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In the figures below, the German sentence that appears after the names of the fonts (Walbaum-Fraktur in Fig. 1 and Humboldtfraktur in Fig. 2 reads, Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den Sylter Deich. It means "Victor chases twelve boxers across the Sylt dike" and contains all 26 letters of the alphabet plus the um... | Wikipedia - Fraktur (typeface sub-classification) - Typeface samples |
In the filamentous fungus N. crassa, the clock mechanism is analogous, but non-orthologous, to that of mammals and flies. | Wikipedia - Circadian oscillator - Fungal clocks |
In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Earth's transit station ("Space Station V") "orbited 300 km above Earth". | Wikipedia - Low Earth orbit - In fiction |
In the film 300, individual Spartan deaths are often portrayed as a Homeric aristeia. | Wikipedia - Aristeia - Recent examples |
In the film After Hours (1985), the beehive-wearing, 1960s-obsessed character Julie is shown to have a large backup supply of Aqua Net. In the film When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Sally Albright uses Aqua Net on her Farrah Fawcett-style hairdo. The use of a well-known product with a strong "set" may have been chosen by... | Wikipedia - Aqua Net - In popular culture |
In the film American History X (1998), white power skinhead Derek Vinyard curb-stomps Lawrence, a black burglar who had tried to steal his truck. The method of killing for both Marinus Schöberl and Randall Townsend appear to have been inspired by this scene.In The Sopranos episode "The Second Coming" (2007), New Jersey... | Wikipedia - Curb stomp - Cultural references |
It was just something we didn't want kids trying on each other". On the January 15, 2018, edition of Monday Night Raw, Rollins brought the move back, now referred to simply as a "stomp". == References == | Wikipedia - Curb stomp - Cultural references |
In the film And Now For Something Completely Different (1971), in which the parrot is a blue and gold macaw, the sketch ends with the shopkeeper explaining that he always wanted to be a lumberjack and, ignoring Mr Praline's protests of that being irrelevant, begins singing "The Lumberjack Song". The Monty Python Live a... | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
Also, the sketch ends with the shopkeeper saying that he has a slug that does talk. Cleese, after a brief pause, says, "Right, I'll have that one, then!" According to Michael Palin's published diary, Palin changed his response in order to throw Cleese off. | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
During this performance something occurs on stage that does not translate into audio, but causes the audience to break into hysterics upon Cleese's follow-up line "Now that's what I call a dead parrot". A live performance from the 1976 Amnesty International benefit show, A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick), has Pali... | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
The audience cheers this bit of breaking character, but Palin quickly composes himself and Cleese declares "Now, look! This is nothing to laugh at!" before proceeding with the sketch. | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
This version can be seen in the film Pleasure at Her Majesty's, albeit with the ending removed. The 1976 Monty Python Live at City Center performance ended with the following punchline: Shopkeeper: (long, long pause) ... Do you want to come back to my place? Mr Praline: I thought you'd never ask.In his appearance on Th... | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
At the end of the sketch, he demands of the smart-mouthed talking parrot on his shoulder, "Do you want to be an ex-parrot?" In 1980, the sketch was performed again during The Pythons' four-night stint at the Hollywood Bowl. However, it was one of the sketches to be cut from the 1982 film version. | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
In the 1989 TV special which saw the final appearance of all six Pythons together, the sketch appeared in the title, Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python. True to its title, the "Dead Parrot sketch" is not included.In 1989's Amnesty benefit show, The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball, the sketch opens si... | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
'Ere's your money back and a couple of holiday vouchers. (audience goes wild) Mr Praline: (looks completely flabbergasted) Well, you can't say Thatcher hasn't changed some things.Margaret Thatcher famously used the sketch in a speech at the Conservative Party Conference in 1990, referring to the Liberal Democrats and t... | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
According to her former political secretary John Whittingdale, Thatcher did not understand why the joke was funny and had to be persuaded that it would work. The Conservatives' use of this sketch was derivative of an earlier Spitting Image sketch, itself derivative of the Python Dead Parrot sketch, in which the part of... | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
