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REDRUM ROAD CROSS ANALYSIS
There’s a potential for this to get more complex than it needs to be, so I’ll strive for concision.
As we’ve discussed, there’s numerous instances of single photos or even a couple photos switching with other photos between shots, right? Well, there’s two major (what I’m calling) facial rearrangements that happen on the western pillars in the lobby.
The major one is on the south-facing surface of the northern west pillar. This surface is only seen twice: once during the Abbey Road Tour while Wendy’s saying “My god! This place is fantastic, isn’t it, hon?” And once when she’s coming to fight Jack with the bat. In this instance (seen in the upper part of the below graphic), is shot so closely that you have to stitch two shots together, as I’ve done here, to get all the shots on one image. And as you can see, only three images repeat between the rearrangements, and they seem to form a little pyramid (for some reason–possibly no reason).
The second facial rearrangement is between what we see on the southern pillar generally, and what we see in the close-up of it, as Jack’s creeping out at Wendy. The colours below are simply intended to show where these images repeat. But as you can see, the six that repeat from the wall itself include one that doesn’t move (yellow), two that invert with each other (orange and purple), one that moves within the same grouping (green), and two that come in from outside this grouping (red and blue). Also, yellow and green are F21 photos (5 and 20, respectively).
So why would these pieces move in this particular way? I have no idea.
The mystery deepens tenfold when we consider how the south-facing part of the north pillar factors. As you can see, every square when Wendy comes to fight has a double somewhere on the east-facing sides of the west pillars. In terms of the southern pillar, there’s a double for each one except the red box on the south-facer, and the 4-value on the southern pillar. Also, the entire bottom row between the south-facer and the southern pillar are aligned exactly the same. Of the nine that repeat from the upper two rows, none are in the same position as before. And none of the bottom row were used in the Creeper Jack rearrangement, so it’s possible these matters are connected.
I’ve also shown how the Abbey Road Tour south-facer repeats on the east-facing part of the northern pillar, and you might notice that there’s four that repeat, and one that only repeats with the other side, and this happens to be Ullman’s Upper Eye (dark teal box).
Anyway, I’ve tried analyzing this a bunch of different ways, and have come up with nothing much, so if you think of something before I do, drop me a line.
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