Fun Fact:
It turns out Genghis Khan, former Khagan of the Mongol Empire, may have done some good for the planet...
He did more to combat global warming than any of us ever will. Between 1162 and 1227, Genghis Khan and his Mongolian armies conquered around 22% of the Earth's surface, killing as many as 40 million people. But he also cut 700 million tons of carbon emissions while doing so. By lowering the population of the world by as much as 10%, he allowed huge portions of cultivated farmland to return to their natural forested state and absorb carbon from the atmosphere.
Artwork for paperback cover of "Death Dealer Book 1: Prisoner of the Horned Helmet" by Frank Frazetta.
Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese.
Saw this on Netflix, and I say it's pure art.
A study of masculinity, existentialism, isolation, and delusion.
Fun Fact:
Before Victor Frankenstein created his infamous monster and sparked the debate over man's right to create artificial life, a 16th century Jewish mystic called the Maharal invoked the names of God to give life to clay. This created a golem with superhuman strength and loyalty that guarded the mystic's community from persecution in medieval Prague. The golem also wore an amulet that gave it the power to turn invisible and summon dead witnesses whose testimonies were considered totally valid in Prague's court and used to prove the innocence of people who judges were biased against. The problem with the golem is that although it was animated, it couldn't speak, had no free will and took instructions way too literally, causing it to do things like chop down entire forests when asked to get firewood. And one night, the golem was feeling lonely and neglected, so it rampaged through town, attacking the innocent people it was supposed to protect. This forced the mystic to remove one letter from the Hebrew inscription of "emét", changing the meaning from "truth" to "death" and rendering his creation lifeless.
The story started so positive too...
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (also known as Dracula: Voyage of the Demeter) by André Øvredal.
Based on "The Captain's Log", a chapter from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Gorgeous, lavish and vicious!!
In my opinion, this is the very BEST Alan Moore ending in his entire body of work. 100%
Do you think Batman killed The Joker? Or did he have him sent back to Arkham?
Fun Fact:
Did you know that if you grew up in Ireland, you were at risk of being kidnapped by faeries?
In Irish legend, a parent's greatest fear was that their child would get abducted and replaced with a look-alike called a "changeling" (also known as an "auf", "oaf" or "swapling") and there were a few ways for them to tell when this happened. Because in the beginning, the changeling looked very similar to their child, but over time, they would develop undeniable physical differences. Sometimes that meant looking sickly and not growing to a normal size, their teeth could turn long and pointy, and occasionally they'd grow a beard at a remarkably young age. According to folklorists, oftentimes when a parent realized their child had been swapped, they would kill the imposter, leading to awkward conversations with significant others on the occasions that they suspected wrong.
But what happened to the kids who were spirited away? It depends on the legend, but sometimes they were delivered to the devil himself, forced to become servants to the faeries, they could be eaten by faeries or even lovingly raised by them.
Keep an eye on your baby...if that really is your baby...
Blade Runner by Ridley Scott.
Based on Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
I'm a huge fan of this film, it's one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time.
Blade Runner is simply one of those cinematic candies, that when I first saw it on Netflix, I never saw the world the same way again.
Check it out and feel the visual boundaries of cinema expand.
In my opinion, this is one of the best Judge Dredd movies (along with the 2012 adaptation).
Evil Dead II (or Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn) by Sam Raimi.
A masterpiece of a film.
Fun Fact:
The Cheshire Cat was first introduced in Lewis Carroll's novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". The character was inspired by an old phrase "Smiling like a Cheshire cat". The origins of that phrase are still debated to this day, but the most widely accepted theory is that it refers to a cat living in the English county of Cheshire, which is known for producing a lot of milk and dairy, which cats love, hence the smiling. Carroll decided to personify the cat from that phrase, he gave it a physical form, a personality and magic powers. In the book, the cat doesn't play quite as large a role as he does in the Disney movie, but the two have very similar characteristics. They talk in really confusing ways that are sometimes funny but also kind of annoying, they raise philosophical questions to Alice even though she clearly doesn't understand them and while they sometimes appear to be making a situation worse for her, they're actually rooting for Alice to succeed and even are helping her indirectly.
20s. A young tachrán who has dedicated his life to becoming a filmmaker and comic artist/writer. This website is a mystery to me...
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