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In Terminator 2 when Arnie is thrown through the department store window a man with a camera starts taking pictures of him, then has a look of shocked recognition. It's because the actor played the same cop that had his car jacked by the terminator in the first film.
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May 29, 2012 23:25
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I found a great one in The Avengers. It's really minor spoilers, but I'm just gonna tag the whole thing. If you've seen the movie, you probably remember the shawarma joke Iron Man says along with the shawarma scene after the credits. Well there is another scene with shawarma. When Iron Man flies through the big monster and crash lands in the street, he's right in front of the shawarma place. In fact, when he says he saw the place earlier he quite possibly meant a few minutes ago rather than days/weeks/months ago like most people would think. It really made my second viewing a lot more awesome.
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May 29, 2012 23:58
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Liar Lyre posted:I found a great one in The Avengers. It's really minor spoilers, but I'm just gonna tag the whole thing. Also concerning the end of the Avengers: Stark tries calling Pepper, but once he goes through the portal, the icon on his HUD says "Call Failed." I read somewhere that everything on Iron Mans HUD makes sense, and isn't just tech stuff to make it look complicated and cool. Someone from the Air Force helped design the layout for it. Pretty awesome stuff considering we only get to see it backwards and almost transparent. There are also different HUDs for each suit he wears.
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May 30, 2012 00:36
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Here's a subtle possible coincidence in The Shining: whenever Jack talks to the bartender, Lloyd, there is a bright, shining light behind him. The reason I think it was intentional was because there is a major contrast between Jack and the Bartender; it's very dark behind Jack, but almost blindingly bright behind the bartender. I think it was a neat cinematic choice on the behalf of Kubrick, even if it didn't have a deep meaning to it.
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May 30, 2012 01:40
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In The Emperor's New Groove, in the scene where Kuzco is turned into a llama, Yzma dumps the potion into the pot of a cactus. In the next shot where the cactus shows up, it's llama shaped. It's something that I never noticed until it was pointed out to me, but I can't miss it now.
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May 30, 2012 01:57
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Kylink posted:I think it was a neat cinematic choice on the behalf of Kubrick, even if it didn't have a deep meaning to it.
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May 30, 2012 02:39
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Kylink posted:Here's a subtle possible coincidence in The Shining: whenever Jack talks to the bartender, Lloyd, there is a bright, shining light behind him. The reason I think it was intentional was because there is a major contrast between Jack and the Bartender; it's very dark behind Jack, but almost blindingly bright behind the bartender. I think it was a neat cinematic choice on the behalf of Kubrick, even if it didn't have a deep meaning to it. All right you want to get into Kubrick's The Shining? There's so many subtle things in that movie that I'm sure I know of just a fraction of them. I'll list what I do know: Mirrors and imperfect symmetry: The very first scene in the movie has these with the lake reflecting the surface above. Rooms like the bathroom where Jack meets Grady is symmetrical, though not perfectly so. The twins in the hallway look almost identical, but aren't perfectly so. A scene shows Jack reflected in a mirror, talking sarcastically, but when the shot changes to him not reflected in the mirror, he honestly opens up to his wife. Indians verses the white man: It's said in the movie the hotel was built on an Indian burial ground. Later in the movie Jack is throwing a tennis ball against the Indian paintings on the wall, sort of attacking them, and near the end when he goes totally nuts, Wendy's hair is down giving her the appearance of an Indian squaw. The numbers 1 and 2: Referenced in various ways throughout the movie "Two ten's and two twenties" The numbers on the blood elevator, "KDK 1 calling KDK 12" Mazes: Not just the hedge maze, it starts getting maze like as soon as Jack enters the hotel with directions for finding the manager's office. E: A couple more I remember: Jack visually shows how he's mentally unraveling: Keep track of his beard growth throughout the movie. This has all happened before: By the end of the movie we definitely know Jack has been there before. The ballroom scene played out much like it did in Jack's past life. There are hints that the cycle has played out more then twice. Jack represents the past, Danny represents the present/future: Jack references the settlers stranded in the mountains on the way to the hotel. Once there he spends time reading about the hotel's past while Danny learns to navigate the maze of corridors and the hedge maze. Near the end, Danny navigates his way out of the maze and out of the cycle that Jack is stuck in. Landerig has a new favorite as of 03:22 on May 30, 2012 |
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May 30, 2012 03:07
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Zasraik posted:In Terminator 2 when Arnie is thrown through the department store window a man with a camera starts taking pictures of him, then has a look of shocked recognition. That's actually the screenwriter, William Wisher. "Lost Highway" ends with Bill Pullman's character convulsing and apparently having some kind of seizure while a blue flashing light surrounds him. Earlier in the film, Robert Blake's Mystery Man character tells him of how in "the east, the far east", executioners would lie in wait, and not warn prisoners before suddenly shooting them in the back of the head. Could that last scene be Pullman in the electric chair, but so deep in his mind that he can't actually register that's what's actually happening to him? I've seen the movie a number of times but it's something that only jumped out at me recently.
