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mrkillboy
May 13, 2003

"Something witty."
I love this one bit in the Empire Strikes Back during the part where the Imperial Fleet are hunting for the Millennium Falcon in the asteroid field.

There's a shot where a Star Destroyer trying to navigate the field is hit in the bridge by an asteroid, which causes it to explode. This is then followed by another shot of three holograms talking to Vader, where almost immediately one of the holograms cuts out, because its from the same ship that just got itself pummeled by an asteroid.

Its not the focus of the shot so its a bit easy to miss, and I didn't catch it myself until after having seen the movie a bunch of times. I think its a nice touch.

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Robert Denby
Sep 9, 2007
Denial isn't just a river in Egypt, huh? Nah, get fucked mate.
There's a lot of repeated dialogue in "The Big Lebowski". The conversations between The Dude, Walter, and Donny are made up of repeating dialogue more often than not. Towards the beginning of the film, we see Bush Sr. on TV talking about Saddam and he says, "This aggression against Kuwait will not stand." Later on, The Dude rephrases this. Also, the nihilists appearing in red with giant scissors... Look what's hanging up on Julianne Moore's wall a few scenes prior:

Tombstone.
Aug 9, 2010

Nemesis Of Moles posted:

Every time Vincent Vega uses a toilet, something terrible happens.

Also, all of the stories about the gold watch end up with men being held prisoner with things going up their asses.

fuckpot
May 20, 2007

Lurking beneath the water
The future Immortal awaits

Team Anasta
In Jurassic Park when they are on the helicopter ride to the island. Dr Grant is having trouble doing his seatbelt up, and in the scramble ties two female seatbelt parts together.

Life finds a way.

penismightier
Dec 6, 2005

What the hell, I'll just eat some trash.

Y'all remember at the end of Fargo when Norm gets his painting on the 3 cent stamp? He dismisses it as no big deal because it's just the 3 cent - but Marge tells him that everyone needs the 3 cent when the postage goes up and everyone's stuck with the old ones. "We're doing all right," she says.

Fargo is set in 1987. In April 1988, the postal rate was increased by 3 cents.

Bruce Leroy
Jun 10, 2010

fuckpot posted:

In Jurassic Park when they are on the helicopter ride to the island. Dr Grant is having trouble doing his seatbelt up, and in the scramble ties two female seatbelt parts together.

Life finds a way.

Holy poo poo, that's loving brilliant. I never made that connection before.

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

fuckpot posted:

In Jurassic Park when they are on the helicopter ride to the island. Dr Grant is having trouble doing his seatbelt up, and in the scramble ties two female seatbelt parts together.

Life finds a way.

Motherfucker...

Also, with the Vincent Vega thing, didn't he go to the bathroom at Mia's house, right around when she OD'd?

I don't know if it fits well here (then again, a lot of these are easter eggs, but whatever, great thread), but I do enjoy the mention of Alabama in Resevoir Dogs, when Joe is talking to Mr White.

Nemesis Of Moles
Jul 25, 2007

fuckpot posted:

In Jurassic Park when they are on the helicopter ride to the island. Dr Grant is having trouble doing his seatbelt up, and in the scramble ties two female seatbelt parts together.

Life finds a way.

Someone in CD basically showed off that the whole Helicopter scene is the movie in a microcosm in every single way. I'd have to find the post again cause it was mind blowing.

Yes Vega goes into the bathroom at Mias house when she ODs.

Gravitas Shortfall
Jul 17, 2007

Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.


Edgar Wright films are full of dialogue that predicts the plot of the film, but my favourite is Shaun of the Dead, where Nick Frost's character "Ed" casually describes the entire plot of the movie to the titular Shaun.

"You know what we should do tomorrow? Keep drinking. A Bloody Mary first thing, a bite at the King's Head, couple at The Little Princess, stagger back here and bang... back at the bar for shots."

The zombie in the backyard is wearing a "Hello, my name is Mary" nametag, and of course, she's quite bloody. They then go to Shaun's parents' house, where his stepfather (the "King" of the house) has been bitten. Then it's off to Liz's (the "Little Princess"), who's hanging out with the couple - David and Dianne. After some trouble, they stagger back to the bar.. where a box of shotgun shells cooks off right on the bartop.

How's THAT for a slice of fried gold?

