****

 

 

There can be

no more exceptions

or privileges.

Everybody must be equal...

 

The power of peace

must be dominant.

 

- Ukrainian President

Volodymyr Zelensky

 

 

!'Nuck said,

Brother Vol!

 

 

!!!!Mir

Peace

Salaam

Shalom!!!!

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

!EXIT 2023

2024'S ZONE WARRIOR

GETS HIGH ON YOU

AND THE ENERGY YOU SHARE

CUTS WRIGHT ON THROUGH

THE ALLEGORICAL FICTION AND FILMS

OF THE DAY!

 

- Gardevil,

with thanks to Neil Peart

 

 

 

****

 

 

!BRAVO

 

TO

 

FRANCIS COPPOLA

 

AND

 

THE TALENTED

 

CAST AND CREW

 

ON

 

THE FILM OF THE YEAR,

 

THE DAYLIT, ALLEGORICAL,

 

CGI ENHANCED, OZIAN THEMED

 

AND

 

IMPLICITLY

 

JASON REITMAN ADDRESSING

 

INDIE ARTBUSTER FILM

 

MEGALOPOLIS [2024]!

 

!!BRAVO,

 

AND ENCORE!!

 

!!!ENCORE!!!

 

 

!!!!And

 

feel free

 

to drop by

 

the Reitman "essay"

 

in

 

the Zone Warriors section

 

for

 

the beginnings

 

of

 

some insight

 

into

 

MEGALOPOLIS!!!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

??NEED

 

TO RELEASE

 

THE OLYMPICS??

 

 

Then

 

feel free to

 

drop by 

 

the

 

Zone Warriors section

 

and read

 

the

 

first rough

 

and

 

mistake and hole filled

 

draft

 

of

 

TRICKY MOUSE,

 

the rewatched,

 

rethunked, 

 

rewritten,

 

and 

 

re-re-revised

 

on

 

October 6, 2024

 

 

"essay"

 

on

 

the Walt Disney Company.

 

 

?Keep movin' forward?

 

 

!And

 

of course,

 

while you are in

 

the Zone Warriors section,

 

make sure

 

you check out 

 

the beginning of a

 

rewatched, rethunked,

 

rewritten, and re-re-revised

 

"essay"

 

on

 

the film art of

 

Neill Blomkamp

 

complete with new thoughts

 

on

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced and Ozian themed

 

indie docufeature film CHAPPiE [2015],

 

and

 

also drop by

 

the Frolickin' Frank Miller "essay"

 

for

 

consternatin' insights

 

into

 

the daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, and Ozian themed

 

Angsty Angel M. Soto

 

super satirical animaction film

 

BLUE BEETLE [2023]!

 

 

 

!!And

 

don't forget

 

to

 

check out

 

the "startling" insights

 

into

 

 rantin' and ravin' l'il Spawn

 

and

 

Elric of Garnibone

 

in

 

the "essay"

 

on

 

film "scholar"

 

Gary W. Wright!!

 

 

!!!And and

 

!SHABAM!

 

Don't forget those

 

intoxicating "insights"

 

into

 

the SHAZAM films

 

in

 

the Richard Kelly "essay"!!!

 

 

!!!!HaW!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

THE SMART PHONE

HAS BECOME THE NEW RETINA

OF THE MIND'S I.

 

THUS,

THE MEDIUM

IS THE TEXT MESSAGE.

 

- Doctor Brian O'Blivion

 

 

 

****

 

 

"I often say

that there are two languages:

the words that I wrote-

the words you can understand-

and behind that,

there's a silent language."

 

- Jon Fosse,

winner of the

2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

 

 

 

****

 

 

"It sounds silly,

but when people talk about

Jane and Finch

or Downsview,

certain images

come to mind,

and a lot of those images

don't have the beauty...

There's so much history

and impact

that comes out of our community

that gets overlooked

because of media narratives

that have been there

for decades."

 

- Kayode Brown,

CEO of BGRAPHIC,

TORONTO STAR,

Together section,

Sunday, January, 21, 2024,

p. A16.

 

 

 

****

 

 

!And,

 

if I may interject,

 

Happy belated 40th anniversary

 

to

 

Quentin Tarantino,

 

Samuel L. Jackson,  Uma Thurman,

 

John Travolta, Bruce Willis

 

and

 

the rest of the talented

 

cast and crew

 

of

 

the daylit, twilit and allegorical

 

indie docufeature film

 

PULP FICTION [1994]!

