Perhaps one of the hardest to see vexilloids is the orange Happy Halloween pennant streamer hanging along a house. It is visible when E.T. just happens to run into a Yoda, while trick-or-treating. The vexiolloids are hanging from what looks like an open door garage.
E.T. meets Yoda in E.T. 1982. The E.T. and Star Wars universes intersect more than once. Several times, Star Wars toys can be seen in movie E.T. Eventually Star Wars would repay the cameo, when E.T.s appeared in Episode I. But the most important link between these movies is through the musical score of John Williams.
Music is often the most important character in any movie, and Williams' role is understated, otherwise these movies would have most liked had lackluster, tacky 1980s musical scores, no doubt.
Small pennants appear in secondary media items in the movie E.T. 1982. When E.T. is reading an ABC book, he just happens to be looking at pages with the Letters D and C. On the Letter C page, a castle is shown. Upon lower red tower is a storybook castle pennant.
Although the letter D is the dominant page in the shot, on the right you can infer the Letter C page is there due to the word 'cat' and 'castle' appearing. Most importantly here, for vexillology's sake, is the castle pennant.
Coincidentally it happens again in another secondary media item, a newspaper, while E.T. is reading the comics. In this case E.T. gets the idea to send a signal home, since Buck Rogers was able to build a device to send a signal for help.
However the pennants are on the lower comic where it features a tent pole with the pennants on top. It is only an amazing vexillological coincidence that pennants would appear twice in a similar fashion in this movie.
The best image of the US Flag appears during the human-home invasion scene in E.T. 1982. This is a classic counter juxtaposition to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, since it is a reversal of the child abduction by an A.T. (Aboriginal Terrestrial) than by an E.T.
The US flag also makes an appearance in the Elliott's classroom. Just as the themes of Close Encounters deal with psychic links, so does E.T. In this case E.T. is linked psychically to Elliott. The link becomes established when Elliott was cut, and E.T. heals him with his bioluminescent finger.
But Spielberg takes it an extra level deeper in this story about aliens, adding a synchronicity element into the mix of E.T.'s and Elliott's telepathic connection. In this case, the chaos of the classroom just happens to be synchronized to a television program that E.T. is watching at home.
The theme of love is mixed with an animal rights message, by a strange sequence of 'funny' coincidences. This is a common theme in many art house movies, but in E.T. it is weaved with humour and a charming kind of silly sitcom emotion.
Video game arcades were the it places for kids, teens, young adults, and people who loved computer gaming. Arcades peaked in the 1980s. In the film, War Games 1983 an arcade is showcased, 20 Grand Palace near Seattle, Washington.
Here the hero of the movie is seen here playing Galaga. In the right bottom screen his is rank, which indicates that he is at level 7. Galaga, was a ground breaking game where a player's ship could get captured by the enemy, and rescued by risk. No doubt a cheesy Hollywood movie about the Galaga storyline is due to come out. Where we learn the back story of the insectoid versus human drama.
Back then in 1983, many people thought video games were a fad, look at them now. You will even hear about persons who say they have out grown video games, and see it as a phase. Boy are they in for a shocker. It's like those same people in the 1980s and early 1990s who said that the Sun was the only star system with planets! Videogames will only continue to grow and expand, especially in the next 25 years.
The US Flag appears several times in the movie that is smarter than its audience: War Games 1983. War Games is the first hard core hacker movie, that was actually done well. And it has aged well. It successfully explains the Internet before it became a thing way back in 1983. It is a smart movie, that dose not dumb down its story to the audience. It's a mix of teenage-hacker and end of times movie. It is a kaleidoscope of English teachers delight: since War Games elegantly weaves the themes of man versus machine versus man versus self smoothly into one story line, with a tiny bit of romance!
Trust me there are certain Baby Boomers and persons from the Greatest Generation who can out app and know code better than any whipper snapper Merllennerler or Gerneretion Erxer. You don't have to be young to be good at technology.
Life Hacks are something of popular thing these days. Life Hacks are short cuts and answers to small problems and challenges that arise in every day life. The first most popular Life Hack video was posted in 1983 in movie theaters across America in the film War Games, starring Matthew Broderick. The Life Hack deals with buttering corn. Many people still use the stone age process of using a knife with butter. But here are the steps listed below, as shown in the movie...on how to easily butter corn. Coincidentally the movie was about hacking on the computer!
Step 1: Butter the Bread
Step 2: Place corn cob on the buttered bread.
Step 3: Roll corn cob on buttered bread.
Step 4: Add salt if desired, or pepper.
Step 5: Listen to British Rock from the 1970s and early 1980s. This step can be inferred from the UK musical compact disc in the background. It features a UK flag on the cover, as to who the band is, we don't know who, but it may be the Who? Who knows?
Step 6: Enjoy the fruit of your labor on this most delicious vegetable, which is scientifically a fruit of a grass.
Also note this scene in the movie has a zinger-joke. You'll have to watch to movie to get the joke. Or just watch the video below.
Flags are often used for military and patriotic purposes. But flags are also flown for artistic purposes. In Ace of Base's smash hit The Sign 1993, flags are used as an enchanting artistic element in the official video, which you can see below. Here the silhouette of a man carrying a flag can be seen upon a yellow background. He later appears doing a flip with the same flag and with a purple background.
Throughout the video is a modified spinning computer generated Egyptian Ankh. In the background are the national colours of Sweden: blue and yellow flapping as a fluid wall. The four singers from Ace of Base are native to Sweden. They were a quartet of male and female voices that heralded a new vibe of the 1990s. Interestingly other successful Swedish groups in the US also consisted of gender balanced groups like ABBA and Roxette. Certainly, we are over due for another duo, quartet or sextet of Swedish pop stars to rock the USA!?
Here the Berggren sisters perform together in the video. Note the oddly shaped cross known as the Ankh is a paradoxical symbol for life, death, transformation, or change. As the themes of the song deal with loss of love and new beginnings, its appearance in the video is appropriate. As for the particular 'Sign' that the songwriter became aware - of the heartbreaking loss of love in transition - it could have been anything. But rest assured, The Sign was tinged with a heavy spell of synchronicity.
