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By Robert W. Sullivan IV

Have you puzzled why 007 is James Bond's numerical designation? Or the place the identify Luke Skywalker comes from? How approximately all these tremendous faces that move judgment on normal Zod and his lieutenants at the start of 1978's Superman? What's at the back of the symbolism of all these mirrors in Black Swan?

Cinema Symbolism: A advisor to Esoteric Imagery in renowned videos solutions those questions; it's approximately occult, numerological, astrological, mythological, alchemical, Tarot, and kabbalistic iconography and symbolism contained inside renowned video clips. motion pictures analyzed contain The Exorcist, again to the long run, megastar Wars (Episodes I-VI), The Lord of the jewelry, The Wizard of oz., Black Swan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the James Bond videos, and The Matrix between many others.

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