WHY is Everyone Ashamed of This Shit?

“I mean with that stuff and Batman it was more like going back to what's all this stuff with Batman that's been swept under the carpet? 

What's everyone ASHAMED of?

‘Cause I thought there's got to be material in here. There's a ton repressed. 

WHY is everyone ashamed of this shit? 

So I dug all that out, and it was more to do with that. 'Cause I wasn't AROUND for those.”

Escape

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   

The darkness drops again; but now I know   

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

A.) Hercules.

This is our famous hedge maze. 

It's a lot of fun. 

But I wouldn't want to go in there unless I had an hour to spare to find my way out. 

“I did not look at it again for a number of years until it came out in rental. And then I picked it up a couple of times. And, what, you had three days in order to watch a rental? 

And so, I can remember watching it over and over again during those three days and really taking a good look at it then. And I was able to think "Oh, yes, this is what I remember. This is what I thought I saw," and then catching more things. 

But it wasn't, of course, until DVD came out that I was really able to sit down and take a good look at it as far as just running through it over and over and over again. 

Kubrick presents these things where it's, you know, real... you know, it's realistic. You're not supposed to see what's actually going on. 

You've got Danny. He's in The Game Room. He turns around. We're supposed to be focused on the two girls there. 

And than you... I saw... over on the left, I see this skiing poster. 

And the thing is that you already have Jack. 

He's already asked about skiing. But why isn't... you know, "What about skiing? Isn't the skiing good here in the hotel?" 

And he's already given the story of why it isn't good, why they can't do that. 

But you got the skiing poster. 

And my eye is drawn to it. And I realize that's not a skier. That's a... that's a minotaur. It just leaped out at me. 

And so that was something that I was able to look at later on VHS and say, "Yes, I had actually seen a minotaur there," where the upper body, you've got this really, you know, overblown physique, very physical physique. 

And then you've got the suggestion... you have a suggestion of a skiing pole there, but it's not really there. It's just a suggestion of one.

And the lower body is positioned, the way the legs are, it's like a minotaur, the build is. And you've actually got the tail there. 

And so it is a minotaur. 

And this is in... on the opposite side of the door you have a cowboy on a bucking bronco, so... and so you got a kind of echo there, where you got the minotaur on one side, the bull man, and on the other side, you got the cowboy, the man on the bucking bronco. 

And this is just following the scene where they... Ullman has been taking Jack and Wendy through the Colorado Lounge, showing off the Colorado Lounge. And they go into the hall behind the Colorado Lounge. And what's there, but on the wall, there is a painting of an American Indian with a buffalo headdress on. 

And at that point, Ullman is discussing with Wendy who has stayed there at the hotel. 

Royalty, the best people, stars have stayed there. Royalty? All the best people. 

You have "monarch" on the bottom, which, you know, keys in with royalty. And you also have this whole idea of the stars. And the minotaur's name is, what, Asterius? His name is Asterius, which means "starry." So you know, you got several things there to do with mythology that fit in. It's very exciting to me. That was the... you know, that's the kind of leap-up-end-down moment where you go, "Oh, wow, look at what Kubrick has there." 

Yeah, I mean the minotaur lives at the heart of the labyrinth. He's a part of the labyrinth. The labyrinth, at least in the myth... you know, in this particular myth... was built for the minotaur. 

The Hotel is... you know, it is The Labyrinth. 

And Jack is The Minotaur. 

