POP CULTURE INFLUENCES ON WARCRAFT
Added on: 12th Dec 2016
WARCRAFT WAS EASILY ONE OF THE MOST
ANTICIPATED FILMS OF THE YEAR FOR A
FEW REASONS. TO BEGIN WITH, IT IS THE FIRST
FILM DIRECTED BY DUNCAN JONES
(DAVID BOWIE’S SON) IN MORE THAN FIVE YEARS.
HIS SUCCESSFUL FIRST FILMS, MOON (2009) AND
SOURCE CODE (2011), PLEASANTLY SURPRISED
MOVIE FANS AND CRITICS ALIKE. MORE IMPORTANT,
HOWEVER, IS THAT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME
WORLD OF WARCRAFT, ARGUABLY THE MOST
COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL ONLINE VIDEO
GAME IN HISTORY WITH MORE THAN 110 MILLION
PLAYERS WORLDWIDE, HAS FOUND ITS WAY
TO THE BIG SCREEN.
THE NPC (NON-PLAYER CHARACTER) IN THE LOWER
CITY THAT GIVES THE DAILY COOKING QUEST IS
NAMED ROKK AND IS BASED ON WWE SUPERSTAR
AND ACTOR DWAYNE “THE ROCK” JOHNSON,
WHOSE TAGLINE AS A WRESTLER WAS
“CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING?”
THE INNKEEPER IN THRALLMAR (HELLFIRE) IS CALLED
FLOYD PINKUS; HIS NAME WAS INSPIRED BY THE
LEGENDARY ROCK BAND PINK FLOYD
THE BANKERS IN IRONFORGE ARE NAMED BARNUM
STONEMANTLE, BAILEY STONEMANTLE AND SOLEIL
STONEMANTLE. THEIR NAMES WERE INSPIRED, OF
COURSE, BY RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM &
BAILEY CIRCUS AND CIRQUE DU SOLEIL
IN THE EXPANSION IN THE WORLD’S END TAVERN IN
SHATTRATH CITY, YOU CAN FIND A GIRL NAMED
HARRIS HILTON HANGING AROUND WITH HER DOG
TINKERBELL, AN OBVIOUS REFERENCE TO
MULTIMILLIONAIRE PARIS AND HER DOG TINKERBELL
IN UN’GORO CRATER, YOU WILL MEET A FUNNY-LOOKING
QUEST GIVER NAMED RINGO WHO GIVES OUT A
QUEST CALLED “WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY
FRIENDS.” IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW, "WITH A
LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS” IS A SONG BY
THE BEATLES, WHILE THE GAME’S QUEST GIVER
TAKES HIS NAME FROM ONE OF THE BAND MEMBERS,
RINGO STARR
THE ISLAND OFF THE COAST OF DUSTWALLOW
MARSH IS CALLED ALCAZ AND EVEN CONTAINS A
HUGE GATE-LIKE PRISON. THE INFLUENCE FROM THE
WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS PRISON, ALCATRAZ,
CAN EASILY BE SPOTTED IN THIS CASE
THERE IS A LUMBERJACK IN ELWYNN FOREST NAMED
TERRY PALIN. HE TAKES HIS NAME FROM TERRY JONES
AND MICHAEL PALIN, MEMBERS OF MONTY PYTHON,
WHO WERE FAMOUS FOR “THE LUMBERJACK SONG.”
IN THE DUNGEON ULDAMAN, FOUND IN THE BADLANDS,
YOU CAN SEE THREE VIKINGS NAMED ERIK, BAELOG
AND OLAF. THIS IS AN OBVIOUS REFERENCE TO
THE THREE VIKINGS IN THE 1992 VIDEO GAME
THE LOST VIKINGS
IN THE ALLIANCE CITY OF THERAMORE IN DUSTWALLOW
MARSH, THERE IS A FISHMONGER NAMED “DIRTY”
MICHAEL CROWE WHO WORKS ON THE DOCK, WHICH
IS A REFERENCE TO MIKE ROWE, THE HOST OF THE
DISCOVERY CHANNEL’S DIRTY JOBS (2005)
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