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AIDS-ey REM singer Michael Stipe has always looked a bit peaky, but is it enough to shove him through the door of life down into the deep, dark wine cellar of death? Let’s wait and see, eh?
Predictor: Alistair Reid, Brighton
Mortality Status: Alive
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There are many white and black/dark specks or errors in The Shining. In contrast I’ve only seen 2 red flashes so far, and both appear to be one frame affairs. Here they are again.
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/keys-02/
Another red spark is seen beside the DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE sign after Wendy seems to shock Jack (58:56).
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/strange-03/
Certainly Wendy is being illuminated here as well, with the realization that her husband is truly, stark raving mad (!) In the same shot we have a more conspicuous *red* colored flaw on the bannisters to her right in the picture, about 6 seconds after the one described above flashing atop a *red* triangle [1:43:05].
Meaning: Pay attention to something *red* in these shots??
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The Holocaust
Another metaphorical theme enveloping The Shining is that Kubrick used the film as a means to deal with the Holocaust. Room 237 mentions the reccurring use of the number 42 in the movie—as in the year 1942 when the “Final Solution” was put into place.
However, one of connecting tissues is the reappearance of the figurative eagle in the film. The interviewees in Room 237 allege that the typewriter Jack so fondly uses to type pages and pages of, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” symbolizes the Third Reich’s mechanical methods of killing people and their obsession with list-making. The machine is made by German manufacturer Adler which means “eagle” in the English translation.
White…
… to gray.
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/keys-02/
Between Jack Torrence’s writing session with the White Adler – and his evening writing session with the (now) Grey Adler, Stephen King had sent Jack Torrence down to the Hotel’s Boiler Room. During this trip, in the book, Jack Torrence had discovered the Hotel Scrapbook. This is the large open book that we see on the table next to Jack Torrence’s Grey Adler. Stanley Kubrick famously wrote Jack Torrence’s trip to the Boiler Room out of the film script entirely, despite the lengthy protestations of his co-writer, Diane Johnson – who identified the trip to the Boiler Room as the story’s most critical ‘point of characterization’ in regards to Jack Torrence, because his discovery of the Hotel Scrapbook is what initiates his ‘insanity’, the very insanity that the film is supposed to be all about.
I propose that Stanley Kubrick wrote Jack Torrence’s trip to the Boiler Room out of the script – because he is using the ‘omission’ as a device. A device which shifts the ‘weight of importance’ that was previously assigned to the Hotel Scrapbook – to some other item which can be found in the Boiler Room later in Stanley Kubrick’s film. The changing colour of the typewriter, from White to Grey (during what would have been Jack Torrence’s ‘plot-critical’ trip to the Boiler Room) indicates that there is something very special about the word “Grey” – specifically in relation to the Boiler Room.
Boiler Room: △ White + Gray(son County).
This is the place where the typewriter is neither white nor grey but a mixed up, in-between place.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quedlinburg
During the Nazi regime, the memory of Henry I became a sort of cult, as Heinrich Himmler saw himself as the reincarnation of the “most German of all German” rulers. The collegiate church and castle were to be turned into a shrine for Nazi Germany. The Nazi Party tried to create a new religion. The cathedral was closed from 1938 and during the war. The local crematory was kept busy burning the victims of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp. Liberation in 1945 brought back the Protestant bishop and the church bells, and the Nazi style eagle was taken down from the tower. Georg Ay was local party chief from 1931 until the end of the war.
The former collegiate church of Quedlinburg Abbey, now the Lutheran church of St. Servatius, from which the artifacts were taken
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Story Room consists of 3 individuals who don the geometric shapes sphere, tetrahedron and cube to mask their true identities. Sometimes lead singer Steptoe Butte is from Whitman County, Washington.
From the Uncyclopedia entry on Steptoe Butte:
“He was a striking-looking guy and he also bought weird records, which not everyone in the store did”, collaborator Pete StarBuck recalled. The two became friends and eventually decided to form a band.[1] StarBuck and Steptoe started writing music together;[2] at the time Steptoe also spent time in a local group named Raid.[3] The pair were soon joined by Bill Mills and Mike Berry and named themselves Murmur, a name Steptoe selected at random from the dictionary.[4]
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“Hucka D., clarify for me something. Wouldn’t Steptoe be the blue figure here?”
Hucka D.:
Sometimes.
bb:
Is he the yellow figure as well?
Hucka D.:
No.
bb:
The red figure is the boss.
Hucka D.:
That’s Story Room.
bb:
I’m confused. I thought the name of the band was, or is, Story Room.
Hucka D.:
It is. (pause)
bb:
Where does Tom’s Petty High fit in[ here]?
Hucka D.:
Yellow. Lemon yellow.
bb:
Each… sorry.
Hucka D.:
Each rule over their portions of The Shining that come before or after. So Tom’s Petty High rules the psychiatrist-Danny scene. What have you renamed that recently?
bb:
The Story Room. Oh, wait. That’s — I know what you’re talking about now — that’s the Bear Pillow Scene, with all the little blips and sparkles, at least a handful that seem to mean something.
Hucka D.:
Sorry as well: actually Story Room rules that scene. So that’s why you have the word “strange” highlighted spoken by the doctor, and then the Duck just afterwards. The duck is both the lemon colored VW that protagonist [sic?] Jack drives to the Overlook Hotel to start the movie, and also Duck, WV, then. The presence of The Duck demonstrates the rule of Story Room, see.
bb:
Let’s see.
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Hucka D.:
Story Room had a lot of fun with that room.
bb:
Isn’t Story Room, though, the room in the exact center of the Shining with all the rainbow colors, Hucka? Rainbow man Hallorann lies in the middle. Soon to shine. [no answer]
At 1:51:50 in, we have another partially hidden tiger behind Wendy, just as we did in the earlier Bear Pillow Scene where the psychiatrist talks to Danny about Tony. In the present scene, Wendy has just locked Jack in the “Story Room” (Hallorann’s clear words he calls the storage room, and what the great majority of viewers just pass right over), after their battle on the stairs, where Wendy konks him with a baseball bat. The obviously possessed Jack is attempting to persuade Wendy to let him out, saying he’s badly hurt, etc.
Jack breaks through the REDRUM bathroom door. I wonder what is reflected in his axe — hafta check this when I get a blu-ray player. At any rate, it certainly doesn’t look like the interior of the bathroom. Maybe this *is* just a type of continuity error? Kubrick couldn’t have planned *everything* in this film. But I kind of doubt it, given the focus Kubrick puts on this particular door, and the extreme camera angle here. He probably wants us to see something (again!).
This is more obviously planned: Jack’s limping stagger through the kitchen when he’s searching for Danny (after pulling off the attack of Wendy when they hear Hallorann pull up in the sno-cat) is obviously suppose to line up with the chOking poster above his head here. He wears it as he would wear a crown.
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Sunklands 