Mouths

If you look at the mature 

form of The Xenomorph,

it’s ALL MOUTH — even though 

we are made to understand that 

it no-longer actually 

Has to Survive 

by Eating  People.

Geiger was obsessed with

the image of a mouth,

a mouth with teeth and without eyes, such as are found 

in the nightmarish hellscapes of 

Heironymous Bosch —

You see this also 

in Red Dragon, with 

Francis Dolarhyde, 

The Tooth Fairy.

A mouth that bites, 

but cannot see,

that eats, blindly, 

but cannot speak —

In particular, he took direct

 inspiration from a triptych 

painted by Francis Bacon 

in the aftermath of 

The Imagery of World War II and The Concentration Camp System 

entitled (and he was an atheist), 

Three Figures Descending 

at The Foot of 

The Cruxifixction.  

In The Shining, to the best of My Recollection,

Jack Torrance is never shown 

or seen eating, except once 

in a bedroom mirror, when 

Wendy wakes him up with a full, 

cooked breakfast in bed —

Whereas Danny is seen eating 

a peanut-butter & jelly sandwich, 

and then later some chocolate ice-cream, and

Wendy, Darling is seen to have 

prepared him a (VERY) late Breakfast 

of Toast and Eggs (sunny side up), 

Jack is never shown 

actually eating them —

Much like Bruce Wayne, 

he forgets to eat all the time, 

and ignores food when in His Cave.

Which really does play into the whole Minotaur angle,

because in that interpretation, if The Overlook 

is His Labyrinth / Mind, with His Wife and Son 

unwittingly trapped inside of it, 

then that would certainly follow, 

seeing as how that would make 

the both of them sacrifices sent in 

by those outside to provide 

for  him some fresh food.

Wendy, Darling :

Boy — We must really be high up.

The Air feels so different.

Jack :

Mm-hm.

Danny, Champion of The World :

Dad?

Jack :

Yes?

Danny, Champion of The World :

I'm Hungry…

Jack :

Well, you should've 

eaten Your Breakfast.

Wendy, Darling :

We'll get you something

as soon as we get to The Hotel.

[ Chocolate Ice Cream. ]

Danny, Champion of The World :

Okay, Mom.

Wendy, Darling :

Wasn't it around here that

The Donner Party got snowbound?

Jack :

…No, I think that 

was farther West, 

in The Sierras.

Wendy, Darling :

Oh.

Danny, Champion of The World :

What was The Donner party?

Jack :

They were a party of settlers in covered wagon times.

They got snowbound one winter in the mountains.

They had to resort to cannibalism

in order to Stay Alive.

Danny, Champion of The World :

You mean, They 

ate each other up?

Jack :

They had to! — in 

order To Survive.

Wendy, Darling :

Jack, don't --

Danny, Champion 

of The World :

Don't worry, Mom.

I know all about 

Cannibalism. 

I saw it on TV.

Jack :

Y'See...?, It's okay —

He saw it on 

The Television.

JJACK :

Slow night, 

Mr. Torrance.

Danny, Champion of The World :

Not for long, 

I imagine.

JJACK : 

You're a Whiskey Man, 

are you not?

Danny, Champion of The World :

I was, most of the time.

JJack : 

On The House.

Danny, Champion of The World :

This was Your Brand.

Jack Daniel's.

I used to see the bottles in Our Home.

Our real home, before all this.

I smelled one once. It smelled like 

something on fire, which 

I suppose it was.

JJack : 

I'm afraid you've confused 

me with Someone Else.

It's Lloyd.

Danny, Champion of The World :

— Lloyd.

JJack :

I apologise, Mr. Torrance.

I don't know where everyone 

is, but it'll pick up.

Danny, Champion of The World :

Oh, I know where they are.

And you're right... it'll pick up.

JJack : 

If you don't mind my saying, 

Mr. Torrance, you seem... 

put upon.

Danny, Champion of The World :

Put upon?

JJack : 

Ain't that the way.

Man just living his life, 

trying to Do His Work;

He gets put upon.

Pulled into other 

people's problems.

I see it all the time, if you 

don't mind my saying.

