The most famous Easter eggs in games. Interesting Easter eggs and details in famous films (22 photos). A dizzying quest for Archer fans

Many cinephiles watch their favorite films very intently over and over again in order to find in them previously unnoticed details. Today we would like to introduce you to the most interesting and unexpected Easter eggs and references that have been found in famous movies. We think this post will definitely be appreciated by all cinema fans.

Doc's bandana in Back to the Future 3 is made from his shirt in Back to the Future 2.

In this scene in The Matrix (1999), it was impossible to make the camera not reflect in the doorknob. Therefore, half of Morpheus was “finished” on the pen.

In Cars, flies are small cars with wings.

In The Truman Show, Truman's ring is a hidden camera.

In "Hercules" (1997) during the parade of planets, you can see only 6 planets lined up in a row. This is the Earth and 5 other planets that the ancient Greeks knew about. The planet Uranus was discovered in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto (which is a planet anyway) in 1930.

The flag that covered the Comedian's coffin in Watchmen (2009) has fifty-one stars, because in the movie's universe, as a result of the actions of Doctor Manhattan and the Comedian himself, Vietnam became a US state.

In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), when Peter Quill is arrested, the display says that he has a built-in translator in his neck, which explains how he can talk to all aliens.

In Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), the prayer gesture is like a V8 engine.

In The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Will Smith, who plays Chris Gardner, walks by the man at the end of the film who is the real Chris Gardner, on whose life the film is based.

It wasn't until filming of the pool scene in Poltergeist (1982) that actress JoBeth Williams learned that the skeletons were real. It was cheaper for the director in those years to buy skeletons from a medical company than to make them out of rubber.

In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013), every president on Rushmore gets a pie in the face, except for Lincoln, who gets a pie in the back of the head, just like a bullet in his time.

When "Home Alone" Kevin digs through Buzz's stuff, he finds a portrait of his girlfriend, and says "woof" implying she looks like a dog. The director thought it would be rude to use a photo of a girl for this shot, and asked the art director to dress up his son as a girl for the portrait.

In Django Unchained (2012), in a scene in Candyland, a man in a bar asks Django his name. When he says "Django, first D", the man replies, "I know." This actor's name is Franco Nero, he is the actor who played Django in the 1966 film.

In "The Brave Little Toaster (1987)", all the walls are only clean to the height that Blanky can reach.

For the filming of Interstellar (2014), Christopher Nolan planted 200 hectares of corn because he thought it would look bad if CGI was used. After filming was completed, he collected and sold corn, thus recapturing part of the budget.

The very first line uttered by James Rhodes in Iron Man 2 (2010) breaks the 4th wall, and is dedicated to the change of the actor playing the role of Colonel Rhodes.

In Batman (1989), a TV presenter stops wearing makeup after the Joker poisons cosmetics.

In the first scene" Pulp Fiction"Vincent Vega can be seen going to the toilet.

In the movie "The Fifth Element" Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, and the Brooklyn Bridge are on a hill compared to the city, as the movie mentions that the level of the world's oceans has fallen, which has formed new land.

In The Lion King, unlike the rest of the lions, Scar's claws are in fighting condition throughout the movie.

In The Little Mermaid (1998), Mickey, Goofy, Donald Duck, and Kermit the Frog can be seen in the crowd during Neptune's speech.

In Dogs vs. Cats, the dogs put the gear into "Sit" while parking.

As you know, on Easter we have a popular custom of beating eggs. In Western tradition, adults hide Easter eggs so that children can look for them - whoever collects the most wins.From this custom, jokes hidden by developers in programs or video games were called "Easter eggs" or "Easter eggs" (English Easter Eggs).

Especially for Easter, we have collected (and tested) a selection of 20 funny secrets.

Windows

Botanist
Let's start with the classics. Many people know that in Windows you cannot create a file or folder called Con. According to legend, Bill Gates in childhood had the nickname con, i.e. botanist. And when Gates grew up, he did everything so that there were no such files and folders in his system. Beautiful story, but the explanation is much simpler: con is short for console since the MS-DOS operating system.

Alternative mathematics

The usual and engineering Windows calculator is considered differently. Try calculating 2 plus 2 times 2 and compare the results.


Google

head in the fridge
If you enter the number “241543903” without quotes in a Google image search, a lot of photos of people sticking their heads in the refrigerator will appear in the results.

Barrel
To perform aerobatics, search for the phrase "do a barrel roll".

Starcraft
The request "zerg rush" will launch a mini-game where the user must call out the letters "O" attacking the search engine page.

gravity
Follow the link and google something. The search works even in this state! Yandex has a similar Easter egg.

