which rather brilliantly utilizes nightmarish, Irreversible-like sound design that is arguably more effective than the music used in the actual scene.There’s nothing that parents of small children love more than giving kids unfettered access to phones and iPads - then freaking out over what kinds of age-inappropriate content they may be seeing on such devices. she's basically surrounded by different versions of herself from other points in the movie.”Ī slo-mo version of all of these images can be seen in this genuinely frightening user-uploaded YouTube clip. The montage then follows the viewer (and the characters) from the club into Nina's bedroom, where "suddenly everyone in the room is Nina. you can see weird stuff like Nina being stalked by the characters of the ballet, including the one she plays: or Nina dancing with the theater director, who isn't actually in the club at all.” “The shots are too fast to see, but if you keep your finger firmly pressed on your pause button. According to Cracked, the bulk of them were inserted during the movie's club scene: After all, who can forget Winona Ryder's hilariously overwrought performance, which puts even Dynasty-era Joan Collins to shame? One thing many critics and fans did manage to miss, however, was the intricacy and Hieronymus Bosch-esque sophistication of the film's subliminal images. "At exactly 66 minutes and 6 seconds into the film, we cut from an image of the very devilish Lloyd the bartender to a shot of Jack taking his first drink, a drink he said he’d give his 'goddamn soul' for just a few minutes prior.”ĭarren Aronofsky's Black Swan is known for both its harrowing portrayal of mental collapse and its occasionally satirical camp (to explore more brilliant cinematic satires, check this out). The article also points out the significance of the number of the beast: There's also speculations about the film's many backwards running timepieces, all of which suggest that time has essentially stopped in the Overlook. as the black curtain scene is bookended by two scenes showing Danny talking to Tony in the bathroom mirror and immediately precedes Danny’s vision of the bloody elevator, it functions as an omen, once broken, that seals the occupant’s doom.” “During the scene in which Jack telephones Wendy to tell her he’s got the job at the Overlook Hotel, a black curtain is seen covering the entrance, tucked behind a radiator … when the Torrances are first introduced to their quarters, the living room curtain the living room from the bedroom. Where to start with this one? Most of The Shining's deliberately embedded symbols are pretty much common knowledge among cinephiles at this point, and the film's many cryptic allusions have even inspired an award-winning documentary, Room 237. According to the Sundance blog, however, there are a few items that aren't discussed (quite) as often as some of the movie's more iconic mysteries: During the scene in which the children lick the allegedly candy-flavored snozberry wallpaper in the chocolate factory, it was really flavored like an old Irish playwright's. So, it's "all there, in black and white, clear as crystal," as Wonka would say. "I grabbed hold of his snozzberry and hung onto it like grim death and gave it a twist or two to make him hold still.' 'There's only one way when they get violent," Yasmin said. "'How did you manage to roll the old rubbery thing on him?' The article then goes on to explain that the term 'snozzberry' comes up when Yasmin Howcomely recounts her (obviously fictional) experience with playwright George Bernard Shaw: The witty and disgusting story revolves around Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, the titular uncle and 'greatest fornicator of all time.' Along with his sexy accomplice Yasmin Howcomely, he devises a complicated get-rich-quick scheme that involves Howcomely seducing Europe's most famous men and then selling used condoms full of their spent semen to women wishing to birth famous progeny." "Dahl decided to revisit snozzberries in his adult novel My Uncle Oswald. The film (and its literary namesake) existed a good eight years before Oswald came out, but as it turns out, "snozberries" always had a special place in the heart (and crotch) of Dahl's comedic vision. He just decided to use the term in two drastically different contexts. According to Cracked: Author Roald Dahl was brilliantly witty, and no stranger to lewd humor. One of his most famous acts of ribaldry involved a plot detail from his adult novel My Uncle Oswald sneaking into 1971's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (which was, of course, based on his equally beloved series of books).
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