00:00We're talking about knowledge of the future in movies, YouTube channel, Easter Egg Psychic.
00:06It's one of the best-known secrets in Nintendo video games, located within the First World
00:13Fortress of Super Mario Bros. 3, 1988.
00:18That's the orange castle-looking structure in the middle of the world map.
00:24You'll find here one of three warp whistles, and these are hidden throughout the game.
00:31So located at the end of the first scrolling part of this stage, you'll find a question
00:39mark block next to a window.
00:42Inside this is a power-up item, the super leaf.
00:47This will give Mario the ability to fly, and he sprouts a tail.
00:53His appearance changes as he dons the raccoon or tanuki suit.
00:59An enemy can be found here named Dry Bones, and he's a skeleton type of Koopa Troopa, the
01:05turtles which are common enemies in the Mario game series.
01:09At the end of this passageway, there happens to be enough room so that you can get Mario
01:16to get up to speed and fly.
01:18There's a secret space directly above this area.
01:24Now there's a doorway here.
01:25You're transported to a secret room where there is a treasure chest.
01:32Inside this is one of the three warp whistles.
01:36This is added to your inventory.
01:38And when used, a magic toon and whirlwind whisks Mario away to the warp zone, which you can
01:47choose to skip ahead to another major world.
01:51This trick was famously shown in the ending video game tournament in the 1989 adventure
01:58comedy film The Wizard.
01:59I did some thinking about this, and I believe that it can be shown as a pattern of information
02:06in several movies, which predate the Japanese 1988 release.
02:12In one of these, the 1987 superhero action film Masters of the Universe.
02:17This was based on the popular toy line and animated series, and starred Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella,
02:27Courtney Cox, James Tolkien, Billy Barty, Robert Duncan McNeil, John Cypher, Chelsea Field,
02:34and Anthony DeLongis.
02:36Alright, so the story of this movie combines fantasy and high-tech science fiction elements.
02:43The archetypical villain Skeletor captures Castle Greyskull, the stronghold of the heroes.
02:53Meanwhile, He-Man, Man-at-Arms, and Teela attempt to raid the fortress.
02:59They meet the alien locksmith Gwildor, and he's invented a cosmic key that can open a portal
03:07to any location in space and time, and the heroes wind up in an American town sometime in the mid-1980s.
03:17The character Gwildor, played by Billy Barty, is absolutely key to seeing a connection to this
03:25well-known Mario 3 secret.
03:29Barty worked with movie director Roger Corman and writer Charles B. Griffith in the 1957 horror film
03:36The Undead.
03:37Your direct link to a Super Mario Bros. 3 reference can be seen in The Little Shop of Horrors in 1960.
03:47This was directed by Corman and written by Griffith.
03:50The opening theme of this horror comedy, very similar to the background melody played in this
03:59level of Mario 3 that I'm describing.
04:03Now, the cosmic key in Masters of the Universe, the people on Earth believe, may be a type of
04:11musical instrument, and when this is used in the film, a special melody can be heard.
04:18Now, in The Undead, Billy Barty plays an imp, and that movie makes his introduction, roosting
04:25atop a tree limb in the forest.
04:27So, I thought that may be a possible nod to the Super Leaf in this Mario 3 level.
04:36Additionally, when the cosmic key is used in Masters of the Universe, the heroes pass through
04:43the portal and also wind up in a wooded or forested area somewhere on Earth.
04:51My YouTube channel is Easter Egg Psychic.
04:53There, I go back and look at movies and television from the past.
04:57I analyze these for possible references to future media.
05:00These may appear in the form of anecdotes, idioms, anagrams.
05:05Hidden in the subtext of the work in question, I also use an unconventional method where I look
05:10at the likenesses of the actors.
05:12And what I've found is you can take the likenesses, match these up to some of the anecdotal items,
05:19and show past, present, and future information about actors and other personalities that may
05:26resemble the personalities in the movie or television episode that you're watching.
05:32My email contact is easteregguy, that's G-U-Y, at yahoo.com.
05:39Thanks for watching.
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