Foreshadowing, Ritual and Symbology in Film - Jay Dyer, #397 by Guns and Butter published on 2018-11-26T01:15:31Z Jay Dyer discusses his book, Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film. We take an in-depth look at Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and Clockwork Orange; Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby, The Ninth Gate and Chinatown; The Manchurian Candidate and The Parallax View, as well as television programs The Lone Gunman and G.I. Joe, with special emphasis on predictive programming, mind control and the influence of the military and intelligence on Hollywood productions. Aired: November 13, 2018 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org Subscribe to our newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/bmg4zf Genre News & Politics Comment by user589313673 Bonnie, you have introduced us to SO MANY fantastic intellectuals, and here is yet ANOTHER amazing deconstructionist, JAY DYER. WOW. Thank you. 2019-01-25T21:51:42Z Comment by Andrea Daley The significance of the Christmas theme in EYES WIDE SHUT? It may have something to do with the nature of Jesus’ birth. In some ways, the foundation of Western Civilization is a ‘cuckold’ story. Joseph finds his virgin wife pregnant with ‘another man’s’ child. He is deeply upset but has a dream in which he is assured that Mary shall give birth to a special child(a starchild), maybe child of God or something. Joseph’s Dream(in which he is visited by an angel) is key, and Eyes Wide Shut is based on Dream Novel, a modern neo-paganist take on the theme. But then, Christianity was a fusion of Judaic monotheism and Greco-Roman paganism. In pagan myths, the gods often visit mortal women who give birth to semi-divine beings like Heracles and Achilles. 2018-12-10T00:51:15Z
