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REDRUM ROAD – SKIP TO A PAGE
INTRO ⎔ SGT. PEPPER CONNECTION ⎔ BURIED ALBUM COVERS
OTHER BEATLES CONNECTIONS ⎔ PREAMBLE ⎔ REDRUM ROAD
For the sake of you not thinking I’m a total lunatic, imagine that everything I’m pointing out here is in the spirit of just seeing what I could see, which honestly always was my approach. Of all my theories, this is the one I was the most playful with, because I really have little-to-no skin in the game. At times it’s going to seem like there couldn’t possibly be that much intentional interconnection between the album and the film, but, you know, make your own Redrum Road and see for yourself!
Also, general note: I’m going to try to avoid any thorough explanation of the myriad connections that can be drawn strictly by looking at what I call the mirrorform version. That analysis was done already.
Damn, I have to make one last preamble.
So, I did a watchthrough of Redrum Road within a month of starting this project. I had between 5-10 notes per song. Then, around 8 months later I did the vastly more thorough version you’re about to read, and I discovered something kind of mind-boggling. It now seems that you can draw dramatic connections on an almost moment-to-moment basis between what I’m calling the three “rounds” of Abbey Road. Somewhere around the middle of round 2 (which is the middle of the movie proper), I started to notice how very similar visuals were occurring during the same moments of the same songs. This caused me (during round 3 especially) to start bouncing across the different rounds of the film to see how often this effect occurred, and it gets…nuts.
So, this has become something of a dual study. For the better part of round 1 and 2 we’ll mainly be looking at how the music interacts with the film, and then, increasingly, we’ll look at how the film becomes something like dramatic origami, with the three (mirrorform) iterations acting as mirrors of one another. If you want, you could open up rounds 2 and 3 in separate windows, and read through all three at the same time to get the fuller sense of how each part of the mirrorform correlates. If you don’t feel like boggling your own mind, I’ve gone to some length to point out dramatic hat tricks throughout, without doing a proper analysis of combing through a thrice overlaid mirrorform analysis.
Enjoy!
Click here to continue to Redrum Road: Come Together – Round 1
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OTHER MAIN PAGES FOR SHINING ANALYSIS
THE MIRRORFORM ⎔ THE BEATLES ⎔ THE RUM AND THE RED
BACKGROUND ART ⎔ OVERLOOK PHOTOGRAPHS ⎔ GOLDEN SPIRALS
PHI GRIDS ⎔ PATTERNS ⎔ VIOLENCE AND INDIGENA ⎔ ABSURDITIES
THE STORY ROOM ⎔ ANIMAL SYMBOLS ⎔ THE ANNOTATED SHINING
EYE SCREAM 