Sightings

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Movie: Ransom (1996)

This is a thriller film starring Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, and Gary Sinise. It was directed by Ron Howard. The plot deals with a rich airline owner who is trying to get his son back after he is kidnapped. At first he is willing to pay the two million dollar ransom but, after the drop goes wrong, he turns the ransom money into a bounty on the head of the kidnapper.

The sighting occurs after the son is kidnapped, when one of the kidnappers goes into a store to buy some items. Among the items purchased is a Sailor Moon R VHS tape (and it appears to be a bootleg copy no less). Later on, the main kidnapper asks why he bought the tapes since the son's eyes are taped shut and he says that the kid could still listen to them.

Susan Bode did the set decoration, however there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to why the Sailor Moon tape was included.

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Movie: A Simple Wish (1997)

Directed by Michael Ritchie, this comedy film stars Martin Short, Mara Wilson, and Kathleen Turner. It's about a bumbling male fairy godmother named Murray who tries to help eight-year-old Anabel fulfill her wish that her father, a carriage driver, win the leading role in a Broadway musical.

Towards the beginning of the movie there's a scene where Mara Wilson is in her room and Murray comes in. On a wall near her bed you can see what appears to be a Sailor Moon poster. The furniture next to her bed also holds two other Sailor Moon items, a Sailor Mars doll (behind the jewelry box) and a moon wand complete with ring.

The set decoration was done by Jaro Dick. This seems to be one of his only child-themed movies though so it is unclear where the inspiration for the use of the Sailor Moon items came from. It was most likely due to it being a popular girls show at the time and it being a girls room he was decorating. The scene itself is dark, since it takes place in the evening, so the images have been enlarged and lightened to make the items easier to see.

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Movie: The Core (2003)

The movie is a science fiction disaster film loosely based on the novel 'Core' by Paul Preuss. It deals with a team that has to drill to the center of the Earth and set off a series of nuclear explosions in order to restart the rotation of Earth's core. The film was directed by Jon Amiel and starred Aaron Eckhart, Delroy Lindo, Tchéky Karyo, Hilary Swank, DJ Qualls, Bruce Greenwood, and Stanley Tucci. It was written by Cooper Layne and John Rogers.

The use of Sailor Moon most likely comes from John Rogers given his writing background. Along with this movie he also worked on the Jackie Chan Adventures (2000), American Outlaws (2001), Red Skies (2002), Catwoman (2004), Global Frequency (2005), Transformers (2007), and Leverage (2008). Outside of movies and TV, he has done several comic books and worked on a few roleplaying games as well.

The sighting itself, which is near the beginning of the movie, centers around a character named Acker who is played by Tom Scholte. His character is an assistant to Dr. Josh Keyes, played by Aaron Eckhart. In a scene near the beginning of the movie, after realizing something might be wrong with the Earth's electromagnetic field, Dr. Keyes starts frantically giving instructions to his assistants. He tells Acker to immediately research all recent, unnatural occurrences. Acker replies, "that is a huge search." Dr. Keyes tells him, "you can use our T1 line to look up Sailor Moon crap, you're up to this!"

And Sailor Moon isn't the only female heroine mentioned in the movie. When the character Rat, played by DJ Qualls, is asked to control all the information on the Web he says he will only do it if given an unlimited supply of hot pockets and Xena tapes.

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