

Lum the Forever is often regarded as the weirdest movie in the Urusei Yatsura
franchise. With multiple overlapping layers of possible interpretations the
movie almost feel like a polar opposite to Beautiful Dreamer: the later one is
about unmoving eternity while the former carries a message that things have to
change.

The final scene of the movie is quite emblematic. A tv screen flickering with
some static noise before finally shutting down.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3WAxU.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3WAxU.jpg)

It is a know fact that Lum the Forever was intended to be the final movie in
the series, and based on multiple sources and interviews the movie director
Kazuo Yamazaki wanted to send a specific message "I wanted to tell them that
they should not focus their entire lives on the series but that they should
move out".

It would be too long to explain everything in the movie, so if you are
interested just refer to [this
site](https://www.furinkan.com/features/articles/rudiakgould.html). The
important thing here is that the TV screen at the end of Lum The Forever
carried a precise meaning: "the show ended, please forget us and go forward on
your life".

Years later... The remake came. And the trailer started with a very specific
image.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jfKCO.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jfKCO.jpg)

Another TV screen, coming to life to show a picture of Ataru face. This
seems.. quite deliberate.

So, the question is simple: is there any actual "Word of God" evidence that
the scene was specifically made as a counterpart to Lum: the Forever ending?


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Is the Lum 2022 Remake trailer first scene a direct reference to Lum: The Forever final scene?