237: Cryptokubrology, Cronenbergology, and Morrowology

Although the narrative gives the wrong date, we all know this occurred on 23 July (the 7th month), 1982. Was this "237" = "23/7" foreseen by Cronenberg, Kubrick, and others?

Twilight Zone: TheWorst Accident in Film History from bob jones on Vimeo.

Under trivia for Twilight Zone: The Movie, from IMDb, the following was shared:

Vic Morrow's last completed film was 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982). In an eerily prescient scene that seemed to foreshadow his tragic death in this film, Morrow's superior says to him, "If you don't get the girl by 11 o'clock tomorrow, I'll have your head!" Morrow's character replied, "We'll fly her in, in a helicopter."

[Summer of '42's Jennifer] O'Neill has been married nine times to eight husbands (she married, divorced, and remarried her sixth husband). She has three children from three fathers.
Dean Rossiter (1965 - 1971) (divorced) (1 child)
Joseph Koster (1972 - 1974) (divorced)
Nick De Noia (1975 - 1976) (divorced)
Jeff Barry (1978 - 1979) (divorced)
John Lederer (1979 - 1983) (divorced) (1 child)
Richard Alan Brown (1986 - 1989) (divorced) (1 child)
Neil L. Bonin (1992 - 1993) (annulled)
Richard Alan Brown (1993 - 1996) (divorced)
Mervin Sidney Louque, Jr. (1996 – present)
Ex-husband Nick de Noia was later murdered in 1987 by one of his former associates.
On October 23, 1982, O'Neill suffered a gunshot wound in her home on McClain Street in Bedford, New York. Police officers who interviewed O'Neill determined that she had accidentally shot herself in the abdomen with a .38 caliber revolver at her 30-acre, 25-room French-style estate while trying to determine if the weapon was loaded. Her fifth husband at the time, John Lederer, was not in the house when the handgun was discharged, but two other people were in the house. Detective Sgt. Thomas Rothwell was quoted as having said that O'Neill "didn't know much about guns."
On October 12, 1984, O'Neill's co-star in the Cover Up television series, Jon-Erik Hexum, mortally wounded himself on the show's set, unaware that a gun loaded with a blank cartridge could still cause extreme damage from the effect of expanding powder gasses. He died six days later. Source.

Others:

Arthur Everett Scholl (December 24, 1931 – September 16, 1985) 53
Veteran pilot Art Scholl was killed when his camera plane crashed during the filming of Top Gun; stuntman Reid Rondell was killed in a helicopter crash on the set of Airwolf; actors Brandon Lee (Bruce’s son) and Jon-Erik Hexum (star of the NBC series Voyagers!) were killed by guns loaded with blanks. Stuntman Reid Rondell, 22, was killed and the pilot of the helicopter, Scott Maher, 36, suffered serious injuries in the January 18, 1985 crash near Newhall, California.

Brandon Bruce Lee (February 1, 1965 – March 31, 1993) 28
In 1992, Brandon Lee landed his breakthrough role as Eric Draven in Alex Proyas' The Crow (1994), based on the comic book of the same name, which would be his final film. On March 31, 1993, only a few days away from completing the film, Lee was accidentally killed after being shot on the set of The Crow by a prop gun that fired a bullet from a dummy round that was accidentally lodged in the chamber.

Michael Groo Massee (September 1, 1952 – October 20, 2016) was an American actor. In 1993, Massee portrayed the character Funboy in the film The Crow, starring Brandon Lee. Massee was the actor who fired the shot that killed Lee by accident on the set in 1993, due to an improperly prepared prop gun. He was so traumatized by the event that he returned to New York and took a year off from acting and never saw the film. In an interview in 2005, 12 years after the incident, Massee revealed that he still had nightmares about it, going on to say, "I don't think you ever get over something like that."
He guest-starred in The X-Files episode "The Field Where I Died". He appeared as a hunter, Kubrick, on the series Supernatural in 2007. Massee died of stomach cancer in Los Angeles on October 20, 2016 at the age of 64.

 Jon-Erik Hexum (November 5, 1957 – October 18, 1984) was an American actor, known for his lead roles in the TV series Voyagers! and Cover Up, and his supporting role as Pat Trammell in the biopic The Bear. He died at 26, as a result of an accidental self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head on the set of Cover Up.

Credit to Gary W. Wright, Andrew W. Griffin, Alex Fulton, Shawn Montgomery, and Max Hopewell.

The King of Marvin Gardens, The Shining, and Twin Falls

Bob Rafelson's The King Of Marvin Gardens (1972) is a bit of a bizarre film that sees Jack Nicholson and Scatman Crothers sharing the screen, as they do in The Shining (1980).

Indeed, Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers appeared in only four films with Jack Nicholson: The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), The Fortune (1975), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and The Shining (1980). He was born, intriguingly, exactly 70 years to the day before The Shining was released, on May 23, 1910. Crothers is a JFK Resonator, as well. He died at the age of 76, exactly 23 years to the day, on November 22, 1986, after John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Also starring in The King of Marvin Gardens are Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, and Julie Anne Robinson (pictured below). (For the plot of the movie, see here.)

Julia Anne Robinson was born on March 4, 1951 in Twin Falls, Idaho, USA. Besides playing Jessica in The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), the only other films she appeared in was A Fan's Notes (1972), as Bunny Sue, and a short film, Getting Straight (1970), uncredited.

After Marvin Gardens, Robinson was cast in a community play in Eugene, Oregon. While there, Robinson skipped a cast party and went home early. She died on April 13, 1975 in her motel room, from a fire.

Great confusion, in the sync-world, has arisen due to Robinson's birthplace being Twin Falls, Idaho, with a notion she might be part of the "Twin Peaks" realm of mystical thinking. In one biographical article, her birth was misgiven as "Twin Falls, Iowa."

