16 Awe-Inspiring Easter Eggs in Steven Spielberg Films
![16 Awe-Inspiring Easter Eggs in Steven Spielberg Films](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/2/771062_320x180.jpg)
Steven Spielberg is the Godfather of nerd culture, and we mean that with all the love we have our nerdy little (possibly cyborg, possibly ripped-out-in-a-cult-ritual) hearts. Guy made Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park and E.T., which for a Millennial Of A Certain Age? That plus chicken soup was your diet on sick days from school. Not to mention he's big time homies with George Lucas, who made an obscure film franchise our younger readers have probably never heard of, but was also a staple on sick days. He is THAT DUDE when it comes to a lot of current online discourse about pop culture, is what we're saying.
Would the director who invented the blockbuster sneak Easter eggs into his films? Well, this article exists, doesn't it? Here's the thing, though: Spielberg's recent nostalgiafest, Ready Player One, is a flick made up entirely of Easter eggs. So we fear he might be going overboard. In fact, that's why we didn't include Ready Player One here -- there wouldn't be any room left for other movies. And Spielberg's other movies certainly include some clever references, like these here.
![Indiana Jones / Indy’s bullwhip (and not only that) comes from Zorro.
The entire saga is a love letter to old movie serials -- like 1937’s Zorro Rides Again, where Zorro cracks a whip and performs several of the exact same stunts as Indiana Jones.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/0/771050.gif)
Sources: TheRaider.net, Cinemassacre on Twitter
![Jurassic Park Dennis Nedry is watching Jaws. Instead of working, Nedry is playing a movie about toothy animals eating people. Really, he should have seen it coming. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/1/771061.jpg)
Source: Movies in Other Movies
![Hook Captain Hook's hat is rimmed with crocodile teeth. Apparently, the pirate's greatest fear is always on his head.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/9/771059.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
![E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial The flying bikes reference an old Italian movie. 1951's Miracle in Milan (one of Spielberg's favorites) ends with the characters escaping the authorities on flying broomsticks.. Just substitute bicycles, and you have E.T.'s iconic scene.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/6/771046.jpg)
![A.I. Artificial Intelligence Professor Hobby's name is a tribute to Stanley Kubrick. When Spielberg took over after Kubrick's death, he renamed the character as a nod to Kubrick's production company, Hobby Films.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/6/0/771060.jpg)
![Hook Tinkerbell makes Carrie Fisher and George Lucas fly. The couple Tink sprinkles with pixie dust on the way to Neverland are none other than Fisher and Lucas, in a hush-hush cameo.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/4/771054.gif)
Source: The Wrap
![Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Indy escapes from the Club Obi Wan. The (high-class) wretched hive of scum and villainy where the movie starts is appropriately named.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/9/771049.jpg)
Source: Movie scene on YouTube
![Catch Me If You Can Frank catches himself. The French cop escorting Frank Abagnale Jr. after his arrest is the real Frank Abagnale Jr.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/8/771058.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
![Jaws The book's author has a cameo. The reporter who utters the amazing line a cloud in the shape of a killer shark is Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel the movie is based on.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/1/771051.jpg)
Sources: Mental Floss, Movie scene on YouTube
![Minority Report Cameron Diaz is riding the train. Not only that, but director Cameron Crowe is sitting right next to her. Was it Cameron day on that train, or what?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/7/771057.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
![Poltergeist The ghost roars like a certain famous lion. This movie replaced the decades-old roar of the MGM lion with a higher-fidelity recording -- and the same effect was used for the door ghost.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/6/771056.jpg)
Source: The Courier, Todd Vaziri on YouTube
![Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Sean Connery gets shot with James Bond's gun. When Walter Donovan shoots Indy's dad, he uses Bond's signature handgun- a Walther PPK. (Also, Donovan is played by Julian Glover, who was a Bond villain in For Your Eyes Only).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/8/771048.jpg)
Source: Range 365
![Close Encounters of the Third Kind R2-D2 is briefly seen (upside down) on the alien ship. Do the aliens come from a galaxy far, far away? Do they use astromech droids? So many questions!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/5/771055.jpg)
Sources: Yahoo Entertainment, Movie clip on YouTube
![Saving Private Ryan Two surrendering soldiers speak Czech, not German. Please don't shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, one of them pleads. This is true to life, as many Eastern Europeans were forced to fight on the German side during World War Il.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/4/7/771047.jpg)
Source: The Independent
![War of the Worlds An alien is curious about a bicycle’s wheel. In H. G. Wells’ novel, it’s all but stated that the invading Martians never invented the wheel. “he wheel is absent; among all the things they brought to earth there is no trace or suggestion of their use of wheels.”](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/2/771052.gif)
Sources: The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells (via Project Gutenberg), Movie scene on YouTube
![Jurassic Park / Alan Grant’s seat belt foreshadows the park’s big issue. Grant has two female connectors, which aren’t supposed to fit together -- and yet, he finds a way to make it work.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/5/3/771053.gif)
Source: Screen Rant