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The Dark Tower: Every Movie Easter Egg. WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for The Dark Tower.–Fans may be plunged into a world of magic and fantasy with The Dark Tower movie, but the wealth of Stephen King Easter Eggs, movie references, and moments of fan service should help it all feel a bit more familiar. Especially if viewers were hoping to see the Dark Tower films confirm the same shared universe that Stephen King has revealed many of his most iconic stories to exist within. Those connections will have to wait for a Dark Tower sequel to ever be explored, but fans can enjoy them immediately. Needless to say, there will be SPOILERS for the movie as we break down the references only known to those who’ve read the entire book series, the subtle nods and impossible- to- miss references to other King films, and everything else we spotted in our viewings.

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The Overlook Hotel. Fans had best strap in for a number of references and nods to not only The Dark Tower‘s books, but a TON of other novels and short stories by Stephen King. The adaptations of said books to other films are just as fair game, which means an unforgettable image dropped into the movie when an earthquake strikes New York City. When Jake is visiting his psychiatrist and discussing his dreams, a quake brought on by the Dark Tower being attacked punctuates the doctor’s accusations about the nature of Jake’s “dreams.” As the room begins to shake, the camera cuts to a close- up of a framed photo on the doctor’s side table. It’s a pretty shameless moment of fan service, since the framed photo isn’t even a person – just the Timberline Lodge, used as the Overlook Hotel in the big screen adaptation of King’s The Shining (1. Christine. Of Stephen King’s strictly horror novels adapted to motion pictures, the infamous Christine (1. The Shining. At least in terms of setting a trend for horror fans: of vehicles brought to life to commit evil deeds.

In the book, the car was a bright red, 1. Plymouth Fury previously owned by a man named Roland D. Le. Bay (a hint that King’s affection for the name would continue forward to The Dark Tower). The movie (and car) get a shout out when Jake is talking to his neighbor and friend in his bedroom about his visions.

The boy, named ‘Timmy,’ opens the scene by idly pushing a model car back and forth along the floor of the room: a car looking an awful lot like a 1. Plymouth. 1. 0. Rose Drawings. Most of Jake’s drawings are straightforward to anyone who has seen the real things – the Man in Black, the Dark Tower, and even Roland the Gunslinger. But amidst these recreations of Jake’s visions, one can be seen scattered throughout that isn’t actually explained in the course of the film. We’re referring to the blood red roses visible in only a few shots, which actually refer to more than one key plot element in the novels. First, there’s the Can’- Ka No Rey, or “The Red Fields of None” that surround the Tower itself.

These roses are possessed of the magic needed to quietly sing a siren song, calling souls to the Dark Tower. But more importantly, a single such rose exists in a vacant lot in New York City, at the corner of Second Avenue and Forty- Sixth Street. The flower is eventually protected by Roland in the books, since its destruction would bring about the Dark Tower’s fall all on its own. Thank goodness the Man in Black never realized it in the movie. Cujo? Not all of Stephen King’s ‘horror’ stories are based in the supernatural, with no better example than Cujo.

The story of a good dog driven mad by rabies, terrorizing a small town – specifically, a mother and son – is named for the dog in question: a St. Bernard bitten by a rabid bat. As it turns out, the dog was actually named by King as a reference to Willie Wolfe, a member of the 1. Symbionese Liberation Army. The book even concludes with a puppy named Willie… which isn’t the only time the group will be mentioned in this list. It’s the dog itself who gets a nod in The Dark Tower, when a woman can be seen walking a large St.

Bernard down the street, completely oblivious to the trials of Jake Chambers or Roland. He still seems to be a “good” dog, meaning the rabies is still a long way off. All Hail the Crimson King. When Jake finds his way to the house in Dutch Hill, Brooklyn, his story heads into another gear – doing battle with a demonic house and being transported to Mid- World will do that. Before he leaves, he notes graffiti in the house reading “All Hail the Crimson King” and later, The Man in Black runs his hand along the very message.

It’s shown elsewhere in the film, without ever being explained. But for those who have read the books, it’s nod to the real rivalry going on. On the surface, The Dark Tower is a tale of vengeance between Roland and The Man in Black. In reality, The Man in Black a.

