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00:00Each of the following movie characters are defined by their shocking secrets,
00:04but they are secrets which ultra-attentive viewers actually could have uncovered a good
00:08while before their jaw-dropping reveal. Granted, you probably would require supernatural powers
00:13of observation to notice these tiny details, and then link them to the subsequent big reveal,
00:19but everything you needed to figure it out was nevertheless there, just waiting to be discovered.
00:24And if you did pick up on any of these hints yourself, well, we'll go and take a bow,
00:28very smart person. But for those who didn't, I am Gareth, you are watching WhatCulture,
00:33and here are nine tiny movie details that gave away character secrets.
00:37Number nine, Jigsaw's gun is empty, confirming he is not dead, Saw.
00:42The original Saw's unforgettable final plot twist reveals that Jigsaw, the mastermind behind the
00:48film's various macabre traps and tests, was actually in the grotty bathroom with Adam and Dr. Gordon
00:55all along. As it turns out, Jigsaw was masquerading as the dead body in the middle
01:00of the bathroom, as a man who apparently shot himself due to the poison coursing through his
01:04body. And though Jigsaw stands up at the very end of the film to reveal his ruse,
01:09the movie actually gives the twist away far earlier if you're really paying attention.
01:13Midway through the film, the gun the man apparently used to shoot himself is examined,
01:17and we see that it's empty. Without even shell casings visible in any of the gun's six chambers,
01:22it's clear that the gun hasn't been fired in suicide, because who could have possibly cleaned
01:28it out afterwards? But of course, Adam and Gordon were in an impossible, heavily panicked situation,
01:33so you can't really criticise them for not putting two and two together here, can you?
01:37I mean, would you, given the circumstances?
01:39Number eight, Mr. Orange rats out Mr. Pink for not tipping because he's a cop.
01:43Reservoir Dogs
01:44Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs is centred around the fallout of a botched diamond heist,
01:49with the eventual reveal that one of the thieves, Mr. Orange, is actually an undercover cop.
01:55But Mr. Orange's duplicitous nature is slightly revealed in the first minutes of the movie,
02:00when the gang heads to a diner for breakfast and Mr. Pink launches into a memorable spiel
02:05about his no tipping policy. Mob boss Joe then asks the team who didn't tip,
02:10and without any hesitation whatsoever, Mr. Orange rats out Mr. Pink.
02:14Furthermore, when Joe asks why Mr. Pink didn't tip, Orange keeps chiming in with more information
02:20until Joe actually tells him to shut up. It's a subtle but brilliant way to let the audience know
02:25that Orange is a bit of a motor mouth, and ultimately, well, a lot more than that.
02:30Number seven, the party guests all arrive in black cars,
02:33foreshadowing their use of black people as, uh, vehicles.
02:37Get Out
02:37Jordan Peele's Get Out is surely one of the most meticulously layered and expertly engineered
02:43horror films of the last decade. Jam-packed with terrifically satisfying symbolism,
02:48it's a movie that continues to reveal new surprises on third, fourth, and even fifth viewings.
02:54Probably even sixth ones as well. Perhaps the most sneaky feat of foreshadowing in the entire movie
02:59occurs when guests start arriving for the Armitage's house party, and every single car that pulls up
03:04just so happens to be black. Given that the film's plot ultimately revolves around a family of wealthy
03:09old white people kidnapping young black people and taking control of their bodies, using them as
03:15vehicles even, it is hysterical that Peele lays this out in such blatant yet abstract terms so early
03:21on. And even if you think this is a bit of a reach on our part, Peele himself even confirmed that it was
03:26totally intentional in an interview. So there! And while we're talking about an incredible horror film
03:31that is Get Out, I want to know what do you think is the best horror movie of the last decade?
03:36Let me know in the comments section down below!
03:386. Snape deflects McGonagall's spell into the Death Eaters because he's actually a hero
03:43Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
03:45So fans of the Harry Potter books were of course well aware of the fact that Severus Snape was a
03:51benevolent double agent several years before movie-only audiences found out in the franchise
03:56capping Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. For those who stuck purely to the film,
04:01like this guy, Snape being a hero all along was a supremely shocking and affecting moment,
04:07just as it likely was in the books naturally, yet one that was also quite brilliantly foreshadowed
04:12earlier in the film. Just as the Battle of Hogwarts begins, Professor McGonagall fires a spell at Snape,
04:18who promptly deflects it into the Death Eaters stood behind him. While in the moment this simply
04:22seemed like a clumsy act of self-defence, within the eventual context of Snape's true nature,
04:27it's clear he took the opportunity to redirect McGonagall's attack against him into an assault
04:32on their actual mutual enemy, the Death Eaters. Great stuff.
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04:44WhatCulture stuff in your day. Now back to the video.
04:475. Sami Jankis briefly morphs into Lenny, hinting at Lenny's big secret, Memento.
04:53Christopher Nolan's ingenious thriller Memento follows Leonard Shelby, an amnesiac who attempts
04:59to track down those responsible for murdering his wife. The film is framed by a series of
05:04black and white sequences where Shelby relays the story of an insurance case he handled for a man
05:09named Sami Jankis. Sami similarly suffered from amnesia, which ultimately caused him to accidentally
05:15administer an insulin overdose to his wife, killing her. The end of the movie implies that this story
05:20is actually Leonard's, who accidentally killed his own wife under similar circumstances.
