronofsky
indie docufeature film
BLACK SWAN [2010],
and
click
on
the Terry Gilliam link
to read
the completely
rewritten, revised
and
mostly finished
"essay"
on
Frank Herbert's Dune Saga.
while you are at it.
!! CYB' HALUD!!
****
!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]!
****
!And, whoops!
!!Forgot to mention
that
the inspiring
allegorical
James Joyce
indie docufiction novel
ULYSSES [1922],
ended the
100th
anniversary year
of its publication
on
February 2, 1922
on
February 1, 2023!!
!!!!A THOUSAND THANK YOUS,
JIMMY!!!!
****
"...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
****
"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
Robert Blake
Earl Boen
Ricou Browning
Anthony Ciccone
Carole Cooke
David Crosby
Ed Fury
Paul Grant
Peter Hernndorf
Gina Lollobrigida
Hazel McCallion
Lloyd Morrisett
Tyre Nichols
David Onley
Jansen Panettiere
Tatjana Patitz
Lisa Marie Presley
Tom Sizemore
Stella Stevens
Nicholas L. Webber
Raquel Welch
Tom Whitlock
Cindy Williams
****
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