Arkanoid

Type "atari breakout" in Google image search and set records.

google dinosaur

The developers of the Google Chrome browser have hidden a mini-game in the program. The internet connection error page shows a monochrome dinosaur. By pressing the spacebar, he starts to run along the track. To jump over the cacti, the user must again press the space bar, and to duck - the down arrow.




Do not blink
The request "blink html" will make you remember the annoying LJ layout of the beginning of the 2000s.

Translator in reverse
Type the phrase "I can certainly write in English", Google will translate it "I certainly NOT I can write in English.

Doctor Who

Enter "police box" in the map search. Drag the street view icon to the search result and go inside the blue booth.


YouTube

Harlem shake
The request "do the harlem shake" will make the YouTube logo dance first, and then other elements on the page.

rainbow font

The request "Doge meme" changes all fonts and text color on YouTube.

mysterious channel
The request "webdriver torso" changes the design of the issue to red and blue rectangles, similar to the video from the Youtube channel of the same name. In Google, this request will change the logo of the search engine. For more on the mysterious Webdriver torso channel, see the video below.



star Wars
Phrase from legendary film about a galaxy far, far away, “use the force luke” makes YouTube elements “float” on the page, and search results can be moved with the mouse cursor.


uTorrent

Secret tetris

In the uTorrent program, select Help > About and press "T" on the English keyboard layout. Press "T" again to exit the game.

8-bit melody
If you click on the program logo in the same "About" window, a simple 8-bit melody will sound.


WinRAR

Ocean is shaking

Open the "About" window and click on the icon with a stack of books - it will fall and bounce 10 times. If you click on the inscription WinRAR, then the sea will be covered with ripples. With repeated clicks, a lone sail will appear on the horizon.

Skype

Secret emoticons

Skype exists. great amount hidden emoticons. Here are some of them: (finger), (rock), (smoking), (drunk), (mooning), (tauri), (dog), (football), (oliver), (movie), (idea), ( brokenheart), (mail) - enter any of these words and send to the addressee.

For example, the (zilmer) emoji is Priidu Zilmer, Skype's lead designer, and the (wfh) emoji means "working from home." For fans of the English football club Liverpool, there is a whole set of unique emoticons: (LFClaugh), (LFCfacepalm), (LFCparty), (LFCworried).

Bonus

Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Kline, which is considered almost the bible of geeks. According to the plot, in the future, millions of people run away from problems in a multi-user virtual reality called OASIS. Its creator, billionaire and geek Halliday, dies and bequeaths his fortune to the player who will be able to find three virtual keys with the help of left clues. And for this you need to be the same prosperous geek as Holliday himself.

There is no doubt that Ready Player One will be full of Easter eggs and references to cult works. They are in almost every frame of the teaser - you just need to take a closer look.

The references begin even before immersion in virtual reality. If you listen closely, the slow-motion melody of the song from the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" plays off-screen at the beginning. This is no coincidence - the plot of the "First Player" is largely inspired by the story of Charlie and Willy Wonka.

When main character enters the bar, then on the left you can see the silhouettes of Harley Quinn and Deathstroke - characters from DC comics.

A few seconds later, a whirlwind of spinning bodies is seen. Among them, a man in a hat and a hoodie is guessed - apparently, this is Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings.

In the next frame, the Steel Giant appears - a robot from the full-length cartoon of the same name. According to the director, the Steel Giant will play an important role in the film. In the same frame, someone else is walking next to the robot. We met a lot of similar images: it could be at least Kenshi Takahashi from Mortal Kombat, at least Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden.

The next frame - and we see the "DeLorean", the famous car from the series of films "Back to the Future". It appears several times in the trailer and appears to be the protagonist's car. We can even see the dates on the dashboard. There, of course, October 26, 1985 is set!

In the mass battle, you can see outlandish riders on ostriches. This is a reference to the old arcade game Joust. Here you can also see a scorpion that resembles a monster from the game Final Fantasy VII, but this may also be a reference to Wasteland 2. It is ridden by someone in a Superman cape, with a saber and, it seems, Napoleon's cocked hat.

The next frame shows another battle involving Freddy Krueger himself! Behind the maniac you can see Duke Nukem, and on the left - Kitana from Mortal Kombat.

The teaser focuses on another participant in the battle. According to one version, this is Voldemort from Harry Potter, according to another, a super mutant from the Fallout universe. He is armed with an assault rifle from the Halo series, and his cybernetic arm resembles part of a nanosuit from the Crysis series.

Apparently, it was he who blew up Freddy Krueger for coins!

