Superior Judge Rozzer – Apocalypse Now, Roz from Monsters Inc., Roz from Night Court
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Superior_Judge_Rozzer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now
https://www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-ideas/apocalypse-now-i-love-the-smell-of/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGOJxt3H7Fw
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Roz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Warfield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Court
Superior Judge Rozzer is on site at the Billabong Resort. She tries to arrest your wizard.
Superior Judge Rozzer: You are under arrest, Wizard! Get down on your knees, put your hands on your head, dance on one leg and sing the alphabet backwards.
There are problems at the resort. Beasties have crawled out of the lagoons and started eating people. The nasty things don’t kaboom like they should. She asks you to help Judges Lawless and Nelson.
After relieving Mr. Cane of his hostages, Superior Judge Rozzer invites you on her Explo-dition to the Pipeline. You discover that Mr. Cane has successfully tunneled to the Pink Lake and the monsters from the lagoons are actual Lucid Dreams.
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American psychological epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane. The ensemble cast also features Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, and Harrison Ford.
Apocalypse Now was honored with the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered unfinished. When it was finally released on August 15, 1979, by United Artists, it performed well at the box office, grossing over $80 million in the United States and Canada and over $100 million worldwide. Initial reviews were polarized; while Vittorio Storaro’s cinematography was widely acclaimed, several critics found Coppola’s handling of the story’s major themes anticlimactic and intellectually disappointing. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and Best Supporting Actor (Duvall); it went on to win Best Cinematography and Best Sound.
Apocalypse Now is retrospectively considered one of the greatest films ever made; it has been assessed as Coppola’s magnum opus and appeared on various best-of films in 20th-century and of all time lists. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress as “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.
The 9th cavalry escorts Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) to the mouth of the river that leads him to Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979). Blaring Wagner’s ‘Flight of the Valkyries’, the swarm of helicopters drench a remote village with rockets, bullets and napalm that kills both innocents and enemy combatants alike. It’s chaotic and senseless, demonstrating the immorality and absurdity of the Vietnam War, embodied by Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall), who lands and commands his men to start surfing the break while bombs drop.
It’s also one of the most striking and iconic scenes in cinema history, and when Kilgore kneels among the hellish, orange mist engulfing the landscape, he delivers one of the most iconic lines in cinema history: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” It’s an odd sentiment for any civilian watching – how can something so destructive be loved? Because it smells like victory, Kilgore explains.
Roz is a supporting character in Disney•Pixar’s 2001 animated film Monsters, Inc. and a minor character in its 2013 prequel. She is a grouchy slug-like monster with a perpetual frown. Roz is also the leader of the CDA (Child Detection Agency) and is given the name Number 1 (001) and is working undercover at Monsters Inc.
Roz is grumpy, especially to Mike. She consistently reminds Mike about paperwork he does not file or turn in. She never smiles, except in the bloopers. However, she does seem to possess somewhat of a sympathetic side as she says “That’s the way it has to be” in somewhat of a regretful tone, and allows Mike and Sulley five minutes to say goodbye to Boo before her door is shredded.
Marsha Francine Warfield (born March 5, 1954) is an American actress and comedian. She grew up on Chicago’s South Side, graduating from Calumet High School. She is best known for playing tough, no-nonsense bailiff Roz Russell on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1986 to 1992, reprising the role on a guest basis for its 2023 revival. Warfield also starred in the sitcom Empty Nest as Dr. Maxine Douglas (1993–95). Before Night Court, she was a writer and performer on the short-lived Richard Pryor Show.
Night Court is an American television sitcom that premiered on NBC on January 4, 1984, and ended on May 31, 1992, after nine seasons consisting of 193 episodes. The show is set in the night shift of a Manhattan Criminal Court presided over by a young, unorthodox judge, Harold “Harry” T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson), and was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Roz image is borrowed from the Disney Fan wiki and is copyright Disney and Pixar
Roz and Dan Feilding image is borrowed from NBC.com and is copyright Starry Night Productions.
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