 

 

 

!Happy 40th anniversary

 

as well

 

to

 

Nick Castle,

 

Alex Guest, Catherine M. Stewart,

 

and

 

the rest of the

 

talented cast and crew

 

of the

 

daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced and Ozian themed

 

indie docufeature film

 

THE  LAST STARFIGHER [1984],

 

still guarding the Frontier

 

after all these years!

 

 

 

****

 

 

!Happy 40th anniversary

 

as well

 

to

 

Ron Howard,

 

Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah

 

and

 

all of the rest of 

 

the fine cast and crew

 

of the

 

daylit and allegorical

 

indie docufeature film

 

SPLASH [1984]!

 

 

!!The world is still in luv

 

with a mermaid!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

!Happy 40th anniversary

 

also to

 

Ivan Reitman,

 

Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson,

 

Rick Moranis, Bill Murray,

 

Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver

 

and

 

the rest of

 

the talented cast and crew

 

of

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced and Ozian themed

 

docufeature film

 

GHOSTBUSTERS [1984],

 

still savin' the world

 

each summer!

 

 

****

 

 

!HaW!

 

 

If Anya Taylor-Joy's

 

indie road warrior Furiosa

 

comes from a land up over

 

that resembles

 

and

 

implicitly symbolizes Canada,

 

is Furiosa

 

implicitly linked to

 

indie allegorical warrior Gardevil?

 

?Is

 

Gariosa

 

battling her way down

 

a full throttle

 

Wright line nightmare

 

our destiny

 

this summer?

 

!HaW!

 

At any rate,

 

given the release

 

of

 

FURIOSA,

 

and the 

 

45th anniversary

 

of

 

the release of MAD MAX,

 

how fitting that I recently noticed

 

an implicit George Miller

 

addressing intent

 

to the daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced and Ozian themed

 

Tim Burton animaction artbuster

 

DUMBO [2019]

 

that is explored

 

in more detail

 

in the Tim Burton "essay"

 

in the

 

Zone Warriors section.

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

!!BRAVO

 

to

 

Francis Coppola,

 

Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza

 

and

 

the rest of

 

the talented cast and crew

 

of

 

the daylit, allegorical

 

and CGI enhanced

 

indie docufeature film

 

MEGALOPOLIS [2024]

 

on the premiere

 

of this thought provoking film

 

at Cannes '24!!

 

!!!BRAVO,

 

AND ENCORE!!!

 

!!!!ENCORE!!!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

!And 

 

Happy

 

45th anniversary

 

to

 

Maestro Coppola,

 

Martin Sheen, Laurence Fishburne

 

and

 

the rest of the

 

talented cast and crew

 

of

 

the eerily and presciently twilit,

 

allegorical, Ozian themed

 

and

 

implicitly John Huston

 

and

 

George Lucas addressing

 

indie docufeature artbuster

 

APOCALYPSE NOW [1979],

 

making it fitting that

 

a revised and expanded look

 

at this

 

GREAT WILD FILM,

 

and

 

an equally revised and expanded look

 

at

 

THE INCREDIBLE HULK tv series

 

can now

 

both be found

 

in

 

Chapter 4

 

of

 

THE WIZARD OF FORCE!

 

 

!In addition,

 

Happy

 

25th anniversary

 

to

 

Sofia Coppola,

 

Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett,

 

James Woods

 

and

 

the rest of the

 

talented cast and crew

 

of

 

the twilit, allegorical

 

and CGI enhanced

 

indie docufeature film

 

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES [1999]!

 

 

!Happy

 

25th anniversary

 

as well

 

to

 

Spike Lee,

 

John Leguizamo, Adrian Brody,

 

Mira Sorvino

 

and

 

the rest of the

 

talented cast and crew

 

of

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

Ozian themed

 

and

 

implicitly Lucas addressing

 

indie docufeature film

 

SUMMER OF SAM [1999]!

 

 

 

!And

 

Happy

belated

20th anniversary

to

Sir Peter Jackson,

Viggo Mortensen,

Elijah Wood,

Sir Ian McKellen,

Bernard Hill,

Andy Serkis,

and

the rest of

the talented cast and crew

of

the daylit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

and

implicitly

Lucas roasting

and Jason Reitman toasting

indie animaction film

THE LORD OF THE RINGS:

!THE RETURN OF THE KING [2003]!

 

and

 

!Happy

belated

25th anniversary

to

Lana and Lilly Wachowski,

Keanu Reeves

Carrie-Anne Moss,

Laurence Fishburne

and

the rest of

the talented cast and crew

of

the twilit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

and

implicitly Lucas toasting

and

Vic Morrow roasting

indie docufeature film

THE MATRIX  [1999]!