Danny, Champion of The World :

So we lived in Florida.

JJack : 

I'm sorry?

Danny, Champion of The World :

Mom and I.

JJack : 

I'm afraid I don't know who you mean.

Danny, Champion of The World :

We never wanted to see snow again, 

so we lived in Florida.

Tiny place, but it was comfortable, 

and we were happy.

I mean, we were grieving.

We were traumatised, 

but there was happiness too.

She... She would look away.

She'd look at me, but she'd always 

look away after a second or two.

It took me a while to notice it.

But after The Overlook, she wouldn't 

look me in the eyes, not for long.

Couldn't figure it out.

But it... It was you.

She saw your eyes in me, and 

she'd have to look away.

It tortured her to have to do that.

So, I fixed it.

I fixed it for her, and it was 

the last time I ever used it.

So that she wouldn't see you anymore 

when she looked at me.

I was 20 when she died.

And back then, I saw when 

someone was gonna die.

I saw flies. Black flies.

"Death flies," I called them, circling people's faces.

And in those last weeks, she was covered...

Her whole face.

I could barely see her eyes.

And I... I tried to comfort her, but 

I could hardly look at her.

And she saw that.

She just lay there dying, with her son 

who couldn't look at her.

JJack : 

Maybe something warm to push 

away such unpleasantries.

Danny, Champion of The World :

Don't you wanna hear about it? 

She was your wife.

JJack : 

I think you've mistaken 

me for Someone Else.

I'm just A Bartender. 

Danny, Champion of The World :

Oh, yeah?

Just Lloyd The Bartender, pouring 

joy at The Overlook Hotel.

JJack : 

I'll pour whatever you 

like, Mr. Torrance.

Danny, Champion of The World :

Oh, Dad…..

This drink will cost 

an awful lot.

JJack : 

Your money is no good here.

Orders from The House.

Danny, Champion of The World :

It'll cost more than money.

It'll cost me eight years.

Eight behind me, and 

who knows how many 

in front of me.

JJack : 

Your Credit is fine, 

Mr. Torrance.

Danny, Champion of The World 

Man takes A Drink, 

The Drink takes A Drink, and then 

The Drink takes A Man.

Ain't it so, Dad?

JJack : 

Medicine.

Medicine is What It Is.

Bona fide cure-all.

Depression, stress, remorse, 

failure, wipes it all away.

The Mind is A Blackboard.

And this is The Eraser.

A Man tries.

He provides.

But he's surrounded 

by mouths.

That eat, and scream, 

and cry, and nag.

So, he asks for one thing, 

just one thing for him.

To warm him up...to take 

the sting out of those days 

of the mouths, eating, 

and eating, and eating 

everything he makes, 

everything he has.

And A Family.

A Wife, A Kid.

Those mouths eat Time.

They eat Your Days on Earth.

They just gobble them up.

It's enough to make 

A Man sick.

And this... is 

The Medicine.

So, tell me, pup —

Are you gonna take 

Your Medicine?

Danny, Champion of The World :

I'm Not.

(GLASS SHATTERS)

JJack : 

Oh. Look at that. I'm sorry.

Clumsy old me, Mr. Torrance. Forgive me.

Let's get you cleaned up.

[ In The Men’s Room ]

JJack :

Management is concerned.

Danny, Champion of The World :

Concerned?

JJack : 

It's horrible what she's done to you.

Pulled you into her mess.

A smart man?

He'd let her handle it.

Let things unfold as they're meant to.

Why should you pay her tab, Doc?

And for what?

For this little girl who 

started all this Trouble?

Danny, Champion 

of The World :

And what would 'Management' 

Have Me do about that?

JJACK :

Nothing.Easiest Thing in 

The World to Do, Son —

Just bring her inside.

And then, well —

You accept The Things 

You cannot Change.

ABRA:

Dan! She's here.

Danny, Champion of The World :

Okay.

This place is sick.

Sick like my momo was sick.

It's Cancer, only worse.

(ELECTRICITY HUMMING)

What do we do now?

Danny, Champion of The World :

We head inside. She'll find us.

