The MacGregor’s Agonizing War (Part 5)

The Deaths in 2018 site lists under July 4:

Robby Müller, 78, Dutch cinematographer (Paris, Texas; Dancer in the Dark; Dead Man).

Note from his wiki page:

Robby Müller (4 April 1940 – 4 July 2018)  

I see the beginning of a cluster— an “April 4, __, __, July 4/ 4th Day, Month Sequence” pattern-cluster.  Two of his films were released during years containing 3 identical numbers at the end (in keeping with the inner twin worlds tendency for generating clusters in groups):

2000

Dancer in the Dark

Lars von Trier

Nominated for: Robert Award for Best Cinematography

1999

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Jim Jarmusch

 So we have a “Robert/Robby” pattern-cluster... and my previous post involving Rob MacGregor makes 3.  Note from the awards wiki page:

...named after the statuette's creator, the Danish sculptor Robert Jacobsen

Robert Julius Tommy Jacobsen (4 June 1912 – 26 January 1993)

And so the cluster expands into an “April 4, __, June 4, July 4/ 4th Day, Month Sequence” pattern-cluster.   Note the Release dates of the two films, Ghost Dog and Dancer in the Dark respectively:

Release date	May 18, 1999

Release date	17 May 2000

The dates not only form a sequence cluster, it also connects to the following from my previous post:

• Jean Fautrier (May 16, 1898 – July 21, 1964)

As you can see, Rob MacGregor was born on  Fautrier’s birthday!!  And so the cluster expands:

• “May 12, ..., 15, 16(x2), 17, ..., 21/ Date Sequence” pattern-cluster

The film Release Dates are additions to the cluster, expanding it now into a “May 12, ..., 15, 16(x2), 17(x2), 18, ..., 21/ Date Sequence” pattern-cluster.

On perusing the list of cast from both films, I looked to see if there’s a Robert, butt there were none... or so I thought until I investigated wiki page of one of the actors, RZA (as samurai in camouflage):

Robert Fitzgerald Diggs (born July 5, 1969) known by his stage name RZA

And so we have our “4th” Robert ... that jives with the “4th Day” theme.  And note his birthday is TOMORROW... and so an addition to the “Timely” pattern-cluster.  As well his surname is an addition to the recent “Remove a Letter Makes a Word” pattern-cluster, as in remove a “g” makes “digs”.

On perusing the list of cast, two (one from each film ) also stands out given their birthdays :

John J. Tormey  (born August 4, 1937)
Vincent Paterson (born May 4) 

And so the cluster expands again:  

“April 4, May 4, June 4, July 4, August 4/ 4th Day, Month Sequence” pattern-cluster

Three other of the films cast  stand out:

• Gary Dale Farmer  (born June 12, 1953)as Nobody
• Stellan John Skarsgård ( born 13 June 1951)  
• Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm (born 27 August 1953)
• Jean-Marc Barr (born 27 September 1960) 

For one, my birthday is June 13... my stepgranddaughter’s birthday is June 12, and President Trump’s birthday is June 14, and so we have a “June 12(x2), 13(x2), 14/ Date Sequence” pattern-cluster.  As for the last two, their birthdays also generate a cluster, and note from my recent July 2 post:

  “August 27(x2), 28(x2), 29, 30(x2), 31/Date Sequence” pattern cluster. 

And so the cluste expands and we also have a new one:

•   “August 27(x3), 28(x2), 29, 30(x2), 31/Date Sequence” pattern cluster. 
•    “__, August 27(x3),  September 27, __/ 27th Day, Month Sequence” pattern-cluster.  

And since the title of two of other  films stands out, Dead Man, and  Breaking the Waves ,  I looked for Robert’s there and found four... in three:

• Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955)
• Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) 
• Robert Robertson (3 July 1930 – 17 January 2001)  

And so one cluster expands and a new one begins:

•  “April 4, May 4, June 4, July 4, August 4(x2)/ 4th Day, Month Sequence” pattern-cluster
• “August 4, __, 6/ Date Sequence” pattern-cluster. 

And Robert Robertson’s day of birth is another addition to the “Timely” ... and “Off By One” pattern-cluster.