00:00We're talking about knowledge of the future in movies, YouTube channel, Easter Egg Psychic.
00:05Alright, in this video I'll show an interesting feature Easter egg to the 1987 arm wrestling action drama Over the
00:15Top.
00:15This connects to two earlier science fiction films that Roger Corman produced, Space Raiders in 1983, and the original Star
00:26Wars.
00:26George Lucas' epic, Episode 4, A New Hope, 1977.
00:33So I was watching Space Raiders recently.
00:36This features a cast with Vince Edwards, David Mendenhall, Patsy Pease, George Dickerson, Dick Miller, and William Boyett.
00:44So yeah, one thing you'll notice in Space Raiders, if you know American sci-fi movies,
00:50there are a lot of similar spaceship designs and some set elements.
00:56Apparently, it's been acknowledged that set pieces and ship models were reused from Roger Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars in
01:061980.
01:07Interesting note, movie director James Cameron designed some of the models used on Battle Beyond the Stars.
01:16And James Cameron also wrote the screenplay for the 1985 war action film Rambo vs. Blood Part II, along with
01:26Sylvester Stallone.
01:28A starship that has a long flyby sequence at around 19 minutes, 20 seconds, and it runs about 40 seconds.
01:38I believe this is called the Hammerhead, and it was also used in Battle Beyond the Stars.
01:45The back end of this ship caught my attention because I recognized this as a very similar design to the
01:54Imperial Star Destroyer shown in the opening sequence of Star Wars 77.
02:02A distinguishing feature that you can see on both ships, note the shuttle bay or docking bay.
02:11In Space Raiders, it's a little bit different, but it was enough of a similarity to catch my attention.
02:19But now David Mendenhall played Peter in Space Raiders, and he was later in Over the Top in 1987.
02:26With Stallone, this film was directed by Menahem Golan.
02:31In the cast, you'll find Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, Rick Zumwalt, Terry Funk, Jimmy Keegan, Alan Graff.
02:38Both of these items made me think of something else I noticed in the opening scenes of Star Wars.
02:47The Rebel Guards that engage in the shootout with the Imperial Stormtroopers on the Blockade Runner or Tantive IV.
02:56I thought one of the Rebel Guard may resemble Sylvester Stallone.
03:01He's definitely not credited as having appeared in the original Star Wars.
03:06The first group of Rebel Defenders that can be seen running through the passageway, they're two by two.
03:13He's on the left-hand side, the second group of guys.
03:19Yeah, you can't see his face very clearly for long.
03:22My YouTube channel is Easter Egg Psychic.
03:24There I go back and look at movies and television from the past.
03:28I analyze these for possible references to future media.
03:31These may appear in the form of anecdotes, idioms, anagrams.
03:35Hidden in the subtext of the work in question,
03:38I also use an unconventional method where I look at the likenesses of the actors.
03:45What I found is you can take the likenesses, match these up to some of the anecdotal items,
03:50and show past, present, and future information about actors and other personalities
03:56that may resemble the personalities in the movie or television episode that you're watching.
04:03My email contact is easteregguy, that's G-U-Y, at yahoo.com
04:10Thanks for watching.
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