A Disease of Our Time

Werner Herzog on Psychoanalysts: "They are a disease of our time"

"....one has to be very, very careful 

how we deal with each other and 

that's one of the reasons why I hate 

Psychology and Analysts, they are 

A Disease of Our Time, they should 

be all just put on an airplane and 

flown into An Island and they should --

-- in the in the in The Pacific --  they 

should analyze each other but 

they should not bother us -- 

Besides, these, these people --

they just come like just boldly, as if it was 

A Profession or A Science already 

and and they they do not confess 

that uh their knowledge is 

not much more than, let's say, 

Brain Surgery [was] during 

The Middle Dynasty in Egypt 

for during the Pharaoh-time 

So, out with them, forget about them 

they are disease, they are our disease 

I think it is one of the greatest stupidities 

and the greatest mistakes 

of the 20th century there's something finally and definitively wrong about psychoanalysis uh uh I have all my figures in my films are not really psychoanal analysis they are not captured with psychoanalysis and I believe that um um explaining every dark little corner that we have in our soul is a very unhealthy and a very stupid and a very dangerous thing we should not do that why because uh when when you uh inhabit a house and you illuminate every last corner of the house with strong lights the house becomes uninhabitable and human beings illuminated to the very last corner of their darkest Soul uh become inhuman and uninhabitable

Calling The Capitol

 

Calling The Capitol

Wise Birds

JFK 50 Year Commemorative Edition | David Ferrie Scene (Joe Pesci) | War...

CBS News :

After a stint in The Marines he became 

fascinated by Communism. He is said 

to be a dedicated Marxist and 

a fanatical supporter of Fidel Castro 

and ultra left-wing causes. 

He spent last summer in New Orleans 

and was arrested  in a brawl with 

anti-Castro Cuban exiles. 

The D.A. :

Lou? Sorry to disturb you this late. 

Matter of routine. Get on this 

Oswald connection 

in New Orleans. 

Check out his record. 

Find any friends 

or associates 

from last summer. 

Let's meet with 

The Investigators 

day after tomorrow. 

Lou :

On Sunday? 

Sunday. 11:00. 

Thanks, Lou. 

Wade :

I would say that He is The Killer, 

The Law says beyond a reasonable doubt 

and to a moral certainty. 

I thought a motorcycle had 

backfired. I looked to my left. 

A second shot hit him in the face. 

The rifle, a cheap World War Il, 

Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano 

was ordered from a Chicago mailing house 

and shipped to Oswald's alias, A. Hidell 

at a post office box in March of 1963. 

This same rifle was used to assassinate The President. 

That ties it up. 

Another nut. Jesus Christ, anybody 

can get a rifle in Texas! 

As far as Oswald's associates, one name 

keeps popping up : David Ferrie. 

Oswald was seen with him 

several times last summer. 

The D.A. :

I know David. Strange character. 

He's been in Trouble before. 

He was a hot-shot pilot 

for Eastern Airlines. 

Got canned after an alleged 

homosexual incident. 

These photos were found yesterday 

among Oswald's possessions 

in the garage where Marina Oswald 

and her children are living. 

Somebody mentioned Ferrie on 

that Texas trip. Find that out. 

Marina Oswald :

He no shoot anyone. 

He good man. Good husband. 

Lou :

So it seems David Ferrie drove off 

on Friday afternoon for Texas. 

A source said he might have been 

a getaway pilot for Oswald. 

The D.A. :

Hold your horses. 

What kind of source? 

Lou :

.....the anonymous kind, Chief. 

I remember Ferrie speaking at a meeting of 

some veterans group ranting against Castro. 

Extreme stuff. 

The D.A. :

They're bringing him out. 

Numa, turn it up. 

Here he comes! 

Anything to say 

in your defense? 

Jack Ruby :

Oswald! 

He shot him! 

He shot him on TV! 

There's a man with a gun! 

Lou :

Seventy cops there. 

What were they doing? 

No trial now. Somebody just saved 

The Dallas D.A. a pile of work. 

The D.A. :

Let's get David Ferrie 

in here anyway. 

