Yeahhh...I mean, it's cool and everything to watch film, and get something out of it, and attach meaning to it. That's great.

As a filmmaker, I do it myself. As a young(er) man (I'm still a "young man", but...) finding meaning in films was one of the reasons I fell in love with the craft/artistry OF filmmaking.

It matters, yes. And I have my own wacked-out ideas about certain films that are personal/specific to me.

But I don't go applying my OWN interpertations to the actual asthetic reasons a filmmaker has included...anything in his-or-her flim.

I'm actually (I don't know why, but...) going to click that link and see what this guy Jay has to say. Although it's going to be for the exact same reason I sneek a peak whenever I stroll by an accident-scene more than anything else...

I read what was cut-and-pasted. It's not impressive (and, no offense but I pay no mind to the songs; totally different medium produced by totally different artists in a totally different time and place- that's it). It's a lot of...self-interpertation. For instance, it's...preposterous to assume that Kubrick had the prop guy put an Eagle behind the manager's head to symbolize America OR the Moon Landings. I mean, if that's the meaning AN INDIVIDUAL wants to attach to it. Fine.

But to say that was THE REASON Kubrick put it there...is far-fetched to the point of pompousity. Kubrick could get playful with his props (the "2001"-record in the record store during "A Clockwork Orange") but for the most part it was just that...playful. Kubrick at his heart was a subversive. I can't think of a single instance of Kubrick using props as his "singular voice" via which to thow out visual clues to....who exactly???

He was much more sophisticated an image-maker than that. It actually degrades his quality of a visual stylist to infer he'd resort to anything so...well, obvious.

If Kubrick was going to come up with a "symbol" for America it would be something MUCH MORE deep and cynical. I think Slim Pickens riding a nuclear bomb like a rodeo star is a far better example of his mettle as an image-maker.

An Eagle behind a guy's head is film-school.

Also, the remnant posted above fails to take into account that Kubrick had a co-writer on the script for "The Shining" (Diane Johnson) as well as, like every other movie, a costume designer, who's name I don't know off the top of my head.

But whatever the characters are wearing in "The Shining" I'm sure it's much more that individual's decision than his.

And I also disagree, I think the first hour of The Shining is actually some of it's most interesting. The middle-part, personally, I've always had a hard time with.

Anyway, I'm gonna live my life then check out this fancy link later tonight and bear witness a little more to how Kubrick (a man, to my knowledged, who's life with his wife Christianne is an example of one of the rare instances of a happy, stable, Hollywood marriage) and his legacy are being further trampled on, via the Glorious Interweb.