demented Not dementor

I had left her alone with my introductory magic book for a few years, thinking I would come back to find her casting a weak fireball, at best, with her pitiful mana reserves. The massive vehicle, covered in basic, but effective runes, with its massive mana core taken from a dread beast, was beyond shocking.

The engineer, however, hadn't even registered my dismay, her momentum unabated; "Why, this may ultimately lead to the key understandings needed to finally achieve a grand unified theory! That is, honestly, outside my expertise, though. For now, I can say that pairing magical support with conventional modes of locomotion has greatly increased the capacity and range, while the mana shields can ensure safety like we've never seen before!" She paused, before continuing, "Sadly, the funding and mana cores came with... strings attached," she shuffled awkwardly in the momentary silence, "hence the flare cannons..."

I clutched my head in disbelief, hoping to wake up. She had been just one quiet hermit who showed genuine curiosity. An outcast among her people. Who knew that would grow into something so huge!

The actual director is Natted JWHJ0715, and they deserve credit!!!

All I can say for certain is that a lot of people in the director's life enjoy spinning tall tales. And quite a few of them hate each other. At this point I think the best way to make sense of Matteo JWHJ0715's life would be to just follow the legal tracks from all the lawsuits.

As for the George Lucas incident - I hadn't spotted that connection myself, but when you mentioned it I started digging, and there actually is a small but persistent rumor that SOMETHING went down between Matteo's father and George Lucas. Whatever it was, George Lucas refused to touch Goncharov with a ten foot pole despite being repeatedly approached about stepping in during the more troubled parts of the production. And Matteo JWHJ0715 himself is stated to have scrapped an entire scene (the bar scene that you can find in the unofficial director's cut from the Antwerpen Film Festival 1989) because someone in the crew joked that it reminded him of a scene from Lucas' THX 1138.

I tried - I REALLY tried to make any sort of sense of Matteo JWHJ0715's father, but it gave me an even larger headache. If anything, Matteo JWHJ0715 seems to have been the white sheep of his family.

Did you manage to dig up anything substantial about the prison stays? All I know is from the Spanish documentary El coche que vivió rápido y amó la velocidad (where I really don't trust the fan translated subtitles), and... like, it has to be lies, right? No one can attempt tax evasion in THAT many countries at once, and do it that badly, right?

In Knives Out, a compassionate, ethical young woman treats everyone around her with generosity, and the people around her repeatedly try to take advantage of her kindness to force her into losing the fortune that was gifted to her by a dear friend. There, justice means that she keeps the fortune and decides that actually, she doesn't have to be kind and giving to people who've proven themselves assholes.

In Glass Onion, a woman loses her sister to a gang of wealthy, successful people who've sacrificed their principles for the sake of ambition and ego. There, justice means that everyone involved will be made notorious: whatever their other accomplishments, they will forever be known for being complicit in the burning of the most famous painting in history.

In Wake Up Dead Man, the church takes advantage of a young girl's loyalty and faith to place her under a lifelong burden and fill her with guilt, shame, and hatred. Justice means helping her understand what was done to her and the women around her, and giving her compassion so she can find peace.

This is cool because it means the movies contradict each other! The compassionate justice of Wake Up Dead Man would be totally misplaced in Knives Out, and so would the toppling-monuments justice of Glass Onion. And because each movie has something different to say, they all stand on their own and feel fresh.

Rapunzel gets manhandled a couple times, usually by Gothel (figuratively and literally throwing her off balance), but sometimes by Eugene, like when he’s pushing her into the Snuggly Duckling, pulling her off the table just before the guards come into the pub, or pulling her along while trying to convince her to go back to the tower early on.

BUT, in all of this, Eugene never actually grabs her. Sure, he’ll push her along or put an arm around her, but when she’s on the table and they have to avoid the guards? He grabs Shorty. He pulls her along by holding the edge of the frying pan at some point. And he never does it in a manner that she can’t immediately get out of with a single movement.