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Page 15 of 31 Year 1995 (2 Movies) Dead Man  No website There are multiple references in the film to the poetry of William Blake. Nobody recites from several Blake poems, including Auguries of Innocence, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and The Everylasting Gospel, and is surprised that none of them impress, or even seem familiar to, his oddly-named travelling companion (who at one point mistakenly retorts, "I've had it up to here with this Indian malarkey!" - Depp's Blake never seems to catch on about the existence of the poet, although on the movie soundtrack and in the promotional music video, Depp recites passages from Blake.) When bounty hunter Cole warns his companions against drinking from standing water, it references the Proverb of Hell (from the aforementioned Marriage), "Expect poison from standing water". Thel's name is also a reference to Blake's The Book of Thel. § Twelve Monkeys No Website Inspired from La Jetée : [..]In the movie, the survivors of a destroyed Paris in the aftermath of World War III live underground in the Palais de Chaillot galleries. They research time travel, hoping to send someone back before the devastating war to recover food, medicine, or energy for the present, "to summon the past and future to the aid of the present." The traveler is a male prisoner; his vague but obsessive childhood memory of witnessing a woman (Hélène Chatelain) during a violent incident on the boarding platform ("The Jetty") at Orly Airport is used as the key to his journey back in time. He is thrown back to the past again and again. He repeatedly meets and speaks to the woman who was present at the terminal. After his successful passages to the past, the experimenters attempt to send him into the deep future. In a brief meeting with the technologically advanced people of the future, he is given a power unit sufficient to regenerate his own destroyed society. On his return, he is cast aside by his jailers to die. Before he can be executed, he is contacted by the people of the future, who offer to help him escape to their time, but he asks to be returned to the time of his childhood. He is returned, only to find the violent incident he partially witnessed as a child was his own death as an adult.[...] This reminds to John Titor's speculation underground news and Terminator's John Connor T as Twelve - T as Titor - T as Terminator T as Trinity
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