00:00We're talking about knowledge of the future in movies, YouTube channel, Easter Egg Psychic.
00:05In this video, I'll share an apparent, fascinating future Easter egg reference to the 2004 independent
00:14comedy, Napoleon Dynamite.
00:17And you can see this in 1983 techno-thriller War Games.
00:23Now, this film was directed by John Badham and featured a cast with Matthew Broderick,
00:30Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Michael Madsen, James Tolkien, and Art LaFleur.
00:38The story of War Games shows some relatively early examples of computer hacking.
00:45Broderick plays a high school student who owns a PC, which was very unusual at the time.
00:52And what's more, he has a modem which allows his computer to connect to others.
00:59He goes about patching into the local high school network and changes his friend and classmates'
01:07grades, for example.
01:08He also uses the machine to play computer games.
01:12In the process, he inadvertently dials up an unlisted system that turns out to be the
01:19U.S. government's latest artificial intelligence mainframe.
01:25When the young hacker puts in a request to play a game of global thermonuclear war, the computer
01:32starts a simulation that convinces the military personnel that the Russians have actually launched
01:42nuclear missiles toward America.
01:45At around 18 minutes, Broderick's character finds himself in the principal's office after
01:52making a joke about his teacher in class.
01:55And in the waiting room, there's a bulletin board.
01:58And check out the hand-drawn sketch in the lower center of the board.
02:05I thought the drawing may resemble actor John Hedder, who played Napoleon Dynamite in the
02:132004 comedy.
02:15He's also a high school student in this.
02:18The cast featured John Grease, Aaron Rule, Efron Ramirez, Tina Marino, and Dietrich Bader.
02:27Now, another clue to Napoleon Dynamite in this scene.
02:32Note the glass on the principal's door.
02:36And I thought this may be a clue to distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures.
02:41In the time period, Napoleon Dynamite, which was independently produced, was touted as a great
02:48success story for the spinoff distributor.
02:52Actually, the glass on the door, it looks to me more like the Fresno on a lighthouse.
02:59I thought it may be a hint to the diffusion of light being of some significance here.
03:07Okay, connections.
03:07One I will mention, actor Barry Corbin, who plays Jack Berenger in War Games.
03:13He is well known for playing Morris Minifield in the CBS comedy drama TV series Northern Exposure.
03:23And this ran between 1990 and 1995 with Rob Moore, Janine Turner, and John Corbett.
03:30Barry Corbin acted in a movie with John Hedder.
03:33This was Funny Thing About Love, a 2021 romantic comedy, which also starred Summer Balesa, Kevin
03:42Moezy, and Pat Finn.
03:44My YouTube channel is Easter Egg Psychic.
03:46There I go back and look at movies and television from the past.
03:50I analyze these for possible references to future media.
03:53These may appear in the form of anecdotes, idioms, anagrams.
03:57Hidden in the subtext of the work in question, I also use an unconventional method where I look at the
04:03likenesses of the actors.
04:06And what I found is you can take the likenesses, match these up to some of the anecdotal items,
04:12and show past, present, and future information about actors and other personalities
04:18or may resemble the personalities in the movie or television episode that you're watching.
04:25My email contact is easteregguy, that's G-U-Y, at yahoo.com.
04:32Thanks for watching.
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