Robert Denby
Sep 9, 2007
Denial isn't just a river in Egypt, huh? Nah, get fucked mate.
"Hot Fuzz" does this too. When Simon Pegg first goes jogging in the town, everyone is in the same positions they are when the final shootout goes down.

Gravitas Shortfall
Jul 17, 2007

Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.


Yeah. And every motive that Danny Butterman gives for the killings (that Angel instantly dismisses) turns out to be completely accurate.

What I'm saying is, always listen to Nick Frost.

Nemesis Of Moles
Jul 25, 2007

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

What I'm saying is, always listen to Nick Frost.

Fine advice for life, I've found.

Vicissitude
Jan 26, 2004

You ever do the chicken dance at a wake? That really bothers people.
Crusty jugglers... :mad:

FreudianSlippers
Apr 12, 2010

Shooting and Fucking
are the same thing!

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

Shaun of the Dead,


Shaun of the Dead also has a lot of references to Romero's films. So many that Romero himself didn't catch them all. The ones I remember of the top of my head is that the film starts with Shaun staggering towards the camera which pans up from his legs to his face which is pretty much exactly like the start of Day of the Dead only with a sleepy British man instead of a jawless balding zombie in a suit. When the boys are going to get Shaun's mum Ed yells "We're comming to get you Barbara!" into the phone, in Night of the Living Dead Johnny taunt his sister in the cemetery by saying "They're coming to get you Barbra" right before the first zombie attacks them. Shaun works at Foree Electric, Dawn of the Dead starred Ken Foree. When David gets torn limb from limb by the undead horde it looks a lot like a similar scene from Day of the Dead. etc. etc.

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Gravitas Shortfall
Jul 17, 2007

Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.


Also, if you look closely, one of the zombies outside the winchester is Tires, the constantly raving mood-swing inflicted bike courier from Spaced.

He's still wearing his headphones.

eating only apples
Dec 12, 2009

Shall we dance?
When Ed's playing Timesplitters, the advice Shaun gives him is identical to the advice Ed gives Shaun in the Winchester near the end.

"Top left! Reload. Nice shot!"

poptart_fairy
Apr 8, 2009

by R. Guyovich

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

Also, if you look closely, one of the zombies outside the winchester is Tires, the constantly raving mood-swing inflicted bike courier from Spaced.

He's still wearing his headphones.

poo poo, I wondered why that zombie jumped out at me. :stare:

Also, though The Dictator isn't a particularly subtle film, there's one really fun visual joke they use at the end. At the start of the film the main character Aladeen is driven and escorted by a fleet of gold-plated SUVs, which (obviously) consume a lot of petrol and aren't very 'green'. Later on after he's fallen for the democracy-loving hippy girl, all those cars have been replaced with eco-friendly hybrids. :3:

Leovinus
Apr 28, 2005

by Y Kant Ozma Post

Robert Denby posted:

There's a lot of repeated dialogue in "The Big Lebowski". The conversations between The Dude, Walter, and Donny are made up of repeating dialogue more often than not. Towards the beginning of the film, we see Bush Sr. on TV talking about Saddam and he says, "This aggression against Kuwait will not stand." Later on, The Dude rephrases this. Also, the nihilists appearing in red with giant scissors... Look what's hanging up on Julianne Moore's wall a few scenes prior:



It's even more subtle than that. Everyone in the movie repeats themselves constantly, except for the Dude, who repeats everyone else constantly.

Robert Denby posted:

"Hot Fuzz" does this too. When Simon Pegg first goes jogging in the town, everyone is in the same positions they are when the final shootout goes down.


eating only apples posted:

When Ed's playing Timesplitters, the advice Shaun gives him is identical to the advice Ed gives Shaun in the Winchester near the end.

"Top left! Reload. Nice shot!"

Those movies are incredibly well-referenced like that. Hot Fuzz in particular - there's not a shot in that movie that isn't packed with extra detail.

In Shaun, the second time he walks to the shop, everyone is in the exact same positions and doing similar things but zombified. The pizza shop near Shaun is called Bub's Pizza after Bub, the trained zombie from Day Of The Dead - Simon Pegg's favourite zombie. When they practise moaning like zombies in the movie, Pegg is doing a Bub impression, and a dead-on one at that.

In Romero's Land Of The Dead, Pegg and Edgar Wright cameo as zombies in a nightclub:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usvthsB0A64

That's not just any zombie mask Pegg's wearing, it's the original Bub prosthetic. One of the costume designers knew he was a fan of Bub and found it for him.