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May 30, 2012 04:39
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In The Departed, whenever someone is going to die there is an X on the screen, either on a poster or as a part of the architecture or whatever. And this doesn't really count, but the three season Beetlejuice joke on Community is pretty awesome.
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May 30, 2012 05:04
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Bonk posted:It's Kubrick. It had a meaning. http://www.geekosystem.com/impossible-shining/ Does an analysis of the architectural layout of the Overlook hotel based on the panning shots and finds it is a paradox. For example, the camera follows Jack up a flight of stairs, makes a u turn and goes down a hallway with doors on each side. Not much different from any other hotel hallway except the doors on the right can't have rooms behind them as the transition shot from the staircase to the hall shows that wall is only a few inches thick. Read the article, its a great explanation of how Kubrick is loving with your sense of spatial relationship to make the hotel even creepier.
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May 30, 2012 05:35
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benito posted:And this doesn't really count, but the three season Beetlejuice joke on Community is pretty awesome. I don't watch Community, but am I reading the comments right? That was done spread out over the first 3 seasons just to get in a 2 second sight gag? That is loving genius. Edit: I read your link wrong, and that's exactly what it is. Holt poo poo. That's amazing.
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May 30, 2012 06:01
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Critical posted:I don't watch Community, but am I reading the comments right? That was done spread out over the first 3 seasons just to get in a 2 second sight gag? That is loving genius. There also an episode where one of the characters has a full story happening in the background, that isn't really mentioned or brought attention too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tP0ubODOUQ
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May 30, 2012 08:26
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Insanity Prawn posted:There also an episode where one of the characters has a full story happening in the background, that isn't really mentioned or brought attention too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tP0ubODOUQ benito posted:And this doesn't really count, but the three season Beetlejuice joke on Community is pretty awesome. Wow I have watched a whole lot of community and there are quite a few references in that series, but I never noticed those. Thanks a lot for pointing that out.
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May 30, 2012 10:26
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In Alex Cox's film Repo Man, Miller talks to Otto about thinking about "shrimp" or a "plate o'shrimp" and then suddenly somebody out of the blue mentions it; and how it is part of some large, cosmic unconsciousness. Later on in the film two characters stand by a sign that says "plate o'shrimp"
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May 30, 2012 13:40
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benito posted:In The Departed, whenever someone is going to die there is an X on the screen, either on a poster or as a part of the architecture or whatever. EDIT: Also, I never noticed either of those "Community" jokes. 
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May 30, 2012 14:00
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In Ghost Dog, there's a moment when Forrest Whitaker walks down a populated city street. As he passes each person, they coincidentally happen to turn away from him or get distracted by something else, so not one person sees him walk by. He is effectively invisible. My favorite subtle moment in The Usual Suspects occurs towards the end of the film, during Agent Kujan's interrogation of Verbal Kint. In one shot, Chazz Palmintieri walks behind Kevin Spacey, who is seated in a chair with the camera trained on his face in profile. While Palmintieri is in front of him, Spacey's face is completely blank. When Palmintieri steps behind him, the tiniest, barest hint of a smile appears in Spacey's eyes. By the time Palmintieri is in front of him again, his face is blank again.
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May 30, 2012 14:41
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Rabbit Hill posted:My favorite subtle moment in The Usual Suspects occurs towards the end of the film, during Agent Kujan's interrogation of Verbal Kint. In one shot, Chazz Palmintieri walks behind Kevin Spacey, who is seated in a chair with the camera trained on his face in profile. While Palmintieri is in front of him, Spacey's face is completely blank. When Palmintieri steps behind him, the tiniest, barest hint of a smile appears in Spacey's eyes. By the time Palmintieri is in front of him again, his face is blank again. My favourite little thing about The Usual Suspects is the bit near the end. In Verbal's story, the boat scene happens and we repeatedly cut back to a shot of Verbal cowering behind an obstruction that semi-obscures what's behind it, it's all ropes and things and you can see through parts of it. We can see some movement behind it where Verbal is hiding. Except we can't. There's nothing behind that obstruction - you'd swear there is, but it's just your imagination.
