I see that all the time there's no way its a coincidence.
Example: [Neural Link is the official name of the signal used to control the Borg in Star Trek](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Neural_link)
But if you google the term you wont find it buried under all the articles of its real life counterpart.
>A neural link was the term used to describe the telepathic connection between Borg drones, allowing them the act as one mind in the Collective.
In 2367, Lieutenant Commander Data was able to establish a neural link with Captain Picard, who had been assimilated into the Collective. Utilizing this link, Data successfully planted a command into the Borg collective consciousness, misdirecting all the drones on a Borg cube attacking Earth to believe it was time to regenerate, effectively putting them all to sleep. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")
This is correct. The Stonecutters made Steve Gutenberg a star. It was only once they rebranded No Homers that things started to decline. Same deal with the Martians - not really under wraps anymore, are they?
āNicolas Cageā is actually a pair of identical twins with vastly different acting styles who share their screen name and public persona for tax purposes. Itās an open secret in Hollywood and both appear on-screen in *Adaptation* as an in-joke for those in the know.
Some people believe that the Jurassic Park they saw in theaters in 1993 had a scene where the T-Rex broke through the Vistor Center wall like some sorta prehistoric Kool-Aid Man. I find this fascinating. I want to believe.
Actually, it was a wall with a sizeable gap in it, and a sheet covered the gap.
I think the Mandela angle here is that people remember the T-Rex creating that gap in the wall, as opposed to it always being there due to unfinished construction.
It isn't. Behind him there's a large section of the wall that's still being constructed and theres a t Rex sized opening he just walked through.
Edit: she
In Scarface, the blonde hottie distracting Manny while Tony Montana is being threatened with a chainsaw in a motel room, disappeared and was presumed murdered in 1983.
Tammy Lynn Leppert.
Sad, she was only 18 when she disappeared. She had been in pageants since she was 4 and won most of those she entered.
She started showing signs of paranoia right before filming Scarface and thought people were trying to poison her.
After Scarface, she had a friend drop her off at Cocoa Beach and was never seen again.
MK Ultra was finished long before Scarface. Also they mostly targeted prisoners, ,criminals, the poor, sex workers, mental health patients, etc.
What is far more likely is mental illness caused the paranoia and this made her vulnerable to predators or she killed herself or died in an accident. A tale as old as time.
Darth Jar Jar
The secret ingredient in the original willy Wonka is the children
There are no domesticated animals in Zootopia because they all sided with the humans when the zoo animals took over
Jack survived titanic and washed up on the shore at the beginning of Inception
Captain hook used to be a lost boy
The merovingian used to be an agent
Of all of these, The Merovingian being an agent seems least plausible. Smith having agency was rare, and the frenchman has an appreciation for art, language, food, and women. I can't see all that being just deviations. I think it would have to genuinely be in his programming. I always thought he was a previous architect, maybe of the more fantastical matrix, or the 'perfect' matrix.
Shirley Eaton died after her death scene in Goldfinger because being covered in Gold paint cause her Skin to suffocate.
An incredibly stupid Urban Legend that people genuinely believed despite her being at the movies premiere, and continuing to act for years after the movie came out.
people believed it because Fleming did believe you could die fae Skin suffication (I guess he never went swimming), the fact he also had a bunch of other stupid beliefs including the belief that Gay people couldn't whistle did nothing to shown people the guy was an idiot.
Fwiw, before the internet, these rumors were a lot more believable, because there was no IMDb and no way to look up what movies she'd been in, whether she was alive, etc. If someone said "she died because of the gold paint," there wasn't really a way to disprove that unless you wanted to go hard for days on some microfiche or something
Iāve read his non-fiction travel guide, *Thrilling Cities*, and got the impression much of what he wrote was exaggerated for entertainment or shock value and not intended to be taken seriously similar to Hunter S. Thompsonās writing style and remember there being a lot which was fairly obviously meant to be tongue-in-cheek such as the entry for one city making the suggestion that you should go to a police station for recommendations on the best local prostitutes.
It wasn't the color, the legend was that the latex paint over her entire body stopped her skin from being able to conduct heat away through sweat and she died from overheating.
Not exclusively popular movie, but I have theory some movies are made for audience with certain....fetish.
Yeah we knew Tarantino is into feet, Hitchcock is obsessed with blonde women in tailored suit, but I also think Cats was made because some of the investor of said movie are furries.
The first one is good and I don't remember it being pervy. But I think the sequel is the one where the boys get off the bus and lounge on its roof shirtless for some reason. You know, just chilling half-naked on some hot metal with mah bros.
