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tenjad129 · 21 days ago

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Now, about the movie epic of my dreams...

Well, considering that I'm always working hard or even trying to draw all kinds of inspirations from both art and life and fashioned any of them all into some lifelong dream movie epic of mine, there may also be three big major influences -- in addition to my actual life and childhood experiences and especially my love of the mighty Mesozoic beasts of prehistoric times called dinosaurs -- that might bear down on the research and development, writing, and especially the making of the movie epic of my lifelong dreams, which I'm trying to work on in any way, shape, form and means imaginable either since I was in high school or even since I was a little kid:

And, those three films that I'm talking about and in question may well be Steven Spielberg, Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells' wacky and enjoyable comedy western, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991), Cartoon Network and Genndy Tartakovsky's 1999 one hour made for television animated feature film Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip (TV, 1999) and James Cameron's 3-D CGI-laden science fiction epic blockbuster, AVATAR (2009), respectively.

Now, it might always and forever be very incredibly dangerous for even someone like you to read one's movies, artwork, writing, etc. especially such as mine's, in a much more biographical light, and even most fiction narrative films are, after all, just that: they're all fictions!

And yet, if I were to even pull off my dream movie epic very successfully, then whoever I truly am as a person, and especially my most authentic stuff, might hopefully come out, believe it or not, if and when I ever make or direct or even write a movie of my dreams and to my very specific liking. The film of my dreams that I really wanted to make, write, and/or direct far along, after all, may not be a small low budget indie art house film, and especially a rough and profane R-Rated one like 1994's Clerks or a comic book-derived superhero epic movie like 2012's The Avengers or 2008's earlier The Dark Knight or let alone, a modern horror film like 2017's Get Out or even a gross out R-Rated comedy like 2007's Superbad. And all those may not be who I really am.

And whatever ultimate title, shape and form that my dream movie epic will assume in the end, and that most especially includes 'Planet of the Toons', it is going to be about people, young or otherwise old, and of real living flesh and blood or even fantastic beings made out of living cartoon ink and paint (as in the living (car)toons of the world of Who Framed Roger Rabbit), especially like these six cartoon characters above, who have to go on a great adventure of some sort in order to save the day as far as the things and fellow beings and creatures that he or she loved or cherished so much.

And even if my movies could ever reflect my own views, or even if the movies could ever reflect on them in turn, then either way is always fine with me.

I mean, many of my dream movie ideas and concepts are supposed to be adventure stories or even hero's journey narratives, especially of a bizarre or unusual sort or something, and filled with a sense of fantasy and wonder that's never been seen since or even outside of the original three Star Wars films from 1977 to 1983, maybe, but most especially the first 1977 Star Wars and its 1980 sequel The Empire Strikes Back, and so I never even made a secret about my affection towards older films, from Disney's 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and MGM's 1939 The Wizard of Oz all the way up to James Cameron's AVATAR movie from 2009.

After all, I really would love to one day see, and I especially would one day love to see get made or funded or written down on some paper somewhere, a movie, and especially an epic movie, or even a happily ever after kind of epic, where any or everybody on the side of good and light and love -- even a walking, talking, and cute hand drawn 2d animated cartoon mouse, rabbit, bird, cat, or dog -- prevails against those on the side of evil and darkness and tyranny -- and especially against the dreaded and fearsome evil forces of a jealous and tyrannical hand drawn 2d animated cartoon nerd like the Mandark as he appears in Dexter's Laboratory's Ego Trip television special.

Now, my typical human hero, most often a young man or even a teenage boy, the latter type of whom ostensibly prefers trying to attract the opposite sex (and very attractive teenage girls, in particular) or perhaps even seeking out absolutely nothing but sex, drugs, alcohol, or especially property destruction or damage (all of which just so happened to be the very timeless classic staples of many a typical teen comedy movie, anyway), is summoned to a special world and to embark on a great adventure of his life, when, especially in the form of a very long distance outer space phone call paid to him by both a heroic cartoon cowboy mouse (as in the Fievel Goes West version of Fievel Mousekewitz himself) and a very lovely and very beautifully pretty saloon girl mouse (as in the Fievel Goes West version of Fievel's sister Tanya Mousekewitz as she is seen and voiced in that AAT:FGW movie by Cathy Cavadini of the Powerpuff Girls fame) on another Earth-like world or something, invites him and two other real human beings over to help them and their ally, a short, immortal being that bears a striking resemblance to a certain 90s cartoon boy genius, wrest back control of the latter being's ancient prized invention (which enables its user to control the entire universe for good or for evil) from a dreaded and fearsome Dark Lord being that also, in turn, bears a very striking resemblance to a certain bitter, jealous and tyrannical rival cartoon kid nerd to said certain cartoon boy scientist, and who had gain control of the boy genius' ideas, concepts and inventions long, long ago when said special world was still young.

Each plot just like this should create some situation in which a heraldic call to adventure is virtually demanded for the receiver of the call to either accept or refuse, with little or no apology necessary.