05:25He then constructed an elaborate false revenge narrative in order to assuage his own guilt over
05:30the killing. It's a fantastically shocking reveal, albeit one that is also implied by a fleeting shot
05:37earlier in the film. During one of the black and white sequences where we see Sami in the hospital,
05:42he's replaced with Leonard for a few fractions of a second before the shot cuts away.
05:46It's easily missed even on repeat viewings, but provides an extremely compelling hint of the reveal
05:52to come. 4. Adelaide Snaps Her Fingers Off-Beat, Suggesting She's A Tethered Us
05:57Jordan Peele strikes again with his solid sophomore horror flick Us, which revolves around a family
06:03facing off against their own insanely creepy doppelgangers. And just like Get Out, nothing in
06:09this film is done by accident. Every minor detail is carried out by design, to the extent that Peele
06:14literally spells out the big twist in the first few minutes of the movie. The end of Us reveals
06:19that Mother Adelaide was actually her own doppelganger Red all along, having been switched as a child.
06:26And the character we assume to be Red was actually the real Adelaide. Oops.
06:30Now this is brilliantly indicated by the opening of the movie, when as the family is driving to the
06:35coast for their vacation, Adelaide tries to snap her fingers to the song of I Got 5 on it,
06:41only for her snaps to be out of time with the music, hitting beats 1 and 3 instead of 2 and 4 as
06:46you'd expect. This immediately makes something seem a bit off about her, to the extent that some even
06:52predicted the twist from the trailer alone. Given that Adelaide was a dancer as a youngster,
06:57there'd surely be no reason for her to fail to hold the correct beat, right? Take a bow, Mr. Peele.
07:02Number 3. Truman's best friend Marlon keeps restocking the vending machine with the same
07:07candy bars. Because he's an actor.
07:09The Truman Show
07:10The Truman Show revolves around Truman Burbank, a man unaware that his entire life unfolds within
07:16the controlled confines of a reality show. As the movie's opening title sequence makes clear,
07:22every single person in Truman's world is a paid actor. Even his best friend Marlon,
07:27who manages to convince Truman for a good while that his suspicions are incorrect.
07:31And while we as the audience know that Marlon, or rather Louis Coltrane, as is his real name,
07:36is an actor from the first few minutes of the movie, there's a brilliant hint to Truman in the
07:41first act of the film that Marlon isn't who he says he is. When Truman visits him at the
07:45convenience store where he works, Marlon is stocking a vending machine with candy bars.
07:50Yet because he wasn't expecting Truman to show up, he doesn't have enough candy bars to keep
07:55stocking the machine for the entirety of the quote-unquote scene. And so, whenever Truman turns away
08:00from him for a moment, Marlon removes a couple of the bars and puts them back into the machine,
08:05giving only the most superficial impression that he's still working. Of course, had Truman been
08:10paying much attention at all, he would have noticed the deception and realised that Marlon was in on
08:14it too. Number two, the narrator can't hear his boss because he hit himself in the ear the night
08:19before, Fight Club. David Fincher's Fight Club boasts one of the most stunningly executed plot
08:25twists in cinema history, that our unnamed protagonist, the narrator, and Tyler Durden are in fact the
08:31same person, the latter being an idealised second personality that exists within the narrator's mind.
08:38There are a number of sly clues throughout the film which ultimately make repeat viewings a
08:43tremendously rewarding joy, and one especially sneaky one that you might not yet know about.
08:49We all remember the iconic scene where Tyler asked the narrator to hit him as hard as he can,
08:53leading to Tyler hilariously being hit in the ear. In the very next scene set the next morning,
08:59we see the narrator at work, unable to hear what his boss says to him for a beat, as he tells the
09:04audience, After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down.
09:08With our knowledge that the narrator actually hit himself in the ear the night before though,
09:13it makes perfect sense that his hearing would be impaired the next day, especially as the
09:17afflicted ear, his left one, is facing his boss when he starts speaking to him. If that's not
09:22some galaxy brain god tier foreshadowing, then I don't know what is.
09:26At number one, Sam's shirt hints at him being a clone, Moon.
09:30The terrific Sam Rockwell starring sci-fi drama Moon follows Sam Bell, a man who begins to mentally
09:36and physically unravel as he reaches the end of a three-year mining stint on the far side of the
09:42moon. It's eventually revealed that Sam is in fact one of hundreds of identical clones of the
09:47original Sam Bell, and his frayed sanity is a result of each clone's inbuilt three-year lifespan.
09:53Basically, Lunar Industries awakens a new clone when the previous one is retired, that is,
09:58incinerated. As is cleverly foreshadowed in the film's opening title sequence, where Sam Prime is
10:04wearing a shirt reading, Wake me when it's quitting time. The relevance this statement has to Sam's
10:10true nature speaks for itself, really, doesn't it? Even if at this point in the movie, it seems like
10:14nothing more than a goofy throwaway slogan. Little did we know.
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