Intertextuality

This weeks lecture was the most interesting so far in  my opinion, i guess mostly because i understood it well, and could relate exactly to what was being said.
Intertextuality is basically certain lines/movements/scenes or sounds that appear in different media (films and games mostly), that are actually from something else; intensionally put in,  and that some people will pick up and laugh to themselves, as they realised something that others might of missed or didnt know about. I also call them easter eggs, theyre sort of known as that too.
Things like this often occur in kids films, where characters say something that the kids just miss as they arent old enough to realsise what the ceartain line is from. Like the clip ivan showed us from madagascar.

Thinking about it this has happened seriouisly contless times to me, most recently in the awesome movie Scott pilgrim VS the world, which is filled with awesome bits of music, sound effects  and so on right from the get go,straight out of certain video games, that really made me and most of the cinema (as they were all gamers) chuckle.

like this, the 8-bit universal theme, the first thing you see. pure genius- (below)

and when Scott gets a life, (above) another classic reference to pretty much every game around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOWbWpNKS6s

Seeing and knowing these little things makes you feel clever for some reason, and its very cool idea that developers have to throw them in, as its something that they find funny themselves too, and hope that people will discover.

Annother film i saw recently was Flushed Away, which has loooads in it too, here are a couple of pictures as examples -

When Roddy is trying on clothes, he flicks past a Wolverine and a Wallace suit - wolverine because roddy is played by Hugh jackman, star of the x-men films, and wallace because the studio behind flushed away - Aardman, is responsible for the famous wallace and gromit stop motion series.

There litterally are many many films i could list here that use intertextulaity, but i'd be going on forever!

Still you get the idea, and i just think its awesome how the developsers do it, its adds a ceratin somthing, and makes you feel smarter ( or just more nerdy ) so thats always good :)