Lou :

It's wrong. This is crazy! 

Kronkite :

Yesterday, in the midst of sorrow, 

the business of government went on. 

The President met with Henry Cabot Lodge, 

Our Ambassador to Vietnam 

and members of his Cabinet. 

The major subject was Vietnam 

a crisis that does not pause 

for bereavement. 

From this meeting came affirmations 

that the US would continue aiding 

the new government of Vietnam in its 

war against the Communist insurgents. 

David Ferrie. 

Come on in. 

Thanks for coming. 

Remember me? We met 

on Carondelet Street 

after your election. 

I remember. You make quite an impression. 

I've heard you're a first-rate pilot. 

Legend has it you can get in and 

out of the smallest field. 

I'm a pilot myself. Flew grasshoppers 

for the field artillery in The War. 

Make yourself comfortable. 

Mind if I smoke? 

How could I? 

As you know, President Kennedy 

was assassinated on Friday. 

A man named Lee Harvey Oswald 

was arrested as a suspect then 

murdered yesterday by a man 

named Jack Ruby. 

We've had reports that Oswald spent 

The Summer here and that 

you knew Oswald. 

I've never met anyone named Oswald. 

Anyone who told you that has to be crazy. 

He served in your Civil Air Patrol Unit 

when he was a teenager. 

If he did, I don't remember him. 

Lots of boys in and out. 

Surely you've seen this. Perhaps you 

knew him under another name? 

I never saw him before in my life. 

The D.A. :

Then we must have gotten 

mistaken information. 

Thanks for straightening it out. 

There's one other matter —

We heard you went to Texas shortly 

after The Assassination on Friday. 

David W. Ferrie :

Ah, well that’s True, 

I drove to Houston. 

The D.A. :

What was so appealing 

about Houston? 

David W. Ferrie :

I hadn't been ice-skating in a number of years;

Since I had some young friends with me, 

we decided to drive to Houston to go skating. 

The D.A. :

Do you mind explaining for me, Dave 

why the urge to go ice-skating in Texas came to 

you during one of the worst thunderstorms 

in recent memory? 

David W. Ferrie :

….Spur-of-the-moment thing. 

Storm wasn't that bad. 

The D.A. :

Where did you drive? 

David W. Ferrie :

We went to Houston. 

Saturday we drove 

to Galveston, and 

stayed there. 

The D.A. :

And Sunday? 

David W. Ferrie :

In the morning, we 

went Goose-hunting. 

The D.A. :

Did you bag any? 

I believe The Boys 

got a couple. 

The D.A. :

Boys said they 

didn't get any. 

David W. Ferrie :

-- come to Think of it, 

They're right. 

There were thousands of geese everywhere. 

But you couldn't approach them. Wise Birds. 

The D.A. :

Your Friends said you had no weapons in the trunk. 

Isn't it difficult to hunt geese without a shotgun? 

David W. Ferrie :

I remember now. I'm sorry. 

I got confused --

We got out near The Geese, 

and only then did we realise that

we had forgotten our shotguns. 

Stupid, right? 

So, of course, we 

didn't get any geese. 

The D.A. :

Thank you for your time. 

Sorry this must end 

inconveniently  but 

I must detain you for 

questioning by The FBI. 

David W. Ferrie :

Why? What's wrong? 

The D.A. :

I find Your Story to be 

simply not believable. 

David W. Ferrie :

Really....? 

....What part? 

============

The FBI :

This afternoon The FBI released 

David W. Ferrie  of New Orleans. 

After extensive questioning 

and a background check 

The Bureau found no evidence that Mr. Ferrie 

knew Lee Harvey Oswald or had 

any connection with The Assassination. 

The Agent-in-Charge would like to make clear 

that Ferrie was brought in for questioning by 

The District Attorney of Orleans Parish. 

Lou :

I thought we were on the same side. 

Why are they saying that? 

The D.A. :

Pretty fast, the way they let him go. 

They must know something we don't. 

So let's get on with our lives. 

We have many homegrown 

crimes to prosecute. 

JFK David Ferrie & Jim Garrison - Eyebrow