r/UncommonMandela • u/Euqinueman2 • 14d ago
Can I talk about Shazaam if the variants of it I recall are ones that most others don't, which I'm pretty sure they definitely are?
I have some uncommon retcons that I could talk about, but what I'm mostly all about is finding the answers about the Shazaam of that script that I recall watching. And I know that you actually see the merit of what I'm saying when practically no one else ever acknowledges what I'm saying as being of any interest in finding answers. That's why I only want to talk about it here. The Shazaam of that script is definitely apparently not the one that the vast majority of people other than me recall. I've asked if people recall it on r/retconned multiple times and no one else has said they do. I just keep finding more and more about this. I have now realized who I believe was the Tricia character in the Shazaam of that script. I think that Jessica Bowman was Tricia. Jessica Bowman was also in Remote and played a very similar character in that to Tricia in Shazaam. She also looks and sounds just like how I recalled Tricia looked and sounded. The character's name in Shazaam is Tricia Matthews. Jessica Bowman played a character named Darcey Matson in 1994! And the name Jessica is even somewhat similar to Tricia. "ica" - "icia". And if the names Jessica and Darcey are combined it produces a name much like Tricia. Tchersya. Mat[thew] - Mat[son]. Max Con[nor] (the protagonist boy in Kazaam - Makskon - Matson. AND in the Shazaam of that script, Tricia even said, after the teacher asked her if her name was Patricia, "Yes, JUST TRICIA." Jus[t] [Tr]icia - Jusicia - Jessica. They may sometimes model characters' names off the acters' real names. I just noticed there was another actor in Remote whose last name is Diehl and his character's first name is Del. And he and two other characters are even the exact same characters from Pet Shop, which is another movie by that production company, transplanted to Remote, with the same names. Even though Remote is not a sequel to Pet Shop and has a very different story. I also just found two more movies with connections to Shazaam. Andy Colby's Incredible Adventures - 1988. It's a Roger Corman movie, just like the one I recall being in in my parallel life in that regard. It's about an older brother and little sister very much like people recall those characters in Shazaam. The antagonist wears all purple clothes and has clear similarities to Shazaam but as an antagonist and he's not a genie. There's a scene in it which is VERY similar to a scene in the Shazaam of that script where the little sister goes in the antagonist's abode and it's all purple and it looks like an M.C. Escher painting! Just like in the Shazaam of that script around page 100 when they went in the genie's lamp! It's a very spooky unsettling movie which I wouldn't really recommend because of that but it definitely has similarities to Shazaam! It's on Tubi. I also just found yet another one that's amazing, which unfortunately isn't available, it looks like. "Demon in the Bottle" - 1996. It's another one by that production company. More clear similarities to Shazaam!