In a 1997 Saturday Night Live performance of the sketch, Cleese added a line to the rant: "Its metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians!" In an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Palin attributed an almost dead audience to his seeing guests reverently mouthing the words of the sketch, rather than laug... | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
to which Cleese said, "I thought you'd never ask! "For the 1999 Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python TV special, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made a South Park version of the sketch depicting Cartman angrily returning a dead Kenny to Kyle's shop. Using much of the dialogue from the original sketch, it ends with Terry ... | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
In a 2002 interview with Michael Parkinson, John Cleese said that when he and Palin were performing the sketch on Drury Lane, Palin made him laugh by saying, when asked if his slug could talk, "It mutters a bit" instead of "Not really." When Cleese eventually stopped laughing, he couldn't remember where they were in th... | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
He also says that when he and Palin were asked to do the sketch for Saturday Night Live they sat down together to try to remember the lines, and when they got stuck they considered just going out and stopping somebody on the street to ask how it went, since everybody seemed to have it memorised. In his published 2006 d... | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
The sketch ended with the shopkeeper saying he has a selection of cheeses, transitioning into the Cheese Shop Sketch. The entire sketch ended like the City Center performance, with the shopkeeper offering Mr Praline to come back to his place, and Mr Praline replying "I thought you'd never ask." In their final performan... | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
In the episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert from 13 November 2015, Cleese is a guest on the show. At the end of the big furry hat segment (where Stephen Colbert – and in this specific instance, Cleese – create nonsensical rules), Cleese asks, "Do you want to come back to my place?" and Colbert replies, "I thou... | Wikipedia - Dead Parrot sketch - Variations of the sketch |
In the film Baahubali: The Beginning, the Kalakeya tribe speak Kiliki. After the success of the film in December 2015, singer Smita released "Baha Kiliki", the first song in Kiliki language, onto YouTube. It has over 108 millions views. In 2017, it was used in the film Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, the sequel of Baahuba... | Wikipedia - Kiliki language - Usage |
In the film Cold Mountain (2003), Ada gives Inman a copy of Bartram's book and her photograph on the day he leaves to fight in the Civil War, and he treasures both even as they become tattered.In Lauren Groff's short story, "Flower Hunters", from her collection, Florida, the unnamed female protagonist has immersed hers... | Wikipedia - William Bartram - In popular culture |
In the film Cruising, Detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino) goes into a store and has the handkerchief code explained to him by a hanky salesman (Powers Boothe). In the early 1980s, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford made the handkerchief code part of his stage costume. In the music video for "Heading Out to the Highway", H... | Wikipedia - Bandana code - In popular culture |
In the film Evolution selenium was mentioned as an active ingredient of Head & Shoulders. A group of academics, therefore, tried to use this brand of shampoo to stop an alien invasion after discovering that the alien life form was sensitive to selenium. | Wikipedia - Selenium disulfide - Popular culture |
In the film Ex Machina, the name of the company designing the artificial intelligence is named 'Blue Book' after Wittgenstein's set of notes, and it is loosely modeled on Google.In the novel "A Philosophical Investigation" by Phillip Kerr a dialogue between a killer identified as neuro-anatomically different and an int... | Wikipedia - Blue and Brown Books - In popular culture |
The murderer assigned the code name Wittgenstein is tipped into murder by his "diagnosis" hacks into the database and proceeds to murder other abnormal individuals, code named after other philosophers, to prevent them from murdering others. Eventually he is identified but attempts suicide prior to his anticipated trial... | Wikipedia - Blue and Brown Books - In popular culture |
In the film Ghostbusters II, an NES Advantage was used to guide the Statue of Liberty to the center of the city during the climax of the movie.In the 1989 television series Captain N: The Game Master, the main character Kevin Keene can be seen in a live-action sequence playing Punch-Out! !, and another one playing The ... | Wikipedia - NES Advantage - In popular culture |
