Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Manhunter analysis - part 33: Another reference to games of chance

CATEGORY: MOVIES



Above left: The images on Dollarhyde's TV set are 'rolling over', due to the vertical hold being out of adjustment. Above right: A slot machine in action. [Image: Slot Machine, by Jeff Kubina from the milky way galaxy, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.]


In part 27 of the analysis, we went into a fair amount of detail on references to randomness and games of chance in Manhunter. Yet another reference to games of chance is made in a scene in Dollarhyde's house, in which the image showing on his TV set's screen looks like it's composed of several identical columns consisting of smaller images, and the entire screen image is 'flipping over' rapidly in the upward (vertical) direction, presumably due to the 'vertical hold' adjustment of the TV not being set properly; all these columns 'rolling over' continuously are reminiscent of a slot machine in action, as shown in the above screencaps.


      

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