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TheRavenousRaven [2020-04-17 18:13:54 +0000 UTC]

Just because this coronavirus outbreak came from China, that’s no excuse to hate or mistreat Chinese or other Asian people.

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timbox129 [2020-04-17 14:58:44 +0000 UTC]

Hey there, www.deviantart.com/rdj1995 , It is me, Tim.

Now, Back in 2003 or 2006, sometime between the ages of 12 or 15, I first happened to toy with the idea of trying to adapt for the theatrical motion picture big screen Dexter, Dee Dee, Samurai Jack, Ashi, even all three Powerpuff Girls -- respectively, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup -- among other TV cartoon characters that Genndy Tartakovsky and Craig McCracken (who created Powerpuff Girls) happened to create for Hanna Barbera, Cartoon Network or Adult Swim, as well as a vast and wide range of other different source materials.

However, as my idea, usually called Dexter's Odyssey, developed, I sometimes have some reservations about the very nature of the Boy Genius character of Dexter himself. Dexter may have been hard working, yes, but also angry, arrogant, ill tempered and also pathetic or helpless or vulnerable for a little boy genius, and sometimes, I fear that it would sometimes be impossible to make Dexter the boy genius sympathetic or even heroic enough for big screen audiences.

I also sometimes fear that Donald Trump would try to prohibit not only the glorification of a genius character other than or outside of Trump himself, but also the unusual stressing for this day or age of friendships between Americans as well as Asian people from the Far East (i.e., Japan, China, or the Korean Peninsula).

Anyway, I was thinking about doing this Dexter's Odyssey epic idea in some form or other for a long if unspecified number of years, and throughout that time and for the rest of my life until it's done, I am not only trying to put my ideas down into paper in some shape or form or other, not only am I trying to accumulate just about anything I think might be useful for the great big huge and highly ambitious epic movie of my dreams -- the aforementioned Dexter's Odyssey, that is -- especially as far as written or audio-visual research/reference materials -- but I have probably studied many kinds of matters around the world (in the general sense that includes everything from certain movies and cartoons to dinosaurs, and from the Americas and Europe and Africa in the West and Asia in the East ( whether near, middle, or far, but I prefer studying the Far East in worldly matters, and in particular, the Japanese islands and their people and history and culture, especially their sword-making techniques; after all, the Japanese long swords that people in America call 'samurai swords' are actually called 'katana' in Japanese).

There is also a great deal more forceful and truthful than what even the most ignorant people imagine especially in the 'American' dream or ideal, but anyway, I have shared with you, RDJ1995, in this day and age (or even an impending war) this burning private grudge -- which would probably make me personally a better soldier even in my late 20s than I would have become at 18 or 21 years: a grudge against that corrupted, bullying, and racist tyrant Donald J. Trump, who had threatened to usurp, ruin, pervert, misapply, corrupt, and make forever accursed even the American way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which is a supreme contribution from America's founding fathers to the United States, which I happen to grew up in, and which, along with what made Dexter's Laboratory and even the Powerpuff Girls so special, especially in their original  or old school incarnations, had tried very hard to even present in probably some of the most respectful, if not always the truest light imaginable. Nowhere else, incidentally, was it freer or happier  than in the United States.

That is also why I blame Trump, with some justification, for the dimming of the true, respectful light of America and even the things I like, talked about, or grew up with: maybe this growing grudge against Donald Trump might have had something to do even with my ambition in writing or making (if it were to be a motion picture film) a new version of the epic hero quest, journey or odyssey with an unlikely cast of characters for such dramatic material: TV cartoon characters such as Dexter and the Powerpuff Girls themselves, among them.

And to my credit, you and I can see from the very beginning the very nature of Trump's obsession with Citizen Kane, a 1941 film by Orson Welles, and what appeal to Trump in Kane is absolute power which meant that money cannot buy you happiness or something like that. But anyway, I appreciated the cinematic techniques and styles used by Orson Welles and company when making Citizen Kane, but having already lived through one dramatic conflict or crisis after another, despite being born or brought up in a time of peace and prosperity in America called the 1990s, I also well understand the nature of the curse of power, and of being rich, famous, powerful or notorious just as well as anybody could. And like J.R.R. Tolkien, the man behind the Lord of the Rings stories, I, too, believe that even for a good person the pursuit of power is in its very self an absolute evil that would also enslave the human spirit, heart, and soul, and, in Trump's America, there weren't many good politicians to begin with.

Now, part of my deeply felt motivation in writing or making Dexter's Odyssey even if it were an epic film is my desire to try to set the record straight by recreating several lost worlds -- and an entirely lost world in animation that is especially Cartoon Network's late 1990s-early 2000s Genndy Tartakovsky/Craig McCracken-involved creator-driven era -- and presenting all that plus the American dream and its way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that had now fallen into such disrepute in Trump's America, in some of the most respectful if not always the truest light imaginable. Just as I wanted to choose on minor point to even challenge Disney's (and its successors' and rivals') sanitized use of myth and history and any number of preexisting source materials (especially from the days of the Hays Office in Hollywood as well as Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi to the present day) so hopefully, on a much, much, MUCH grander scale and scope and ambition, I want to challenge Donald Trump's abuse of everything from our inalienable human rights to our Founding Fathers' idea of all men, woman as well as children are created equal to the American way of life, liberty, justice as well as the pursuit of happiness, among other things, by writing or even making as an epic movie, Dexter's Odyssey or something.

A great many apologies for something too long; do not read-worthy, and sure, everyone do not have to read ALL OF IT if they want to, but just like you, RDJ1995, I, too, am made really upset beyond crestfallen by all that anti-Asian racism encouraged these days by Trump -- and all that anti-Asian racism sometimes fills me with the urge to really berate him for his very tyranny -- and as Americans, you and I believed in, and want to promote tolerance for all the people in the world and here in America, as well, especially with love and compassion and friendship. And finally, I agree with you, RDJ1995, that the very dark tyranny of Trump cannot change all that forever!

That is all.       

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ortizangel [2020-04-17 08:23:59 +0000 UTC]

That's nice

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Tito-Mosquito [2020-04-17 08:17:11 +0000 UTC]

Very nice!

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ZeroDawn117 [2020-04-17 07:11:08 +0000 UTC]

Donald Trump has gone too far! He’s the main reason of fueling everyone with hate!

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Patchi1995 [2020-04-17 06:30:07 +0000 UTC]

I agree!

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Stereoset95 [2020-04-17 06:24:55 +0000 UTC]

Well said!!!

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