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May 30, 2012 15:40
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Old James posted:http://www.geekosystem.com/impossible-shining/ Holy poo poo I never even noticed that. I knew for years that mazes played a big role in the movie, but leave it to Kubrick to make a movie where 30 years later we're still finding new details.
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May 30, 2012 15:58
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The final episode of The Shield where the black cop stares a little too long at a gay couple walking down the street His whole journey is pretty sad and its nice to think he will start to accept the truth of who he is again someday
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May 30, 2012 16:39
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Old James posted:http://www.geekosystem.com/impossible-shining/ This is really cool. I'm going to have to go dig up my copy of The Shining and watch it again, I missed quite a few things apparently. I always felt the layout seemed off, but I never thought about that.
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May 30, 2012 16:56
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Smelly posted:This is really cool. I'm going to have to go dig up my copy of The Shining and watch it again, I missed quite a few things apparently. I always felt the layout seemed off, but I never thought about that. He did something similar in A Clockwork Orange where there were subtle changes when Alex's mother and father were eating breakfast. It's really disjointing and has a great effect on the viewer.
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May 30, 2012 17:00
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Rabbit Hill posted:In Ghost Dog, there's a moment when Forrest Whitaker walks down a populated city street. As he passes each person, they coincidentally happen to turn away from him or get distracted by something else, so not one person sees him walk by. He is effectively invisible. It's probably not subtle enough to count, but I enjoyed the fact that all of the assassinations are prefaced by the target watching a cartoon that parodies the way they will die.
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May 30, 2012 17:12
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Old James posted:http://www.geekosystem.com/impossible-shining/ Okay, that makes me feel better. I'm a huge Kubrick fan, but the exterior shot of the Overlook (Timberline Lodge on Mt Hood) just does not work in my mind as the exterior and it always seemed like a sloppy choice. Good to know it was picked for a reason better than "big building on an American mountain"
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May 30, 2012 17:37
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In Watchmen the Comedian's 45 has a little engraving on it. It's a thank you and commendation from President Nixon. Another one of those things you never see on screen but like the LoTR examples, one of those things that made it feel more superheroey to the actor. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World does have a ton. My favorite two have to be that every ex has their number referenced somewhere in their scene, with Scott being "Zero" as Ramona's current boyfriend. And the second time Scott goes into Gideon's club the guy chatting by the entrance says something along the lines of "It was better as a comic."
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May 30, 2012 20:06
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Another Scorsese movie: I always liked the expression on Paul Sorvino's face in Goodfellas when Sonny the club owner suggests that maybe having Tommy killed would be no bad thing. It lets Sonny and you know that he spoke way out of turn there. Although this is less subtle, the film is also pretty good at showing how strung out on coke Henry, Karen and Henry's girlfriend all are by the end by changes in the clothes they wear, make-up and general demeanour. And finally, in Casino , James Woods' character gets to wear what is apparently a knock-off Gucci white suit in one scene that definitively establishes that he is the sleaziest low-life 70s pimp you ever saw without a word being said.
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May 30, 2012 20:51
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Robert Denby posted:"Lost Highway" ends with Bill Pullman's character convulsing and apparently having some kind of seizure while a blue flashing light surrounds him. Earlier in the film, Robert Blake's Mystery Man character tells him of how in "the east, the far east", executioners would lie in wait, and not warn prisoners before suddenly shooting them in the back of the head. Could that last scene be Pullman in the electric chair, but so deep in his mind that he can't actually register that's what's actually happening to him? I've had that thought too, but remember, you see the same thing happen when he transforms into Balthazar Getty. So it could be like... his inevitable death in the electric chair is the boundary of his existence; he can live out the alternate fantasy life, or lives, maybe forever, but he'll inevitably crash against that barrier.
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May 31, 2012 00:48
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This is somewhat open to interpretation, but every time I've seen it I've had to go back and watch this scene a few times. In Walk the Line, there's a moment where Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon are talking about Johnny Cash's dead brother. Older brother, viewed as having more talent at the time, and there's this weirdly honest/wistful/sad look that washes over his face for a moment. He's either acting really well, or he's thinking about his brother River.
