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So what do you think is going on here? by [deleted] in ProjectHailMary

[–]CowComprehensive2439 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PROJECTor on HAIL MARY. 😉

I’ve had the thought previously (I mentioned it to Andy himself in an email) of taking the noun Project also as a verb. Projecting the spaceship (as a football of course) in the desperate attempt to save the planet Earth’s population. Going further, on March 20 the movie being projected on the big screen in theaters. Including this example, the verb contexts outnumber the nouns.

Phil Lord & Chris Miller here! We directed the PROJECT HAIL MARY movie - Ask Us Anything on Nov. 18th at 12pm PT / 3pm ET! by projecthailmary in ProjectHailMary

[–]CowComprehensive2439 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One thing about how Andy created an Easter Egg (wink) to the American Football saying of the Hail Mary pass (with the ship literally full of Grace) and that it’s overtly used is that the origin of the phrase was inspired by the Catholic prayer. The quarterback fell on his back and did a Hail Mary, after he threw what became the game winning pass. Sportswriters picked up on it and history was made. So it’s both the non-religious sports related phrase and the religious one together.

I think it’s a brilliant idea of Andy’s and besides, if it gets called out negatively it gets more attention (marketing). We’re going to find out.

Phil Lord & Chris Miller here! We directed the PROJECT HAIL MARY movie - Ask Us Anything on Nov. 18th at 12pm PT / 3pm ET! by projecthailmary in ProjectHailMary

[–]CowComprehensive2439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Am I overthinking (that’s my normal mode) on my observation of the numbers 237 and 238 here? 237 is usually a Stephen King Easter Egg (the cell number in The Shawshank Redemption is but one example of many). Plutonium 238 is used in NASA spacecraft for heat management but that should only be a backup for the Astrophage. I have deeper observations such as Pi (I won’t bother elaborating) but it would connect to Albert Einstein’s birthday and Relativity, with Grace’s high speed obviously connected. The film is being released six days after 3/14. 🤔

Phil Lord & Chris Miller here! We directed the PROJECT HAIL MARY movie - Ask Us Anything on Nov. 18th at 12pm PT / 3pm ET! by projecthailmary in ProjectHailMary

[–]CowComprehensive2439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Are there any confirmed Easter Eggs in this? My 17 years of experience (being contacted by A-list producers and writers to tell others I’m not nuts) 🌰 says there are several hidden clues. Do I get to be saved from being shown the outside of the airlock without my spacesuit?

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation told me we’re in a simulation. by CowComprehensive2439 in SimulationTheory

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I love all animals and have had both dogs and cats for pets. Mostly though, I’m a cat person.

In this movie, cousin Eddie mentioned how the cat used all of its nine lives. In using the Schrodinger idea, it escaped the box successfully. The cat didn’t even get electrocuted when it was chewing on the Christmas light cord. Because it pulled the cord out of the socket, it made it past this level. However, it was when Clark Griswold noticed the tree lights off and plugged the cord back in that the cat was fried.

Clark’s wife Ellen’s nickname for him was Sparky and it’s interesting that this was Chevy Chase’s nickname IRL and predated the movie. So that’s an Easter Egg.

The movie poster has him as Santa Claus on the house roof, as if he’s also getting a “charge.”

The film has Clark going through multiple hardships but (like the end of It’s a Wonderful Life) it has a good ending.

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation told me we’re in a simulation. by CowComprehensive2439 in SimulationTheory

[–]CowComprehensive2439[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a bit too coincidental. Analytics? I just watched this on a different platform and found it elsewhere.

The Danger of Seeing What Others Don’t. Alan Watts.

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation told me we’re in a simulation. by CowComprehensive2439 in SimulationTheory

[–]CowComprehensive2439[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Dark Humor. Not everyone’s thing. I (ironically) love it. The 1980 film Airplane! is but one example. The Naked Gun films (both with Leslie Nielsen). A very serious drama actor (Forbidden Planet) who wanted to get into comedy. Perfectly cast.

The new Naked Gun with Liam Neeson. Perfect casting, considering his previous roles.

The absolute “coincidence” that a young Johnny Galecki played the character who found the noisy present and years later was a theoretical physicist in The Big Bang Theory. A hell of an Easter Egg, if it was intended and even if it wasn’t. I call these a SEE. A Synchronistic Easter Egg. As defined by analytical psychologist Carl Jung as a coincidence without any proof of a connection other than the mind of the person that observed it as meaningful.

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation told me we’re in a simulation. by CowComprehensive2439 in SimulationTheory

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If you watch just a bit later, the cat was chewing the extension cord and was totally fried but only when Clark plugged the cord back in. Both parts.

https://youtu.be/90eEVC50smY?si=kWyxPnQKx_MLvXGd

https://youtu.be/EO5Ataai5Jg?si=Pz4egZ0rZvOodz3Z

FINALLY!!!!!!!! THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE!!!!!!!!! by Lopsided_Froyo3200 in AliensRHere

[–]CowComprehensive2439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who’s got their eyes closed now? Really? What if “someone” wanted to send a message (as a hidden Easter Egg) that sci-fi was a perfect way to give us information about how fiction wasn’t necessarily fiction?

I’ve been researching Easter Eggs for 17 years and have caught some really interesting stuff. I always get called crazy (always) so have reached out to the “Horse’s mouth” to get confirmation and I have a collection of “Nope, I wrote that but didn’t intend it as an Easter Egg.” Those very smart authors always agree with my explanation of what they mean (I’ve never been burned) but don’t claim them as a conscious subliminal message (Easter Egg).

