Jesus, no, that’s not even remotely accurate. It’s been more than a century since the terms “Watsonian” and “Doylist” were coined, it’s astounding that people still don’t understand this very basic way people interact with popular media.
People don’t make up elaborate head canons because they think creatives “can’t make a mistake” (Seriously, have you ever actually met a Star Wars fan? There is no group of people on Earth who are more critical of George Lucas’s skills as a movie maker than Star Wars fans.) They make up these elaborate head canons because papering over obvious errors in the original work is fun. Everyone understands that Doyle just fucked up when he gave Watson two different first names in his Sherlock Holmes stories, but it’s entertaining to try to find a way to justify it in the text, as if it were intentional.
Blade Runner is an anti-union film because it depicts how due to American unionization efforts in the 1970s the United States slowly becomes more and more non-competitive in the global markets so by 2019 all American companies have been bought out by foreign competitors.
But what people miss is that these two men are shown as very close friends- but they dont call each other by their first names. Now back in that day, you didnt call anyone but close friends or relatives by their first names- or maybe servants. But Holmes and Watson should. Unless they arent really friends.
The last-named isn’t about drugs, either. The “monkey,” according to Lennon, is Yoko Ono. She is his “monkey” and he is hers. OK, he was no doubt on drugs when he wrote it, but that doesn’t make it about drugs.
For that matter, “Hey Jude” isn’t about shooting heroin (“so let it out and let it in”). And while we’re at it, Paul ain’t dead. (Speaking of insane interpretations, in 1970 Batman and Robin confronted the mystery only to find that “Saul Cartwright” was the only survivor when the other three died, and they came up with the fake story about “Saul”'s death to cover it up.)
It’s mostly about shit they heard Maharishi Mahesh Yogi say, during the brief period where they glommed on to that “spiritual teacher”/cult leader. “Accept your joy,” and “Every body’s got something to hide,” were direct quotes from him. (Although the bit about the monkey was, as you note, from Lennon.)
I was arguing (while stoned, yes, what of it?) that Glenda was the true villian in The Wizard of Oz back in the 90s. Shoulda just wrote a book about it. Dammit.
A decade later, my brother was a college radio DJ, and one night, he worked the midnight to 6am shift AS A VOLUNTEER, because they needed it covered or they would have had to go off the air, and he got out all the foulest, filthiest, most offensive things they had in the stacks, because the FCC regulations didn’t apply during those hours.
…that’s reductive. Her coloring throughout is white/blue/pink motifs matching the trans flag. She has a “Protect Trans Kids” poster in her room and the nature of her strained relationship with her father resonated with people in the queer community. So it’s not “insane” it’s just an interpretation that hasn’t been denied or confirmed.
I believe this as well and would never use a transporter.
I’m not sure if the assertion that Pink Floyd’s Dark side of the Moon matches The Wizard of Oz is insane or not.
I mean, they claim it is. But it totally does match up. Sure, there was LSD involved last time I checked, but even the title, as an allusion to Oz: Dark Side of the Moon - c‘mon!
You hear pigs oinking when she falls into the pig sty! When Glenda appears, you get the line about “do goody good bullshit.” Money starts as soon as Dorothy opens the door and the screen turns to color. Those munchkins marching in tune.
I’ve been told I’m insane for saying it matches, but it’s well done nonetheless.
I get the fun of trying to make stories hang together - I had six books on the chronology of the Holmes stories at one point. After the first six books, though, people either have to totally steal from the earlier theories or go on to insane stuff that nobody else would think of.
The Baker Street Journal was the mystery genre’ first major fanzine, started in the 1940s, populated by scores of big name writers. By the 1960s they were running bilge, shoving Bond and Batman into the stories.
But my favorite was postulated by some doctor in the 1950s, and later taken up by William S. Baring-Gould, who had his own, shall we say idiocentric, version of the chronology. His brainstorm revealed that Nero Wolfe was the son of Holmes and Irene Adler, conceived during Holmes’ three missing years. Wolfe was a spitting image of Mycroft so he had the genes, etc. etc. And the proof of it became the great O-E theory. The vowels in Sherlock Holmes are e-o and o-e. The vowels in Nero Wolfe are - wait for it - are e-o and o-e. Q.E. -there’s that vowel again - D. O, yeah.
I’ve met numerous people who thought Indiana Jones became immortal at the end of The Last Crusade because he drank from the Grail.
This was much more prevalent when the 3 movies were the only ones. It made no sense, though. It was clear you had to keep drinking from the cup to stay alive and that, of course, the cup can not pass the great seal.