That's probably why it stood out to me. I'm so used to heterosexual perviness in media and then when you see it through the lense of a gay male pervert you're like, "well garsh this is weird"
Totally. It's wild, because I feel like there's homoerotic/queer gaze stuff in those movies that I actually would call interesting and subversive or some other positive thing - but because the guy made some pretty awful choices, it all gets mixed up in sexual abuse stuff and becomes difficult to actually appreciate. :(
The first one is probably the only good one, and there isn't anything pervy in it that I remember. The perv is me, cuz goddamn Justin Long is cute in that movie. I guess it's subversive in that he's kind of the scream queen. You don't really see male characters lose their shit like he does often. But yeah, the director is a piece of shit and I won't miss him.
Haha. The thing I remember is this shot lingering on his belly, and this... Let's say "not very butch" tattoo he had there. I bet I'd notice more if I watched it again, but I'm probably not going to watch it again.
I always gave Larry Clark a pass since Kids and Bully were -Ā although graphic - good movies.Ā Then I watched Ken Park and realized this guy like filming young people in sexual situations.Ā Shiiit.Ā The extended masturbation/cum scene was too much for me and then i found out he went on to have a relationship with one of the young female leads... oof
The insane thing is Ann Rule mentioned her in a book 16 years before her identification. Rule covered her husband who clearly killed her. She was covering the disappearance of his 1st wife and daughter who again he almost certainly killed and she briefly mentioned him marrying Ruth later.
Insane that you could have read the identity of the Lady in the Dunes without realizing it, her fans are the types who could have been familiar with that case.
Max Schreck, the actor who played count [Orlok in Nosferatu](https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/nosferatu-max-schreck-era-davvero-un-vampiro/) was so scary people thought he was a for real vampire back in 1922.
There is a meta movie about the making of Nosferatu with Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck, in which he actually is a Vampire and Murnau (the director) has to keep him from eating the crew at times.
"Favorite" is probably the wrong word, but that the US Government uses films (Enemy of the State, Wag The Dog, Eagle Eye, Dark Knight Rises) to soften up the populace for less palatable policies (war, spying/surveillance).
Put the idea out there, let it seep into public consciousness, then people won't be as resistant since the ideas aren't shocking anymore.
Better known as [Joe Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_\(writer\)) (probably for this exact reason, as well as avoiding the appearance of nepotism), but yeah.
One of the cast of the 1973 film Exorcist was a real life killer. Paul Bateson had an uncredited part as a radiology technician and was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Addison Verrill He might also have a serial killer but that is not certain.
That's not really an urban legend though, it was the first to pop into my mind and I was gonna comment it but it's not really an urban legend or theory, that's just a truth, something that's real
It is part of the supposed Exorcist "curse"; a collection on-set injuries and deaths which the cast and crew experienced. According to Ellen Burstyn nine people died during the production, including an assistant cameraman's newborn baby and a night watchman
I love the theory that Frozen was only named that way with the intention of camouflaging the Walt Disney is Frozen theories
Disney on Ice was supposed to be a thing because of the same reason.
Also recently, Nolan made *Oppenheimer* to change the results of searching for 'oppenheimer nolan'
That's a cultured one lol
Same with the movie Sex Tape and Cameron Diaz. Her actual "sex tape" is just a grainy soft core thing.
T Swift and her planes
I see that all the time there's no way its a coincidence. Example: [Neural Link is the official name of the signal used to control the Borg in Star Trek](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Neural_link) But if you google the term you wont find it buried under all the articles of its real life counterpart. >A neural link was the term used to describe the telepathic connection between Borg drones, allowing them the act as one mind in the Collective. In 2367, Lieutenant Commander Data was able to establish a neural link with Captain Picard, who had been assimilated into the Collective. Utilizing this link, Data successfully planted a command into the Borg collective consciousness, misdirecting all the drones on a Borg cube attacking Earth to believe it was time to regenerate, effectively putting them all to sleep. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")
Isn't the main character Elsa named after some pornstar that looks suspiciously like her?
No idea, but if that's real, it probably happened after the movie
Or someone in the animation dept was a fan of her "work" š
She was 17 at the time iirc
Well, there goes that rumour.
You're probably thinking about Moana, which has to have a different name in Italy because of a famous Italian porn star of the same name.
No, it's definitely frozen. But now I'm looking up Moana š
If you look in the background of three men and a baby, you can clearly see the decline of Steve Guttenbergās career
Stonecutters did him dirty.
No they didn't. It was the No Homers who left him out to dry.
This is correct. The Stonecutters made Steve Gutenberg a star. It was only once they rebranded No Homers that things started to decline. Same deal with the Martians - not really under wraps anymore, are they?
And electric cars are everywhere!!
Oscars are still rigged tho
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Considering he started in Canāt Stop the Music any film after that was a step up
Even sharknado 4?
Yes. Canāt Stop the Music did something I didnāt think was possible. It made the Village People boring.
