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Tiamet's an Easter egg in She-Hulk. In episode 2, she's scrolling through an article about offbeat jobs and off on the right is the headline "Why Is There A Giant Statue of a Man Sticking Out of the Ocean?" But that's it. Blink and you miss it.
The Eternals and Tiamat have an easy answer for now. As many of the Marvel movies are happening roughly around the same time. So we don't know exactly when these events happened when compared to the other stories. And he does get a brief easter egg in She-hulk as a news headline. So She-hulk and Eternals are going on practically simultaneously.
The 3 seashells is actually a reference to a popular joke that was circulating in the eighties. Short version - a guy wakes up in a hospital room after passing out while using the VIP bathroom in an airplane and after pressing the third of the three mysterious shells while on the toilet. After enjoying the rinse and dry features triggered by the first two shells, a nurse informs him that the last shell was a tampon remover and his penis was under his pillow. This was the joke that Sly was not so subtly referencing.
As a resident of Las Vegas I could give a couple of examples how they got the chicken in the Hangover. First, during the time of the movie release a casino downtown had a gimmick where you could beat a chicken at tic-tac-toe. Yes, you read that right. Second, that looks like a rooster in the movie. There are quite a few of residents that keep chickens and roosters on the outskirts of town and don't keep them locked up.
In a Q&A about 20 years ago, Robert Zemekis "answered" the question of "what's in the box?"... his response "A solar powered, waterproof, satellite cellphone".
Total Recall was always real. The scene at the Recall facility, after he loses it, and gets sedated, can't exist if the whole movie is a dream. Arguably, the entire scene at Recall can't exist. Recall implants memories, but when Quaid gets dumped back home, he doesn't remember it. How can we be watching a memory that was never remembered? But fine, maybe the scenario was playing out in his mind linearly, and then he forgot his hallucination. But even if you agree with that, later in the same scene, where they knock him out, and the lab guy and sales guy argue what to do with him, WHO'S HALLUCINATING THAT? Quaid's unconscious. How can he hallucinate the part he couldn't see because he was unconscious? And then forget what he didn't see to begin with? Quaid doesn't even remember going to Recall. We can't be watching a memory if the only person it exists for doesn't remember it. The only way for that scene to exist is for it to be real for the other people in the scene... the ones who are still awake after Quaid gets knocked out. Which makes Quaid an actual secret agent, no matter what. And if he's actually a secret agent, with a previously wiped memory, then the entire explanation that he's only living out the Recall fantasy is a crock of shit too.
Total Recall. It was all actually happening. The scene in which Richter and his right-hand man are talking to Cohaagen proves it. Quaid isn't present. How could Quaid have a memory of something if he wasn't there? The bigger question is, What the hell does "See you at the party, Richter!" mean? What party?
I got to speak with Rob Schneider and he said that being asked how the 3 seashells work is one of the questions he is asked most often about his career. He confirmed that no one on set knew the answer to it either.
" I put him a barrel, I sunk him in the bay. I was gentle.....I was gentle ". Those were the words spoken by Leo Crow (Mike Binder) as he FULLY explains what he did with Sean to John Anderton (Tom Cruise) in Minority Report. WhatCulture always seems to forget that on their lists.
Back in the late 80s, there was a TV show called "Beyond 2000". One of the "inventions" was a toilet from China or Japan featuring the 3 sea shells toilet. If memory serves me correct, it was essentially a bidet type system.
@@cameronmadison1008no its not the point its a plot device it doesnt matter what it is and even the writer didnt intend for it to be something specific its like the end of inception it doesnt matter if the totem keeps spinning or not for Leo’s character he doesnt care if its real or not he just wants to see his kids and move forward
I've always understood it to be Marsellus's soul that he'd previously sold to the devil and had stolen back. The theory goes that the devil removes the soul through the back of the neck...hence the sticking plaster on Marcellus's neck 🤷♂️
The Hunt one doesn’t seem that extraordinary. There was a real life case of a guy who bullied and threatened an entire town for years and kept getting away with it in the 80’s in the mid-wear (I think). Finally the town got sick of him and he was shot to death in the high street in broad daylight and it was witnessed by at least thirty people. When the police asked for witnesses suddenly no-one in the town had seen anything. It remains unsolved.
