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LET'S GOOOOOO!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🏀🙏🏿😎👑
06/06/2026

LET'S GOOOOOO!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🏀🙏🏿😎👑

LET'S GO KNICKS!!!!!! 🔥🏀🙏🏿😜👑
06/04/2026

LET'S GO KNICKS!!!!!! 🔥🏀🙏🏿😜👑

"To manipulate the fear in others, you must first master your own." - Bruce Wayne
11/16/2024

"To manipulate the fear in others, you must first master your own." - Bruce Wayne

"It's funny. When I was a little boy and told people I was going to be a comedian, everyone laughed at me. Well, no one'...
11/16/2024

"It's funny. When I was a little boy and told people I was going to be a comedian, everyone laughed at me. Well, no one's laughing now!" — Joker

As brilliant as Todd Phillips' 2019 masterpiece "Joker" was, the Clown Prince of Crime deserved much better than what the ambitious but ultimately pretentious and tone deaf recent sequel "Folie à Deux" delivered.

With the entire Batman/Joker canon at his disposal, choosing to frame the primary narrative as a scolding social critique via courtroom melodrama instead of building on the bold cinematic choices of the first film was a fatal mistake by the filmmaker.

I was expecting a daring exploration of the dark criminal underbelly of Gotham City as Arthur Fleck evolves from the despondent and psychologically damaged stand-up comedian into the devious criminal mastermind of DC Comics lore, as well as a definitive silver screen pairing of Joker and Harley Quinn which would plumb the depths of the psychopathic duo's dynamic potential.

Regarding the musical aspect of the narrative, Todd Phillips could have told an engaging and credible tale of Joker's foray into life as a cunning felon and anti-hero through the prism of a gothic rock opera produced by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame, whose impressive list of award-winning soundscapes for films includes "Natural Born Killers', "Gone Girl", "The Watchmen", and "The Social Network".

Casting Lady Gaga as Joker's legendary paramour should have lent itself to that specific narrative structure. Frankly, a cinematic redux of the Bonnie and Clyde archetype told in the style of "Natural Born Killers" would have made this a fittingly epic sequel.

Alas, we're instead left grieving what could have been. A truly missed opportunity for both Joaquin Phoenix, as his take on the character is absolute genius in spite of the stale script, and Lady Gaga alike, who was completely underused and underdeveloped. We had such high hopes.

I'm now eagerly anticipating Matt Reeves' version of the Joker played by Barry Keoghan, who made his promising debut at the end of the auteur's first take on the Caped Crusader's dynamic story arc in 2022's "The Batman".

After having learned all the cinematic lessons from previous iterations of the Joker character, there's nowhere to go but up. Judging by the success of Reeves' audacious miniseries "The Penguin" with Colin Farrell reprising his role as the titular villain, Keoghan's Joker is sure to be groundbreaking.

Until then, I'll be one of the artists who'll continue conceptualizing versions of Joaquin Phoenix's Joker that both the first film and the iconic character itself rightly deserve.

Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away.. love lights even the darkest hearts.
11/14/2024

Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away.. love lights even the darkest hearts.

"Arduous is discovering oneself, going on the greatest exploration it is.""Do. Or do not. There is no try.""Fear is the ...
11/14/2024

"Arduous is discovering oneself, going on the greatest exploration it is."

"Do. Or do not. There is no try."

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

"We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters."

– Master Yoda

“Named must your fear be before banish it you can.” “In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge ligh...
11/12/2024

“Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”

“In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.”

"For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you."

“To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the night.”

– Master Yoda

"Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?" - Robert Or...
09/11/2024

"Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?" - Robert Orben

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." - Oscar Wilde

"Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians." - Charles Krauthammer

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams

"You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the...
11/08/2022

"You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” - Morpheus

MORPHEUS MENTALITY

Art by 4SUN DZYN

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are me...
05/27/2022

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” - Frederick Douglass

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