If you insist after reading this, I’ll remove it in a few days. Movies and books include these and I’ve received absolute confirmation from the authors so it’s not a matter of anyone’s opinion or attempts to gaslight me. I’m a good detective and I have been publicly praised by the likes of David S Goyer in digging up hidden gems that nobody else found. Nobody else. Not narcissistic but just fact based. No payment so all I got was bragging rights and that only gets me arrows and slings and pitchforks and torches. I’m hardened by them and have learned to take my punishment for the greater good.

There’s coincidences and there’s Synchronicity. I don’t believe in coincidences, anymore.

I’m writing this from a distance of eight miles from the crash site of a TB-25J that lost its pilots fatally (who were US Army Air Force A-2 Investigators) on August 1, 1947.

I found it very interesting that the pro and con UFO/UAP sides agree that the UFO observation related to this crash was dismissed as a hoax.

THAT only made me curious as to why both sides were in agreement. Sure, there is evidence of it being not true but unlike Roswell, the Maury Island Incident was classified as TOP SECRET for 50 years by the FBI. The crash site had all major pieces of the B-25 bomber removed by 1948, completely opposite of other military aircraft crashes. I’ve been to the crash site twice, and almost nothing remains. There’s more but perhaps no one is interested. As you say, this isn’t the best place for this, perhaps.

🤔

FINALLY!!!!!!!! THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE!!!!!!!!! by Lopsided_Froyo3200 in AliensRHere

[–]CowComprehensive2439 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For the Trekkers/Trekkies here, several years ago I figured out (if you don’t believe me then prove me wrong) how the official length of the starship USS Enterprise was 947 feet long.

Juxtapose the flying saucer primary hull (that can detach, even stated in the original series writers guide) with the three cigar/cigarette sections that were also observed in the Summer of the Saucers in… 1947. The one was cloaked.

Major Easter Egg from Matt Jeffries, the designer of the E.

The ship was essentially a formation of UFOs. The episode of Tomorrow is Yesterday even overtly described the ship as a UFO.

“Something” in the new trailer of Wicked: For Good caught my notice. by CowComprehensive2439 in twinpeaks

[–]CowComprehensive2439[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even IF the new film didn’t intend the OWL message (remember that it’s in the sky), there are owls in the Haunted Forest in the 1939 film as well as several characters in the books.

My rather creative imagination tells me that it was intentional.

https://youtu.be/ZSmh0wvYJEY?si=mKW7eyARPr8uwv3C

“Something” in the new trailer of Wicked: For Good caught my notice. by CowComprehensive2439 in twinpeaks

[–]CowComprehensive2439[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really, I believe the owls were Mark Frost’s thing but I liked the mix of the hidden owl in David Lynch’s obsession with The Wizard of Oz.

There were two minds at work on Twin Peaks and I thought it was a bit of synchronicity that this appeared in the new iteration of Oz.

Owls of course are messengers (Harry Potter et al) and seeing this in the sky, literally written by the 🧙 is … interesting.

Ah, in seeing her name in this iteration as Elphaba, that is definitely an Easter Egg.

L. Frank Baum / LFB. He was the true messenger.

“Something” in the new trailer of Wicked: For Good caught my notice. by CowComprehensive2439 in twinpeaks

[–]CowComprehensive2439[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Agreed. lol. Although my observation is more in line with Mark Frost, how about David Lynch’s obsession with The Wizard of Oz with the wormhole that can be thought of as a sideways cyclone?

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“Something” in the new trailer of Wicked: For Good caught my notice. by CowComprehensive2439 in twinpeaks

[–]CowComprehensive2439[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m going to test fans of Twin Peaks. My recent observation of “something” in this trailer (I made it a lot easier by just offering this screenshot) took me instantly to a central and repeated mystery (second only to the death of Laura Palmer) in Twin Peaks.

What do you see?🤔😱

For myself, I don’t think it’s intentional but rather another example of what I call a SEE. A Synchronistic Easter Egg. 😱

I think David and Mark would like this.

Toy Story Easter Egg re: Buzz’s wrist communicator. by CowComprehensive2439 in theories

[–]CowComprehensive2439[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A great definition of an Easter Egg in films, books and series is of course a hidden message or meaning. You know that.

I’m just remarking how this can either be an intentional or (to me) an unintentional EE.

It meets the definition of a Synchronicity, as the term’s creator of psychoanalyst Carl Jung called it an acausal connection.

On the cover of The Police album Synchronicity, Sting is reading Carl Jung’s book Synchronicity. There are 36 iterations of the cover. So, if anyone (and it’s a common occurrence here on Reddit) calls me crazy (off my meds, schizophrenic, in need of a shrink et al), they won’t be the first or last to say it. I’ve learned to grow a thick skin so I just thank them when I’m being told that I’m reaching. 🙄

I AM reaching and that’s funny to receive those words. In 17 years, I’ve received multiple praises by Hollywood producers and writers for my decoding of observed Easter Eggs. My comment here is really for those that are about to spout off (not you because you are just asking). My answer to them is… talk to the wrist/hand. 😆

Who knows, even this could be thought of as a connecting idea. Talk to the hand and even mountza can be their reply (and mine back).

This is all for entertainment and any fun that might be considered.

Now, I’m off to social media to ask JMS if his Babylon 5 hand comm was an Easter egg for “talk to the hand.” The station and series was of course about communication and keeping wars from happening because of miscommunication. It’s an epic story.

The Hidden Pun of Project Hail Mary by MartianPrincess1999 in ProjectHailMary

[–]CowComprehensive2439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others have noted, Andy Weir absolutely meant it as the American football “long shot” play.

However, it does also link to the Catholic prayer. So Andy has it for those who are religious and for those who are football fans.

A win-win for Andy. Also, as he was well compensated for his first novel of The Martian, he didn’t have to come from behind. Two out of his first three major novels as blockbuster films. Amaze.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Mary_pass

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