The music is changing. We hear the song Tom Sawyer of the rock band Rush, James Halliday's favorite band, according to the book. Under it, riders get into their cars. What kind of cars you will not find here. For example, the red Plymouth Fury (see right) is the Christina killer car from John Carpenter's film of the same name based on the book by Stephen King.

Next to Christina are Lara Croft and Dizzy from Gears of War. Behind them parked the truck of Team A from the television series of the same name.

In the next scene, a red motorcycle, similar to Kaneda's bike from the Akira anime, rushes between the cars. True, in the film it is slightly changed and resembles the futuristic light cycles from the movie Tron. Later, we can even make out the stickers on it: Atari, SEGA, Taito Corporation - cult gaming companies. Only Hello Kitty is a little knocked out.

And the Interceptor from Mad Max is also in the race. It is not very visible due to the rest of the participants and the bike, but for a couple of moments you can still distinguish it. Look closely, it's right behind the bike!

But the most curious thing in the trailer is not so much the characters and details from cult works, but the hidden and non-obvious Easter eggs. For example, at the very beginning of the scene on the bridge, you can see a QR code on the hood of a car.

Enthusiasts have already deciphered it and found out that the code leads to the site

It is curious that Easter eggs do not end there. If you go to the official website of the film and close the trailer that is downloaded from YouTube, you can see a board of winners in the style of old video games. It seems that it also contains some kind of Easter egg, but enthusiasts have not yet deciphered it to the end.

What Easter eggs and references did you find?

A term that serves to identify intentionally hidden in films or computer games ah messages, pictures, items, secret locations or references to other events and works.

What is EASTER Egg - meaning, definition in simple words.

In simple words, Easter eggs are, as a rule, some kind of message or message from the creators of the film or game hidden inside the filed. Most often, this is some kind of reference to another film, book, song or computer game, which inspired the authors when creating their product. In most cases, Easter eggs are hidden deep in the game worlds, and in order to find them, you need to perform a series of far from obvious actions. Sometimes, easter eggs can be placed in the form of various posters or inscriptions in the background, where they remain almost invisible unless the viewer or gamer begins to closely examine the situation.

First EASTER Egg.

The first Easter egg in the modern sense of the term is considered to be a secret room in the game. Adventure.

This game was released by Atari in 1979 for their game console " Atari 2600».

game designer ( developer) of the game was Warren Robinett. But, during the development of the game itself, the situation in the company was very unstable, as a result, the president and CEO Atari was appointed by Ray Kassar, who made the decision not to publish the names of their developers in the games. In turn, such an initiative did not please Warren Robinett, and he decided to get around the ban in a very innovative way for that time. He entered a secret location into the game code, which could only be opened by finding the "Easter" point (in the literal sense of the point on the screen). The secret room contained the following message: CREATED BY WARREN ROBINETT", which means " Created by Warren Robinette". Thus, he left a mention of the real developer of the game, plus he created the first easter egg in video games.

This surprise was discovered in 1980 by a 15-year-old boy who actually reported the find to Atari. Initially, the company's management wanted to remove this Easter egg from the game code, but since it was technically not expedient and costly, they decided to leave it. Moreover, when gamers found out that there was a secret in the game, this greatly fueled interest in Adventure. After assessing the situation, the company's management decided to leave such Easter eggs in all their games. In other words, we can say that Atari started a real hunt for Easter eggs in their games.

On a note: this easter egg plays an important role in fantastic work Ernest Kline's Ready Player One, and in the Steven Spielberg movie of the same name based on this book.

EASTER Egg in games.

Since the creation of the first Easter egg by Warren Robinett, the computer games industry has expanded hundreds of times, and now Easter eggs are present in almost all games. Here are some funny references as an example:

Easter eggs in The Witcher 2.

In this case, The Witcher 2 developers are trolling the Assassin's Creed team. At the gates of the Bastille, you can find the body of a man in the clothes of an Assassin, who, apparently, made not the most successful "leap of faith" into a haystack.

Easter eggs in Fallout: New Vegas

Wandering through the wasteland, you can stumble upon a refrigerator with the remains inside. This is a clear reference to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In this case, the refrigerator did not help to survive the nuclear explosion.

In order to find this easter egg, you had to shoot the final boss with a rocket launcher and enter the "noclip" cheat code. After that, through the hole in the head of the final boss, we go to another room, where the head of John Romero, the creator of the Doom series, is waiting for us. This boss also needs to be "shooted", and then the game will really be won.

In this part of the game Diablo, there is a secret level, once on which you can arrange a total "genocide" of the most sinister creatures that exist in the world. Namely, the unicorns from the cartoon "My little pony". And why did they annoy the developers of Diablo so much?

