00:00We're talking about knowledge of the future in movies, YouTube channel, Easter Egg Psychic.
00:06In this video, I'll give you some future references and predictive Easter eggs connecting actor Jim Carrey.
00:14And amazingly, you can find these in the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas,
00:19an MGM and CBS animated television special that broadcast in 1966.
00:27I'll give you some background.
00:28Yeah, as you know, if you follow my videos, many times you can look at the works, cast and staff of movies and TV
00:37and go back and look at iterations and versions of the same works in the past.
00:44And you can find Easter egg hints and nods to the future collaboration.
00:50Alright, so the original Grinch based on the 1957 children's book by Dr. Seuss.
00:58Famed horror movie actor Boris Karloff narrates the Grinch is a monstrous creature who attempts to sabotage
01:07the Christmas celebrations of the small town of Whoville.
01:12And he lives up in a huge mountain abode that overlooks the village.
01:17Jim Carrey later played the Grinch in director Ron Howard's Dr. Seuss,
01:23How the Grinch Stole Christmas in the year 2000, the culmination live-action CG film.
01:30Others in this cast, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon, Anthony Hopkins.
01:37Debuting on the Sega Genesis home video game console in 1991.
01:43Sonic the Hedgehog was Sega's flagship mascot game series.
01:48These have been adapted into three live-action CG films.
01:54The first one was out in 2020 starring Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik.
02:00Also in the first one, James Marsden, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumter, Neil Madonna.
02:05Idris Elba joined the cast in the second installment in 2022.
02:10Actor Keanu Reeves played Shadow the Hedgehog in part three in 2024.
02:16All right, so watching the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
02:21I thought I noticed a connection, or maybe more than one, to the Namco fighting video game Soul Calibur.
02:29This was famously a launch title for Sega's Dreamcast, released in 1998.
02:37One thing you'll see in the Grinch is that the character's heart is scrutinized.
02:44And yeah, I think this relates more to a conception of his actual soul.
02:50Spoiler alert, at the end of the film, he has a major change of heart.
02:55Next, I'll give a very interesting progression of links.
03:00And it connects to the 1984 science fiction action film, The Terminator.
03:06Directed by James Cameron and starring Michael Biehn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Linda Hamilton.
03:12Grinch narrator Boris Karloff had previously appeared in the Roger Corman-directed 1963 horror movie,
03:22The Terror, alongside Jack Nicholson and Dick Miller.
03:26Miller, in turn, had a part in The Terminator.
03:31And his character, a gun store operator or owner,
03:35was responsible for initially arming the T-800 hunter-killer cyborg.
03:42You can see this in a scene that starts at 13 minutes, 40 seconds in the original Terminator.
03:49And there is some violence in this scene.
03:52So the key word here is caliber.
03:55This may be a homophone-based reference.
03:58For the Soul Calibur games, the spelling is with a U.
04:03Weapons are a key feature of the Soul Calibur series.
04:06The defining fighting ability is based around a prowess with some hand weapon.
04:13In the Terminator gun store scene, the T-800 examines the .45 with laser sighting.
04:20.45 is a reference to caliber.
04:24And that's C-A-L-I-B-E-R.
04:27And that is the diameter of the barrel of the gun.
04:30In the realm of fighting games, there's an unrelated series which is very popular, Mortal Kombat.
04:37Based on the arcade title developed by Midway in 1992.
04:43With the release of Mortal Kombat 11 in 2019,
04:48fans were blown away when Schwarzenegger's Terminator was added as a playable character.
04:54And another add-on fighter was the Joker from the Batman DC comic book-based universe.
05:02Earlier in the video, I mentioned Jack Nicholson.
05:05He played Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie.
05:10Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, and Michael Goff were also in this.
05:14Billy Dee Williams played Harvey Dent, the Gotham City District Attorney.
05:20Tracy Walter played one of the Joker's goons, Bob.
05:24Walter was in a big movie with Schwarzenegger, Conan the Destroyer, in 1984.
05:29Now when it comes to well-known Hollywood movie characters appearing in unrelated video games,
05:37I'll share another example, this time to Star Wars.
05:41Williams played Lando Calrissian, friend of Han Solo,
05:45in the latter two original trilogy films,
05:49The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Return of the Jedi in 1983.
05:54Darth Vader from Star Wars was featured in the 2008 sequel, Soul Calibur 4.
06:00My YouTube channel is Easter Egg Psychic.
06:02There I go back and look at movies and television from the past.
06:06I analyze these for possible references to future media.
06:08These may appear in the form of anecdotes, idioms, anagrams, hidden in the subtext of the work in question.
06:16I'll also use an unconventional method where I'll look at the likenesses of the actors.
06:21And what I've found is you can take the likenesses, match these up to some of the anecdotal items,
06:29and show past, present, and future information about actors and other personalities
06:34that may resemble the personalities in the movie or television episode that you're watching.
06:39My email contact is easteregguy, that's G-U-Y, at yahoo.com
06:48Thanks for watching.
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