Now, Luke Skywalker of the 1977 Star Wars movie fame usually needed a whole lot of training and guidance from both Jedi Knight and Clone Wars veteran Obi Wan "Ben" Kenobi as well as The Empire Strikes Back's Jedi Master Yoda in order for Luke himself to become a Jedi Knight just like his dad (who later turned out to be Anakin Skywalker, aka Darth Vader, in the aforementioned Empire Strikes Back and by the end of 1983's Return of the Jedi) before him, or perhaps or maybe not all of the characters that I am writing about or am currently attempting to write about; maybe all that any, or even some, of my characters that I'm trying to write about may want is some kind of excuse for them to embark on some great adventure in that very great big huge somewhere out there, even if it turn out to be another planet just like Earth but many light years away from our Earth in outer space, and to save the day from surely utter disruption, and some of the excuses may abound:

Somewhere in my story treatment still in progress so far (as of late) for the epic of the Planet of the Toons, to give you just one example, the Fievel Goes West version of Tanya may have just fulfilled her quest not just for show business, but also to sing a song or two to the whole, entire world (of Ten'Jad, by the way) at large when she gets to sing one song to a saloon packed full of hungry cartoon cats, and maybe when her own brother, Fievel the cowboy mouse, tries to get his pretty and lovely saloon show girl mouse sister out of the saloon, having escaped being eaten by an outlaw spider man thing named T.R. Chula, maybe Tanya might be very kind enough for herself and Fievel to seek out and call up the full sized human ally of their shared dreams who, according to the prophecy in my movie ideas, they will join forces with to help the local residential (and maybe immortal) boy scientist Dexter (of Dexter's Laboratory fame) end the long reign of terror of the boy genius' wicked rival and Ten'Jad's local and residential Dark Lord, Mandark (of Dexter's Laboratory's Ego Trip television special infamy) in order for Dexter to also wrest back control of his long ago prized invention from his rival...and sure enough, the two cute heroic cowboy and pretty saloon girl brother and sister mice will finally find one that wil lcome in the name, shape and form of a teenage boy from Earth named David Joseph Zarus, who in my story lives in a similar kind of place to the one that this writer grew up in (i.e., near the outskirts of Annapolis in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA).

Anyway, as far as the dark corners of the internet and/or especially, some fans and professionals in the animation and/or film entertainment industries or communities are really concerned, the situation may be much more complicated, and my current one from the heart dream movie epic story/idea/concept/project, Planet of the Toons, may play a key role even if it ever get written down, developed, produced, made or funded, especially. For if any of you, and anybody still interested, especially those outside the internet, just happen to read my story treatment one day, especially if it's about what takes place when the three astronauts and their pet animal mascot join forces with the three cute boy and girl mice (Fievel, Tanya and Yasha Mousekewitz), the rascally rabbit (Bugs Bunny), the greedy crazy bird (Daffy Duck) and the immortal or so little boy genius-like being (Dexter) on a questing journey to ensure that one of the astronauts (David Zarus) and two of the boy and girl mice (Fievel and Tanya Mousekewitz) fulfill an ancient, local prophecy stating that the two mice and one full sized young human guy from the stars team up to do away with the evil reign of terror of a certain wicked rival cartoon kid-like nerd (Mandark) of a certain little cartoon boy-like scientist (Dexter)'s and save the planet and the universe, it's going to be, hopefully, one of the greatest and most extraordinary adventure stories that ever will be put between the covers of a book or especially between the first and last reels of a full-length feature film. And maybe I am still fixated on the methodology of how to make a paying and moviegoing audience feel immersed in the same kind of great adventure that these three humans and these assorted walking, talking and cute cartoon boy and girl mice, rabbit, duck, and boy genius-like being are going through on another Earth-like planet as they journey to the faraway castle of the latter's rival to do away with Dexter's rival's crooked evil and treachery. So all this really isn't going to be about 'I want to vex the professional worlds of film and animation, and especially to vex the world of the internet to the point of all three worlds banding together to try to very brutally suppress or even censor my efforts or especially my works of art,' and I just don't think I ever intended to make something extremely controversial at all, even if I may not very much be prepared for just any uproarious reaction to my work and ideas and concepts.

And gee, talk about possibly wandering blindfolded into a very incredibly dangerously live minefield! And even if it is that true, then, maybe I may have been preternaturally naïve and behaving nothing more or less better than some arrested kind of adolescent child breathtakingly trying to ignore or be breathtakingly ignorant of the whole, entire world around me at large, when all around me and my family will be all chaos and fire all over again!

