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Bali, Indonesia, an island where rock musician David Bowie (1947-2016) chose to have his ashes scattered may be shown as a predictive easter egg in the 1978 sci-fi horror film remake Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.

- At the 36 minute 29 second mark Jeff Goldblum's character returns to the Bellicec spa which he and his wife (Veronica Cartwright) operate. There, a sign on the left side of the screen mentions the spa offers Volcanic Ash Mud Baths. Later, you can see the patrons in the baths and one is reading the book Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky. I thought the volcanic reference a possible nod to Bali, an island which hosts many resorts and active volcanoes (Mount Agung made news in 2017 when it began erupting).
- The appearance of Worlds In Collision may be taken as a homophone reference linking "Ball" (ie: the planets are generally considered to be round in shape) to "Bali".

There are major links to Bowie through the cast of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers:
- Jeff Goldblum was later in the John Landis-directed Into The Night (1985) with the "Space Oddity" singer, who plays a gangster.
- In 1984 Goldblum acted in sci-fi adventure The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Actor Lewis Smith was in this cast and would later play Bowie's alien character in a 1987 TV remake of The Man Who Fell To Earth. Bruce McGill (who was an Elvis impersonator in Into The Night) had a part in this.
- Veronica Cartwright was previously in Ridley Scott's 1979 science fiction horror film Alien. Scott had worked with Bowie in a 1969 TV advert for Luv Ice Cream.
- Brooke Adams (Body Snatchers) has some connections to Bowie. She was in the 1983 Stephen King-based horror film The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken.
- Bowie starred in the 1983 movie adaptation of author Whitley Strieber's The Hunger.
- Walken played author (Strieber) in a reality-based account of alien abduction in Communion (1989).
- Bowie was signed to play the villain Zorin in the 1986 James Bond spy film A View To A Kill but withdrew (Christopher Walken eventually played this part).
- Actor Andreas Katsulas played a recurring alien, the Romulan (cousins of the Vulcans), Tomalak in several episodes of the Star Trek The Next Generation (1987+) TV series.
- Leonard Nimoy, who played the psychiatrist and author in "Body Snatchers", was well know for playing the alien Vulcan Spock in Star Trek.

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00:00We're talking about knowledge of the future in movies, YouTube channel, Easter Egg Psychic,
00:06possible Easter Egg to the final resting place of rock musician David Bowie.
00:12And you can see this in the 1978 science fiction horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
00:20This was a remake of the 56 version with Kevin McCarthy, Dana Winter, and Carolyn Jones.
00:27The cast included Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright.
00:35So Bowie, known for his album Space Oddity in 1969, his alter ego such as Ziggy Stardust,
00:43his songs including Let's Dance and Under Pressure.
00:47Bowie was an actor, also an appeared in movies such as The Man Who Fell to Earth in 1976,
00:54directed by Nicholas Roig, and he was in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige in 2006 with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale.
01:03David Bowie died in 2016, and his ashes were scattered in a ceremony in Bali, Indonesia.
01:13For what I believe to be an actual reference, please fast forward to the 36 minute, 29 second mark.
01:20So here, Goldblum's character returns to the spa, which he and his wife, played by Cartwright, own and operate.
01:29You'll note a sign on the wall on the left-hand side of the screen mentions that they offer volcanic ash mud baths.
01:40This made me think of the Indonesian island of Bali, which is home of many resorts and active volcanoes,
01:48including Mount Agung, 3,031 meters in height, which became active and got into the news in 2017.
01:58As the scene progresses, some of the spa patrons can be seen in the mud baths.
02:05One is reading the book, Worlds in Collision, by Emanuel Velikovsky.
02:10If you're familiar with that work, this made me think of Bali in a homophone sense.
02:17You take the word, ball, many heavenly bodies, the planets and stars, are generally considered to be round in shape.
02:25There's some major links to Bowie.
02:27In Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jeff Goldblum, he acted in a film with David Bowie, Into the Night,
02:35a 1985 black comedy action thriller directed by John Landis.
02:40Michelle Pfeiffer was in this, as was Dan Aykroyd, Bruce McGill, and Jake Steinfeld.
02:47The previous year in 1984, Goldblum was in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
02:53with Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Christopher Lloyd, and Louis Smith,
03:02who played Bowie's character in 1987, The Man Who Fell to Earth, TV movie adaptation.
03:10Bruce McGill, who played an Elvis impersonator in Into the Night, was also in this, along with
03:17Robert Picardo, Will Wheaton, Annie Potts.
03:20Veronica Cartwright, who plays Goldblum's character's wife in Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
03:27was previously in Ridley Scott's science fiction horror film Alien in 1979.
03:33Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, and John Hurt were in this cast.
03:37David Bowie had also worked with Ridley Scott in a 1969 TV advertisement for Love Ice Cream.
03:47Actress Burt Adams of Invasion of the Body Snatchers has a link to David Bowie
03:53as through writer Willie Streber.
03:57Now, Bowie was in the 1983 adaptation of Streber's novel The Hunger.
04:04This erotic horror film was directed by Tony Scott and co-starred Susan Sarandon and Cliff DeYoung.
04:13Now, Adams appeared in the 1983 sci-fi thriller The Dead Zone, directed by David Cronenberg and
04:21based on the Stephen King novel.
04:24The cast included Christopher Walken, Thomas Garrett, Herbert Law, Martin Sheen, and Anthony
04:30Zerby.
04:31So, from this reference, there's two links to Bowie.
04:34One is the 14th James Bond film, A View to Kill, released in 1985.
04:41This is based on Ian Fleming's famous spy.
04:45Roger Moore and Christopher Walken were in this.
04:48Bowie was originally cast in the role of the villain Zorin, but withdrew.
04:54Walken was later in the 1989 science fiction horror film Communion, based on the Wheatley
05:01Streber novel.
05:02Lindsey Krauss and Andres Katsilis were in this.
05:06Katsilis played a Romulan tumulok in several episodes of the Star Trek The Next Generation
05:14TV series.
05:16Nimoy plays the psychiatrist and author David Kibner in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
05:22And he's, of course, known for his role as the Vulcan Spock in the original Star Trek TV
05:30series and movies.
05:31My YouTube channel is Easter Egg Psychic.
05:34There I go back and look at movies and television from the past.
05:37I analyze these for possible references to future media.
05:41These may appear in the form of anecdotes, idioms, anagrams.
05:45Hidden in the subtext of the work in question, I also use an unconventional method where I look
05:50at the likenesses of the actors.
05:54And what I've found is you can take the likenesses, match these up to some of the anecdotal items,
06:00and show past, present, and future information about actors and other personalities that may
06:06resemble the personalities in the movie or television episode that you're watching.
06:10My email contact is easteregguy, that's G-U-Y, at yahoo.com.
06:19Thanks for watching.
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