Cast away... if you pay attention to the beginning of the movie: 1) The package with the angel wings is PICKED UP from the woman on the farm that is working in her shop making.. something. 2) The sign over the driveway has a man's name and a woman's name. 3) At the end of the movie, Hanks goes to the farm from the start of the movie, but there is now only a woman's name on the sign, the man's name appears to have been smashed out of it. 4) The woman that stops on the road to give him directions, is the woman from the start of the movie. On the back of her truck is the wings. So, he is in fact returning the package to it's sender. It's a tiny psychological trick, but what is in the box? HOPE.
#2) Total Recall: Was It All A Dream? "Both interpretations are ultimately valid." They absolutely are not. Everything that happened was real, and this is irrefutably proven by the fact that there are numerous scenes throughout the movie where Quaid/Howser wasn't even _present._ The conversation between Cohaagen and Richter, where Richter feigns transmission interference and hangs up on Cohaagen, for example. The entire point of Recall is to provide customers a realistic vacation experience. Does anyone think they would include memories of events that the vacationer wasn't even there to witness? There are a dozen other examples besides the one I mentioned. And don't even get me _started_ on the suggestion that the ending of Inception is ambiguous...
In one of the Marvel shows since Eternals (I can’t remember which one right off the top of my head) someone is reading a newspaper that does have an article talking about the giant figure sticking up out of the ocean. So it is mentioned again, if only in the background.
The three seashells are just NFC keys for the bidet. Left one is gentle stream, middle is intense, the right one blasts a stuttered steam to the tune of the Beverly Hills Cop theme.
as for Tiamet, keep in mind this is the MCU. They've seen alien invasions, Asgard relocating, AI robots and half of the population vanishing and reappearing. A giant statue in the ocean is just another Tuesday.
JK Simmons was beyond fantastic in Whiplash. If you go watch the series, Oz, from a decade earlier, you can see how well he plays a layered psycho as Vern Schillinger, an Aryan leader in the prison. He plays bad so well.
I think the shells are used like buttons. One flushes, one activates the bidet and the other controls the temp of the bidet. You don't pick them up but you turn, push or lift them according to what they do. Like you push one to flush, you lift the end of one to activate the bidet and you turn one left or right to get hot or cold. This has been my theory for the past 20+ years lol.
My guess on the 3 seashells is that the first one is a wiper..you use it to wipe your butt as clean as possible. The second one acts like a bidet and cleans up whatever is left, and the third one is a "de-odorisor" that basically gives a little puff of scent that is something that smells better than poop.
The whole point of total recall (or the real title "we can remember it for you wholesale.") is that how do you know what is real or not? If you can edit or implant memories, how do you know if you've every really experienced something or not? It is a very interesting question, and a deeply philosophical one. Did i really experience what i remember, or is it a hallucination, implanted memory, or edited memory? How would you know?
@WhatCulture The sheet music is stolen by Fletcher. It's the same sheet music he gives him at the final concert. All the markings and notes match up. He gives it to him as an F-You.
Sean from Minority Report, a great movie, was abducted in a public pool when playing with John. It is a simple but realistic and very painful event that weights on John for the rest of his life and the reason why he works at PreCrime.
@WhatCulture As stated by Stallone: "OK, this may be bordering on the grotesque, but the way it was explained to me by the writer is you hold two seashells like chopsticks, pull gently and scrape what’s left with the third. You asked for it…. Be careful what you ask for, sorry."
There is proof in Total Recal that it is a dream fantasy. When he is in the chair before the procedure starts not only does the technician say " Two headed monsters and blue skies on Mars. He's not going to want to come back. " but the monitors behind him show the reactor and a stylized image of Kuato.
I assume the three seashells is some kind of joke being played on John Spartan. Since he knows nothing of the time he's awoken in, being able to gaslight him on such subjects would be practically idiot-proof.
10:25 I'm in Midwest/Plains USA - spiders are awesome at spreading their webs to capture the tinier things that *really* annoy us. Draping the corners and such in my unused basement or similar: I'm a big fan! Store and devour those things, spider-race! In my general living quarters? No, less a fan, but from esthetics rather than fear.
In total recall, it is a dream. The director gives you the answer in the movie, at the start of the dream thing, the computer screen has a wide shot of two figure on the surface of mars. Which is the exact same shot at the end of the movie, same moment, same people action
12 Angry Men - A powerful film play-adaptation! As the jury is first leaving the courtroom to deliberate, I've always been struck by the power of the face of the young fellow being tried - fearful and with pleading eyes, expecting his own death (capital offense). The one juror voted Not Guilty simply b/c it seemed to him that weighing a young man's life "is something we ought to talk about first." COULD his small doubts and honest questions, which he aptly demonstrated as more were swayed, make such a change of opinion? Granted, the was equal human drama among the jurors' personalities, contributing to the film's strength. A favorite. [Watch the original.]
