Friday, August 31.
Not now Jack Nicholson
Ever take a mirror selfie with your daughter when internationally-renowned actor, filmmaker, and three-time Academy Award-winning Hollywood icon Jack Nicholson gets in the way? God dammit Jack, not again. That right there is the problem with actors: they are incapable of realizing that the world does not revolve around them.
Well, as it happens, around four years ago @cctinsleybaxter was wondering where’s that photo of kubrick getting a mirror selfie with his daughter and jack nicholson’s in the foreground because he thought they were taking a picture of him asdfghjkl, and, despite our collective irritation, we could not help but admire it one more time. It was high time, if you will.
Nicholon's out-of-focus folded arms, proud posture, and satisfied little smile—a smile that says this is my time to shine—Kubrick's mildly perturbed expression at having his picture with his daughter spoiled, and her look of dry amusement. It is, quite simply, a classic and thoroughly deserving of every last letter of its asdfghjkl. For this is an image that should hang in The Louvre; but only because it, too, was placed there by mistake.
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Lolita a film by Stanley Kubrick
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Malcolm McDowell - Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange 1972
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I need help from those smarter than I am in figuring out Taylor’s references to The Shining.
When TTPD dropped, she released this image:
This is a direct reference to The Shining when Wendy finds Jack’s writing that he’s been working on and instead discovers his descent into madness.
Then, in the song Guilty as Sin, she sings the following Chorus line:
In The Shining, the hedge maze is famously where Jack meets his ultimate demise as he runs into it, gets lost, and freezes to death.
Some posit that the hedge maze is allegorical to humanity’s growing understanding of its capacity for evil and you’re ability to make it out alive is determined by whether you’re able to confront that knowledge and accept it, or let it consume you and destroy you.
Thoughts?
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Rihanna in “You Da One” music video (2011)
Alex DeLarge from “A Clockwork Orange” (1971)
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