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Originally Posted by Sculpt
This really cracked me up!
It's an excellent concept and design! I think the rug is what gets me to laugh (in contrast to the axe wielding Jack).
I wonder if the design would have been even better with the "N" door having a larger, more jagged crack, which would make both the "N" and reference more pronounced, and I think more visually interesting. I love subtlety, but not for subtleties sake; plus a the movie poster medium favors immediate visual realization (even if it's subconscious, it's easily visually captured).
Would also be interesting with the "N" being the elevator doors opening, with the blood splurge creating the "N" triangles. But then you'd lose the axe connection.
The skull maze, typed page, and wolf in the map, are great ideas and designs! It'd be interesting to see the maze (of the skull maze) match the carpet design more inside the skull, and then have the skull look more evil and deranged. I like the figure in the maze, but might as well make it more related and menacing by either giving it an axe, or put it in the ending frozen pose. |
I might be forgetting something, but I'm not getting the subtle reference with the N door. I figured it was a reference the the door to room 237 which isn't all that subtle. The fact that the N is backwards makes me think of the backwards R in REDRUM, but that's not terribly obvious. Are you thinking it might be a reference to the chopped down door and "Here's Johnny" moment? (I guess because of the crack, although I'm not seeing the crack.)
Yeah I love that carpet design. Such a great scene with Danny on the Big Wheel. Brilliant choice by Kubrick to take advantage of the environment he's filming in.