In the film GoldenEye, James Bond makes a jump over the edge of a dam in Russia (in reality the dam is in Switzerland: Verzasca Dam, and the jump was genuine, not an animated special effect). The jump in the dam later makes an appearance as a Roadblock task in the 14th season of the reality competition series The Amazi... | Wikipedia - Bungee jumping - In popular culture |
This actual event took place shortly before Selena's murder on 31 March 1995. In Valiant (comics) #171 (January 8, 1966), the two boys from Worrag island in "The Wild Wonders" in a circus story, jump from high up and seem ready to crash to their deaths, but are stopped by elasticated ropes tied to an ankle of each one.... | Wikipedia - Bungee jumping - In popular culture |
In the film H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, the Martians are large, bullish creatures, keeping the two large eyes and tentacles described in the book; but do not seem to possess the beak-like mouth. They meet the same fate as the originals, having caught Earthly diseases. Their fighting-machines are extremely tall, ... | Wikipedia - Red weed - Pendragon Pictures film |
The aliens crash to Earth in cylinders, which more closely resemble a meteorite (a similar aspect was used in the 1953 film adaptation), and spread their red weed during the invasion. They feed on human blood, extracted from the human prisoners via a Handling-machine. For these reasons, a character names them "vampires... | Wikipedia - Red weed - Pendragon Pictures film |
In the film Hidden Figures, Katherine Goble resorts to the Euler method in calculating the re-entry of astronaut John Glenn from Earth orbit. | Wikipedia - Euler approximations - In popular culture |
In the film Le Libertin (2000), the philosopher Denis Diderot is depicted as a screwball eccentric, trying to have his forbidden Encyclopédie printed under the eyes of Catholic fanatics. The film is staged in the chateau of a crazy Baron, loosely based on the Baron d'Holbach. In reality, the Baron d'Holbach was a devot... | Wikipedia - Piganino - Le Libertin |
In the film Lone Survivor (2013), Luttrell was portrayed by actor Mark Wahlberg. Luttrell makes a significant cameo appearance (uncredited) in at least three scenes in the film and is present in other scenes, as well. He first appears as one of the SEALs, referred to as "Frankie" by Lt. Murphy (Taylor Kitsch), lighthea... | Wikipedia - Marcus Luttrell - Films |
His second appearance is during the presentation of the rules of engagement for Operation Red Wings where he can be seen shaking his head at the rules governing return fire. This scene is significant. In his book, Lone Survivor, Marcus explains extensively how these rules created substantial risk for the forces in Afgh... | Wikipedia - Marcus Luttrell - Films |
His third appearance is later in the film as one of the 16 special operators aboard the doomed Chinook helicopter sent to rescue Luttrell and his team. The camera stops on him and several real-life SEALs just before the Taliban's rocket-propelled grenade comes through the open rear bay door and impacts the Chinook's in... | Wikipedia - Marcus Luttrell - Films |
In the film Miracle on 34th Street (1947), the identity of Kris Kringle (played by Edmund Gwenn) as the one and only "Santa Claus" was validated by a state court, based on the delivery of 21 bags of mail (famously carried into the courtroom) to the character in question. The contention was that it would have been illeg... | Wikipedia - Electronic stamp - In fiction |
The novel Post Office (1971), written by poet and novelist Charles Bukowski, is a semi-autobiographical account of his life over the years as a letter carrier. Bukowski would, under duress, quit and years later return as a mail clerk. His personal account would detail the work at lengths as frustrating, menial, boring,... | Wikipedia - Electronic stamp - In fiction |
David Brin's novel The Postman (1985) portrays the USPS and its returned services as a staple to revive the United States government in a post-apocalyptic world. It was adapted as a film starring Kevin Costner and Larenz Tate in 1997. The comedy film Dear God (1996), starring Greg Kinnear and Laurie Metcalf, portrays a... | Wikipedia - Electronic stamp - In fiction |
In 2015, The Inspectors, which depicts a group of postal inspectors investigating postal crimes, debuted on CBS. The series uses the USPIS seal and features messages and tips from the Chief Postal Inspector at the end of each episode. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (original title: Dead Letters), also known as Lost Letter M... | Wikipedia - Electronic stamp - In fiction |
In the film Mirror Mirror, elements of the Magic Mirror are featured as a large mirror that serves as a portal to the Mirror House where Queen Clementianna consults with the Mirror Queen (portrayed by Lisa Roberts Gillian and voiced by Julia Roberts whose image was used for the character). To access the portal to the M... | Wikipedia - Magic Mirror (Snow White) - Mirror Mirror |
Queen Clementianna keeps asking her what is this price that she is talking about. The Mirror Queen once provided a love potion to Queen Clementianna to make the King fall in love with her and then briefly turned Brighton into a cockroach. When Snow White destroys the necklace around the Beast which turns it back into t... | Wikipedia - Magic Mirror (Snow White) - Mirror Mirror |