Hot Fuzz - god, so many. One of my favourite little in-jokes is the bit just before Tim Messenger gets killed - one of the fairground operators is calling out to advertise a game which is called "Splat The Rat".

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Stormtroopman
Jan 28, 2009

Clarington Grey posted:

In The Empire Strikes Back, there's the scene where Darth Vader disposes of Admiral Ozzel with the psychic stranglehold. As the Admiral collapses to the floor, some guy sitting at a console in the background does a great double-take where he looks down at the Admiral, then up at Vader with an "oh poo poo" expression, then goes right back to work.

The Star Wars series is full of little things like this. When the two droids are hiding in the control room of the Death Star in Episode IV, a group of stormtroopers barges in and one near the back hits his head on the door, complete with sound effect. As a nod to this, in Episode II, Jango Fett is entering his ship and the hatch slams closed on his helmet.

The Shawshank Redemption has some subtle lines in it, as well. When the fat guy is blubbering in his cell and Hadley comes to shut him up, the prisoners shout replies to this protests:

"I don't belong here!"
"Me neither, they run this loving place like a prison!"

"I want my mother!"
"I've had your mother! She wasn't that great!"

Farbtoner
May 17, 2011

by Y Kant Ozma Post

Stormtroopman posted:

The Shawshank Redemption has some subtle lines in it, as well. When the fat guy is blubbering in his cell and Hadley comes to shut him up, the prisoners shout replies to this protests:

"I don't belong here!"
"Me neither, they run this loving place like a prison!"

"I want my mother!"
"I've had your mother! She wasn't that great!"

In the movie they have a scene where Andy asks how Red got his nickname and Morgan Freeman says "It's because I'm Irish" as a joke.

The exchange is lifted from the book, only in the book Red actually was Irish.

Leovinus
Apr 28, 2005

by Y Kant Ozma Post

Stormtroopman posted:

The Star Wars series is full of little things like this. When the two droids are hiding in the control room of the Death Star in Episode IV, a group of stormtroopers barges in and one near the back hits his head on the door, complete with sound effect.

The sound effect was only added for the later Special Editions. In the original it was just a goof.

Edit: To add more Edgar Wright love, his take on Scott Pilgrim was incredibly self-referential as well. He expanded on a lot of the stuff from the original comic and added a lot of numbers to the movie to signify the evil exes - for example, Lucas Lee's scene is full of hidden twos, right down to the fact that he points at Scott with two fingers instead of one. Brandon Routh's character wears a shirt with a big 3 on it, which is less subtle. Wright also added a number for Scott, which is why Scott drinks a lot of Coke Zero, has an X-Men patch (which is a crossed zero), and wears a shirt that says "ZERO" in the battle of the bands. Scott also wears a Rock Band T-shirt later in the movie, with the stylised logo that the game uses to signify the bass player.

Leovinus has a new favorite as of 01:47 on May 29, 2012

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Scott Pilgrim has so many good visual gags and references that the DVD has an on-screen Trivia Track, as well as the ususal audio commentaries. It's really handy, and about as unobstructive as subtitles.

Frosted Flake has a new favorite as of 03:22 on May 29, 2012

Vicissitude
Jan 26, 2004

You ever do the chicken dance at a wake? That really bothers people.
I just saw the Avengers again. Near the end, after Iron Man falls back to earth, seemingly dead, when Thor pulls off Tony's face mask, the little connectors and mechanical do-dads inside actually are bend and reflect the fact that the face plate was torn off by a demigod. They're all bent or snapped off.

Dunno if that counts as a spoiler, but I covered the part that seemed like one.

Benny the Snake
Apr 11, 2012

GUM CHEWING INTENSIFIES
Rooney's death scene in Road to Perdtion. What makes this scene so powerful is while Michael Sullivan (played by Tom Hanks) gets to Rooney (played by Paul "Ol Blue Eyes" Newman) by gunning down his men, the soundtrack playing is soft, somber piano music. The rain is pouring as well to reflect the water as a death motif and once Michael finally reaches Rooney, his last words are "I'm glad it's you." We see Michael's face contort in pain as he guns down the man he considered his father. Powerful stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_4Sx5NtOPM

C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat
Not really profound in any way but in American Psycho, after one of his victims comes out of the closet to Bateman just as he attempts to strangle him, Bateman goes over to the sink and washes his hands in disgust, but he's still wearing the leather gloves he had on to make sure he didn't leave any prints. Kind of a weird little detail but it always makes me laugh when I see it.

