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Urban Legend
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 Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject:
Trivia
Subject description: Some trivia on Death Machine
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- The name of the fictional corporation is Chaank Armaments Corporation.
- The name of the secret project involving brain-wiping battle veterans who are presumed MIA and fitting them with power armor, Hardman, is a likely homage to GE's proposed Hardiman 1 exoskeleton powered suit.
The Hardman suit does in fact have a real-world analog, it is very similar in looks and working principals to Tsukuba University's HAL 5, which is due to be in production by the end of 2005 in Japan.
- The names of the eco-terrorists, Weyland and Yutani, are references to the fictional Weyland-Yutani corporation featured in the movie Aliens, and informally Alien as well.
- The name of the character "Scott Ridley" is a reference to the director Ridley Scott who directed Alien.
- The name of the character "Raimi" is a reference to the director Sam Raimi.
- The name of the character "Jack Dante" is a reference to the director Joe Dante.
- The name of the character "John Carpenter" is a reference to the director John Carpenter
- The writing on the Hardman headgear Raimi wears reads "Cameron Unit 04", likely being a reference to the director James Cameron who directed The Terminator and Aliens.
- Raimi makes numerous references to movies and actors, such as Stallone's The Specialist, Scarface, and mimics Arnold Schwarzenneger's "I'll be back" line from The Terminator complete with mock accent. |
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Mercury
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:12 am Post subject:
Re: Trivia
Subject description: Some trivia on Death Machine
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| Urban Legend wrote: | | -The writing on the Hardman headgear Raimi wears reads "Cameron Unit 04", likely being a reference to the director James Cameron who directed The Terminator and Aliens. |
omg, I never caught that one! 
| Quote: | | - Raimi makes numerous references to movies and actors, such as Stallone's The Specialist, Scarface, and mimics Arnold Schwarzenneger's "I'll be back" line from The Terminator complete with mock accent. |
Ha! Cute stuff. There's another "Terminator" reference(of a sort). When the director goes to find Dante, she looks at the door to his lab, and it's covered with paint and grafitti(sp?)
Anyhow, she bends down and reads a bit of what appears to be poem, but it's a quote from Sarah in "The Terminator"---something about having loved a lifetime?  Now I've forgotten it!  Shoot, now I'll have to go look it up and come back to post it here. 
I think the mimicking of Arnie and "I'll be back" was said by Dante, not Raimie, who was mocking the Czech High Factor Babe, after hesaid it. Again, I could very well be wrong. Most likely I am. OH, OH!!! The Babe was one of the (many) cute bad-guys in "Die Hard"! 
Thanks for the trivia! I have to watch "Death Machine" again and try to see that Cameron reference  |
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deezelboy
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| William Hootkins gets ripped to death by a robot in Hardware, then gets ripped to death by a robot in Death Machine. |
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