00:00We're talking about knowledge of the future of movies, YouTube channel, Easter Egg Psychic.
00:05There are a lot of strange and interesting Easter eggs in the original Double Dragon arcade game from 1987.
00:14Here I'll mention another one, apparently to the Transformers franchise of movies, cartoons in the 1980s.
00:24Based on the popular Hasbro and Takara Tommy toy line.
00:30So right from the opening of the game, your girlfriend is kidnapped by a group of thugs.
00:36The garage door opens and the heroes, Billy and Jimmy, move out.
00:42Behind them, in the garage, is a red sports car.
00:45I thought it may resemble a Pontiac Trans Am Firebird.
00:50In the 94 Double Dragon film, Boa Bobo wears the emblem of Pontiac on his shirt.
00:59Alright, so progressing through the first mission, there's another building.
01:02In there, a billboard ad can be seen.
01:05It reads Scoop Moto.
01:07And the car shown here is the Volkswagen Beetle.
01:11A Bobo busts through the brick wall.
01:15Based on the two cars, I drew a link to the Transformers.
01:20The Trans Am was famously driven by Burt Reynolds' character in the Smokey and the Bandit films.
01:28A sister car based on the same chassis, also produced by General Motors, is the Chevrolet Camaro.
01:36That car became the Transformer Autobot Hero Bumblebee in the Transformer movies from 2007.
01:47And a Bumblebee was originally a Volkswagen from the toy release in 1984.
01:54From this basis, I did some further research.
01:57Actor Robert Patrick played the T-1000 in director James Cameron's Terminator 2, Judgment Day, in 91.
02:06And he was the villain in the 94 Double Dragon feature.
02:11To the Transformers movie series, Cameron offered some interesting input and influence.
02:19For the 2011 sequel, Dark of the Moon, director Michael Bay reportedly conferred and decided to film it using a
02:303D process.
02:31The Fusion Digital camera system.
02:34Look at the opening image for Double Dragon one more time.
02:40Notice the signage that reads Mottin.
02:44It's in 3D.
02:45Below this, the garage door bay.
02:49And also the styling of the car.
02:52Actor Mark Wahlberg joined the cast of Transformers with Age of Extinction in 2014.
03:00He was in director Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 film Boogie Nights with Burt Reynolds.
03:07I did some videos on these subjects in the past.
03:11Boogie Nights also has a link to Transformers and is through musician Stan Bush's song, The Touch, which is played
03:21extensively in the 1986 Transformers animated movie.
03:26Another key production figure, producer Don Murphy.
03:30Murphy was a big comic book fan and after seeing the Double Dragon 3 arcade game around 1991, he sought
03:40to acquire the rights to make the film adaptation.
03:45Later, he and Tom DeSanto optioned the rights to the Transformers toy line from Hasbro and began to develop a
03:55film adaptation.
03:56This eventually found its way to DreamWorks and director Steven Spielberg, who convinced Michael Bay to direct.
04:05Murphy, also a producer, owned Bumblebee, the sixth installment in the film series in 2018.
04:13In a previous video, I mentioned this Easter Egg.
04:17You can see it in the 1989 video game Road Trip Adventure film The Wizard.
04:26This comes via a reference to the Double Dragon arcade video game.
04:32The Wizard starred Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, Jenny Lewis, Bo Bridges Christian Slater.
04:39When stepfather Sam decides to have Jimmy committed to a mental institution, he runs away from home with half-brother
04:48Corey, the man with Jenny Lewis' character, Haley, on the road.
04:53They discover Jimmy's talent at playing video games.
04:57They come up with a plan to hitchhike cross-country to try to get Jimmy into the video Armageddon game
05:06tournament.
05:06Contemporary video game titles are shown in The Wizard.
05:11Many relate to releases via the Nintendo Entertainment System home console.
05:17At 19 minutes, 4 seconds, the trio play Double Dragon.
05:22The section of the game is stage 3.
05:26Part of this level involves a bridge that has collapsed in the middle.
05:31Jenny Lewis' character is playing.
05:33She gets knocked off the bridge into the river.
05:37Julia Nixon is in Double Dragon and appeared in Rambo First Blood Part II, a war action film in 1985
05:46starring Sylvester Stallone.
05:48This screenplay, co-written by James Cameron, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, and Martin Cove, also in this cast.
05:57My YouTube channel is Easter Egg Psychic.
05:59There I go back and look at movies and television from the past.
06:03I analyze these for possible references to future media.
06:06These may appear in the form of anecdotes, idioms, anagrams.
06:10Hidden in the subtext of the work in question, I also use an unconventional method where I look at the
06:16likenesses of the actors.
06:19What I found is you can take the likenesses, match these up to some of the anecdotal items, and show
06:25past, present, and future information about actors and other personalities
06:31that may resemble the personalities in the movie or television episode that you're watching.
06:38My email contact is EasterEggGuy, that's G-U-Y, at Yahoo.com
06:45Thanks for watching.
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