Curious

[joao93]

The video a student made containing "hidden messages" in many stuff like in games and movies.

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[Canadian*Sniper]

English Subtitles Please!

[joao93]

Just see it. You don't need to know portuguese to check out the subliminal messages.

[Baker]

We all know Canadian*Sniper is very susceptible to subliminal messages, we are all probably better off if he can't read them.

[Canadian*Sniper]

Led Zeppelin praises Our Satan!

[R00k]

Paul is dead, ringo is the walrus!


This is an interesting idea yea if u type 'matrix' in a proquake console hold your seat!

[Lerster]

...weird.

Lion king = Society / bonding / social sexual relations.

MacDonalds clown = Giving you the fuck off finger.

Flowers = Guys stole the concept from the stuck up dickwad Roger Waters, i only respect my idol who founded pink floyd yet, they claim he "Co founded" when he wrote all the original material, what happened was a confliction of interests. Syd wanted originals, the band wanted crap that would sell. --The end--

Then he points out death messages in the moth or fly thing.

Then also, the microsoft icon fucking confused me... but if you look close enough, it looks like a Nazi Swastica.

I not watched through it all yet, very weird.

[scar3crow]

Interesting watch... ...the raspberry thing is just looking too hard for anything anywhere..

The butterfly in the Silence of the Lambs cover isn't a subliminal message by any means, thats a detail - consider the subject matter of the film, and the overarching theme which is illustrated by the moment they say the films name, death in life has silenced her in a way, and also motivated her. The cover illustrates it. Thats depiction, not a hidden message. I'd suspect the same with the painting and the slanted skull, if anything it looks like a reference or inclusion of/to the Memento Mori art genre.

You can hear the narrator use the word for Swastika (probably the same just sounding mildly different due to accent or phonetics) when speaking about the puzzle MS icon. This strikes me as a case of accidental design - when you are working with a square design and higher ups tell you you have to use puzzle pieces, but since its an icon it needs to be simple, and also needs to complete itself (to infer that the product helps you solve puzzles and thus makes you more efficient) I would say there isn't a subliminal swastika, but rather a very prominent message of "we fix things for you, buy us."

The sex thing with Lion King is odd - if it is a subliminal message, what does that even communicate? Kids, have sex? If they're kids, its not gonna work out to well, as they get older, well, people do that. Heres another subliminal message along the same lines, "walk with your feet and legs" "breathe air" and so on. However, I have heard an explanation for the SEX thing, apparently it is not SEX but SEC or something similar, an acronym reference to a now defunct animation department at Disney, and was an animator's tribute to a loss suffered from Disney bureaucracy.

Regarding Ronald McDonald... Sounds like a case of a snarky artist at work, in fact, I'd say a LOT of what we call subliminal messages when found in that form (why would McDonald's want you to subconsciously think they hate you? it is of no use to them) are bored artists getting some cheap kicks on the job.

The Bush political ad against Gore? That is no surprise, that method of words appearing very large and sometimes not fitting the screen and then appearing smaller can be found in many sources (some Army commercials, game ads such as Half Life) and it shouldn't surprise us if they find a word within the spelling of another and use the zoom to focus in on that.

The McDonalds logo during Iron Chef, if that is real... yeah thats a case of trying to get us to think of going to McDonalds, but reminds me of the subliminal messages to smoke cigarettes on that episode of Family Guy! "SMOKE!" "Easy now Carl."

[Lerster]

LoL i watched it without audio.

Ah well.

[joao93]

Interesting watch... ...the raspberry thing is just looking too hard for anything anywhere..

The butterfly in the Silence of the Lambs cover isn't a subliminal message by any means, thats a detail - consider the subject matter of the film, and the overarching theme which is illustrated by the moment they say the films name, death in life has silenced her in a way, and also motivated her. The cover illustrates it. Thats depiction, not a hidden message. I'd suspect the same with the painting and the slanted skull, if anything it looks like a reference or inclusion of/to the Memento Mori art genre.

