Baffling Comparison Places Kindergarten Cop In Silent Hill

[lobster1077]

One of Arnie's more obscure film's seems like a pretty bizarre entity to make vague allusions to.

 

[moosek]

Dude, The Goonies took place in Astoria. The movie you shot to first was Kindergarten Cop?

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Now it makes sense why Pyramid Head is so buff, he's actually Arnold Schwarzenegger in disguise!

 

[Nouw]

I'm sorry but having a school bus which both says 'school bus' and feature the same brand logo don't count. Neither does having a Red Cross on a Medical Cabinet. I just don't see how common features=same thing. But that seven, there's something you could relate.

 

[Anodos]

I know everything about Silent Hill.....I did not know this....

 

[Anodos]

Why is this all over the web? We've known the school to be a reference to it for a while. Almost everything in Silent Hill 1 is an egg or reference in some way.

One website reports on it, all others copy and paste. The way the industry works.


I say ive never heard of it, but i might of, and not cared that much.

 

[esperandote]

There was a page about silent hill easter eggs with over 100 easter eggs but it didn't have this one. Silent Hill continues to surprise us after 13 years.

 

[Dastardly]

Baffling Comparison Places Kindergarten Cop In Silent Hill

The person/people behind this need to be recruited by the CIA. That kind of crazy attention to detail needs to be put to good use!

 

[vxicepickxv]

Is it just me, or the locations are actually really, REALLY different, and only a few small details seem to be similar? I mean, is it possible that these posters and small details were relatively common in USA (I am from Italy, so I can't judge them from my personal experience)?

I can judge, and at the time, those were fairly popular posters.

Some of those are a bit...tenuous. Oooh, they've both got a school bus just like most other schools in America! Ooh they've both got medicine cabinets just like frikking everywhere...

Does every school bus also have the number 7 in the exact same spot, and has the "Ford" branding in the exact same spot of the grill?

Quite possibly. Its just the same model of school bus, so what? Probably hundreds of them that look just like that in the real world. I still see no connection

The 7 is in a close enough spot to be a really freaky coincidence, but not the exact same spot. Grills for products like that ARE mass produced, so yes, the Ford logo would sit in the exact same spot on multiple buses.

 

[Siege_TF]

Don't you only encounter foggy Silent Hill if you've killed someone or done something similarly henious (or someone draws you in there)?

 

[tetron]

All of these places in the pictures are pretty similar. I think the deal sealer here is that both buses have a 7 on them. That's when I was like ok...something's up here.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

I'm just amazed that someone watched Kindergarten Cop so many times to see the similarities.

My thought exactly. I don't even remember those specific details in Silent Hill and I doubt I would even notice them after watching the film several times.

Some of those are a bit...tenuous. Oooh, they've both got a school bus just like most other schools in America! Ooh they've both got medicine cabinets just like frikking everywhere...

Does every school bus also have the number 7 in the exact same spot, and has the "Ford" branding in the exact same spot of the grill?

I was quite prepared to just wave that one aside and put it down to there being so many school buses in America that look like that. Then I saw the number 7... Shit like that messes with your head man...

Don't you only encounter foggy Silent Hill if you've killed someone or done something similarly henious (or someone draws you in there)?

Pretty much. There's 3 versions of Silent Hill. The regular run down abandoned Silent Hill which normal people would see, the foggy inbetween Silent Hill that seems to be the basis for most people who are drawn there and the really twisted rust and blood Silent Hill which changes its appearance based on whatever flavour of psychological trauma the protagonist happens to suffer from.

 

[Faladorian]

All of these places in the pictures are pretty similar. I think the deal sealer here is that both buses have a 7 on them. That's when I was like ok...something's up here.

This. All of you saying "the bus doesn't count," it's actually quite the icing on the proverbial cake.

 

[AlohaJo]

Silent Hill continues to surprise us after 23 years.

It's only been 13 years! 13! There's no way I missed a decade of my life somewhere. Honestly, that comment scared me more than the game itself...

 

[esperandote]

Silent Hill continues to surprise us after 23 years.

It's only been 13 years! 13! There's no way I missed a decade of my life somewhere. Honestly, that comment scared me more than the game itself...

Oops, you're right xD

 

[Avae]

Thats crazy and slightly surreal! An innocent family friendy story staring Schwarzneggar is used as a source to create one of the most disturbing levels of Silent Hill!

 

[ThunderCavalier]

Wait, I got it!

Silent Hill isn't just a game! It's a desperate message by Konami trying to spread the evils of how Silent Hill exists in our world and for us to dispell its evil before it completes itself and assimilates all!

Rally the troops! We must burn down all of Oregon to be safe!

 

[Strazdas]

Some of those are a bit...tenuous. Oooh, they've both got a school bus just like most other schools in America! Ooh they've both got medicine cabinets just like frikking everywhere...

Does every school bus also have the number 7 in the exact same spot, and has the "Ford" branding in the exact same spot of the grill?

very likely. the ford brand on the bus is a standard for this bus type and if government wanted to supplement schools with buses they would go and buy like 100 identical buses and give them to various schools. 7 is not that big of a number to have for buses you know.

 

[Terramax]

Is it just me, or the locations are actually really, REALLY different, and only a few small details seem to be similar? I mean, is it possible that these posters and small details were relatively common in USA (I am from Italy, so I can't judge them from my personal experience)?

Possibly, but Kindergarten Cop was made in 1990, and Silent Hill was released a good 7-8 years later. Surely posters in America would have been different by the time Silent Hill began production.

I think Konami did take these images from KC. The Silent Hill series has always taken inspiration from American pop culture.

Did you know Eddie from SH2 was originally modalled after Eddie Murphy? Sounds strange, but at the start of development, Eddie was supposed to be a comical wisecracker just like EM.