In the film Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Tom Cruise plays super spy Ethan Hunt fighting the forces of evil, and goes freediving in a scene to expose the villains. The Pearl by John Steinbeck (1947) is a novel about a poor pearl diver, Kino, who finds the 'Pearl of Heaven', which is exceptionally valuable, changi... | Wikipedia - Free diving - Fiction |
In South Sea Adventure (1952) by Willard Price the Hunt brothers, marooned on a coral island, use free diving to collect both pearls and fresh water. In Ian Fleming's (1964) James Bond novel You Only Live Twice, the character Kissy Suzuki is an ama diver. | Wikipedia - Free diving - Fiction |
This connection was also mentioned in the film version. Man from Atlantis was a 1970s TV series which featured a superhero with the ability to breathe underwater and freedive in his own special way. The Big Blue (1988) is a romantic film about two world-class freedivers, a heavily fictionalized depiction of the rivalry... | Wikipedia - Free diving - Fiction |
In the movie Phoenix Blue (2001), protagonist Rick is a musician who freedives competitively. The children's novel The Dolphins of Laurentum by Caroline Lawrence (2003), which takes place in ancient Rome, describes the applications of freediving (sponge and pearl diving) and its hazards, as one of the principal charact... | Wikipedia - Free diving - Fiction |
In the film Into the Blue (2005) starring Jessica Alba, a group of divers find themselves in deep trouble with a drug lord after they come upon the illicit cargo of a sunken airplane in the Caribbean. Jessica Alba is an accomplished freediver, and did much of the underwater work; some other stunts were performed by Meh... | Wikipedia - Free diving - Fiction |
H2O: Just Add Water Series 3 added a freediver (Will Benjamin played by Luke Mitchell) as a regular. Freediving is featured in some episodes. The Greater Meaning of Water (2010) is an independent film about competitive constant weight freediving, focusing on the 'zen' of freediving. | Wikipedia - Free diving - Fiction |
In the Canadian television series Corner Gas, the character Karen Pelly (Tara Spencer-Nairn) competed in static apnea, ranking fifth in Canada with a personal best of over six minutes. In the American television series Baywatch episode "The Chamber" (Session 2, Episode 17), the character Mitch Buchannon rescues a diver... | Wikipedia - Free diving - Fiction |
In the film National Lampoon's Animal House, Boon (Peter Riegert) orders a "double Rock and Rye and seven “Carlings" at a bar. Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo by The Grateful Dead, lyrics by Robert Hunter references Rock and Rye in the lyrics. “Half a cup of rock and rye /Farewell to you old southern sky / I'm on... | Wikipedia - Rock and Rye - In media |
In the film Orchids, My Intersex Adventure, Phoebe Hart and her sister Bonnie Hart, both women with CAIS, documented their exploration of AIS and other intersex issues.Recording artist Dalea is a Hispanic-American Activist who is public about her CAIS. She has given interviews about her condition and founded Girl Comet... | Wikipedia - Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome - Society and culture |
They were told about their intersex condition weeks before beginning their modelling career.In the 1991 Japanese horror novel Ring and its sequels, by Koji Suzuki (later adapted into Japanese, Korean, and American films), the central antagonist Sadako has this syndrome, as revealed by Dr Nagao when confronted by Ryuji ... | Wikipedia - Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome - Society and culture |
The character, Lauren Cooper, played by Bailey De Young, was the first intersex series regular on American television.In season 8, episode 11 ("Delko for the Defense") of the TV series CSI: Miami, the primary suspect has AIS which gets him off a rape charge.In series 8, episode 5 of Call the Midwife, a woman discovers ... | Wikipedia - Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome - Society and culture |
In the film Patton, Coningham is played by John Barrie. During his scene, in which General George S Patton is complaining about lack of air cover for American troops, Sir Arthur (Tedder) confirms to Patton that he will see no more German planes. As he has completed his sentence, German planes strafe the compound. Altho... | Wikipedia - Arthur Coningham (RAF officer) - In popular culture |
In the film Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Velma wears an orange PVC outfit to look attractive, although she is uncomfortable in it. In the Batman film series, Batman's costume is of rubber; in Batman Returns, Catwoman wears a rubber catsuit. The artwork of Allen Jones has been strongly influenced by the imagery of ... | Wikipedia - PVC and rubber fetishism - In popular culture |