You have scenes with him where he... such as in... what is it? The Thursday scene. The snowfall has started. You have Wendy and Danny outside playing. And Jack is inside the Colorado Lounge, and he's looking out at them. His head is tilted down, and his eyes are somewhat... his eyes are elevated. They're pointing up. And his eyebrows are drawn up. But he has this expression on his face that he gets progressively throughout the film that is very bull-like. It has a very minotaur-like expression. It's the same kind of expression that Kubrick pulls out in other films, such as it was on Private Pyle's face in the berserker scene in the bathroom in Full Metal Jacket. So it's, you know, not specific to this film. There's more minotaur imagery and labyrinth imagery. There's the Gold Room. In front of the Gold Room, you have the "Unwinding Hours" sign. And that plays in with the labyrinth, where you have... Theseus enters into the labyrinth, and he has the thread with him that he ties at the beginning that, you know, assists him in going through the labyrinth, where he can find his way back out. And so I see the "Unwinding Hours" sign as having to do with that thread. For a while there, I was into baseball. And I get very excited with baseball when I'm into baseball. You know, I can be by myself, and I will be leaping up and down. And Kubrick is like that for me, where all I have to do is see the minotaur poster there, and I go, "Oh, my goodness. Look at this!" Because you're not supposed to see the minotaur. Danny is shown riding his big wheel through the hotel three times. The first ride, I think, is about realism. That's Danny is a... Danny is doing a loop around the lounge set. You know, he goes through the service hallway and then he goes through the lounge and then he goes back into the service hallway. And, you know, when you first see the movie, you're like, "He's just wandering around. It's crazy, it's just"... But it... no, it's very... it's just a very simple loop. He does it once. But that gives you an idea of where... of what that place is. I mean, you know, all right, you understand that that set is real. You know, like, it's a continuous shot. There are no tricks. In the second ride, in the hexagonal hallway, there are a lot of... there are more tricks. Like, he doesn't do a loop. He does kind of like a key-shaped... you know, or a p-shaped loop around this hallway. And you see the realism of the connection to the lounge set. And... but you also see the fakery of the fake elevators. And you see... for just one second, you see the big stained glass windows out of the corner, in the corner of the frame right before he takes a turn around the elevator. Like, that's incredible because, like, that connects that whole hallway to the giant Colorado Lounge set. I mean, that's just for one second. They didn't have to do that, you know? But it's also... you know, it's a metaphor because he's also elevated. He's one level up from where he was before. Like, he starts in the same place, just one floor up, you know, in the northeast corner of the set. So now he's in the northeast corner and one level up. And if you take it as a metaphor of, like, going from a mundane reality to up into your head to more of a fantastical reality... The third one is even stranger, 'cause he starts off in the service unit. He starts off in the same, you know, northeast corner of the lobby hall, of the lobby service hallway. And then he takes a turn, and suddenly he's upstairs in the area outside their apartment So, like, it's a kind of a combination of the first two, where like he's down low and then he's up high. And then he takes a turn, and he's suddenly... he's in that that yellow, yellow and blue wallpaper. Let's say that's in the service hallway area. He's, you know, right outside his parents' bedroom, so there's this connection between him going on these big wheel rides and dreaming. Like, he's near his bedroom. He's near... like, you see his parents are working downstairs, but he's upstairs. You know, like, you see his mom on the telephone, and then he's flying. He goes above her to the bedroom, which is above where she's working, just as the hexagonal hallway is above where his dad is working. 

So these big wheel rides become like a visionary way of Danny to explore his parents' headspace. 

You know, like, room 237 is his, like... that's his father's fantasy chamber where, like, he gets it on with the witches. 

And the twins are like his mother's fantasy... fantasy headspace where, like, they're these double blue women who want to play with Danny forever and ever. We're all gonna have a real good time. 

My interpretation of The Shining is that there's many levels to this film. 

This is like three-dimensional chess. 

And he's trying to tell us several stories that appear to be separate but actually are not. 

And he's doing this both through the overt script that he wrote. 

He's telling it through tricks of the trade, the subliminal imagery and these constant retakes, giving him odd angles and things. 

And he's also telling you through the changes that he made to the Stephen King novel. 

So if you watch those three things, you begin to understand this deeper story. 

And this deeper story has its birth, I guess, in the idea that Stanley Kubrick was involved with faking the Apollo moon landings.

Look Like

Imagine A Cave 

where those inside never see 

The Outside World.

Instead, they see 

shadows of that world 

Projected on The Cave Wall.

[MONKEY CHATTERING.]

The World They See 

in The Shadows is not 

The Real World.

Three, two, one, liftoff.

But it's Real to Them.

If you were to show Them 

The World as it actually is, 

They would reject it as incomprehensible.