EASTER Egg in films.

As for Easter eggs in the cinema, the situation here is not much different from the gaming industry. Sometimes the amount Easter eggs in films can be simply colossal. The previously mentioned movie "Ready Player One" is not worth talking about at all, since the whole movie is a solid easter egg. However, here are some more examples:

The film "THRON"

Classic Pac-Man runs around the monitor display and makes sounds like in the original game.

Cartoon "Toy Story"

For the success of a modern series, it is not enough to have a famously twisted plot and star composition actors. The personal participation of the viewer is important, for which the authors of the show come up with many games and riddles, called Easter eggs. They do not interfere with viewing and exist independently of the plot, but at the same time make fans look forward to new episodes in search of clues or new puzzles.

Ways to engage the audience largely depend on the tone and genre of the series. Sometimes writers resort to planting easter eggs when the show already has a fan base. In other series, transparent hints are laid down from the very beginning. They help to create the required atmosphere or in a hidden form to tell about an important plot twist.

Easter eggs for the most attentive

The simplest Easter eggs are placed in the frame simply for the sake of being found. For example, in one of the most popular animated series “Adventure Time”, a tiny snail appears in each episode, waving affably to the viewer. The task of the beholder is to find her during the series.

There are many such examples. In "Inside the ninth number" the scene is always the room or house number 9. Also in each series there is one constant object - a silver hare figurine. For the "Clairvoyant" they also came up with something similar and no less meaningless: in each episode, the authors hid a pineapple.

In the Fringe series, the viewer is constantly frightened by the mysterious Observer lurking somewhere in the background. A little later, other projects of the Fox television network began to use the services of this character. The observer could be seen everywhere, ranging from pop music shows and ending with sports broadcasts.

Everyone who is at least a little familiar with the animated series knows about Kenya from South Park, who is regularly killed and revived in the next series. Slightly less famous is Old Fred from SpongeBob, who once exclaimed "My leg!" This phrase was often heard in the first two seasons, then disappeared, but then returned to the great delight of the fans.

Continuing the theme of animated series, it is worth mentioning The Simpsons. In some episodes of the show, excerpts from another action movie about McBain are shown. They look like a parody of typical Hollywood blockbusters, but if you connect all the clips in the order of the release of the series, you get a short and logical story.

Easter eggs for the curious

Anagrams in Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad

Often, with the help of hidden messages, the authors help to understand the subtext of the situation or hint at what they will talk about next. For example, in the second season of Better Call Saul, the first letters of the episode titles were an anagram of FRINGSBACK ("The Fring is back"). But the creators of the series were in vain glad that they could carefully hide the hint of the appearance of Gus Fring. Vince Gilligan was going to solve the mystery in the summer, but inquisitive viewers figured out the puzzle back in April.

In the drama about Walter White, there is also a mystery with the titles of the episodes. If you choose the titles of the first and fourth episodes of the second season, you can guess about the plane crash over Albuquerque.

But even without anagrams, there are plenty of references to Breaking Bad. It’s the name “Better Call Saul,” which was written on the advertising sign above Saul’s office in the second season of Breaking Bad, and familiar locations, and little things like the preserved car number. Also, the series is united by a number of secondary characters.

The ubiquitous Nibbler and the alien language in Futurama

In the first episode of Futurama, Nibbler's shadow appears for a moment in the scene of Fry's accidental entry into the cryochamber. The twisted tale of multiple past adjustments, in which Nibbler travels to the year 2000, was only told in the fifth season.

It is worth mentioning the bizarre language, the inscriptions in which are visible on many city posters. This is not just a set of random characters, but two ciphers. The first replaces English letters with the corresponding characters. The second is much more difficult, but it was solved thanks to the perseverance and determination of the fans.

Countdown on How I Met Your Mother

Usually, hints about future plot moves are given in advance, but in the episode "Bad News" of the sixth season of the comedy How I Met Your Mother, a countdown occurs. It starts at 50 on the cover of the brochure, progresses to 49 in the next scene, then to 48 on the bottle label, and so on. The last number 001 is hidden in the taxi number. It is followed by the Expired sign (“Time is up”). Immediately after this, Marshal learns of the death of his father.

Easter eggs for lovers of the classics

Some series use Easter eggs to create a certain mood and entourage. Usually these are references to famous films that inspired the authors, or hidden elements of previous seasons.

A kaleidoscope of 1980s sci-fi scenes in Stranger Things

The hit "" will evoke nostalgic memories for fans of 1980s cult fiction. The series replicates the footage, camera angles, and content of many scenes from films such as Alien, ET, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and many more.