In an episode of the American television sitcom The Nanny, Fran Drescher wore a red PVC outfit. In the music video for "Scream" (1995), Michael Jackson and his sister Janet Jackson wore black PVC pants. The English television and radio personality Zoë Ball wore black PVC pants in one of her appearances on the English T... | Wikipedia - PVC and rubber fetishism - In popular culture |
In 101 Dalmatians and 102 Dalmatians, Cruella (played by Glenn Close) wears red PVC thigh high boots, black PVC crotch boots, and a black PVC belt. In certain episodes of the American television series Smallville, the actress Erica Durance appears wearing PVC clothes. In 2007, the Brazilian singer Ivete Sangalo wore a ... | Wikipedia - PVC and rubber fetishism - In popular culture |
In recent years, latex and PVC have appeared in the media, in TV series like Alias; in music videos by pop stars like Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, and Thalía; and even in fashion trends. In Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007), a British drama television series, Gemma Chan wore latex get-ups to for her role of Charlotte, t... | Wikipedia - PVC and rubber fetishism - In popular culture |
In the film Snowpiercer, as well as in the television spin-off, an apocalyptic global ice-age is caused by the introduction of a fictional substance, dubbed, CW-7 into the atmosphere, with the intention of preventing global-warming by blocking out the light of the sun. In the Novel The Ministry for the Future by Kim St... | Wikipedia - Stratospheric sulfur aerosols - In popular-culture |
In the film Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Torch Lady from the Columbia Pictures logo fades into a statue of Sancarlone. | Wikipedia - Sancarlone - Trivia |
In the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, a Klingon Bird-of-Prey destroys Pioneer 10 as target practice.In the serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative 17776, one of the main characters is a sentient Pioneer 10. | Wikipedia - Pioneer 10 - Pioneer 10 in popular media |
In the film Summer Holiday, Cliff Richard and friends drive a double-decker bus fitted out as a caravan across Europe. In The Mummy Returns, Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser), Evelyn O'Connell (Rachel Weisz), Ardeth Bay (Oded Fehr), Jonathan Carnahan (John Hannah) and Alex O'Connell (Freddie Boath) are chased by mummies ... | Wikipedia - Double decker bus - In popular culture |
The stunts involving the bus were performed by Maurice Patchett, a London Transport bus driving instructor. A double deck bus also featured at the end of the final episode of the sitcom The Young Ones. The British sitcom On the Buses featured double deckers, driven by Stan Butler (portrayed by Reg Varney). | Wikipedia - Double decker bus - In popular culture |
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the aforementioned Knight Bus is a triple-decker bus which can fit under bridges due to magic. During the 2012 Summer Olympics, Czech artist David Černý presented his moving sculpture named London Booster, a full-sized "London double-decker bus" (actually ex-Southern Vectis ... | Wikipedia - Double decker bus - In popular culture |
The double decker bus was also a star in a Saturday morning TV series titled Here Come the Double Deckers in the 1970s. A double decker bus was featured on the 2009 Doctor Who episode ‘Planet of the Dead’, where it transported its passengers through a wormhole to the alien planet of San Helios. The British television s... | Wikipedia - Double decker bus - In popular culture |
In the film The Arrival (1996), Zane Zaminsky (Charlie Sheen) and Calvin (Richard Schiff) work at Owens Valley for the SETI Project and discover an alien signal. In the film Contact (1997), the Owens Valley 40-meter telescope is mentioned as the location where Dr. Eleanor Arroway (Jodie Foster) did her thesis work. | Wikipedia - Owens Valley Radio Observatory - In popular culture |
In the film The Creation of the Humanoids (1962), set in the future after a nuclear war, the blue-skinned androids known as "humanoids" are trying to infiltrate human society by creating android replicas of humans that have recently died, using a procedure called a "thalamic transplant" to take the memories and persona... | Wikipedia - Mind uploading in fiction - Film |
In the film Tron (1982), human programmer Flynn is digitized by an artificial intelligence called the "Master Control Program", bringing him inside the virtual world of the computer. Mamoru Oshii/Masamune Shirow's anime/manga Ghost in the Shell (1989–) portrays a future world in which human beings aggressively mechaniz... | Wikipedia - Mind uploading in fiction - Film |
Its sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence deals heavily with the philosophical ramifications of this problem. In the film Robotrix (1991), a criminally insane scientist, Ryuichi Sakamoto, transfers his mind into a cyborg and immediately commits a series of rapes and murders. Among his victims is female police officer... | Wikipedia - Mind uploading in fiction - Film |
