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Fascinating on one point.

posted 11 years ago by intrepidami
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He does point out one very solid thing.

Every time Kubrick deviates from the book, it involves scenes that have all these strange symbolic things in them.

Why have the kid wearing that sweater?
Why is everybody wearing red, white and blue?
Why does Nicholson have a small note in his hand in the final scene?
Why do they keep having important dramatic scenes with those Indian symbols "cropped" in each shot to look like rockets?
Why change the color of the car, and then show the exact car in the book being destroyed in an accident?

You can't just dismiss all this as coincidence.

[–] William_Hunt 11 years ago

Pure coincidences and all too far fetched. The reason that the kid wore that Apollo 11 sweater is that Kubrick wanted him to wear something hand-made so a woman made a sweater and put the Apollo 11 on it just because she thought that's what a small kid would like to wear, Kubrick had nothing to do with the Apollo 11 on that sweater, it was a coincidence.

[–] kmags84 9 years ago

Riiiiight... Thats why the rug is designed to the exact specifications of the Nasa Land Base. Danny then stands up(As the design reversed) and shoots into the "Moon Room"... A man with a 200 IQ and complete control over every aspect to his films just made this, plus many other things in PURE COINCIDENCE...

[–] ChetMeighanIII 8 years ago

You look like a poof in yer lil poffter hat lemme ask do ya wear that whne ya bugger your lil mary boy in the back of his barn door