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10 Recent Movie Scenes Everyone Misunderstood
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00:00Hello everyone, Josh here and we're delighted to say that today's video is sponsored by Manscaped, but more on that later.
00:06The beauty of cinema, as with all art, is how differently we can all interpret it, bringing our own distinct experiences to the table which colour how we view a particular movie.
00:16Healthy debate about a film is of course a wonderful thing, though there are also cases where a large subset of viewers simply get the wrong end of the stick.
00:25A stick that's not as ambiguous or as up for debate as initially thought.
00:30So with that in mind, I'm Josh from WhatCulture.com and these are 10 recent movie scenes everyone misunderstood.
00:36Number 10, the ending doesn't set up a sequel, The Matrix Resurrections.
00:41The Matrix Resurrections concludes with Trinity discovering her own one-like abilities and paying a visit to the villainous Analyst along with Neo.
00:49They inform the analysts that as the Matrix ultimate power couple, they're going to rebuild it in their own image and then promptly fly off into the sky together.
00:58The end.
00:59Now many viewers quite understandably assume that the ending was sequel bait intended to launch a new trilogy of Matrix films, even if that couldn't actually be further from the truth.
01:09While doing press for the film, director Lana Wachowski was adamant that this will be her final Matrix film.
01:16And the movie itself not so subtly implies that she only came back in the first place to make it because Warner Brothers was going to reboot it without her otherwise.
01:24This was Lana's last big blockbuster swing by the looks of it and certainly where the Matrix is concerned.
01:30And given that actors Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves have made their loyalty to the Wachowskis clear, it's extremely difficult to believe that they return without the sisters being involved.
01:39Though it's at least easy to understand why some did feel like Resurrections' ending was teeing up more movies with Trinity and Neo.
01:47The best you can probably hope for is a reboot sometime in the future.
01:51But hey, at least The Matrix rebooted is already the perfect title.
01:55Number 9.
01:56Diana didn't really eat pearls.
01:58Spencer.
01:59It's fair to say that audiences generally expect biopics to be rooted in a majority of truth.
02:04Though as most of us know it's extremely common for Hollywood to embellish what really happened for dramatic purposes.
02:10Yet Pablo Lorraine's recent Princess Diana biopic, Spencer, unfolded as a far more surreal, dreamlike, even nightmarish piece of work.
02:19Attempting to get viewers into Diana's fractured anxiety riddled mindset through an array of increasingly unsettling sequences.
02:27By far the most memorable moment in the film though occurs at a Christmas Eve dinner.
02:31Where Diana destroys a pearl necklace given to her by her husband Charles and then eats the pearls in her pea soup.
02:38Because Spencer was marketed as a more conventional, straightforward biopic.
02:42Many audience members evidently took the scene at absolute face value.
02:46And just assumed that it was actually based on a real life incident.
02:49Yet this was entirely fabricated for the purposes of the film.
02:53Intended to symbolize both Diana's increasing feelings of suffocation.
02:57And having to abide by even metaphorically swallowed down royal traditions.
03:02And more literally by the eating disorder that she suffered with throughout her life.
03:07But because the trailers rather sneakily painted the movie as a more typical biopic rather than an experimental mood piece.
03:13Some audiences went home thinking that this is decision to wipe out half of all life in the universe in Avengers Infinity War.
03:20That's because midway through the movie it's revealed that the Earth's population has now reached a large enough number.
03:25To provide sufficient energy for the celestial Tiamut to burst forth from the Earth's core.
03:30In turn destroying it.
03:31The implication then is that by snapping half the universe for five years.
03:35Thanos inadvertently delayed Tiamut's emergence.
03:38Halving the amount of energy on the planet and therefore keeping it at bay.
03:42Many quickly jumped on this and began flying the whole Thanos was right banner once again.
03:48Even if that's a rather superficial if not outright disingenuous reading of the movie.
03:54First and foremost of course Thanos buying the world five years of time was an accident byproduct of his genocide.
04:01Which any way you slice it doesn't make his actions inherently correct.
04:05And certainly not from a moral perspective.
04:07But even if Thanos' snap had never been undone it would have been a mere matter of decades.
04:12Before humanity's population did return to the necessary levels to facilitate the celestial's birth anyway.
04:18And this is all without getting into the fact that while you would kill potentially billions of people with the birth of a new celestial.