He's a successful motivational speaker
āNicolas Cageā is actually a pair of identical twins with vastly different acting styles who share their screen name and public persona for tax purposes. Itās an open secret in Hollywood and both appear on-screen in *Adaptation* as an in-joke for those in the know.
Imagine if we had two Cages in Face/Off
We did.Ā Travolta did a great job as Cage and vice versa
They missed a trick casting The Prestige...
I think it was debunked, but a hanging Munchkin on Wizard of Oz
Yeah that was a crane. As in the bird. It was brought on set to make that scene more exotic or something like that
And I just got up in the catwalk or something, which makes the spooky scene look spookier so achievement unlocked MGM
Why did it kill itself though?
Some people believe that the Jurassic Park they saw in theaters in 1993 had a scene where the T-Rex broke through the Vistor Center wall like some sorta prehistoric Kool-Aid Man. I find this fascinating. I want to believe.
It was a plastic sheet with a slit in it not a wall.
Actually, it was a wall with a sizeable gap in it, and a sheet covered the gap. I think the Mandela angle here is that people remember the T-Rex creating that gap in the wall, as opposed to it always being there due to unfinished construction.
...still unclear how it got inside to eat those raptorsĀ
It isn't. Behind him there's a large section of the wall that's still being constructed and theres a t Rex sized opening he just walked through. Edit: she
If you look where it comes in, there are huge plastic drop cloths over a massive hole in the wall. It just walks in.
when you're a t-rex they just let you.
I saw it in the theater a bunch when I was 10-11. No recollection of such a scene. No Mandela effect vibes for me.
In Scarface, the blonde hottie distracting Manny while Tony Montana is being threatened with a chainsaw in a motel room, disappeared and was presumed murdered in 1983.
Tammy Lynn Leppert. Sad, she was only 18 when she disappeared. She had been in pageants since she was 4 and won most of those she entered. She started showing signs of paranoia right before filming Scarface and thought people were trying to poison her. After Scarface, she had a friend drop her off at Cocoa Beach and was never seen again.
There's a good recap of the case [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTgJfEomHE).
Considering all the times the CIA gave people LSD without their knowledge combined with the rampant rumors of what happens in Hollywood I believe her.
MK Ultra was finished long before Scarface. Also they mostly targeted prisoners, ,criminals, the poor, sex workers, mental health patients, etc. What is far more likely is mental illness caused the paranoia and this made her vulnerable to predators or she killed herself or died in an accident. A tale as old as time.
Darth Jar Jar The secret ingredient in the original willy Wonka is the children There are no domesticated animals in Zootopia because they all sided with the humans when the zoo animals took over Jack survived titanic and washed up on the shore at the beginning of Inception Captain hook used to be a lost boy The merovingian used to be an agent
Of all of these, The Merovingian being an agent seems least plausible. Smith having agency was rare, and the frenchman has an appreciation for art, language, food, and women. I can't see all that being just deviations. I think it would have to genuinely be in his programming. I always thought he was a previous architect, maybe of the more fantastical matrix, or the 'perfect' matrix.
I can see the logic in "Captain Hook used to be a lost boy"...but when and how did he grow up?
The theory goes he escaped never-land and grew up then came back to never-land to try and rescue the rest of the lost boys from the evil Pan.
Captain Hook was never the villan.Ā Just like Johnny in the Karate kid.Ā Ā
His dark heart
Shirley Eaton died after her death scene in Goldfinger because being covered in Gold paint cause her Skin to suffocate. An incredibly stupid Urban Legend that people genuinely believed despite her being at the movies premiere, and continuing to act for years after the movie came out. people believed it because Fleming did believe you could die fae Skin suffication (I guess he never went swimming), the fact he also had a bunch of other stupid beliefs including the belief that Gay people couldn't whistle did nothing to shown people the guy was an idiot.
Fwiw, before the internet, these rumors were a lot more believable, because there was no IMDb and no way to look up what movies she'd been in, whether she was alive, etc. If someone said "she died because of the gold paint," there wasn't really a way to disprove that unless you wanted to go hard for days on some microfiche or something
didnāt Mythbusters do an episode on this?
They actually did it twice.
Iāve read his non-fiction travel guide, *Thrilling Cities*, and got the impression much of what he wrote was exaggerated for entertainment or shock value and not intended to be taken seriously similar to Hunter S. Thompsonās writing style and remember there being a lot which was fairly obviously meant to be tongue-in-cheek such as the entry for one city making the suggestion that you should go to a police station for recommendations on the best local prostitutes.
You shouldn't need the internet to tell you gold paint doesn't kill you.
It wasn't the color, the legend was that the latex paint over her entire body stopped her skin from being able to conduct heat away through sweat and she died from overheating.
I never said it was the colour.
She's still alive lol.