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

Edgar Wright films are full of dialogue that predicts the plot of the film, but my favourite is Shaun of the Dead, where Nick Frost's character "Ed" casually describes the entire plot of the movie to the titular Shaun.

"You know what we should do tomorrow? Keep drinking. A Bloody Mary first thing, a bite at the King's Head, couple at The Little Princess, stagger back here and bang... back at the bar for shots."

The zombie in the backyard is wearing a "Hello, my name is Mary" nametag, and of course, she's quite bloody. They then go to Shaun's parents' house, where his stepfather (the "King" of the house) has been bitten. Then it's off to Liz's (the "Little Princess"), who's hanging out with the couple - David and Dianne. After some trouble, they stagger back to the bar.. where a box of shotgun shells cooks off right on the bartop.

How's THAT for a slice of fried gold?

If you were talking about any other filmmakers, I'd say you were reaching massively, but I can completely see this being the case with Wright/Pegg. God drat.

swampland
Oct 16, 2007

Dear Mr Cave, if you do not release the bats we will be forced to take legal action

Leovinus posted:

Those movies are incredibly well-referenced like that. Hot Fuzz in particular - there's not a shot in that movie that isn't packed with extra detail.

I just rewatched Hot Fuzz and a nice little detail I hadn't noticed on my first viewing was how the actors in the Romeo and Juliet play are dressed in poorly remade copies of the outfits in the Leonardo DiCaprio movie. It's a brilliant touch that just really showcases the tackiness of the whole thing and says so much about the small town people who put the play on without saying a word.

swampland has a new favorite as of 09:50 on May 29, 2012

Gravitas Shortfall
Jul 17, 2007

Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.


swampland posted:

I just rewatched Hot Fuzz and a nice little detail I hadn't noticed on my first viewing was how the actors in the Romeo and Juliet play are dressed in poorly remade copies of the outfits in the Leonardo DiCaprio movie. It's a brilliant touch that just really showcases the tackiness of the whole thing and says so much about the small town people who put the play on without saying a word.

This is rapidly becoming "post your favourite Edgar Wright moment" but also in Hot Fuzz, Danny Butterman is looking at a DVD called "Zombies Party" - which is just a Shaun of the Dead DVD with a different title and a price sticker over Simon Pegg's face.

Bonk
Aug 4, 2002

Douche Baggins
In the extras on the DVD of LOTR: The Two Towers, they show how they made a lot of the props and armor. Theoden's battle armor had leather inside that was embroidered with horse heads. It's something you never see on screen, but they did it for authenticity's sake, and so Bernard Hill would feel more like a king. The same goes with putting all of the chainmail links together by hand. They didn't HAVE to do any of this, but they did it anyway for actor immersion. The trilogy's full of little stuff like that. It's one of the few huge film franchises where the copious amounts of special features are all worth watching.

oscarthewilde
May 16, 2012


I would often go there
To the tiny church there

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

This is rapidly becoming "post your favourite Edgar Wright moment" but also in Hot Fuzz, Danny Butterman is looking at a DVD called "Zombies Party" - which is just a Shaun of the Dead DVD with a different title and a price sticker over Simon Pegg's face.


It's actually the Spanish version of Shaun of the Dead.

Shirkelton
Apr 6, 2009

I'm not loyal to anything, General... except the dream.

Bown posted:

If you were talking about any other filmmakers, I'd say you were reaching massively, but I can completely see this being the case with Wright/Pegg. God drat.

Wright himself points it out in the dvd commentary.

George Rouncewell
Jul 20, 2007

You think that's illegal? Heh, watch this.

