P(D)enny La(i)ne wrote:
"...could Kubrick have been telling us to have a look at a red DRUM?"I think so. But perhaps not in the way you might think!
Kubrick seems to use colors as part of some type of magic; so you may very well be right.
It's like when Iamaphoney reverses the Beatle songs, as if to "undo" their magic spell.
We've read that Kubrick's choice of yellow seems to counter King's use of red in the book.
When we see Jack in the bathroom, he's up to his shoulders in redness.
We also see that when he attempts to write, he is unable to connect with his muse,
even while he's sitting in the sun chair.
Symbolically then, his "sins are as scarlet", so to speak, and have cut him off from the source
of his inspiration. The sun representing the source of spiritual light and inspiration, doesn't
shine on him even though he sits on its "throne".
In terms of the Beatles, we can think of Jack as representing Faul (or perhaps John) - driving
"
the sun-colored "Beetle", on that long and winding road, but not getting
to the "top of the pyramid" while on what is the "road to the sun", as was already pointed out
in the one videos .
While on "the road to the sun" he has been temporarily delayed...
The symbolism apparently transcends the movie. In this video:
The Shining - Kubrick - The making of Shining (part2/4)www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4GMrNTA_HEwe see Mr. Kubrick feverishly typing away on an arguably
yellow typewriter at 02:45.
It's part of the system of magic, apparently. It's not part of the film, but there it is!
So the magic is being done even beyond what's "in the show".
Jack's "uninspired" typewriter (shown at 02:30 in the video below) is white, and then later
blue-grey (04:38) and (05:18).
The Shining--Kubricks symbolism explainedwww.youtube.com/watch?v=ivFs8SKHW7kTake note of the poster for the movie. It features an enormous T - with a ghostly face in it.
The "
T" itself has significance, like the white Beatles
T in this video:
a Lie Adds Up - son king 0911 281 Fwww.youtube.com/watch?v=Acb2mHmMW1IEvidently the T symbolizes The Cross, or Thelema, if you wish.
Note the use of
yellow in the poster, as well. Yellow - like
sunshine.
(See it at the start of this video:)
The Making of The Shining - Part 2www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmGTUHA17DkAs "our" Apollo C Vermouth once wrote : "That's the beauty of writing.
You can be
anyone you wish."
(my emphasis)Kubrick, using his yellow typewriter to create
his version of "The Shining", is possibly
counter-acting the failed "red magic" of whoever is "on the opposing team".
So then, is he, as a writer, acting as the voice for a dead Paul McCartney, who is, perhaps,
represented by the ghost in the "T"? Is Kubrick's "The
Shining"
intended to represent the defacto voice of
the sun?
Nicholson, of course, can represent "every man" in the film. He's driving "the Beetle".
But he is cut off from source, and tainted with blood. Remember: he has "
always been
the caretaker" of the hotel, just as "every man" has been the "caretaker" of the Earth.
(Adam's role in creation was supposed to be the "care taker" of the garden, in the book of Genesis.)
The Beatles song "Baby, You Can Drive My Car" can be considered in the context of
us being allowed to drive our souls (our 'Ka' as the Egyptians called it) toward our destiny.
"Dad" (God) is letting the kids (us) drive the car to its ultimate destination, (reunion with source).
So symbolically Jack is driving his
sunnyVWBeetle, and likewise you are
'driving' your "ka". But whose 'ka' are you driving?
"
My car" is the Sun's "yellow" car. You, who are driving it, have borrowed it from "Dad", the Sun.
The physical sun symbolizes the spiritual sun energy that you are a part of [aka "God"].
And so when Danny "shines", it's because he's a part of "the sun", as are you.
Danny shines, because he's innocent, and is a fairly recent arrival from "
the sun".
Adults like Jack, Wendy and you shine as well, but.....
Well, obviously this post is all over the place, but I'm saying that Kubrick, who likes the sun,
("
A Clockwork Orange[/b]") is attempting to
shine a little light, using VW Beetles and maybe some real Beatles.
(Thanks to "grandfather aleister" for pointing this out.)
Did you notice the two cars in his lane that Jack passes on the road to (ahem) The Overlook ?
They're not moving. There's symbolism there. It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye
of a needle than it was for that limosine to get through the rock tunnel.
Anyway, P(D)enny La(i)ne, that "
red drum" whose picture you posted -
The Sun, of course! ;D