 

and

 

!Happy

belated

40th anniversary

to

Alex Cox,

Emilio Estevez, Dick Rude,

and

the rest of

the talented cast and crew

of

the twilit, allegorical,

CGI enhanced and Ozian themed

indie docufeature film

REPO MAN [1984]!

 

and,

 

last but not least,

 

!Happy

belated

45th anniversary

to

Miller,

Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne

and

the rest of the

talented cast and crew

of

the eerily and presciently

twilit, allegorical

and

implicitly David Cronenberg addressing

indie docufeature film

MAD MAX [1979]!

 

 

 

****

 

 

!Of course,

 

feel free

 

to

 

drop by

 

the

 

Sarah Polley "essay"

 

for

 

revised and expanded

 

insight

 

into

 

the daylit, allegorical

 

CGI enhanced and Ozian themed

 

Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

 

and

 

Nia DaCosta

 

super satirical animaction films

 

CAPTAIN MARVEL [2019]

 

and

 

THE MARVELS [2023]!

 

 

And,

 

while definitely not

 

the 

 

Ultimate Edition,

 

I have nonetheless

 

finally

 

completely rewatched,

 

rethought, rewritten,

 

and revised

 

the "essay"

 

on

 

the allegorical film art

 

of

 

Sir Ridley Scott

 

in the

 

Zone Warriors

 

section,

 

so feel free

 

to

 

check it out!!

 

 

!Feel free

 

to also

 

ponder

 

the first thoughts

 

on

 

the daylit, allegorical,

 

and CGI enhanced

 

Christopher Nolan

 

indie docufeature film

 

OPPENHEIMER [1923]

 

in

 

the David Lynch "essay",

 

and

 

the

 

re-re-revised

 

Burton "essay",

 

which now includes

 

some more likely

 

thoughts

 

on

 

the daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced, Ozian themed

 

and

 

implicitly Lucas roasting

 

and

 

Disney CEO Bob Iger toasting

 

animaction artbuster

 

DUMBO [2019]!

 

 

Don't forget to ponder

 

the

 

the completely rewatched,

 

rethunked, re-revised

 

and

 

expanded "essay"

 

on

 

the film art

 

of

 

Ben Affleck,

 

and

 

also feel free

 

to ponder

 

the re-revised

 

Lee Ang

 

"essay"

 

for

 

mind bending insights

 

into

 

the daylit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced and Ozian themed

 

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

 

indie docufeature film

 

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE

 

ALL AT ONCE [2022]

 

and

 

the first thoughts

 

on

 

the twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

CGI enhanced

 

indie docufeature films

 

RIDE WITH THE DEVIL [1999]

 

and

 

GEMINI MAN [2019]!!

 

 

!!Make sure you also

 

drop by

 

the

 

Zhang Yimou

 

"essay"

 

for slightly revised insights

 

into

 

the twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

Ozian themed

 

docufeature film SHADOW [2018]

 

and

 

the daylit and allegorical

 

docufeature film

 

CLIFF WALKERS [2021]!!

 

 

 

 

!!!'NUCK SAID!!!

 

 

 

 

****

 

RIP

 

SRV

 

Gone

 

but never forgotten.

 

 

!Thank you

 

for

 

TEXAS FLOOD [1983]

 

and

 

COULDN'T STAND THE WEATHER [1984]!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...Quite the movie fan

is Holly Gibney

(although she hasn't been in

an actual theater

since the previous spring),

and she enjoys

Hollywood tentpole movies

every bit as much as art films.

One of her faves

from the eighties

is Conan the Barbarian,

and her favorite line

from that film

is spoken by a minor character.

"Two or three years ago",

the peddler says of Set

and his followers,

"they were just another snake cult.

Now they're everywhere.""

 

- a paragraph from p. 17,

 

and another misquote from p. 326

 

"...Holly channels The Empire

Strikes Back.  "Everything

means something, it does.""

 

and still another quote from

 

the all too fittingly

 

and

 

ominously twilit p. 382

 

"..."Excuse my husband, " Emily says.

"He's upset and it makes him

garrulous.""

 

and

 

this Fourceful and final one

 

from p. 389

 

"...I have a bad feeling about this,

 

Ba."

 

from

the allegorical

and

implicitly Stan and Joan Lee roasting

Stephen King

indie docufiction novel

Holly [2023]

that affirmed

the implicit link

of

lonely, eccentric,

indie, solitary,

STAR WARS luvin',

and mystery solvin'

Holly Gibney

to

equally lonely, eccentric,

indie, solitary,

STAR WARS luvin',

and allegory crackin'

Gary Wright.