Now what if, instead of being in A Cave, you were out in The World, 

except you couldn't see it.

[OVERLAPPING VOICES ON PHONE.]

Because You weren't Looking.

[PHONES CHIMING.]

Because You Trusted that The World You Saw through The Prism was The Real World.

[CLUCKING.]

[CAMERA CLICKS.]

[TYPING.]

[PHONE CHIMES.]

[TYPING.]

But there's A Difference.

[PHONE CHIMES.]

You see, unlike 

The Allegory of The Cave, 

where The People are Real 

and The Shadows are false, here, 

Other People are The Shadows —

Their Faces.

Their Lives.

This is The Delusion 

of The Narcissist, 

who believes that 

They alone are Real.

- [PHONE CHIMING.]

- [TYPING.]

[PHONE CHIMES.]

Their feelings are the only feelings that matter because Other People are just Shadows, 

and Shadows Don't Feel.

Because They're 

Not Real.

[HORN HONKS.]

But what if everyone 

lived in caves? 

[LAPTOP CHIMING.]

Then no one would be Real.

Not even you.

Unless one day you woke up 

and left The Cave.

How strange The World would look 

after a lifetime of staring at Shadows.

[TYPING, PHONES CHIMING.]

[PHONE CHIMES.]

[THUNDER CRACKS.]

[THUNDER RUMBLING.]

“We end the Golden Age as it began, with Superman—one of the last survivors of the initial brief expansion and rapid contraction of the DC universe. It had been too much too soon for the superheroes, but although many of them would lie dormant for decades, no potential trademark truly dies. The superheroes, like cockroaches or Terminators, are impossible to kill. But in 1954 a sinister scientist straight from the pages of the comics tried to wipe them all out and came close to succeeding.

  As the lights went out on the Golden Age, characters such as Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, who’d achieved a wider recognition thanks to serials and merchandising, survived the cull. Because of their status as backup strips in Adventure Comics, second stringers like Green Arrow and Aquaman weathered the storm—perhaps undeservedly—but the survivors did not always flourish.

  For instance, a popular TV series (1953’s The Adventures of Superman) had cemented Superman’s status as an American icon, but budgetary restrictions meant that its star, the likeable but ultimately troubled George Reeves, was rarely seen in the air. At best, he might jump in through a window at an angle that suggested methods of entry other than flight, possibly involving trampolines. The stories revolved around low-level criminal activity in Metropolis and ended when Superman burst through another flimsy wall to apprehend another gang of bank robbers or spies. Bullets would bounce from his monochrome chest (the series was shot and transmitted before color TV, so Reeves’s costume was actually rendered in grayscale, not red and blue, which wouldn’t have contrasted so well in black and white.)

  Reeves, at nearly forty, was a patrician Superman with a touch of gray around the temples and a physique that suggested middle-aged spread rather than six-pack, but he fit the mold of the fifties establishment figure: fatherly, conservative, and trustworthy. The problem with Superman was more obvious in the comic books. By aping the kitchen-sink scale of the Reeves show, Superman’s writers and artists squandered his epic potential on a parade of gangsters, pranksters, and thieves. The character born in a futurist blaze of color and motion had washed up on a black-and-white stage set, grounded by the turgid rules of a real world that kept his wings clipped and his rebel spirit chained. Superman was now locked into a death trap more devious than anything Lex Luthor could have devised. Here was Superman—even Superman—tamed and domesticated in a world where the ceiling, not the sky, was the limit.

Set The Controls for The Heart of The Sun

“I love this sparkle thing….

Maybe it has like, The Imagination of The CHILD in Him…

…Sparkle Dust.

We’ll worry about Clark Kent, later.”

SHEM: 

It's all right.

(CONTINUES SOBBING)

(SHEM SHUSHING)

(SHATTERS)

SHEM: 

Hide your eyes, Japheth.

NOAH: 

Ham?

SHEM: 

He's here.

(SOBBING)

NOAH (SOBBING) :

You don't have to go.

I don't belong Here.

For what it's worth,

I'm glad that it begins again with you.

Maybe we'll learn to be kind.