The scientist Dr. Sara transfers Selena's mind into a cyborg named Eve-27, then copies her own persona into a robotic assistant named Ann. The cyborg-robot team pursue the criminal Sakamoto by investigating a series of murdered prostitutes. The film The Lawnmower Man (1992) deals with attempts by scientists to boost th... | Wikipedia - Mind uploading in fiction - Film |
After becoming superintelligent, Jobe finds a way to transfer his mind completely into virtual reality, leaving his physical body as a wizened husk. The film Freejack (1992) describes a future where the wealthy can seize people out of the past, moments before their death, and transfer their own mind & consciousness to ... | Wikipedia - Mind uploading in fiction - Film |
The computer equipment which stores a mind temporarily while it awaits transplant is referred to as "the spiritual switchboard". The Thirteenth Floor (1999) is set in late 1990s Los Angeles, where Hannon owns a multibillion-dollar computer enterprise, and is the inventor of a newly completed virtual reality (VR) simula... | Wikipedia - Mind uploading in fiction - Film |
In the film The 6th Day (2000), the contents of a brain can be downloaded via the optic nerves, and copied to clones. Chrysalis, a 2007 French movie about an experimental machine capable of partially uploading minds. Minds cannot function in purely digital form, they must be placed back into a human container. | Wikipedia - Mind uploading in fiction - Film |
The central conceit of the 2009 science fiction film Avatar is that human consciousness can be used to control genetically grown bodies (Avatars) based on the native inhabitants of an alien world, in order to integrate into their society. This is not true mind uploading, as the humans only control the Avatars remotely ... | Wikipedia - Mind uploading in fiction - Film |
At the end of the film, Jake's mind is uploaded to Eywa and successfully returns to his Avatar body leaving his human body lifeless. The basis for this type of transfer is not explained in detail, but it seems to have a physical basis rather than being something more mystical, given that Grace had earlier described Eyw... | Wikipedia - Mind uploading in fiction - Film |
facility in New Jersey. In the 2014 movie Transcendence, Dr. Will Caster, an artificial intelligence researcher, is assassinated with a bullet laced with radioactive material and has his consciousness uploaded to several quantum processors (and eventually the internet) in order for him to survive in a digital form. In ... | Wikipedia - Mind uploading in fiction - Film |
In the 2015 film Advantageous, Gwen Koh is made to choose between having her consciousness transferred to a different body in order to keep her job as the face of a technology company or not having the resources to give her daughter the education that will maintain her position in a socially and economically stratified... | Wikipedia - Mind uploading in fiction - Film |
In the film The Hunt for Red October, when Captain Ramius takes the dead political officer's missile key, a fellow officer, the ship's doctor, requests that he have the key, using the two-man rule as his reason, saying, "The reason for having two missile keys is so that no one man may arm the missiles." The two-man rul... | Wikipedia - Four-eyes principle - In popular culture |
Ryan was serving as the second man because the Secretary of Defense was killed in a terrorist attack. In the movie version, in which Ryan was a CIA analyst, the second man was Secretary of State Sidney Owens. In the film WarGames, a two-man missile crew receives and verifies an order to launch, but one man refuses to t... | Wikipedia - Four-eyes principle - In popular culture |
Unknown to them, the attack was a simulation; this incident (as well as a significant rate of similar refusals among other missile crews) sets up the basis of the movie, in which the Department of Defense puts the missile launch system under fully automatic control to prevent a future refusal to launch. Similar to WarG... | Wikipedia - Four-eyes principle - In popular culture |
The Star Trek franchise depicts the two-man rule and other similar variations in critical situations, often concerning arming or cancelling a ship's self-destruct mechanism (except for Star Trek: Voyager in which only the Captain's authorization was required). Some variants require the authorization of three senior off... | Wikipedia - Four-eyes principle - In popular culture |
In Bee Movie, when honey production is ordered to be halted, two workers simultaneously turn their ignition keys to unlock a shutdown button. In Torch of Freedom by Eric Flint, the nuclear self-destruct device for an important installation requires at least two people to activate. Nonetheless, one person gains access t... | Wikipedia - Four-eyes principle - In popular culture |
In the first episode of the ABC series Last Resort, Marcus Chaplin and Sam Kendal, the captain and XO respectively, perform a two-man launch procedure, prior to questioning the attack order. In The Day After, the United States initiates a counterattack against the Soviet Union. This includes a complete two-person LGM-3... | Wikipedia - Four-eyes principle - In popular culture |
