Numerology and the entertainment industry?
March 8, 2010 12:38 AM Subscribe
Is everyone in the entertainment industry a freakin numerologist?
Aside from the release of "The Number 23", it seems like every film, album and video game release date is somehow numerologically derived. I've been watching a lot of Robert Zemeckis movies and all sorts of numbers are popping out. I just started getting into numerology and am convinced that in the world of film, music and videogames, there are no accidents. What do you think? I already think i'm right, I just need someone to agree and tell me more.
p.s. does Scientology have much to do with numerology?
Aside from the release of "The Number 23", it seems like every film, album and video game release date is somehow numerologically derived. I've been watching a lot of Robert Zemeckis movies and all sorts of numbers are popping out. I just started getting into numerology and am convinced that in the world of film, music and videogames, there are no accidents. What do you think? I already think i'm right, I just need someone to agree and tell me more.
p.s. does Scientology have much to do with numerology?
This post was deleted for the following reason: the obvious answer is "no" and it doesn't look like there's a way to get at a more complex answer here. -- jessamyn
I just started getting into numerology and am convinced that in the world of film, music and videogames, there are no accidents. What do you think? I already think i'm right, I just need someone to agree and tell me more.
I think that this is odd and not a good question for AskMe.
posted by fixedgear at 1:47 AM on March 8, 2010 [2 favorites]
I think that this is odd and not a good question for AskMe.
posted by fixedgear at 1:47 AM on March 8, 2010 [2 favorites]
Best answer: 1. No, everyone in the entertainment industry isn't a numerologist. Everyone in the entertainment industry likes gimmicks, marketing hooks that catch somebody's attention for a few scant seconds so that they can be force-fed a trailer or advertisement of some kind. Numerology is a particularly popular gimmick at the moment. Other gimmicks include serial killers, sex, lurid crimes, inspirationalism, and slapstick humor. All of these things feature prominently in many films, and go through periods of being more or less popular in the films of the day. And all of them are always front-and-center in the film's trailer or other advertisement, because they, the gimmicks, exist primarily to draw the public's interest to the film in order to convince them it's worth wasting ten dollars on.
2. As a person who has a morbid fascination with Scientology – I've just finished reading Hubbard's Scientology 8-80 from 1952, it was a real doozy, let me tell you – I can say that Scientology has absolutely nothing to do with numerology. Scientology has all kinds of cool charts connecting made-up terms with nonsense images and "visualizations," but mathematics doesn't enter into it at all, almost certainly because L Ron Hubbard was shit with numbers and couldn't have found a square root to save his life.
posted by koeselitz at 2:21 AM on March 8, 2010 [4 favorites]
2. As a person who has a morbid fascination with Scientology – I've just finished reading Hubbard's Scientology 8-80 from 1952, it was a real doozy, let me tell you – I can say that Scientology has absolutely nothing to do with numerology. Scientology has all kinds of cool charts connecting made-up terms with nonsense images and "visualizations," but mathematics doesn't enter into it at all, almost certainly because L Ron Hubbard was shit with numbers and couldn't have found a square root to save his life.
posted by koeselitz at 2:21 AM on March 8, 2010 [4 favorites]
Response by poster: koeselitz, you're absolutely right about gimmicks. word ass word.
posted by defmute at 3:54 AM on March 8, 2010
posted by defmute at 3:54 AM on March 8, 2010
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PS: Confirmation bias.
posted by mollymayhem at 12:42 AM on March 8, 2010 [1 favorite]