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Subliminal message

posted 18 years ago by redchief2001
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As mentioned in the trivia section. What's all that about then? Rubbish or no? I watched that scene frame by frame and could see nothing.

[–] hrivera_patino 18 years ago

I agree with redchief2001. I've seen the movie several times, and I never found the subliminal message in the movie. When I finally purchased the widescreen DVD, the scene where the subliminal message appears is nowhere to be found. Frame by frame, scene after scene, NOTHING! After several viewings, I did notice editing problems, but no subliminal message.

[–] ronm1945 13 years ago

Isn't that just the idea of subliminal messages - they are not seen by the naked eye?

[–] redchief2001 13 years ago

It think it would need to be seen but not consciously registered. If you can't see it at all then in what sense would it exist?

[–] mjz688 12 years ago

You're exactly right, Red Chief. The idea of a subliminal message is that it is so fleeting or obscure that it registers on the mind only on a subconscious level. It is often achieved by flashing a word on the screen for a split second, or camouflaging a word within an object or scene (such as the wavers). A much-discussed recent example was the way the word "sex" is supposed intertwined in Rapunzel's hair in one scene in "Tangled."