In Pixar's Inside Out animation movie, the father's personified emotions initiate punishment for Riley's misbehavior using a two-man rule system to arm a trigger for "putting the foot down". In the "Solitude" episode of the CBS series Supergirl, the villain Indigo kills all the silo personnel to take the keys, and then... | Wikipedia - Four-eyes principle - In popular culture |
In the film The Lost Continent (1968), a dilapidated tramp steamer Corita is smuggling a dangerous explosive cargo. The Captain ignores a customs launch wanting to inspect his ship as he is smuggling white phosphorus. Some passengers are trying to escape their past indiscretions or eluding capture (one with stolen bear... | Wikipedia - Tramp trade - Examples |
The crew is a motley, fun-loving, hard-drinking lot who are smuggling rum. The crew thinks one aloof crew member might be a German spy because he is so secretive and he has a locked box under his bed. In the film The African Queen (1951), a tramp steamer, the African Queen, is converted into a torpedo boat to sink a Ge... | Wikipedia - Tramp trade - Examples |
In the 1937 musical comedy film Something to Sing About, hoofer Terry Rooney (James Cagney) takes his bride, singer Rita Wyatt (Evelyn Daw) on a tramp steamer for their honeymoon. They are the only passengers. Rooney is turning his back on Hollywood, disgusted by his experience working on one picture. | Wikipedia - Tramp trade - Examples |
The film is a hit, but no one can find him. When the ship returns at last to San Francisco, he discovers that he is Hollywood's newest star. There is a long scene aboard ship where the crew joins in a talent show. | Wikipedia - Tramp trade - Examples |
Much of the action in Across the Pacific, a 1942 spy film set in the three weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor, takes place aboard the Genoa Maru, a fictional Japanese cargo ship. The passengers include: former Captain Rick Leland (Humphrey Bogart), a disgraced United States Army Coast Artillery Corps, working as a... | Wikipedia - Tramp trade - Examples |
Characters spar over the dinner table and lurk in corridors. The Robert Heinlein novel The Rolling Stones concerns a family who buy a used spacecraft and travel the solar system, financed partly by trading goods to asteroid miners. The novel was derived from a shorter story titled Tramp Space Ship. | Wikipedia - Tramp trade - Examples |
In the Star Wars series, the oft-appearing Millennium Falcon is a tramp starship, as it is a freighter with no fixed route. In Episode VII, the new protagonist encounters the Falcon because it has been chartered by a king to haul fictional dangerous beasts. In Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Nazis intercept the Ark of ... | Wikipedia - Tramp trade - Examples |
In the film The Matrix, the main character Neo (played by Keanu Reeves) is offered the choice between a red pill and a blue pill by rebel leader Morpheus (played by Laurence Fishburne). Morpheus says "You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take th... | Wikipedia - Red pill and blue pill - In The Matrix |
The red pill, on the other hand, serves as a "location device" to locate the subject's body in the real world and to prepare them to be "unplugged" from the Matrix. Neo takes the red pill and awakens in the real world, where he is forcibly ejected from the liquid-filled chamber in which he has obliviously been lying. A... | Wikipedia - Red pill and blue pill - In The Matrix |
In the film The Rules of the Game (1939), a couple flirts in the foreground while the woman's husband enters in the background. Director Jean Renoir chose to keep the husband out-of-focus so that his presence is hinted, but not emphasized. | Wikipedia - Shallow focus - Examples |
In the film Tron (1982), the character Bit took this shape when not speaking. In the cartoon series Steven Universe (2013-2019), Steven's shield bubble, briefly used in the episode Change Your Mind, had this shape. | Wikipedia - Compound of dodecahedron and icosahedron - In popular culture |
In the film WarGames, the supercomputer WOPR simulates all possible games of tic-tac-toe as a metaphor for all possible scenarios of a nuclear war, each of them ending in a nuclear holocaust (mutual assured destruction). The computer then exclaims: "A strange game; the only winning move is not to play". In the Star Tre... | Wikipedia - No-win situation - In other media |
In the film Would You Rather, players are given the option to stab a fellow contestant with an ice pick or whip another contestant with a sjambok.In Willard Price's Elephant Adventure, the cruel Arab slaver known as the Thunder Man enjoys flogging captives with a sjambok made from hippopotamus hide. The Islamic preache... | Wikipedia - Sjambok - In popular culture |
In the film and graphics industries, 3D lookup tables (3D LUTs) are used for color grading and for mapping one color space to another. They are commonly used to calculate preview colors for a monitor or digital projector of how an image will be reproduced on another display device, typically the final digitally project... | Wikipedia - 3D lookup table - Summary |
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