04:25On a cosmic scale this is nothing compared to instantly eradicating 50% of living things in the entire universe.
04:34Number 7. No big deal. Spider-Man No Way Home.
04:38Spider-Man No Way Home is full of references and easter eggs to previous web head movies.
04:42However there is one joke in there that's a little bit more loaded than the rest.
04:46And will go over the heads of all but the most online of movie fans.
04:50Following the Sony email hack back in 2014.
04:53The company's plans for the Spider-Man character in the Amazing Spider-Man universe were revealed.
04:58Including notes from executives on how to make the hero more current with the kids.
05:03And as you can imagine their ideas of hip are exactly what you'd expect from a bunch of middle aged businessmen.
05:11One groan worthy note suggested giving Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man a catchphrase.
05:16That being no big deal.
05:18The email went quote Millennials will often port NBD on their social media.
05:23As in no big deal. Also known as the humble brag.
05:27Wondering if Spidey could get in on that somewhere. End quote.
05:31Now this could be referenced in a strange scene in No Way Home.
05:34As some fans and outlets picked up on at the time.
05:37The scene in question is where Garfield's Peter 3.
05:39Boasts that he can queue with a lizard as he's done it once already.
05:42No big deal he says. No big deal.
05:45Now of course this could just be a throw away thing.
05:47But it's such a strange beat and weirdly lingered on that it's probably more likely a reference to this infamous executive note.
05:55I guess it's actually just much funnier if you do it in a shirt and a funny voice.
05:58Oh wait it's on, it's on.
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07:43Number 6, Gurney isn't killed in the Harkonnen Attack Dune.
07:47Now, you'd admittedly know this one if you'd read Frank Herbert's source material, which by the way I absolutely have not, so spoilers here I guess for Dune 2.
07:56But in the first part of Denis Villeneuve's Dune adaptation, Paul Atreides' mentor Gurney Halleck just sort of disappears during the Harkonnens' climactic attack on House Atreides.
08:07Amid the carnage, we see Gurney running into battle with his fellow soldiers and then that's it.
08:13Given that he's never seen again, many unfamiliar with Herbert's novels seem to just assume that the character perished in battle and wouldn't be seen again.
08:21Thankfully, that's not the case though.
08:23Without going into too much detail for those who haven't read the book or seen any of the prior adaptations, Gurney is still alive and will indeed be appearing in Dune Part 2.
08:33It is admittedly a bit of an abrupt end for the character, but conventional movie wisdom anyway says that nobody is really dead unless you see them die, so it shouldn't be that surprising that he's still alive and kicking somewhere.
08:45Number 5, the ending doesn't set up Brian's return, F9.
08:49Nobody really expects to be confused by a Fast and Furious movie of all things, but the recent F9 did in fact leave audiences heatedly debating the precise meaning of its final scene.
08:59After Cypher has been foiled yet again and the family reunites for their traditional post-Carnage barbecue, Dom and company turn their heads to see Brian O'Connor's iconic blue Nissan Skyline pulling into the driveway.
09:11This immediately prompted speculation among the fanbase, with many believing that this ending implied that Brian would be making a return to the franchise in the upcoming two-part finale using similar VFX-driven techniques as were employed in Furious 7 following Paul Walker's tragic death.
09:29But that's absolutely not what F9's ending was getting at, like, at all.
09:33It's simply a sweet reminder that Brian still exists in this world and is living the good life as a committed father away from the danger of the family's globe-trotting shenanigans.
09:43Given that Brian has been quite sensibly kept in the background of the last two movies, it doesn't seem likely that we'll end up with an unnecessary digital Paul Walker rocking up for the 10th and 11th films.
09:53Number 4, Leda is alive at the end, The Lost Daughter.
09:57Mikey Gyllenhaal's superb psychological drama, The Lost Daughter, ends with the troubled protagonist Leda being stabbed by young mother Nina and driving her car off the road and then heading down to the beach where she takes a phone call from her daughters.
10:11It's a seemingly ambiguous ending that has prompted audience members to debate whether Leda was in fact alive at the end or not.
10:18Those who believe she died from the stab wounds cite the fact that her daughters even mention her being dead on the phone.
10:24And the film ends with Leda miraculously discovering an orange in her hands which she then peels in a snake-like motif as she did for her children in their youth.
