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SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES: PROGRAMMING YOURSELF TO RESIST PROGRAMMING
SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES: PROGRAMMING YOURSELF TO RESIST PROGRAMMING
by Mr. Lobo
(Outerspace International / Cinema Insomnia)
Some deny that there are subliminal messages anymore. THIRSTY. Supposedly it’s banned in the UK and the United States, right? THIRSTY. It really doesn’t work anyway, right? THIRSTY. They did that stuff in the 50’s and it’s banned people will assure you. THIRSTY.
Subliminal means literally “below the threshold”of conscious perception. Parts of the brain are activated without the subject being aware by very fast or masked visual and audio stimuli.
To capitalize on the topic of subliminal messages and the deep fear that the CIA wanted us to eat more popcorn, a film called TERROR IN A HAUNTED HOUSE(1958) was the first to use a technique they called PYCHORAMA followed by A DATE WITH DEATH(1959). Funny, poorly illustrated ghoul faces flashed on the screen(lingering a bit too long to be subliminal for the attentive viewer) to induce horror. There was a snake supposedly to make us hate, hearts to inspire love, and the words “blood” to creep us out.
In the film Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO(1960), during a dissolve near the end of the film Norman Bates face is subtly superimposed with a skull.
The Words SCREAM and MURDER were allegedly in the original shower sequence. This film effected movie goers deeply and generations of people developed a fear of showers.
THE EXORCIST(1973) used subliminal stimuli to scare and disturb deeper than ever before. The face of Father Karras becomes a full-screen death mask for two frames, A Demon face and the word PIG are hidden throughout the movie. Squeals of slaughtered pigs and the buzzing of aggravated bees were supposedly mixed subtly into the sound track.
DISNEY came under fire for the discovery of an erect penis in the castle behind THE LITTLE MERMAID(1989) of the VHS clam-shell box art. The video was recalled but calls attention to the fact there are skulls, devil horns, and sexual innuendo hidden in many DISNEY projects. This could be chalked up to a lot of bored underpaid overworked artists with passive aggressive axes to grind.
Famously in FIGHT CLUB(1999) Tyler Durden (unnamed in the film) splices images of pornography into family movies that play at the movie theater where he works. And in the larger film we are experiencing is laden with flashes of subliminal imagery and clues. At the end of the film Tyler plants controlled explosives to implode all New York’s bank buildings to reboot the economy by cancelling all the debts. Supposedly this Symbolized the Freemason and The Illuminati plan to erase their debts with the events of 911. But let’s drop this as the first rule about FIGHT CLUB is to not talk about FIGHT CLUB.
Conspiracy Theorists can supply you endless 911 references found in pop culture leading up to the event in everything from THE SIMPSONS, to the 2001 trailer for SPIDERMAN(2002), to the X-FILES spin off THE LONE GUNMEN. I’m not here to discuss the value of subliminally warning or preparing us for that event. It obviously didn’t make a difference.
Studies suggest that subliminal messages have an effect when the messages are goal-related. Planting the “Coca-Cola” logo in your brain does not make you thirsty. But if you are thirsty you might be very well choose that brand. I always find it funny how violently righteous people are when they’re faced with a brand of sugar-water that’s not in accord with their programing. “Pepsi? Blechh! I ONLY drink COKE! C’mon, Ethyl, let’s leave!” There is less that one percent difference in the two beverages and they are identical in color and contain practically identical ingredients. Orange Rind Vs. Lime Rind is the biggest difference and subtle disparity of Sweetness Vs. Carbonation.
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