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Robert Sullivan | Cinema Symbolism & The Esoteric Archetypes of Hollywood
Native American Allegories in The Wizard of Oz and The Shining
The flying monkeys in L. Frank Baum's original text are identified as symbols for Native Americans who were displaced from their ancestral lands. Robert W. Sullivan IV connects this to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, where the Overlook Hotel is famously built on an Indian burial ground. Both stories are interpreted as allegories for the United States' history of marginalizing indigenous populations.