by Charles Schultz
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I imagine Kubrick had respect for the apparent genius of Schultz (I was never a fan of the strip, though I am a big fan of the strip’s heir apparent Calvin & Hobbes, so I sympathize), but I wonder if his work was invoked here for the “Woodstock” signal this character would send into the minds of watchers. Woodstock the music festival was in the summer of 1969, which, as elsewhere discussed, is when a lot of other things invoked by the film (the Apollo 11 mission, the break-up of the Beatles, Easy Rider) occurred.
Also, while I’m no expert on the series, I do know about the running gag where Lucy removes the football to Charlie Brown’s chagrin. This image of predictable, repeating failure, and the cruel, petty spite of a ruthless young girl is similar to the film’s ideas about how repetition and infinite cycles leads to madness, and Lucy van Pelt bears a resemblance to the Grady twins, themselves daughters of a Charles.
Next literary reference: Golf Like the Greats
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