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May 31, 2012 01:22
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Razorwired posted:Scott Pilgrim vs. the World does have a ton. My favorite two have to be that every ex has their number referenced somewhere in their scene, with Scott being "Zero" as Ramona's current boyfriend. And the second time Scott goes into Gideon's club the guy chatting by the entrance says something along the lines of "It was better as a comic." There's also lots of scenes that have X's in the background, often relating the ex in the scene. The movie is worth another watch just for all the background stuff.
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May 31, 2012 01:30
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Liar Lyre posted:One Scott Pilgrim thing I'm surprised that hasn't been mentioned yet is when Scott wears a shirt that says 4 1/2 after he gets mad at Ramona. This is right before the twin fight. It symbolizes the possibility of Scott going bad. He's the fourth and a half evil ex. I know in the Gideon fight all of the numbers that pop up have 7 in them, him being the 7th evil ex. I didn't notice the 4 1/2 shirt, but I did notice he drinks coke zero. 
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May 31, 2012 01:33
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The Katayanagi Twins(5 and 6) also have an 11 in their scene.
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May 31, 2012 03:30
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In Terminator 2, in a testament to James Cameron's direction/storyboarding quality; towards the end, just as Arnie, John and Sarah escape the lobby in the SWAT van, they overtake the liquid nitrogen truck on the highway, if I remember correctly you even see the company name/logo on the side. The helicopter has just started pursuing them. But there are at least 30 camera shots between that one and the final encounter with the truck, there was no need for Cameron to put that early shot of it in there, it just makes it that much better quality of a movie.
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May 31, 2012 03:39
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Liar Lyre posted:One Scott Pilgrim thing I'm surprised that hasn't been mentioned yet is when Scott wears a shirt that says 4 1/2 after he gets mad at Ramona. This is right before the twin fight. It symbolizes the possibility of Scott going bad. He's the fourth and a half evil ex. How is he the four and a halfth Evil Ex? Wouldn't he be, like.. the 8th?
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May 31, 2012 04:17
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In Team America: World Police, the streets of Paris are paved with tiny golden croissants.
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May 31, 2012 04:25
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TShields posted:How is he the four and a halfth Evil Ex? Wouldn't he be, like.. the 8th? It seems like a stretch but maybe it's because he hasn't broken up with her yet? So he'd be halfway there with being mad. So that would make him 4 and the 1/2 signifying that he hasn't quite decided to break up. It sounds like a long shot, but I really wouldn't put it past them.
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May 31, 2012 04:33
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Smelly posted:It seems like a stretch but maybe it's because he hasn't broken up with her yet? So he'd be halfway there with being mad.
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Huh? I thought Roxy was 4? Scott would be 8 if he broke up with Ramona.
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May 31, 2012 04:54
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Rabbit Hill posted:My favorite subtle moment in The Usual Suspects occurs towards the end of the film, during Agent Kujan's interrogation of Verbal Kint. In one shot, Chazz Palmintieri walks behind Kevin Spacey, who is seated in a chair with the camera trained on his face in profile. While Palmintieri is in front of him, Spacey's face is completely blank. When Palmintieri steps behind him, the tiniest, barest hint of a smile appears in Spacey's eyes. By the time Palmintieri is in front of him again, his face is blank again. It's been ages since I saw it, but I'm sure I remember a shot during that interrogation where Verbal briefly glances up at the underside of the coffee cup as the agent takes a sip from it. Of course at the end the cup is smashed, and it's revealed that the underside has the name "Kobayashi" printed on it. I really need to watch that film again, so many little moments that you don't catch on the first viewing.
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May 31, 2012 05:10
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No Wave posted:Or maybe because he'd just beaten evil ex 4 and was about to go on to number 5 (and 6)?
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May 31, 2012 12:22
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Inzombiac posted:Huh? I thought Roxy was 4? Scott would be 8 if he broke up with Ramona. That's what I was saying. I mean, 4.5 can mean that it's the break between fighting 4 and 5/6, but he can't be the 4.5th Evil Ex because he happened 8th in line.
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Tytan posted:It's been ages since I saw it, but I'm sure I remember a shot during that interrogation where Verbal briefly glances up at the underside of the coffee cup as the agent takes a sip from it. Of course at the end the cup is smashed, and it's revealed that the underside has the name "Kobayashi" printed on it. (Usual Suspects) There's also one quick moment where the agent acts like he's going to punch Verbal, and Verbal instinctively raises his lame arm to deflect the blow.
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