A Very Goofy Puppet

This is a short video on the Shining. This part focuses on the wardrobe of Wendy in the apartment scene.
Some people believe that Wendy looks like or purposely dressed like, Goofy, the puppet doll in Danny’s bedroom. Others seemed to believe the wardrobe is just a coincidence.
I found a few images of the 1960’s Goofy puppet and there is something about the original doll that’s worth noting.
Please drop a comment and let us know your thoughts on this.

[@hermanhale9258]

3:18 Goofy, giving little kids nightmares.

[@rileyscottkramer]

4351-700 copyright number for Goofy, 70's standard hat and afro wig. The number is shown in The Extremely Goofy Movie.

[@theobjectofart]

How did I miss this? KZbin is hiding all the good stuff from me. Of course you know how I feel. IMO, definitely yes, Wendy is styled to very closely resemble the Goofy puppet doll. Heck, Shelly Duvall might have even been chosen for the role because of her teeth.

[@tankardoftales4645]

I agree with that thought.

[@Gershom.]

Great work, both of you! Shelly was undoubtedly cast as Wendy for a number of reasons: her teeth, her eyes, her name (Shelly: egg shells and related ideas, exterior/interior; Duvall: sounds like double or devil), her at times vacant looking model face, model faces I recently heard one psychologist describe as essentially giving trauma face.

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@Gershom. Thanks. Wait till you check out my Shining Inspiration video.

[@Gershom.]

I will check it out!

[@hermanhale9258]

Meaning of the teddy bear in The Shining theory: Fell asleep watching Eyes Wide Shut playing (on automatic replay) against a dvd of old movies and tv shows recorded twenty years ago. Woke up this morning and EWS was at the scene where Alice is on the couch, tearful, looking like a wreck. On the other screen, Minnie in Rosemary's Baby was yelling "Hi!" and sticking her head out the door, with her hair in curlers. (Both women looking "a fright", you might say). OK, I go with the "Helena kidnapped" theory and based on me being in a half dream state, and the dialogue in Rosemary's Baby playing over the video in Eyes Wide Shut, I conclude that the giant teddy bear symbol that Kubrick uses in The Shining represents - and I hate to even think this or type this - the giant Teddy Bear represents the drugged kid used by the weird sex cults of New York and other places found in Kubrick movies. So, in Danny's case, that bear in the doctor exam scene represents what happened to Danny. And the many bears in the toy store scene in EWS represent what is going to happen to Helena. I am not going to comment any more on this, as it is very sad and horrible to "go there." However, all the things Minnie is saying in Rosemary's Baby seem to go along with what WOULD be happening to Helena IF she was being kidnapped by a cult of maniacs as her parents talk things over and don't watch her. Things Minnie mentions: Christmas shopping, do you feel okay?, Meet Dr. Shand (Dr. Shand is driving the car when Rosemary is caught trying to escape from the cult, and they take her home, but he is mentioned earlier, at a New Year's party. Helena in the toy store scene would be taken away in a car at this point, if we could see her.)

[@tankardoftales4645]

Sexual abuse is creepy stuff. I believe Kubrick wanted a silent story of sexual abuse hinted in his story but he didn't want it to be the story. It's very dark stuff and evil. When I was introduced to the Wendy Theory I spent a lot of time looking at the apartment scene. If Wendy is crazy we would see it in this scene. And there is a lot of stuff happening. It makes me question the existence of the Doctor and Danny.

[@hermanhale9258]

@@tankardoftales4645That is so mind bending. It's beyond "Images" in strangeness. You could have taught Altman some things. Ha-ha.

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@hermanhale9258 I've watching Manchurian Candidate 1962. Story is somewhat told by an unreliable narrator. I have a sneaky suspension that all the soldiers are sleeper agents and Angela Lansbury is not the guys mother. I did buy the book and had not got into it. Something about the tea garden scene dont make sense to my... I'll be working on the video sometime after Easter.

[@hermanhale9258]

@@tankardoftales4645 I have seen that movie a couple of times, but I never paid enough attention to know exactly what was supposed to be going on. There are a couple of old mind control movies from that era, and none of them make sense to me. I never did find my copy of Dr. Strangelove. Are you still working on that one?

[@hermanhale9258]

@@tankardoftales4645 Ha, I just read the wikipedia article for M.C. Very complicated plot. Not very believable. The interesting thing is that the movie and others like it taught Americans to think that this kind of assassin could be real.

[@richlinlaw]

She's definitely goofy. In other words, unreliable. In other words, what she has to say to the doctor is not reliable. Like the main character Holden caulfield in catcher in the rye, we cannot necessarily trust this goofy lady.

[@richlinlaw]

And the strings of the puppet hang from books. Books pull the strings. Everyone from crazy Bible thumpers to science fiction. Nuts to legalistic lawyers. We are quite driven by books or in other words we are captivated by ideas. It's ideas that move people and possess them. Like the Bible says. Principalities. So therefore Wendy, if she is like her doll double, has her strings pulled by books. Pretty obvious when you look around her apartment. One could say she has been possessed by or driven. Crazy by the influence of these books. Extreme overthink. Confirmed Horror and ghost story addict. One could say she's an art aficionado lol hello object of art. Nice video tank

[@richlinlaw]

As far as ideas driving people... How do you think they built the pyramids? Probably more important than the technique is what belief system supported the construction.