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"Very few critics

 

work carefully,

 

thoughtfully enough.

 

To see a film once

 

and

 

write a review

 

is an absurdity."

 

- Stanley Kubrick

 

from p. 106

 

of

 

STANLEY KUBRICK: interviews,

 

ed. by Gene D. Phillips

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...The truth is always the best,

 

the only trouble is-

 

what is the truth?"

 

- Rockie

 

from

 

OUT IN THE OPEN:

 

life on the street [1997]

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...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

 

 

 

****

 

 

"...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 pp. 88 and 136

of

SIN BOLDLY:

Dr. Dave's guide to writing

the college paper [2004]

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...The Evil

running rampant

around the world

shows no sign

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

indie manga

ONE-PUNCH MAN:

volume one,

p.92.

 

For some equally garish thoughts

on

ONE-PUNCH MAN,

with "...his lifeless expression

to his bald head

to his unimpressive physique"

[from the Chapters/Indigo Books website],

check out

the

Wright "essay"

in

the Zone Warriors section.

 

!Wright on!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

...life is the same as death

but the soul continues

in the same blinding light

 

- Ti Jean Kerouac

from

the 123rd Chorus

of

MEXICO CITY BLUES

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

And remember,

when in the Greater Toronto Area [GTA],

always visit

Image Collections,

the

finest emporium

of

collectibles, games

and

narrative art

in Streetsville,

the "Village in the City"

of

Mississauga.

 

!!'Nuck said!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

RIP

 

 

 

Saifeddin I.A. Abutaha

Ola al-Kurd

Amarakoonmubiayansela G.G. Amarakoon

Annapurna Restaurant

Iris Apfel

Brian Armstrong

Shawn Barber

James "Jim" Beard

Edward "Ed" Broadbent

Neil Burroughs

Aaron Bushnell

Christopher J. Chambers

John Chapman

Cheng Yixuan

Eleanor Coppola

Roger Corman

Herbert Coward

Crocus City Hall music center

and audience

Thomas Crooks

Brian Crossman sr.

Erica Crossman

Carol Culleton

Pikria Darchia

Alain Derasp

Peter De Vries

Shannen Doherty

Nyima Dolma

Darren Dutchyshen

Shelley Duval

Darshani Ekanyake

Jeannie Epper

Jimmy Fagan

Iryna Farion

Joe Flaherty

Jacob Flinkinger

Laizawmi Frankcom

David Gail

Ryan Gibbons

Benny Golson

Ashlee Good

Yuvraj Goyal

Savannah Graziano

Benji Gregory

Russell Grigg

Francoiose Hardy

Bill, Bridget and Caleb Harrison

James Henderson

Bernard Hill

Iceland Polar Bear

Nathan G. Ingram

Sheila Jackson Lee

Norman Jewison

Kristina Joksimovic

Vanessa Kurpiewska

Toby Keith

Noor I. Khan

Dexter S. King

Ziv Kipper

James Kirby

Annik Klepser

Madita Klepser

Kris Kristofferson

Kinga "Kay" Kriston

Maxim Kuzminov

Anastasia Kuzyk

Lori Ann Lapp

Chandra Levy

Annie and Jim Macdonald

Arlene MacNeil

Lynne Marta

Matu

Willie Mays

Tony McFarr

Cindy Morgan

Alice Munro

Rex Murphy

Shawn Murphy

Alec Musser

Alexei Navalny

Bob Newhart

Jocelyn Nungaray

Christian Oliver

Samuel Paty

Stewart P. Porter

Joyce Randolph

Jean-Francois Ratelle

Bradley J. Reckling

Jack C. Rhoad

Lee Rigby

Callum Robinson

Jake Robinson

Fred Roos

Gena Rowlands

Matthew Rumble

Robert Sachs

Melanie Safka

Elizabeth Seremak

Sabrina Shannon

Richard M. Sherman

Dawn Singleton

McCanna Sinise

Damian Sobol

David Soul

Morgan Spurlock

Rowan Stringer

Teresa Suliga

Donald Sutherland

Colin Taft

Faraz Tahir

Tiananmen Square Defenders

Iryna Tsybukh

Vanessa Vigioni

Johnny Wactor

Nathalie Warmerdam

Donna Warren

Callie Weems

Mary Weiss

Ashwini Wickramasinghe

Inuka Wickramasinghe

Rinyana Wickramasinghe

Alfred Wong

Jade Young

 

 

 

 

****