In another article, which says Julia Anne Robinson died from falling asleep while she was smoking, her brother commented that, no, it was from an electrical mishap, instead.

In general, while the other stars went on to fame, the tragedy of The King of Marvin Gardens is the film is basically the end of the line for Robinson.

Two billboards for suntan lotion in the winter of Atlantic City.

Cryptokubrology: Two Jacks

The 2016 movie Passengers, directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts, contains a segment that gives a huge nod to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining, which was inspired by Stephen King's novel of the same name. 

It was the Gold Room bar scene.

You remember it? Jack Nicholson plays Jack Torrance who is being waited on by Joe Turkel, who plays the bartender Lloyd. Lloyd also gives Jack advice.

In Passengers, Michael Sheen plays the bartender Arthur, who serves Chris Pratt, who plays Jim Preston, with drinks and counsel.

Jack Nicholson was born on April 22, 1937.

Ten years earlier, Joe Turkel was born on July 15, 1927.

Turkel is best known for his roles as Lloyd, the ghostly bartender, in The Shining (1980), and Dr. Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner (1982).

Christopher Michael Pratt was born on June 21, 1979.

Michael Christopher Sheen, who plays Arthur, in a mirror like fashion, was born ten years earlier than Chris Pratt, on February 5, 1969.

Clearly, Passengers direct Morten Tyldum set up the scene to replicate (no Blade Runner pun intended) the scene from The Shining.

But there appears to be at least one level deeper to this than anyone knew about.

Michael Sheen's father Meyrick Sheen, who is about 76, has worked worldwide, late in life, as a Jack Nicholson impersonator.

Michael Sheen (right) with his father Meyrick and his mother Irene (née Thomas), are from Wales.

Jack Nicholson (above and below)

Meyrick Sheen.

Cryptokubrology: "A useful methodology for deconstructing cinema, history, and synchronicity." ~ says Alex Fulton, January 31, 2017.

Cryptokubrology has been defined as "digging through the works of Stanley Kubrick on the premise that its body is a muted mass of coded cabalistic ministrations comparable (in scope) to the works of William Shakespeare, but incomparable (in complexity) to anything in recorded history. In fact, Cryptokubrology has led to an entirely different view of so-called 'history' itself." Source.

Via Twitter, I bemoaned to Alex Fulton at Crypto-Kubrology Twitter that "modern Cryptokubrology is frustrating when Shining scenes are in new films w/out sync-reasoning."

To which Fulton replied that "modern films w/ 237s inserted... hard not to assume the filmmakers just being clever. Pre-Shining 237s are where it gets weird."

When I began looking at the less than subtle, entirely created syncs between Passengers and The Shining, there did not seem to be anything there to see. After all, director Morten Tyldum admired Stanley Kubrick and so he manufactured the bar scenes to reflect the bar scenes in The Shining.

Tyldum places other tributes (often nowadays called "Easter Eggs") in Passengers to link his film rather obviously to Kubrick's 2001 (think running around a circle going up) and to Gravity (the tether drama).

There are also directly overt items tied to 1959's Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora, not to mention what I've written about the name Aurora on this blog), 1992's Aladdin (space walk = magic carpet ride), 1997's Titanic (Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack), and others.

After I saw Passengers, recently, I did more research and found this segment of an interview with the Norwegian director about Passengers.

Can we talk about your apparent love for Kubrick because when I watched Passengers I could tell that Kubrick was a huge influence. Was Passengers the film where you thought to yourself: I have this big Kubrickian itch I have to scratch and this is my opportunity?Definitely. [laughs] There’s a few Easter eggs for Kubrick fans where they can see very specific set elements from at least three Kubrick movies. I said, “I want, not just to be inspired by it, but I want THAT.” These specific things will be popping up in my movie so people can find it for themselves.
In every Kubrick movie, the set and surrounding are like a character in itself. The Shining, of course, is a big example but also in 2001 [with] the space station. Every detail in the sets is such an important part of the story. I felt that the spaceship Avalon is a character in itself. The way that Kubrick treats the sets and how the character is put in its surroundings is something I was very inspired by when I was doing Passengers. It felt very natural to do a literal tribute to him. It’s also fun because our production designer (Guy Hendrix Dyas) is also a big Kubrick fan and it was fun to put those little Easter eggs in there and sprinkle them in the movie.
Can I ask what the third Kubrick movie is?Nope!

Sure, there's another Kubrick created "egg" in there. But I found more.

The deeper Michael Sheen -> Meyrick Sheen -> Jack Nicholson overlap was a complete surprise to me. It might be such a subtle one that only certain Kubrick scholars and the Sheen family have reflected on it.

For the reader, I hope you find these "two Jacks" a unique (minor) discovery, as this science of Cryptokubrology establishes itself.

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A couple notes:
Very interestingly, Chris Pratt's birthday of 6/21/79 came exactly one day (24 hrs) before the general release of Alien, which is the film from which the 2037 screenshot in my Twitter banner was taken.
Jack Nicholson was born on 4/22/37... which you can spread out to find 42 - 237.
From Nicholson's birthday to the birthday of Michael Sheen, who plays the Lloyd-copy, is exactly 1659 weeks.
1659 = 237 x 7
Nicholson was born 42 years, 2 months before Chris Pratt & the general release of Alien.
& on and on it goes!
I have yet to see Passengers, but these C-K studies have proven to me that much of these strange connectors are entirely subliminal... the filmmakers may know they are referencing Kubrick, but may not truly understand WHY they are doing so, or how deeply the connections run. Kubrick has somehow subliminally affected the entire history of cinema, backwards & forwards. Maybe History too...
Best,
Alex Fulton

Bonjour. 

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