Whoops, sorry. Looks like I conflated some fanwankery I ran across a while back that believed the briefcase had the glowing orb from Heavy Metal, or maybe whatever was in the car trunk in Repo Man. So, maybe not such a good example.
Does he, though? I assumed it was just someone dressed up for the festival.
in another Danny Boyle movie, Millions, the younger brother has conversations with dead saints as well as the ghost of his mother. This happens more than once in the movie, though.
I think his ability to anticipate Blake’s orders shows it a lot more than announcing the choppers. The latter could just be excellent hearing (in fact, I think that’s what it is in the book). For that matter, the anticipated orders aren’t explicitly supernatural; you could argue that Radar is just smarter than he looks, well prepared, and thoroughly familiar with his CO’s behavior. I don’t recall him ever doing anything that absolutely required advance knowledge of a completely unpredictable event. He could spend most of his day preparing contingency plans and watching where his boss leaves things.
I know there are multiple interpretations but the recent PBS show Shakespeare Uncovered made a lot of sense. The idea of ghosts and the supernatural was not strange at the time. Ghosts were assumed to be all around. No one at the time would think its strange that a ghost showed up. The episode can be seen here (David Tennent). Shakespeare Uncovered | PBS
It would have been nice if he told Henry to take a different flight. Dick.
How about in Life of Brian when the alien spaceship swoops down a picks up Brian?
Another from Tarantino.
In Kill Bill: Volume 1, as the fight rages on between Uma’s character and the Crazy 88s, Uma climbs her way to an upper level of the room for a brief escape.
Moments later, one of the combatants simply flies through the air after her.
This gravity defying maneuver (pretty sure a reference to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) elicits nary a reaction from those in mid-battle.
Granted there’s lots in the scene that stretches credulity but throwing in a flying guy tips the scale to Pure Fiction.
In Sue Grafton’s novel M is for Malice, Kinsey Mllhone seems to have a psychic experience of some kind.
R.A. McAvoy’s excellent novel Twisting the Rope includes telepathy and a shapechanged dragon, but these elements are comparatively minor.
The telekinetic power of the main character in “Time of the Gypsies”
My So Called Life was a normal drama but one episode featured a magical Angel.
I never thought Radar was being given ESP. He had great hearing for the choppers, and was very organized and understood his boss very well, so he could anticipate. Nothing supernatural required, and I never took it that way.
Now some of the episodes with Hawkeye and the shrink got into some weird territory.
Ed McBain wrote police procedurals and a recurring villain was The Deaf Man. He wrote so many books I can’t remember which one - “Hark!” ? - but the criminal mastermind was wounded, cornered, and the squad moved in to capture him only to find - nothing. No one. Just blood splatters. Gone. Thwarted again!
This may be stretching it, but the Bond film Live and Let Die featured precognition/ESP via Tarot reading—and one character who may have been the real Baron Samedi.
Frasier - The character Daphne being ‘a bit psychic’ was a running gag throughout the show’s run. But occasionally the writers threw in a gag that suggested she might actually be of the ESP persuasion. For instance, the episode where the dog Eddie runs away and gets lost, Daphne has a ‘psychic’ vision of the dog staring at Frasier; cut to the next scene we see the dog sitting on a bus stop bench looking at an ad for Frasier’s radio show with his face on it.
Bangkok 8 - A run of the mill police procedural/ detective novel set in Bangkok has a protagonist that is sort of half cop/ half buddhist monk (an arhat) that speaks of mystical things, like hungry ghosts as if he could see them.
Oh come on, that bit was clearly central to the movie, on a thematic level if not strictly from a plot standpoint.
Speaking of Daphne on Frasier, the episode where Lilith was coming to Seattle and Daphne was stricken with a migraine that lasted until the exact moment Lilith’s plane went wheels up. Seems like a suggestion Daphne was more psychic than we believed.
Quantum Leap has two, so far (I’ve been watching them in order, yesterday he was a girl in a beauty pageant).
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When he is in a mud show (tiny circus), the psychic medium tells him he’s lived many lives.
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When he is a ghost hunter in a strange house where people keep drowning mysteriously, there is a very creepy maid working for the family. At the end, when all the bodies who’ve drowned come to the surface (attributed to an earthquake), they are all well preserved due to the deep/coldness of the bottom of the late. One of the dead bodies turns out to be the maid. Cut to the maid looking out the window of the house, she vanishes.
I don’t want to spoil it for you, but I think that QL has more than just those two.