Walter is a servant of the Crimson King, a timeless, evil being locked within the Dark Tower and largely comparable to Satan. The graffiti shows that dynamic is clearly still at work, although the real nature of The Dark Tower‘s place in the book series does raise some questions about the state of the Crimson King’s followers. Office Serial Episode 399 Naruto here.

The IT Connection. Most Stephen King fans will voice their shock in the theater upon Jake’s discovery of a dilapidated and buried theme park bearing the name “PENNYWISE.” Not only is it the unforgettable name of the murderous clown in King’s IT, but the clown itself can almost be seen protruding from the ground. His hand, still holding a bunch of balloons is visible, and what may be a red hat beside it show Pennywise’s face is just below the surface (count yourselves lucky for that one).

For moviegoers, it’s yet another obvious, impossible to miss homage to King. But for book readers, it’s actually faithful to shared universe Stephen King created using his Dark Tower series, working several of his previous stories into its fiction. In fact, The Man in Black’s ability to shapeshift has led some to suspect that Pennywise is a similar form of demon… but we’re not sure that mystery will actually be confirmed or denied when the new IT hits theaters. The Shine”As evidence of just how much the world of The Dark Tower and King’s other stories really is, fans should pay close attention to the abilities of the film’s protagonist, Jake. In the world of the books, the ability is referred to by the residents of Mid- World as “The Touch,” making Jake able to sense and see reality far beyond his other senses. Even more powerful than the Seers of Mid- World, The Touch is what Jake and The Man in Black have in common – as well as another child in a famous King story.

We’re referring to ‘Danny Torrance,’ the little boy terrorized by the ghostly inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining. In that story, the titular “shining” is a reference to Danny’s ability to not only see the Overlook’s spirits, but bring them to life. In King’s novel The Stand, prophetic visions are said to be “the shining lamp of God… sometimes just the shine.” In the movie, the parallels between Danny and Jake are made even clearer, swapping out “The Touch” and referring to psychic abilities as “The Shine.”5. Watch The Lost &Amp; Found Family Online (2017) on this page. Misery’s Child. The Man in Black doesn’t work alone in the movie, but relies on a team of techs to monitor and launch attacks from psychic children against the Tower.

During one scene set in his base of operations, a copy of the novel (clearly titled) Misery’s Child can be seen sitting on a console. That’s the name of the book that launches the events of Stephen King’s book Misery, as well as the 1.

In the book, Misery’s Child is the final story by romance novelist Paul Sheldon. When he’s caught in a car accident and nursed back to health by an admiring fan, the revelation that Misery’s Child will kill his longtime heroine, Misery Chastain, Paul’s nightmare really begins. Since the book, like the film, earned acclaim, we have to assume that taste in psychological thriller novels extends well beyond the realm of our Earth.

September 1. 1, 2. If You Want to Humble an Empire. If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true God. On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon.

On Sept. 1. 1, we valued heroism because it was everywhere. The fire fighters kept climbing the stairs of the tallest buildings in town, even as the steel moaned and the cracks spread in zippers through the walls, to get to the people trapped in the sky. We don't know yet how many of them died, but once we know, as Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, "it will be more than we can bear." That sentiment was played out in miniature in the streets, where fleeing victims pulled the wounded to safety, and at every hospital, where the lines to give blood looped round and round the block. At the medical- supply companies, which sent supplies without being asked. At Verizon, where a worker threw on a New York fire department jacket to go save people.

And then again and again all across the country, as people checked on those they loved to find out if they were safe and then looked for some way to help. This was the bloodiest day on American soil since our Civil War, a modern Antietam played out in real time, on fast- forward, and not with soldiers but with secretaries, security guards, lawyers, bankers, janitors.

It was strange that a day of war was a day we stood still. We couldn't move — that must have been the whole idea — so we had no choice but to watch.

Every city cataloged its targets; residents looked at their skylines, wondering if they would be different in the morning. The Sears Tower in Chicago was evacuated, as were colleges and museums.

Disney World shut down, and Major League Baseball canceled its games, and nuclear power plants went to top security status; the Hoover Dam and the Mall of America shut down, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and Mount Rushmore. It was as though someone had taken a huge brush and painted a bull's- eye around every place Americans gather, every icon we revere, every service we depend on, and vowed to take them out or shut them down, or force us to do it ourselves. Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror, and fear. The first plane is just to get our attention. Then, once we are transfixed, the second plane comes and repeats the theme until the blinding coda of smoke and debris crumbles on top of the rescue workers who have gone in to try to save anyone who survived the opening movements.

