Symbolic Communication in Paul Simon's You Can Call Me Al with Chevy Chase & Kubrick's The Shining
For years people told me I looked and acted a bit like Chevy Chase. I never gave it much thought. I'm now 44 and I started developing a fascination with the symbolism in Paul Simon's video for You Can Call Me Al directed by Gary Weis (Wholly Moses). It seems like a basic video but if you pay attention to color coding, themes of maternity/paternity, palindromes and back masking, there is clearly much more going on.
Symbolism
Maternity/Paternity - Pink Room - Light Blue Shirt - Dark Blue Shirt
Trumpet - Gabriel's Horn
Penny Whistle - Glass of Water Breaks
Red Drum - Stanley Kubrick's The Shining "redrum"
The song is 4:40 long
It charted to #44 on the charts.
Again, I'm 44 as of this production
I did a story on an esoteric angle in Fontana, CA that runs 44.66 degrees. Strange coincidences. More 44's in the mix too.
Synchronicity events have meaning.
You Can Call Me Al - Official Video
History behind the making of the song/video - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can_Call_Me_Al
The Shining - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)
Gabriel's Horn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_Horn
Penny Whistle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_whistle
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