The Saddest Rhino posted:


Speaking of The Thing, I don't know if it was supposed to be subtle as I didn't catch it the first time watching it (which may mean I'm just :downs:), but when the crew went out to visit Wilford Brimley in his little shed he had a noose hanging in the background and kept going "I'm okay now." At first glance it sounds like Brimley was totally over being suicidal and wants to survive like the rest. The scene is actually broadcasting the fact that he has already died and been assimilated, hence his no longer needing a noose, and he wants to join the rest because he wants to kill all of them.
Best bit about The Thing is the scene where the computer beats him in chess and he destroys it in revenge.
He does the exact same thing in the end when he burns the compound. He'd rather break the whole game than lose

Buzkashi
Feb 4, 2003
College Slice

Illegal Username posted:

Best bit about The Thing is the scene where the computer beats him in chess and he destroys it in revenge.
He does the exact same thing in the end when he burns the compound. He'd rather break the whole game than lose

You could also look at it as him pouring alcohol into a victorious inhuman opponent, since he offers Childs a drink.

mrkillboy
May 13, 2003

"Something witty."

swampland posted:

I just rewatched Hot Fuzz and a nice little detail I hadn't noticed on my first viewing was how the actors in the Romeo and Juliet play are dressed in poorly remade copies of the outfits in the Leonardo DiCaprio movie.
Also the musical number that ends the play is the song "Lovefool" by The Cardigans, which appeared on the soundtrack to the DiCaprio version.

Kazzah
Jul 15, 2011

Formerly known as
Krazyface
Hair Elf

Buzkashi posted:

You could also look at it as him pouring alcohol into a victorious inhuman opponent, since he offers Childs a drink.

You can ALSO look at it like this: at the start of the movie, he defeats his opponent unconventionally, with the drink. At the end, it's possible that MacReady is a Thing and Childs is human--in which case, MacReady-Thing is infecting Childs by getting him to drink from the same bottle. Earlier, they all decided to prepare their own food, out of tins, to avoid possible infection...

God, I love The Thing.

Anyway, the movie Children of Men has a bunch of little things hidden in it:
-In the "Only Britain Soldiers On" propaganda ad early on, there's a fraction-of-a-second shot of New York with a mushroom cloud rising over it. Later, Theo asks Julian if her parents were in NY "when it happened".
-Like five times over the course of the movie, Theo gets out and lights a cigarette, and every time something interrupts him.
-Almost every scene has a couple animals in it. Many people have pet dogs, like they're replacements for children or something.
-The "Ark of the Arts" prominently features Michelangelo's David, and also Guernica. At the end of the movie, the British military attacks the Fishes and other militia with a much larger, better-armed force--and wins. In the final scene, several planes fly over the main characters and bomb Bexhill.
-At one point Theo wears a "London 2012" jumper, even though they hadn't chosen the location when the movie was being made. Just thought it was kind of cool.

John Liver
May 4, 2009

I didn't care for the movie, but there's a pretty good one in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (the second movie).

When Will is going through his montage as he follows the recent movements of Jack Sparrow, the last person he talks to is a Jamaican sailor who tells him about an island where he traded for "delicious spiced pork." You might not pay attention to that line, but it's only later that Will discovers the islanders are cannibals. So... sailors have been trading meat on that island for quite a while now...

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

John Liver posted:

I didn't care for the movie, but there's a pretty good one in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (the second movie).

When Will is going through his montage as he follows the recent movements of Jack Sparrow, the last person he talks to is a Jamaican sailor who tells him about an island where he traded for "delicious spiced pork." You might not pay attention to that line, but it's only later that Will discovers the islanders are cannibals. So... sailors have been trading meat on that island for quite a while now...
And "long pork"/"long pig" was a traditional name for that.

Physical
Sep 26, 2007

by T. Finninho
Remember in Back to the Future 2 (I forget which one, I think it was the second one) when the Doc is hooking up the electrical line to the tower and the cop comes by and the Doc chastises him for looking under the tarp because its "very sensitive scientific equipment" prompting the cop to ask if the Doc has a permit for the equipment?

The doc starts looking through his wallet for a "permit" which will probably be colored green. The Doc, while understanding that the laws of time and physics are rigid, knows that sometimes the wheels of justice need greased. The Doc is bribing the cop.

RowsdowerHotline
Nov 5, 2003
Forum Crackwhore

Robert Denby posted:

There's a lot of repeated dialogue in "The Big Lebowski". The conversations between The Dude, Walter, and Donny are made up of repeating dialogue more often than not. Towards the beginning of the film, we see Bush Sr. on TV talking about Saddam and he says, "This aggression against Kuwait will not stand." Later on, The Dude rephrases this. Also, the nihilists appearing in red with giant scissors... Look what's hanging up on Julianne Moore's wall a few scenes prior:



Also, the Dude postdated his check at the grocery store in the beginning of the film.

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Nemesis Of Moles
Jul 25, 2007

That's made pretty obvious in a deleted scene for Bttf2

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