Wendy, left, and Danny, right from Square C3. I thought of naming these trees the Grady Trees or the Grady Twins (Gwady Twees?), but the sizes are too unequal, even given that the Grady Twins in The Shining aren’t *exactly* the same size. Close, but not the same. No, this appears more like the size difference between Danny and his mother Wendy in the film. The link is that Danny-Wendy hold hands in The Maze like the Grady Twins do in The Hotel, and it’s obvious that Kubrick (Cube Brick) wanted the two pairs associated through similar set motifs, etc. So the Rubi Forest trees are not the Grady Trees or some variation thereof, but the infamous Shining twins are implied because of this link with Wendy-Danny.
The Grady Twins, in their final appearance in the movie, implore Danny to play with them, “forever, and ever, and ever.” The Overlook Maze trapped Jack at the end forever and ever and ever, and almost did the same to Danny (if Jack would have caught him). But The Maze is a reflection of the neighboring Overlook Hotel and its own maze-like corridors, as designed by Kubrick. Cube Brick. The Maze resonates its energy into The Hotel and visa versa. They too hold hands in a manner, bigger to smaller.
As I studied the trees, different faces emerged than what I saw before through Baker Bloch and Edwardston Resident.
Wendy-Danny from overhead.
Almost directly south of the forest’s Wendy-Danny trees stands the truncated 4th column of 5 holding up the eloganted back of the Table House. During VWX Town’s first days, this was done to make room for Piedpot, then existing directly underneath it and also at the end of the straight portion of 1st Stream or Edward’s Stream. Both the columns surrounding this truncated 4th (3rd and 5th, then), are also floating, like the Danny tree in the forest directly north. Is this synchronicity? Do the 5 columns stands for the 5 rows of 1024 squares in the Rubi Forest? Columns are, after all, paired (“hold hands”) with rows as well (!). What does the missing or truncated 4th column mean, then? I might have to investigate this phenomenon more later on. Is the *Table House* supported by these columns, north to south on its back, symbolic of the forest as a whole?? At any rate, this house is scheduled to be deleted by Jan. 6th.
A VWX Town linden dogwood tree lies almost directly south of Wendy-Danny as well, and thus basically along the line of the columns just discussed. Like the Danny tree of the Rubi Woods, the dogwood is *almost* (but not quite) a floater, with only the tip of its lower point sticking into the ground. As eucalyptuses are one of the largest linden trees, the dogwood represents one of the smallest of same. If we move this dogwood directly north into the forest, it would lie almost equidistant to Wendy as Danny would on the other side — giving the suggestion of another type of child tree or son tree due to its shorter stature.
Of additional note here is that this dogwood presently protrudes through the eastern wall of Fal Mouth Moon and into the pictured trees (beech) of the Gila 09 collage, called “Head Inside”, the head in this case being of Sir Paul McCartney, whom Ringo Starr called the head or the brains of The Beatles.
When I placed the Fal Mouth Moon structure guided by other considerations, this projection just happened — wasn’t planned. But I decided to leave the dogwood there, since it meshed so well with the pictured tree grove in the collage. Keep in mind that both Baker Bloch and Edwardston have examined the faces or *heads* appearing in the Wendy-Danny trees. And it’s paramount to also keep in mind that an *eye* was spotted in the intertwined foilage of these very Rubi Forest trees, later directly associated with a bull’s eye of the forest. I may come back to this idea as well — the merger of beech grove of Gila 09 with the Rubi Forest.
More related info:
http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html
Wendy and Danny holding hands in The Maze.
http://www.freewebs.com/theshiningmovie/thesteadicam.htm
Although he would admit that I could produce a printable take by any reasonable standard within the first few tries, Stanley would seldom respond with anything but derision until about take 14. He did not appear to be comfortable until we were well beyond take 20. Since the editing was to occur entirely after the filming of the production, he wanted at least two and preferably three perfect takes on each scene. Basically this was fine with me. Although most retakes were for other reasons, I could see a gradual improvement in my operating with each playback. I learned the route like a dancer learns a difficult piece of choreography and I could relegate more and more of the navigating to my subconscious and attend to the rhythm of the shot. To be fair, Kubrick later admitted that in selecting takes he went for performance every time and that many were technically indistinguishable. (He has been known to mutter, upon sitting through twenty identical passes in the lunchtime screenings, “Damn crosshairs, they get me every time!”)
The giant Hedge Maze set must be one of the most intriguing creations in the history of motion pictures. It must also be one of the most pernicious sets ever to work on.And folks, every frame was shot with the Steadicam. In its benign “summer” form, the Maze was constructed on the old MGM lot outdoors at Borehamwood.
It was beautiful. The “hedges” consisted of pine boughs stapled to plywood forms. It was lined with gravel paths, and contained a center section (although built to one side of the set) which was wider than the rest. It was exceedingly difficult to find one’s way in or out without reference to the map which accompanied each call sheet. Most of the crew got lost at various times and it wasn’t much use to call out “Stanley” as his laughter seemed to come from everywhere! It was amusing to be lost carrying nothing more than a walkie-talkie. It was positively hilarious if you happened to be wearing the Steadicam.
Stanley and cameraman holding hands (!).
Hmmm…
http://slnewser.blogspot.com/2010/12/more-winterfest-fun.html
By the way, the maze is based on the film “The Shining!” Jack Belvedere, owner of the sims, told me he had to clean up all the gore before doing the snow maze.
Have fun!
Labyrinthine way the Rubi Forest squares were passed through to recently re-count all the trees and additionally take pictures (start here).
Sunklands 