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Published: 2016-08-18 18:56:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 3127; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 36
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This is my latest in my "Maggie Speaks" series. I just have to share the story behind this last night. I was at my desk in my studio and I pulled out a partially finished piece with Maggie on it. "What is this?" I asked myself. Again, I asked, "What in the world is this?" "Oh, I remember now." I had started a project in October of 2015, ten months ago, and had shoved it aside for something else. Another one of those things that I kept telling myself, "I gotta get that finished someday." Well, here it is. The movie line she's using is from the 1982 film "Blade Runner," which friends at work are big fans of www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU7Ga7… . This is dedicated to our imperious leader Anthony ("Hey, Antony!!") who keeps our ship afloat at work, and Adolfo as well. Seriously, little Maggie has to cut down on watching so much Rutger Hauer.Here's the development, dated New Year's of 2014!
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Blade Runner is copyright Warner Brothers. Simpsons characters are copyright Matt Groening.
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Very easy change - get to that after my shift at work. Thanks for mentioning.
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No problem at all, sir.
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All done; I even made another tiny correction, and added "umlauts" to "Tannhauser."
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Very nice! Looks even more authentic with those "umlauts".
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Well, even though he doesn't really pronounce them, it's written that way everywhere I've seen.
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As I always say right is right.
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I'm someone who is constantly hunting through my gallery for quality issues...I've changed things on five year old pictures. Right is right.
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What would you like to see? I've been going for the outrageous quotes...I've got a Braveheart idea on the back burner...
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I meant "off the shoulder of orion", but I see it's been corrected
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Oh yeah - I do those corrections pretty quick. I had something else on there that I corrected.
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Cool. I'm imagining her saying this in her James Earl Jones voice...
Faved.
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::laughs:: I've always imagined her with the voice of Emma Thompson.
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Oh yes, and what sold me on that was "Treasure Planet." There's something about a West London accent that just really sounds smart as well.
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Treasure Planet, the little movie that..couldn't.
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Oh, I thought it rocked. But the only difference between that film and the Titanic was that the Titanic went down with music.
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I was actually referring to it's commercial failure, I haven't seen it so I have no idea what it was like artistically.
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To me it was sad that it bombed like that. I love the dickens out of it. It has great voice talent, again, with Emma Thompson as one of the coolest cartoon characters ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fx4mB… . I genuinely love the story, which I consider to be well written. You should at least give it a look-see if you find it in a library or bargain bin. To this day, when someone asks me who should do Maggie Simpson's voice, Emma Thompson gets my vote.
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Well it's a shame but the critical response to a film often has little or nothing to do with how well it did commercially. I always thought that people in Japan or Korea would have aprrecited it more, rather than the western mentality of many people hurp a derp, animation is for teh kids!
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The story is really something anyone can enjoy of any age - the concept of trusting someone, and you find that they have ulterior motives.
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Unlike Admiral Knob Head in Star Trek: Into Darkness, who I picked out as a villain from the very start.
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I think the greatest villain ever was Magneto, who would take you aside and say, "Look at it from my vantage point..." I still love it when he looked down at the newly de-mutanized Mystique and told her, "My dear, you're not one of us anymore."
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I think Magneto had some valid points to make, even though you're supposed to disagree with him and the entire thing is one big Aesop for ethnic/religious intolerance. I always wondered if Xavier realised he might well be making promises about 'muh tolerance' that he simply won't be able to keep.
I just don't see normal humans tolerating super powered mutants in any halfway realistic scenario, at best they'd been seen as a necessary evil to protect everyone from super jerks. At worst they'd be gassed and stuffed in an oven.
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The only bad guy that I really, really don't get is Kim Jong-un - he's just crazy as a bedbug.
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Well the problem with despots is that they're constantly surrounded by yes men who are all terrified of them, which doesn't tend to lead to the greatest decision making in the whole world.
Oh, and speaking of crazy villains Kefka Palazzo from Final Fantasy Six started off kinda nuts then went progressively more bat shit insane as the plot progressed, by the end he was busy trying to blow up the universe. Yeah. I know.
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And they think that they're also great military leaders, which they're not. Can you say, "Operation Barbarossa?"
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To be fair to Hitler, the Germans at that point knew fuck all about Russia's recruitment base or industrial production capability, they didn't even know the names of the officers who were in charge of the Soviet army. They'd just kicked in Poland and rolled France, who beat them in WW1. Oh Barbarossa was a mistake, but not as obvious a mistake at the time as people tend to think. The German assumption was that once the reds lost a few battle and armies the government would collapse. What actually happened is that Russia recruited 820 new divisions and Germany got ploughed.
This video explains what I mean: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft-dYa…
Basically nobody thought Russia was a military super power pre WW2.
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What surprised me when I read today was that Barbarossa was the biggest land invasion in history - I didn't know this.
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*shrugs*
Probably depends if you take Herodotus at his word on the size of the Persian army that invaded Greece.
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::chuckles:: Operation Downfall in Japan might have had them all beat. Thankfully it didn't take place.
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Does China rolling into North Korea during the Korean war count? I'm assuming that they showed up with a lot of divisions, co's you know, PRC, spam for the win.
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Ah, the Chosun Frozen. My late uncle Harry Jr. was a corpsman in that mess. His brother Pete was an infantryman in that war as well. And we may have to do it again against the fruit loops Kim.
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I bet that was no damn fun, squatting in the freezing snow while half the PLA tries to force feed you a mortar round.
Hopefully it won't kick off again.
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I tell you, this Kim is trying his damndest to get it going again; he's like a Warner Brothers cartoon character dancing around with a match among tons of gun powder and TNT.
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Or Homer in his garage full of illegal fireworks.
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What would make a really humorous episode is if Homer were invited over there, like Dennis Rodman.
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I doubt that will happen after all the blowback from the episode 30 minutes over Tokyo, they still won't air that in Japan.
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Oh, and the episode with Mr. Sparkle soap...
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There was an entire level in The Simpson's Game which was themed after that.
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So, now we have "Talking Maggie" quoting the final words of the dying replicant, the evil and repulsive Roy Batty (played by the equally repulsive Rutger Hauer) from the film "Blade Runner." Somehow, these words seem more poetic when uttered by a cartoon baby as opposed to a murderous bio-engineered, artificial human. Apart from that, as always you, good buddy, have once again given us a cute and endearing portrait of Maggie Simpson, in spite of the presence of her cynical, no-account brother. Well done.
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Thanks! It just seems funny to me to have Maggie say something really "heavy" from an epic movie roll. Perhaps I could do the same thing if I found the right book.
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You're quite welcome. Since you once had Maggie quoting from Herman Wouk's character, Captain Queeg, it seemed to me very unique and original to have her quoting from "Blade Runner." This may seem redundant on my part, but if you're looking for a book for Maggie to quote a passage or passages from, then might I suggest "On the Road" ? You could even have Maggie wearing a beatnik beret. Wouldn't that be cute? Mull it over.
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I still have to read that, by cracky. One of these days in Half Price Books I'm going to pick it up. And there probably is a great gem in there that she can use.
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Actually there are a number of literary gems to be found in "On the Road," any one of which would be excellent for Maggie to quote. It still tickles me when I remember Truman Capote dismissing "On the Road" as "not writing but just typing," like I care about any opinion from that fat little fruit fly.
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The late Zig Zigglar used to say in his books, "No one ever erected a statue to a critic."
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That's simply because to many artists, film makers and writers, critics are persona non grata.
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She's cute to draw, that's for sure.
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