Initially, the authors of the show, the Duffer brothers, planned to make a television version of the film "It" based on the novel by Stephen King, but in the end they came up with their own story. It cannot be said that the brothers took advantage of other people's ideas: references to film classics are not striking and organically fit into the plot.

Allusions to Coen brothers films and past seasons in Fargo

The first thing that catches your eye is the signature style of filming cars, when the camera accompanies the car of the heroes from afar. Many frames and scenes are entirely borrowed from the Coen brothers. For example, in the third season, during Gloria's trip to Los Angeles, several scenes from "Barton Fink" can be seen, most notably - calling the administrator with a desk bell.

Maurice's comical trip to work, when he tries to throw a cigarette out the car window, but it gets on his pants and causes an accident, is similar to the similar incident with the Dude from The Big Lebowski. From there, the episode with a fantastic bowling alley and a stranger philosophizing at the bar is taken.

The UFO motifs from the second season indirectly refer to The Man Who Wasn't There, and the scenes in the forest and the Gerhardts' house are indirectly referenced to Miller's Crossing. Intersections are found even in such trifles as names and surnames secondary characters. And some characters were transferred to Fargo under other names, but you can’t confuse them with anyone. Remember the instantly seething veteran Carl Weathers, in which one of the Dude's best friends, Walter Sobchak, was reborn.

But Noah Hawley isn't limited to the Coen references: Seasons 2 and 3 are full of allusions to previous episodes. For example, the fish on the motivational poster in Leicester's basement appeared in the second season in Peggy Blomkvist's bathroom. And when asked about the damaged car body, the same heroine stated that she had hit a deer, like Lorne Malvo in the first season.

In the third season, one of the stumbling blocks is the stamp with Sisyphus depicted on it, about which there was so much discussion a year earlier. The UFO footage on Ennis' TV screen is taken from Season 2, as is the comical dialogue heard in the motel room where Nikki and Ray are staying.

Noah Hawley himself in an interview said that he did not seek to turn Fargo into a set of puzzles, where the audience pauses each frame and peers into the image in search of another find. But the fans who once came across the hidden Easter egg are unstoppable.

Easter eggs for hackers and detectives

Tasks for hackers from "Mr. Robot"

In the last couple of years, the interaction of series with the audience goes far beyond the screen. Dialogue with the viewer flows into the Internet, where broadcasting TV networks create thematic sites that complement art history. One of these series turned out to be "", which talks about hackers and computer security.

The central site was Who is Mr. Robot , which copies the console of a Linux server, and now looks more like a graphical workbench with an open terminal. It is ironic that on this site, anonymous hacker fans found at least two vulnerabilities that had to be hastily closed.

In the future, the emphasis from this site was transferred to others, the addresses of which appeared in the series. Basically, these are the resources of the fictitious corporation E Corp, various thematic promo pages, links to pictures with slogans and manifestos, or secure pages to which you need to find a login and password.

Online immersion in the series "Westworld"

Mr. Robot was followed by the Silicon Valley series, which opened the sites of Piebald Piper and venture capital firm Bream-Hall, but it has not yet gone beyond that. But another HBO project, Westworld, uses the Internet much more actively.

Their main Discover Westworld website is full of hidden tricks. Click and hold the mouse button on the round white logo in the center or just hold Shift: you will immediately see one of them. In addition, you can talk in text chat with a robot named Aeden and try to decipher its cryptic answers.

Having wandered around the site, you can stumble upon the rules for visiting the park, try to book a place for yourself for the next date, or take a personality test. Entering VIOLENTDELIGHTS in the Access line, you will be taken to the secret site of the Delos company, where several system messages and pieces of internal correspondence of employees are collected. If you really try hard, you can find a real treasure there: immediately after the end of the first season, a small video was discovered on the site, hinting that Elsie is probably still alive.

A dizzying quest for Archer fans

But the coolest Internet adventures were invented by the creators of the animated series Archer. In one of the episodes of the sixth season, one of the Reddit users noticed a hexadecimal code behind which was a shortened link to the video. A little later, other viewers guessed to open the audio track in the audio editor and received a new shortened address. Going through it to the ad site, they saw another encrypted message. After a few more steps, fans ended up on the website of the mad scientist Krieger.

The site was updated as episodes with new clues were released, and until the very end of the season, it attracted the attention of fans who, during the course of the quest, had to solve a crossword puzzle, press the “final” button a million times and solve dozens of riddles in order to end up with a funny prize.

Surprisingly, in the seventh season, the audience was waiting for a new, even larger game. As a prize, the creators gave fans a file with a pirate model for a 3D printer.

Tell us in the comments about the Easter eggs in the series that you remember.