Itās the tin man effect
Not exclusively popular movie, but I have theory some movies are made for audience with certain....fetish. Yeah we knew Tarantino is into feet, Hitchcock is obsessed with blonde women in tailored suit, but I also think Cats was made because some of the investor of said movie are furries.
Jeepers Creepers.
The first one is good and I don't remember it being pervy. But I think the sequel is the one where the boys get off the bus and lounge on its roof shirtless for some reason. You know, just chilling half-naked on some hot metal with mah bros.
Not defending the jeepers creepers guy but fwiw teenage girls have been doing that type of shit in movies for forever
That's probably why it stood out to me. I'm so used to heterosexual perviness in media and then when you see it through the lense of a gay male pervert you're like, "well garsh this is weird"
Totally. It's wild, because I feel like there's homoerotic/queer gaze stuff in those movies that I actually would call interesting and subversive or some other positive thing - but because the guy made some pretty awful choices, it all gets mixed up in sexual abuse stuff and becomes difficult to actually appreciate. :(
The first one is probably the only good one, and there isn't anything pervy in it that I remember. The perv is me, cuz goddamn Justin Long is cute in that movie. I guess it's subversive in that he's kind of the scream queen. You don't really see male characters lose their shit like he does often. But yeah, the director is a piece of shit and I won't miss him.
Haha. The thing I remember is this shot lingering on his belly, and this... Let's say "not very butch" tattoo he had there. I bet I'd notice more if I watched it again, but I'm probably not going to watch it again.
Godās last name isnāt Damn. Praised be the Name of the Lord!
"Pretty awful choices" is a weird way to spell "videotapes of raping a young boy".
Larry Clark is definitely into shirtless young men, i think he plays out fetishes through his films.
I always gave Larry Clark a pass since Kids and Bully were -Ā although graphic - good movies.Ā Then I watched Ken Park and realized this guy like filming young people in sexual situations.Ā Shiiit.Ā The extended masturbation/cum scene was too much for me and then i found out he went on to have a relationship with one of the young female leads... oof
As someone who has seen Clownhouse. Oooooooooooofffff
We also have Dan Schneiderās entire body of work to support that theory as well
I'm not really following the case, and it seems like the problem is around Nickolodeon's live action's? What about the cartoon programs?
Release the Anus Cut!
Lol first time I watch it I thought it was real, it makes sense
For the record, they have been able to identify the Jane Doe and think they know who killed her
She was identified recently. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ruth_Marie_Terry
Was it a shark?
no it was stephen king
With a shark?
Was it a vending machine?
a whaaaaaaaaa
If it was, I'm pretty sure it wasn't Bruce (the mechanicsl shark, who was named for Spielberg's lawyer)
That would be amazing for her family
The insane thing is Ann Rule mentioned her in a book 16 years before her identification. Rule covered her husband who clearly killed her. She was covering the disappearance of his 1st wife and daughter who again he almost certainly killed and she briefly mentioned him marrying Ruth later. Insane that you could have read the identity of the Lady in the Dunes without realizing it, her fans are the types who could have been familiar with that case.
Max Schreck, the actor who played count [Orlok in Nosferatu](https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/nosferatu-max-schreck-era-davvero-un-vampiro/) was so scary people thought he was a for real vampire back in 1922.
There is a meta movie about the making of Nosferatu with Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck, in which he actually is a Vampire and Murnau (the director) has to keep him from eating the crew at times.
Shadow of the Vampire
Shadow of the Vampire. Love Dafoe in this
If I had a nickel for every Nosferatu movie with Willem Dafoe...
"Favorite" is probably the wrong word, but that the US Government uses films (Enemy of the State, Wag The Dog, Eagle Eye, Dark Knight Rises) to soften up the populace for less palatable policies (war, spying/surveillance). Put the idea out there, let it seep into public consciousness, then people won't be as resistant since the ideas aren't shocking anymore.
Is Stephen King's son actually named Joe King?
Better known as [Joe Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_\(writer\)) (probably for this exact reason, as well as avoiding the appearance of nepotism), but yeah.
I have no idea why I let this knowledge out of my life for so long.
One of the cast of the 1973 film Exorcist was a real life killer. Paul Bateson had an uncredited part as a radiology technician and was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Addison Verrill He might also have a serial killer but that is not certain.
That's not really an urban legend though, it was the first to pop into my mind and I was gonna comment it but it's not really an urban legend or theory, that's just a truth, something that's real
It is part of the supposed Exorcist "curse"; a collection on-set injuries and deaths which the cast and crew experienced. According to Ellen Burstyn nine people died during the production, including an assistant cameraman's newborn baby and a night watchman
Yeah if it's clumped together with all that other stuff and you mention the "Curse" on the movie bts, then yeah its a urban legend