And we watch, speechless, as the sirens, like some awful choir, hour after hour let you know that it is not over yet, wait, there's more. It was, of course, a perfect day, 7.

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Adirondacks, before taking a sudden turn south and diving down toward the heart of New York City. Meanwhile American Flight 7. Dulles; United Flight 1. Boston at 7: 5. 8, and United Flight 9. Newark three minutes later, bound for San Francisco. All climbed into beautiful clear skies, all four planes on transcontinental flights, plump with fuel, ripe to explode. They couldn't carry anything — other than an atom bomb — that could be as bad as what they were flying," observed a veteran investigator.

The first plane hit the World Trade Center's north tower at 8: 4. People thought it was a sonic boom, or a construction accident, or freak lightning on a lovely fall day; at worst, a horrible airline accident, a plane losing altitude, out of control, a pilot trying to ditch in the river and missing.

But as the gruesome rains came — bits of plane, a tire, office furniture, glass, a hand, a leg, whole bodies, began falling all around — people in the streets all stopped and looked, and fell silent. As the smoke rose, the ash rained gently down, along with a whole lost flock of paper shuffling down from the sky to the street below, edges charred, plane tickets and account statements and bills and reports and volumes and volumes of unfinished business floating down to earth. Almost instantly, a distant wail of sirens came from all directions, even as people poured from the building, even as a second plane bore down on lower Manhattan. Louis Garcia was among the first medics on the scene. There were people running over to us burnt from head to toe. Their hair was burned off. There were compound fractures, arms and legs sticking out of the skin.

One guy had no hair left on his head." Of the six patients in his first ambulance run, two died on the way to St. Vincent's Hospital. The survivors of the first plot to bring down the Twin Towers, the botched attempt in 1. When the first explosion came, they knew to get out.

Others were paralyzed by the noise, confused by the instructions. Consultant Andy Perry still has the reflexes. Watch The Nutcracker Sweet Online Full Movie. He grabbed his pal Nathan Shields from his office, and they began to run down 4.

With each passing floor more and more people joined the flow down the steps. The lights stayed on, but the lower stairs were filled with water from burst pipes and sprinklers.

Everyone watch your step," people called out. Be careful!" The smell of jet fuel suffused the building.

Hallways collapsed, flames shot out of a men's room. By the time they reached the lobby, they just wanted to get out — but the streets didn't look any safer. It was chaos out there," Shields says. Finally we ran for it." They raced into the street in time to see the second plane bearing down. Even as they ran away, there were still people standing around in the lobby waiting to be told what to do. There were no emergency announcements — it just happened so quickly nobody knew what was going on," says Perry.

This guy we were talking to saw at least 1. He was standing next to a guy who got hit by shrapnel and was immediately killed." Workers tore off their shirts to make bandages and tourniquets for the wounded; others used bits of clothing as masks to help them breathe. Whole stretches of street were slick with blood, and up and down the avenues you could hear the screams of people plunging from the burning tower. People watched in horror as a man tried to shimmy down the outside of the tower. He made it about three floors before flipping backward to the ground.

Architect Bob Shelton had his foot in a cast; he'd broken it falling off a curb two weeks ago. He heard the explosion of the first plane hitting the north tower from his 5. As he made his way down the stairwell, his building came under attack as well. You could hear the building cracking.

It sounded like when you have a bunch of spaghetti, and you break it in half to boil it." Shelton knew that what he was hearing was bad. It was structural failure," Shelton says. Once a building like that is off center, that's it." "There was no panic," he says of his escape down the stairs. We were working as a team, helping everyone along the way. Someone carried my crutches, and I supported myself on the railing."Gilbert Richard Ramirez works for Blue.

Cross Blue. Shield on the 2. After the explosion he ran to the windows and saw the debris falling, and sheets of white building material, and then something else. There was a body. It looked like a man's body, a full- size man." The features were indistinguishable as it fell: the body was black, apparently charred. Someone pulled an emergency alarm switch, but nothing happened. Someone else broke into the emergency phone, but it was dead.