Moviemakers love to hide little details in their films. And while the M.C.U does this to a degree never before seen, it isn't a trend they started. For years directors and writers have been using their influence to hide inside jokes in some major motion pictures.
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"Scream (1996) When Henry Winkler’s character opens his closet, his ‘Fonzie’ leather jacket from Happy Days is seen hanging up"
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"In Knives Out (2019) you can see burn marks on a letter Linda is reading half way through the movie."
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"In The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) we can see that Midtown Science High School was established in 1962. Spider-Man first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 in August of 1962"
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"Ghostbusters Afterlife 2021. Paul Rudd reading an avengers comic."
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"Ghostbusters Afterlife 2021. Paul Rudd reading an avengers comic."
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" EVA pods in 2001: A Space Odyssey:"
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"In Don't Look Up (2021), Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) reveals the 'Bash Lifif Phone 14.3'. The phone itself is actually the RED Hydrogen One, which flopped majorly when it was released back in 2018."
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"In Encanto (2021), Agustín's outfit has a flower for Isabela, a sock with Luisa’s symbols, and another sock in the style of Mirabel’s embroidery. They are his 3 daughters."
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"Yul Brynner dons the exact same outfit as Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven (1960) and as the android Gunslinger in Westworld (1973)"
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"Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) includes a cameo by Entertainment Tonight film critic Leonard Maltin who holds up a copy of the original Gremlins home video and denounces it, just as he had in reality; however, his rant is cut short when gremlins pounce on him."
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"In Groundhog Day (1993), Phil (Bill Murray) quotes “Work Without Hope” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poem about a man who realizes that he’s been aimlessly going through life without any purpose or meaning"
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"In Studio Ghibli’s Whisper of the Heart (1995) an early library scene features a book with the title ‘Totoro’ in english."
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"Rewatching Scary Movie (2000) never noticed this before"
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"In The Incredible Hulk (2008), Bruce Banner is watching a TV show "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" starring the late Bill Bixby, who played David Banner on the tv series The Incredible Hulk (1978)"
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"In The Lego Movie (2014), one of the robots is playing solitaire while Bad Cop is interrogating Emmett."
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"In Canadian Bacon (1995), Stu and Gus walk down a hallway labeled the “Trophy Hall” in the CIA building. It shows portraits of deposed despots. The last portrait is of JFK when in he was Dallas insinuating the CIA killed JFK."
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"In (2007) Meet the Robinsons when Wilber says who Mr Robinson looks like he says a different person and a different portrait appears depending on the dub of the film. In the English dub he says he looks like Tom Selleck in the the Latin Spanish dub he says he 'El Puma' José Luis Rodríguez"
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"In Back to the Futur III (1990), when Doc and Marty are taking a picture in front of the new clock of the clock tower, the time is 08:08, referencing the 88 miles per hour the Delorean needs to travel in time"
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"In Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) Jack can be seen with a bone in his hair. This is actually a “Marlingspike" or "fid" made from a reindeer shin bone. Sailors would use them to mend sails and rigging."
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"In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), if you look closely at the lamppost, you can see it has roots, like a tree. This is because in the Narnia books, the lamppost was grown from an iron bar torn from a similar lamp in London."
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"In Avatar (2009), Grace wears a Stanford tank top in her avatar form. This was added by Sigourney Weaver as a reference to her alma mater. She graduated from Stanford in 1972."