And either I may succeed above and beyond anyone's wildest dreams and mine's, or else. I may otherwise succeed all too well in bringing that very great and extraordinary adventure on the faraway planet of the toons to life on the big screen (or especially in IMAX or something), depending on one's view: either way, I may turn the rivalry between the two cartoon child scientists Dexter and Mandark, both past and future, as depicted in the Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip television special plus especially the real world plight of Fievel's own mouse family, The Mousekewitzes of Don Bluth and Steven Spielberg's American Tail and Amblimation's Fievel Goes West fame, into a more timeless and classic and epic struggle of good versus evil set on another planet just like our Earth that would have given the likes of James Cameron, George Lucas, or even J.R.R. Tolkien, a run for their money, especiall,y while also doing my best in avoiding, deleting, or even eliminating most any references to the Fievel Mousekewitz character's real world struggles and plight, his religious faith and heritage, his social class status, and/or especially the Fievel character's native and adopted cinematic homelands on our Earth (which may be unsurprising given recent turbulent events involving many parts of our world as of late and which may lead to the impending decline, fall, destruction, collapse, ruin and very calamitous end of U.S. American history and civilization, thereby affecting Western civilization and Western world history in turn in the very long run), thereby locating the worlds of Fievel and his friends and fellow mice and especially that of Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd and even that of Dexter, Mandark and Dee Dee safely in the world of Ten'Jad, a fictional, distant and faraway planet that'll be just like our Earth, complete with woodland forests,. a warm-cold or temperate climate and naturally breathable air (thankdully for us humans coming from Earth, especially), but lit by two suns by day and one moon by night and by virtue of being many light years far away from our planet. For example, in my Planet of the Toons treatment somewhere, the reason why the Mousekewitz family and young Fievel moves to a faraway free land among a free people (America on our Earth; Icamer on Ten'Jad) may be Fievel's house getting burned down not in a hate-based move or in an anti-Semitic pogrom, but in some rampaging fire-breathing dragon attack, and also because the chief villain, Mandark, tries to seek a way to quash a prophecy that will see Fievel and Tanya team up with a human from across the stars to stop him and bring down his evil empire!

Now, in the show Dexter's Laboratory, Mandark is usually Dexter's rival neighbor, but in my whole run of stories or story ideas and concepts, especially Planet of the Toons, he can basically be like the Dark Lord, Sauron, the mostly absent title villain in The Lord of the Rings -- and complete with a volcanic lair, even though the irony may be that all of this may well be sort of possible in canon because of the cartoon show's very fantastical nature.

But speaking of very literal evil toons besides such villains as Mandark himself, anyway, here is an 13-second edit of the infamous Coachman character from Walt Disney's 1940 magnum opus Pinocchio hissing very evilly that any of those boys going to some spooky place such as Pleasure Island will "never come back as BOYS!", only instead showing the character's best scary face (for fear of causing any more nightmares), I had Elmer Fudd, Fievel and Tanya Mousekewitz as well as Honest John the Fox and Gideon the Cat beholding the Coachman turning himself into Samurai Jack's even more demonic enemy Aku:

Anyway, even if my dream work on Planet of the Toons may attract the notorious attention of the dark corners of the internet, I am still subject to criticism, constructive or otherwise, as a storyteller, criticism as an artist, criticism as an American, and even criticism as a person, and I will forgive them all, but as far as the internet trying to make me some weird online cult wacko like Chris Chan (whom I may have heard about before, whom I'd still rather condemn for their beastly and monstrous behavior, and who had a very constant series of run ins with the rule of law and with many authorities throughout their life!), enough is ENOUGH! All I have to do otherwise is go and pray.

Maybe in the foreseeable future, one of the first things I'll ever do when everything's all said and done about my Planet of the Toons movie epic thing one of these days is to call anyone interested or even especially any of those among the film and animation industry professionals and say "look, I know you're super sensitive to things that you perceive may deviate from the source material -- because that person among the film and animation industry professionals or even an internet user may be railing to me or you about this and that deviating too much from the source -- but please watch it and give me notes or something." And maybe I shall actively try to get people, especially film and animation industry professionals, to tell me if anything deviates, however too much, from the source material, but what I don't like is people trying to suppress and censor me and my works of art, and all of that will rile me up otherwise!

Anyway, I don't think anyone on the internet should really seem to know what really, ultimately makes me tick, especially as a person, but anyway, all roads for me could lead all the way back to my parents and to my family. And I'm very much a product of my mom and dad and a literal human mutt, granted I have Scottish, English, German, and/or even Eastern European ancestors on my dad's and my mom's sides. Now, we love our parents, and they can do no wrong, and if they teach us either lies and/or truths, it either begets a tremendous conflict and/or even a tremendous boon in our lives.

And finally, last but not least, if even you delve into all that, you'll still learn a lot of things about me, especially.

That's all, folks! So as to quote Porky Pig.

P.S. Since Christmas is coming, I'll leave all of you with a very special Christmas card from the Planet of the Toons featuring An American Tail's Fievel Mousekewitz, Tanya Mousekewitz and Yasha Mousekewitz (or raather specifically, the Fievel Goes West incarnations of all three cartoon boy and girl mice), Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck of Looney Tunes fame, and the Dexter the Boy Genius from Dexter's Laboratory, despite Dexter ending up being a very naughty boy as demonstrated in the notorious Dexter's Laboratory Christmas episode, 1998's Dexter vs. Santa's Claws as well as a surprised but very happy real kid, all below this post for your very own Yuletide holiday festive enjoyment:

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