HERMIONE GRANGER :

Will he come back?

NOAH'S WIFE :

Some things cannot be unbroken.

NOAH'S WIFE :

I have to know...

Why did you spare them?

NOAH :

I looked down at those two little girls, and all I had in my heart was love.

NOAH'S WIFE :

Then why are you alone, Noah?

Why are you separated 

from Your Family?

NOAH :

Because I failed Him.

And I failed all of YOU.

NOAH'S WIFE :

Did you?

He chose you for A REASON, Noah.

He showed you The Wickedness of Man and knew you would not look away.

But then you saw Goodness, too.

The Choice was put in Your hands because He put it there.

He asked you to decide 

If We were Worth Saving.

And you chose Mercy.

You chose Love.

He has given Us 

A Second Chance.

Be A Father.

Be A Grandfather.

Help Us to Do Better this time.

Help us Start Again.

(SNIFFLES)

(SOBBING)

(NAAMEH SIGHS)

(LAUGHS)

NOAH :

The Creator, 

made Adam in His Image,

and placed The World in His Care.

That Birthright, 

was passed down to Us.

To My Father, then to Me, 

and to My Sons,

Shem, Japheth, and Ham.

That Birthright 

is now passed to you, 

Our Grandchildren.

This will be Your Work, 

and Your Responsibility.

So I Say to You --

Be Fruitful and Multiply, 

and Replenish The Earth.

Child Like

"Smalll children in particular work in much shorter dimensions of time than adults. Tomorrow is a long way off, next week an eternity away. In stort-telling programmes, drama serials, or feature films divided into several episodes, the dramatic installments should be treated with caution. Young Children often regard each installment as complete in intself and may not be able to see or may even avoid subsequent episodes which could provude the resolution to the situation. 

For reassurance that the characters with whom they identify are safe. 

If regular and well-loved presenters of factual childrens programmes are involved in violent situations, care must bre taken to show that they are safe and well afterwards.”

“I Didn’t Like it at all, 

I didn’t understand it, 

I didn’t know What Was Happening —

You know, it was kind of sort very romantically-put that he was regenerating into a new body, because as far as I was concerned, he was dying and I would never see him again….

…of course, that lasted for all of about five minutes, because I had completely forgotten who William Hartnell was within about four episodes of the new Doctor Who…!”

— Toya Wilcox

“I love this sparkle thing….

Maybe it has like, The Imagination of The CHILD in Him…

…Sparkle Dust.

We’ll worry about Clark Kent, later.”

“….and what that came out of was…

….there is a group of “fans”, of the films - 

That Don’t LIKE Comic Sidekicks.

They Like the films to be tough, and like Terminator, and y’know, be real Guy Movies —

And they get  very, very upset  — and very opinionated — about anything that has anything to do with being Childlike — and 

The Movies are for CHILDREN, 

but they don’t want to admit that — 

Or, they don’t want to have Comic Sidekicks in these movies.

…..and in the first movie, they 

absolutely HATED Artoo and Threepio.

Now, Jar-Jar’s getting accused of the same thing.”

— George Lucas

At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, 

Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 

And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 

And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 

Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 

And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. 

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Come away, O Human Child, 

to The Waters of The Wild —

For The World’s more full of Weeping,

than You could understand….

Mine is NOT Any World You Know….

Eyes Wide Open

Get UP! MOVE IT, Morrison! On Your FEET, Soldier!

It’s not The Gun, 

it’s The Hard Heart that Kills.

 You will Take SIX.

Six, sir?

Of The Best.

Twelve.

What’s That?

Twelve, sir —

So I’ll remember.

LISTEN — and UNDERSTAND.

Cyborgs Don't Feel Pain — 

I Do.

Don't Do That again.

Just let me go…!

Listen!

And Understand —

That

Terminator is out There.

It can't be bargained-with.

It can't be reasoned-with.

It Doesn't Feel Pity,

or Remorse, 

or Fear.

And it ABSOLUTELY

will • not • stop — 

Ever!

Until You are DEAD.

Can you stop it?

I Don't Know….

With these weapons, I Don't Know.