AKA The Man from O.R.G.Y. #4, by Ted Mark
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(Pre-amble: This is my most recent decoding, as of September 2019, after all the analyses have been written and edited. So if there are analyses around the site talking about James Bond, this will likely be missing from them.)
And speaking of James Bond, here we have the man from O.R.G.Y. himself, Steve Victor, in his fourth outing, Dr. Nyet, in which Victor most stop a heinous anti-pornography campaign bent on world domination. Thanks to this reader review (who might be slightly missing the point of this Bond/Man From U.N.C.L.E. spoof) we know that the book contains multiple rapes, gang rapes, general violence against women, and bestiality. It’s the bestiality part that most intrigues me, since it’s only 236 seconds (pretty close to 237…) between the disappearance of the BJ bear and the “appearance” (you could never make it out from the angle it’s first on) of Dr. Nyet in the doctor scene. And in between those two scenes is a whole lot of Danny laying on this very similar bear pillow (oh wow, the two spaces where there’s no BJ bear (32 sec) or bear pillow (10 sec) add up to 42 seconds).
Those who’ve read my section on Conquest, know I connect these bears to Wendy, so I would read this book as revealing Wendy’s literary interest. The presence of this book in this room extends the Wendy-bear-incest theme across 379 (nearly continuous) seconds of screen time (unless there’s something on the Suite 3 book shelf I don’t know about).
“Dr. Nyet” (“Nyet” being the English way of spelling “No” in Russian) seems like a fairly on-the-nose parody of Ian Fleming’s Dr. No, which was made into the first official Bond movie, with Sean Connery, Diane Cilento’s temporary squeeze (incidentally, did you know the German-Chinese No’s first name…is Julius?). I don’t know if the inclusion of Dr. Nyet is an invitation to study Dr. No in equal measure (having a book dedicated to Sean Connery three jumps above seems like an affirmation, as does the inclusion of Barry Nelson in the film), but I did think it was interesting that the inclusion of everyday brand products as a way to create a heightened sense of realism was called “the Fleming effect“. I think Kubrick would’ve appreciated that. So you have a reference to the first official Bond film, and Barry Nelson was the actual first person to ever play Bond. That’s a nice subtle twin effect.
As for the general invocation of Bond, I can’t find evidence that Kubrick had strong feelings for the philandering male ego fantasy, but my suspicion is he might not’ve been a fan (the Cilento novel feels like an indictment, not to mention Dr. Nyet being a perverse, crass parody, that probably highlights the absurdity of Fleming’s creation); the closest thing on his love list to anything like Bond is a single film, 1971’s Get Carter.
Returning to novelist Ted Mark, he wrote the screenplay for a single film based on his series, The Man from O.R.G.Y., which tanked at the box office, wiping out his hopes for a future in show biz. Steve Victor was played by Robert Walker Jr., who has two giant, fascinating connections to The Shining‘s subtext: 1) he appeared as “Jack” (a commune hippie) in Easy Rider, and 2) he starred as Edgar Allen Poe in The Spectre of Edgar Allen Poe (in which he looks like a cross between Robert Pattison and Peter Dinklage). I might also point out that he was the star of Road to Salina, which was heavily referenced in Kill Bill, Vol. 2, as we’ll discuss in the QT cross-comparison.
Next literary reference: Tiger of the Snows
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