30 Movie Details Uncovered That Will Surprise You

Movies are full of easter eggs and hidden surprises.

Whoever created this concept of movies, I would like to personally thank them for their innovative effort. It often blows my mind how a single 2 hour video can keep a person so engaged that they totally cut off from the surroundings and immerse right into the fictitious story of the movie. Movies have been a great part of our lives now and a good movie really does put a smile on your face. When the idea of movie franchises came in with the likes of the Harry Potter series, Star Wards series, Marvel Studio’s Infinity Saga, these masterpieces turned the whole film industry upside down. I mean, Marvel Studios kept us engaged and invested in their movies for 22 whole years, that’s what movie magic is, a good addiction that brightens up your mood according to the genre. There are movies that we have rewatched over and over again because we enjoyed them so much on the first watch. You just never get bored of that film even if you have memorized the whole thing by heart. Now what this rewatching does is, it makes you focus more on the tiny things and hence allows you to spot little details that you had previously missed. Now, these details can often be irrelevant but at times really crucial to the overall linkages being formed in the movie or multiple movies.

Moviemakers realize how closely dedicated fans watch the movies so they are now adding more and more easter eggs for everyone to locate. Now, it is not possible for everyone to locate each easter egg in each movie one by one but we shall not worry, there is an entire community that dedicates its time to spot these unnoticed details. A subreddit that goes by the name r/MovieDetails was formed in 2017 for this exact purpose. The spotters now have a huge family of 2.8 million members so you can confidently say the content is bound to be crazy good.

Let’s look at some of their work and see how many details did we miss in some famous movies.

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Movies are full of easter eggs and hidden surprises.

1. In the movie Kingpin (1996), along with improvising on all his dialogues Bill Murray also bowled 3 consecutive strikes in front of a live audience as the shot was recorded. The applause that you hear in that scene is from a real audience.

2. In the movieMalificient (2014) the character of Aurora was played by Angelina Jolie’s own daughter because no other kid would come closer to her. They were horrified to the core of her Maleficient makeup so the casting team had to resort to her own daughter.

3. In the movie Men in Black (1997) the language we hear the aliens speak is called “Huttese”. That is the same language spoken by Jabba the Hutt in the Star Wars movies.

4. In the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) when Lucius slams Draco’s hand on his cane, he had no idea that there were spiky fangs on top of that cane, so the screams and pain you see Draco in, were real.

5. In the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), the film didn’t have enough budget to get real horses so the idea of coconuts was suggested by Michael Palin which worked perfectly.

6. In the movie The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Sean Bean’s famous speech was re-written a day before filming so he wrote the lines on his knee and went through them casually whenever he wold forget it.

7. In the movie Deadpool 2 (2018) the scene where Deadpool interviews various people to form the X-Force team, many Supreme Court justices’ headshots can be seen in the list of candidates.

8. In the movie A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) the only reason why Liam Neeson agreed to play an antagonist was because of a scene in the famous Family Guy where Peter says that imagine how Lian Neeson would be like in a Western.

9. In the movie Knives Out (2019) Christopher Plummer who plays the son of K Callan is actually 6 years older than Callan.

10. In the movie Matrix (1999) when Neo and Morpheus attack each other in the exact same manner, their heads form the Ying-Yang symbol as seen from above.

11. In the movie Event Horizon (1997) Sam Neill actually requested for the Union Jack to be replaced by an aboriginal glad on the Australian flag patch. The request was made based on how he imagined the flag to look like in 2047.

12. In the movie Rocky (1976) the reaction of people watching him run trough the Italialian marketplace was real as they had no idea why is there a man running up and down the street with a van following him.

13. In Asterix Conquers Rome (1976) Asterix makes a roman IV with his fingers instead of showing 4 fingers to tell Obelix that they are on the fourth floor.

14. In the movie Troy (2004) Pitt and Bana did the famous duel themselves and had mutually decided that whoever hits the other will have to pay something. Light hits were $50 and hard hits were $100. Brad Pitt ended up paying $750 to Eric Bana who had no outstanding dues.

15. In the movie 12 Monkeys (1995) the reason why Brad Pitt executed that nervous, rapid speech so perfectly is that Director Terry Gilliam took away his cigarettes ad watched the magic happen.

16. In the movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix (2007) all the girls in the Dumbledore’s Arny wore skirts except Ginny who wore pants that were perhaps Rons that got passed down to her.

17. In the movie Interstellar (2014) the Black Hole was the most scientifically accurate one shown in the movies. It took 100 hours to render every frame which means every second of that scene took 100 days to make.

18. In the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) everyone who wore a flower lapel tried to kill Indy in the movie.

19. In the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) the factory Charlie’s father works in is called Smilex Toothpaste Factory. Surprisingly in the movie Batman (1989) the poisonous gas Joker creates is also named Smylex. Director of the two movies was same.

20. In the movie Dark Knight Rises (2012) Bruce Wayne doesn’t wear a mask at the party because he considered Bruce Wayne as the disguise and Batman as his real identity.

21. In the movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 (2011) one of the weapon a giant can be seen holding is actually a broken Quidditch goal post.

22. In the movie Empire Strikes Back (1980) in order to avoid Vader being Luke’s father spoiled, the line “Obi-Wan killed your father” was later dubbed over and only Mark Hamill was aware of this.

23. In the movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) for her efforts Terry the Dog was salaried at $125 per week while all those played The Munchkins made $50 per week.

24. In the movie The Incredibles (2004) in order to give Dash a realistic out-of-breath voice, the directors made the voice actor Spencer Fox run 4 laps around the Pixar studios before recording his dialogues.

25. In the movie Rango (2011) actors also performed as they recorded voice. The performances were then used as references while animating the characters.

26. In the movie Scream (1996) in the scene where Frew Barrymore calls 911, screams and hangs up multiple times were real calls on accident as the prop team forgot to unplug the phone line before the filming of this scene.

27. In Inglorious Bastards (2009) Colonel Landa actually checks the pulse levels of all the daughters to know about their anxiety levels before he investigates the whole house.

28. In the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) Mackenzie Crook had to wear two lenses on top of one another for that wooden eye to look very realistic. He went through that pain because he prioritized perfection.

29. In the movie Dumb & Dumber (1994) Jim Carrey’s chipped tooth is actually real. He has a cap on that tooth which he got removed for the movie to look extra dumb.

30. In the movie Moana (2016) none of the characters had any tattoos during the song “We Know The Way”. The tattoos can be seen only after they find their island and that is because they had no resources or techniques to make tattoos while they were traveling.

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