"Total recall" being a dream doesn't make logical sense. Way too many things in the movie occur offscreen from Quaid's perspective, and remain unknown to him throughout.
I always considered Total Recall to be showing the audience reality - that Quaid is really Howser with implanted memories to make him a better spy, but Quaid doesn't really know what's real because his memory has been messed with. The main evidence for me is the encounter he had with the shrink. If it was supposed to be a dream, why make it so obvious that the guy was lying by having him nervously sweat? It would be better to make that knowledge more ambiguous and have Quaid kill him anyway. There's also nothing at the end of the movie that suggests it isn't reality.
My theory on the chicken in The Hangover. They probably bought it to the hotel to feed it to the tiger. They just ended up not doing it for whatever reason.
I love the 12 angry men ambiguity. Thats the point of the movie that there was still, in fact, doubt, it was their own bias they were trying not to see.
Also for you Brits the Angel wings are a symbol of a present for kids whom either have lost a parent or was orphaned, it then became if that child's parent cannot afford to purchase anything for that child during the Christmas Holiday. Its very famous and the evolution of it now extends to incarcerated persons, whereas the child of an incarcerated individual can get on a waiting list for a charity to send that child a present..... knowledge is power
There's no mystery in 12 Angry Men; it follows the ideological path of a court case in the US system. Fonda's character was successful in raising the reasonable doubt necessary to find the accused not guilty. As he said several times during the movie, he didn't know whether the kid killed his father or not, but the case was presented with enough holes that they couldn't legally convict him.
Having read an actual instruction manual for the 3 seashells, they are used thusly: 1. Use 2 of them to pinch out the majority of the waste. 2. Use third to scrape away whatever's left. 3. Dispose of seashells. 4. No longer get laughed at in social settings because of your ignorance (at least in the ways of toiletries).
number 2 was solved years ago, it was all a dream. That's why the recall music plays at the end. It wasn't a ploy to get him to stop, that was his wife and the doctor breaking in and trying to save him, but his fantasy over road them and he's trapped.
I was led to the conclusion that the throw away joke about them is that we will never be able to understand what they are for because we are still to primitive to understand them.
@@HedleyLamarr honestly, that's what it is, a throwaway joke and it let's him cuss at a machine to solve his paper shortage. it just makes the whole bit even funnier.
I always thought the 3 seashells were just a Japanese toilet. Warm water washdown/blow dry/clean bowl and close toilet lid. proper Japanese toilets are absolutely worth the cost.
For Cast Away, i saw this in the theater when it came out. I got the impression the box with the wings on it was divorce papers, Fedexd to her husband in Russia who gets it with his mistress standing next to him. Off camera he propbably signed and reused the box and sent them back. Course im sure they didnt wait the 7 years to get another set of papers.
3 seashells: This is my theory only. Pushing the shell on the left, causes a rod with a sponge on the end. To rise up to the proper level and "clean" you. Pushing the shell on the right triggers a rod to go up and have a slightly above room temperature blast of air to emit and "dry" you. Pushing the center shell is used to make the sponge rod rise very very high. Rising it to a level allowing you to comfortably replace the soiled sponge. Being in such a germophobic society. I makes sense you do not touch that area. Afterall, you are not even allowed to touch each other while having sex..... I have a lot of extra time on my hands. LOL
It's funny that they programmed him while frozen how to knit (or) crochet but not how to use the 3 seashells. They didn't exist when they froze him but could they control his programming to have known about them?
It's not exactly correct to say there has been no reference to Tiamat in Marvel after The Eternals. In one of the shows or movies (I forget which) there was 'blink and you'll miss it' moment with a news report on a TV saying something about the strange object in the ocean. But yeah, that is such a small technicality, it might as well be said they forgot about it.
Eternals: The rumor is that Tiamat will be mined for Adamantium in a future movie. Supposedly it's going to come up in the next Captain America. 12Angry Men: Did you actually watch it? They completely eviscerated the prosecution's case piece by piece. They pretty much proved the kid couldn't have been guilty, although I suppose without actually showing the murder you could say there is doubt but not really.