10:33While the source novel also plays Leda's fate as ambiguous, in this adaption she is 100% alive, as was confirmed by director Gyllenhaal in an interview with the Washington Post earlier this year.
10:45There she said quote, If Leda dies, we're punishing her.
10:49It's not a punitive movie, it's not what we're doing.
10:52To me, this is a woman who is a hero even though she is someone who has caused probably irreparable damage to both herself and her children.
10:59End quote.
11:00Now, that's a pretty definitive statement.
11:03Surreal though the ending might be, it's not intended to be the character's dying dream, she's still very much in the land of the living when the closing credits roll.
11:11Number 3. Yes, Peter killed Phil, the power of the dog.
11:15Jane Campion's masterful western drama, the power of the dog, is absolutely a film that rewards audiences who pay attention.
11:22Right up to an ending that seems to heavily imply that rancher Phil was secretly killed by his sister-in-law Rose's son, Peter.
11:29Phil swiftly succumbs to illness at the film's end, and though the doctor believes that he died of anthrax, his brother George is left shocked given that Phil's meticulousness meant that he always avoided handling diseased cattle.
11:42Yet earlier in the film, Peter gave Phil an animal hide with which to create a lasso without informing him that it came from a dead animal, and in the final scene, we see Peter handling the same lasso with a pair of gloves.
11:55Furthermore, in the final scene, Peter smiles at his newly sober mother as she happily embraces George, seemingly relieved that the disruptive force that is Phil is now out of their lives.
12:05Though this ending seems relatively self-evident on paper, a quick Google search of the film reveals many viewers were left unsure about the precise meaning of its ending, and whether or not Peter did indeed kill Phil.
12:17And yeah, while this might seem obvious to some, Campion's film does move in a subtler rhythm than most casual viewers may be expecting from a Benedict Cumberbatch western.
12:26But to clarify, Peter absolutely did kill Phil, and the original ending even hammered this point home by lingering on the definition of anthrax in Peter's medical textbook.
12:36Number two, Batman injects himself with adrenaline, not venom. The Batman.
12:41During the Batman's climax inside Gotham Square Garden, the Caped Crusader finds himself injured by one of the Riddler's followers, and in order to stop himself from passing out when Catwoman is attacked, injects himself with a mysterious green liquid.
12:54Now, many fans were quick to insist that Batman in this scene had actually injected himself with Venom, the green super steroid which has traditionally given Bane his enhanced strength in the comics.
13:05Hell, I even wondered this myself, considering just how weird the scene is in the final flick.
13:10However, it seems that we're looking too hard here for this to be some kind of interconnected comic book easter egg.
13:16The drug that Bruce consumed is clearly not as strong as Venom traditionally is, and while it's theoretically possible that this is a weaker proto version of the steroid, it's far more likely that it was simply supposed to be an adrenaline compound of some sort.
13:30Not everything is a wink wink nod to the source material, even if director Matt Reeves could have admittedly avoided this confusion altogether by simply making the liquid any colour but green.
13:42Number one, Vic is obsessed with snails because the author is. Deep Water.
13:47The new Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas starring erotic thriller Deep Water is truly one of the strangest and most mystifying films of the past year, and has left most viewers questioning what the hell was going on with all those damn snails.
13:59Protagonist Vic Van Allen, beyond being a violently jealous psychopath, has a bizarre fascination with snails, keeping dozens of pet snails and a series of tanks in a specifically designed room.
14:11Despite an early implication that the snails might be used as poison later on in the film, they're ultimately a complete red herring, and seem to be a mere character flourish to assure the audience that Vic is a bit of an oddball.
14:25Now viewers might also simply assume that the snails are supposed to possess some kind of purely symbolic quality as well, as at one point Vic does note that quote,
14:33a snail will climb a 12 foot wall to find its mate, paralleling Vic's own possessiveness of his wife Melinda.
14:39But there's actually an altogether different explanation for the snails' presence in the film.
14:44That being that Patricia Highsmith, who wrote the novel on which the film is based, was absolutely obsessed with snails in real life.
14:51She also published the story, The Snail Watcher, focused on a snail-obsessed man, and saw the presence of snails in the film a rather peculiar homage to the author's own snail mania.
15:17So, that's our list. I want to know what you guys think down in the comments below.
15:20What did you think about these movie scenes, and are there any misunderstood ones I missed off here?
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15:32Even if you don't though, I've been Josh, thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you soon.
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