Antonio Jacobs
Bio
A lifelong New Yorker, Antonio writes fiction and non-fiction and is a musicologist who believes that The Wizard of Oz is the template for all films ever made.
Stories (18/0)
Yellow Flick Road
The Yellow Flick Road By Antonio Jacobs July 2, 2004 Since its MGM release in 1939, The Wizard of Oz has captivated the attention of children and adults alike. Songs like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “We’re Off to See the Wizard” are as prevalent as nursery rhymes. Quotes from the classic film pop up in everyday conversation, as well as in movies, books, magazines and newspaper articles.
By Antonio Jacobs4 years ago in Geeks
Leroy ain’t no punk
Leroy Johnson was not a punk, and he could prove it. Leroy grew up in North Philadelphia, in one of the poorest, grimiest, crime-riddled neighborhoods imaginable. He had stared down more cops, case workers, drug dealers, crack addicts, and tough guys than anyone on his block, even more than Tyrone. He looked in the eyes of grammas without flinching. You could say that Leroy was a poster child for “anti-punk.”
By Antonio Jacobs4 years ago in Psyche
James Brown: Bach of the 20th century
What happens when a musical genius is not nurtured, neglected a classical education, raised in abject poverty by someone other than his biological parents, criminally inclined, chemically altered, and battered by tragic circumstance? You get a man whose music was able to nurture not one genre but four, feed the creativity of four generations of musicians, provide a comfortable life for himself and his family, politically charge a nation, and rise out of bleak obscurity to become known as The Godfather of Soul. James Brown lived a full and tumultuous life, one that mirrors his era, and reflects the struggle of the African-American male in the twentieth century. Brown’s songs examine the pain and realism found in living as a black man in the United States during a time when the status quo of segregation was being challenged. His songs “It’s A Man’s World”, “Say It Loud”, and “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” became the anthems of the poor man, the black man, the lover and the fighter.
By Antonio Jacobs4 years ago in Beat
The Yellow Flick Road
What we predicted has come true: Disney, with its unlimited resources, has created the Callback Masterpiece in Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. This film’s callback game is so deep, it calls back other franchises. It is like Scary Movie, only with Star Wars. There is a callback to Avengers that makes me cringe. This being the last film in a trilogy of trilogies, Rise calls back to every film in the series, bringing together eight movies into one. It could come off as the Remember When? Reel if not so brilliantly realized by JJ Abrams. The trick here is to refer to the callbacks without spoiling any details from Rise. That’s easy, as long as we avoid any mention of new material, of which there is a considerable amount. I will attempt to mention any callback that occurs in chronological order, starting from New Hope, Empire and Return, then Menace, Clones and Revenge, and finally Awakens and Last Jedi. Let us use the Episode numbers to keep track. And in case you are wondering, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker follows the Yellow Flick Road like a zealot.
By Antonio Jacobs4 years ago in Futurism
The Yellow Flick Road
INTRODUCTION When L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, he established the the quintessential American myth, using new and original characters with personalities that typifies the American spirit. His protagonist, Dorothy Gale, was an eight-year-old girl from Kansas, with wholesome good looks, a sense of adventure tempered by homesickness, and the making of a compassionate but strong leader. Whether it was Baum's intention of not is uncertain, but by creating Dorothy, Baum set the precedent for great American women throughout the twentieth century. We see the makings of Dorothy in every great American woman who has emerged in the last hundred years: Susan B. Anthony, Elenor Roosevelt, Jane Fonda, Dr. Mae Jamison and Hilary Clinton are merely a few. Baum not only launched the alpha model for American mythology, he established the possibility of a woman as hero, which we have seen in advertising, marketing and entertainment for the last 100 years.
By Antonio Jacobs4 years ago in Geeks
The Yellow Flick Road
Dark Fate: Dorothy saves the World With Tim Miller at the helm as director, and James Cameron as Executive Producer, The Terminator franchise reboots to directly after the second film in the series. Spoiler alert if you have never seen T2: A robot from the future is sent back in time by an Artificial Intelligence called SkyNet to kill 12 year old John Connor in order to preserve a dystopian machine-controlled society. His death as a child would eliminate his development as a leader of a human resistance that eventually defeats the machines. The Resistance sends back an older model robot reprogrammed to protect John. This model appears identical to the robot (known as T-100) originally sent twelve years prior to kill John’s mother, Sarah. That first unit was destroyed by Sarah and a resistance fighter named Kyle Reese, sent back in time by John to protect his mother from the T-100. Kyle dies in the effort to stop the T-100, but not before a sexual encounter with Sarah which leads to the birth of John. Twelve years later, Sarah, John and the second T-100 are able to destroy this new robot, called a T-1000, through serious hard work and effort, but the T-100 insists on being completely destroyed by fire to avoid his advanced technology to be discovered during this time. Apparently, some of the original T-100’s parts were found by a company called Cyberdyne, which leads to the development of Skynet. What this actually means is that these future actors arriving in the past changed the future, but not significantly enough to avoid Armageddon, as it were.
By Antonio Jacobs4 years ago in Futurism