User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining and Room 237/@comment-26030957-20160515035249

All right, I have my very own Shining theory that I am going to reveal here for the first time ever.

In the King novel Jack drives a red VW bug (the same color VW King himself drove). Yet in the film he drives a yellow one. This has been pointed out by other Shinologists with theories about the crushed red VW seen by Holloran in the blizzard being a reference to King, or the fact that the snow cat was yellow in the book but red in the film, a weird reversal.

But I have another theory as to why the film opens with a yellow VW driving through the Rockies.

Notorious serial killer, rapist, and necrophile Ted Bundy not only drove a yellow VW bug, but hunted the mountains of Colorado, killed there, and even managed to escape from jail there twice to continue his mad and murderous ways.

It seems to me that in 1979 the image of a yellow VW bug winding its way through the Rockies would be a terrifying image for many, especially since Bundy's highly publicized and televized trial had only recently ended.

Kubrick was a stickler for detail and personally approved every tiny detail of the film, this seems like a very logical and creepy reason to make the bug yellow not red.

Well, what do you all think of my personal Shinologist theory?