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▲ 0 r/StanleyKubrick

Nazi colours in the Delbert Grady scene?

It's probably just a visual coincidence, but recently I noticed that the colour choice and composition of the "Bloodbath"-coloured bathroom in Phillip Stone's scene is somewhat similar to the Nazi Party flag. You have the black-clad figure of Mr. Grady (next to the somewhat-black of Jack's dark red and blue) in the centre, surrounded like the Swastika by very strongly clashing red and white. Then there's also the interwar origins of the Overlook's ghosts, and the very strong racism present in the hotel's ghosts like Grady.

Obviously the main purpose of the set design is to symbolize the family massacre and likely nothing more than that, but seeing the room as subtly fascist does give it an even more unsettling atmosphere...

u/c00b_Bit_Jerry — 24 hours ago
▲ 58 r/thomasthetankengine

Did they really demolish Vicarstown's big station just because the HQ was moved to Tidmouth?

I don't know about you, but to me it would seem like a huge waste to demolish so much major railway infrastructure just because a bridge to the mainland opened. Plus photos from the steam era show Barrow-in-Furness to be quite a small station compared to the grand Vicarstown terminus of TRS, creating a potential bottleneck of NWR and LMS trains trying to use the very limited space at the same time.

u/c00b_Bit_Jerry — 5 days ago
▲ 1 r/movieideas

Black comedy about a guy who works for both sides in the Vietnam War.

June 1967: an American F-4 Phantom pilot is shot down in a dogfight over North Vietnam, and captured by NVA forces in the jungle. While suffering at the 'Hanoi Hilton' for several months, he hatches a mad plan regain his freedom: Volunteer his captors everything he knows about the U.S. military's aircraft. Unbelievably the scheme works, and he eventually gets moved out of the 'Hanoi Hilton' into a private apartment on a North Vietnamese airbase, where he gives daily lectures on shooting down U.S. fighters.

Soon enough, our immoral protagonist figures out a way to sell info on the North Vietnamese fighter jets back to the U.S. military, and he moves his expanding espionage/arms trafficking business to Singapore. One day he can be sweet-talking South Vietnamese generals into buying prototype bombs stolen from Lockheed Martin; the next day he's smuggling Soviet missiles to the Laotian Communists.

Near the end of the war, both sides realize the deception he's playing, and two huge hit squads are simultaneously sent by the CIA and North Vietnamese military to his huge mansion. Surrounded by armed mercenaries, our main character tricks the two sides into forgetting their overlapping mission and start shooting at each other in a huge battle. But he gets accidentally hit by dozens of bullets in the crossfire - becoming another casualty in the war he profited from.

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u/c00b_Bit_Jerry — 10 days ago
▲ 39 r/TransitDiagrams

Made using Clip Studio Paint. Revision of my recent TEE 2.0 service map.

NAMED SERVICES:

  1. Nord Express: Paris—Cologne—Berlin
  2. Miłosz: Cologne—Berlin—Warsaw
  3. Rheingold: Amsterdam—Frankfurt—Basel
  4. Gottardo: Basel—Milan—Rome
  5. Florian: Düsseldorf—Strasbourg—Lyon
  6. Catalan Talgo: Basel—Lyon—Barcelona
  7. Lyonnais: Amsterdam—Paris-Lyon
  8. Pirineus: Paris—Lyon—Barcelona
  9. Roland: Cologne—Frankfurt—Milan
  10. Dabrowski: Warsaw—Berlin—Leipzig/Frankfurt
u/c00b_Bit_Jerry — 23 days ago
▲ 55 r/TransitDiagrams

Recently I was reading about the T.E.E. 2.0 concept pitched by the German government a few years back, and I thought it would be interesting to imagine what the new international services could look like if it ever comes to fruition. Here I created 10 initial services following the proposed corridors, and gave them distinct names in T.E.E. fashion:

  1. Nord Express: Paris-Cologne-Berlin
  2. Miłosz: Cologne-Berlin-Warsaw
  3. Rheingold: Amsterdam-Frankfurt-Basel (T.E.E. legacy service)
  4. Gottardo: Basel-Milan-Rome (legacy)
  5. Florian: Dusseldorf-Strasbourg-Lyon
  6. Catalan Talgo: Basel-Lyon-Barcelona (legacy)
  7. Lyonnais: Amsterdam-Paris-Lyon (legacy)
  8. Pyrénées: Paris-Lyon-Barcelona
  9. Roland: Cologne-Frankfurt-Milan (legacy)
  10. Dabrowksi: Warsaw-Berlin-Frankfurt
u/c00b_Bit_Jerry — 24 days ago
▲ 232 r/thegrandtour

  1. Can the boys gather enough food and building materials from Clarkson’s farm and the quickly-emptying supermarkets?

  2. Is their shelter very good?

  3. Who dies first and why?

u/c00b_Bit_Jerry — 26 days ago