You can hear the narrator use the word for Swastika (probably the same just sounding mildly different due to accent or phonetics) when speaking about the puzzle MS icon. This strikes me as a case of accidental design - when you are working with a square design and higher ups tell you you have to use puzzle pieces, but since its an icon it needs to be simple, and also needs to complete itself (to infer that the product helps you solve puzzles and thus makes you more efficient) I would say there isn't a subliminal swastika, but rather a very prominent message of "we fix things for you, buy us."

The sex thing with Lion King is odd - if it is a subliminal message, what does that even communicate? Kids, have sex? If they're kids, its not gonna work out to well, as they get older, well, people do that. Heres another subliminal message along the same lines, "walk with your feet and legs" "breathe air" and so on. However, I have heard an explanation for the SEX thing, apparently it is not SEX but SEC or something similar, an acronym reference to a now defunct animation department at Disney, and was an animator's tribute to a loss suffered from Disney bureaucracy.

Regarding Ronald McDonald... Sounds like a case of a snarky artist at work, in fact, I'd say a LOT of what we call subliminal messages when found in that form (why would McDonald's want you to subconsciously think they hate you? it is of no use to them) are bored artists getting some cheap kicks on the job.

The Bush political ad against Gore? That is no surprise, that method of words appearing very large and sometimes not fitting the screen and then appearing smaller can be found in many sources (some Army commercials, game ads such as Half Life) and it shouldn't surprise us if they find a word within the spelling of another and use the zoom to focus in on that.

The McDonalds logo during Iron Chef, if that is real... yeah thats a case of trying to get us to think of going to McDonalds, but reminds me of the subliminal messages to smoke cigarettes on that episode of Family Guy! "SMOKE!" "Easy now Carl."

You are right... I think the most interesting ones are the naked woman in that "I-forgot-the-name" Disney movie and the MTV propaganda showing pedophilia. About the Burger King ad at Need for Speed... I sent a comment to the movie author saying it was normal, then he told me that the racing games are a real fast action that the player doesn't notice those ads and it goes to the player's subconsciousness.

PS: Is Subconsciousness right?

[scar3crow]

I think the most interesting ones are the naked woman in that "I-forgot-the-name" Disney movie and the MTV propaganda showing pedophilia.

Both of those strike me as fitting in under the bored/snarky employee making a jab at the employer - just in a very creepy fashion (putting porn in a kids movie, putting child porn in plain sight).

About the Burger King ad at Need for Speed... I sent a comment to the movie author saying it was normal, then he told me that the racing games are a real fast action that the player doesn't notice those ads and it goes to the player's subconsciousness.

There are multiple angles to take this from, and the most obvious one is literally just product placement. Burger King paid the developer to put it into the game, the developer saw this as a painless profit case because the driving takes place in cities, where you will see a Burger King. To me this is tantamount to Burger King paying money to put an ad on tv, or before a movie starts, or to have a billboard. The player doesn't not notice the ads because of the games speed, they dismiss it because it isn't important. Now if driving into the Burger King does something special like fixing your car, helping with the time, etc, then it has a benefit. Otherwise, its just plain old advertising.

I don't like these things, but to me, they are just market saturation, not subliminal messaging. In World in Conflict there is a Burger King iirc, but it isn't going to be noticeable if you're flying a jet, because they move fast. But just as you can walk on foot past it in the game, you can brake and stop in NFS, and it becomes just another detail to the world, one that kind of makes sense, and is a profit to the game developer.

PS: Is Subconsciousness right?

Yup, it does look kinda funny though doesn't it?

[joao93]

Heh, in portuguese it's Subconsciente, and since I used a web translator, I need to make sure the translation is right, since most of those web translators sucks!

[scar3crow]

They're usually decent for single world translations, their fault is usually most obvious in adjusting sentence structure.