Wizard of oz scarecrow with gun9/27/2023 The title is actually an obscure reference to the fact that in the movie Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow at some point in the film has a pistol, but that nobody seems to remember this fact. I was under this impression due to the title “Scarecrow Has a Gun.” I was not correct in the slightest. My first impression, having not read the synopsis of the book, was that the book was a mystery / thriller starring a detective. I gave this book 4 stars, as my overall impression of the book was positive. I received this book from Netgalley as an ARC Audiobook. " -Tex Gresham, author of Sunflower, Heck, Texas, and This Is Strange June It’s a gut-punch meditation on the way our brains process mediation, memory, trauma, and grief. "With writing that’s both sharp and dense, Michael Paul Kozlowsky’s Scarecrow Has A Gun is a labyrinthine mystery that feels as if David Cronenberg and Don DeLillo had collaborated on a Philip K. “Michael Paul Kozlowsky’s brutally eccentric Scarecrow Has a Gun is a masterclass in Cartesian storytelling-simultaneously evoking Christopher Nolan’s clockwork precision and JG Ballard’s ultra-modern sense of irony, Kozlowsky has bestowed upon our cultural landscape a Rashomon for our Post-Truth, Mandela Effect-ed times.” -Jeff Chon, author of Hashtag Good Guy With a Gun Scarecrow Has a Gun is positively Neapolitan!” -Nick Mamatas, author of The Second Shooter “An intriguing, existential mystery, an exploration of an unhappy marriage, and a paranoid science fiction thriller. Ballard and Paolo Coelho chained together in a basement while a carbon monoxide alarm goes off, Scarecrow Has a Gun is at once disquieting and illuminating, eerie and sincere.” -Martin Seay, award-winning author of The Mirror Thief Suffused with an atmosphere that suggests J.G. Michael Paul Kozlowsky is admirably wary of these enticements, and has put that uneasiness at the heart of this book. A host of technologies exists to reassure us otherwise-novels, to be fair, among them-and each, like an invited demon, ultimately behaves according to its own proclivities. Combining its mythology, already so rich, with the modern fantasy genre poses a risk.“The coherent self is a fiction: a fairytale we tell ourselves about ourselves. The Oz revival has been going strong for years, from the successful (“Wicked” and NBC’s “The Wiz Live!”) to the less successful (“Oz the Great and Powerful”). “It’s allegorical to a lot of what’s going on right now,” he added. “The things we care about reflected on-screen.”Ĭassidy added that much of the action centers on a “war between science and magic.” “You’re going to bring connections to this world,” Schulner said. ![]() There are also trans characters, which executive producer David Schulner noted “came right from the books,” a reference to the recurring Princess Ozma of Baum’s tomes. I’m never going to get this,’ ” said the Guatemalan-Puerto Rican actress, known for her role on “True Detective.” Not least is Arjona as a Latina Dorothy “I remember thinking, ‘I’m Hispanic. Singh and the writers have managed to work in other modern flourishes. He added that he didn’t want to abandon ship after the first episode - “it would be like someone comes in and sleeps with your wife.” “It would have scared me if I knew the source material that well,” Singh said at the panel, adding that if producers wanted to “mix it up,” then “an Indian guy telling an iconic white story - it will be mixed up.” ![]() The commercial and film director (“The Fall”) known for his vast sweep and exacting visuals said he didn’t know much about “The Wizard of Oz” coming in - which could work to his benefit. In another cable touch, all 10 episodes are directed by Tarsem Singh. ![]() The show is following the template of NBC chief Robert Greenblatt’s pay-cable background, airing just 10 episodes as it seeks to find not just the genre voice but also the cultural relevance of shows like “Game of Thrones.” When the touchstones from the classic tale are included, they can take on pretty different forms in “Emerald City.” On her journey, Dorothy meets the Scarecrow (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), a brooding swordsman who is barely breathing after being rather baroquely crucified.
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