Top 10 Details You Missed That Revealed Plot Twists

This one is super easy to miss. You don’t really expect this level of subtlety in a raunchy comedy. When Jenko and Schmidt are forced to take the very drug they are trying to get off the market, Jenko makes an offhand comment about it tasting like Cool Ranch. Moments later they run into Mr. Walters who just happens to be eating Cool Ranch Doritos. He’s also seen eating Doritos in the scene when Schmidt and Jenko fight on stage. This might seem like just a coincidence until it’s revealed that Walters is in fact the drug supplier they were looking for all along. And guess what? He’s still eating Cool Ranch Doritos.

There are several similarities between Leonard and Sammy Jankis. They both have the same memory disorder. They met due to Leonard’s job as an insurance investigator. They both have wives who died. But there are two more specific clues to catch before the big twist reveal that Sammy is actually Leonard. First, whenever Leonard tells Sammy’s story, we see it in black and white. This color device is used by director, Christopher Nolan, to show us sequences that happened in Leonard’s past. Even more obviously, during one of Leonard’s retellings, he actually visualizes himself as Sammy in a quick flash. His memory was trying to remind him.

This one is interesting. You’d never notice it unless you already knew the ending of the movie. An eagle-eyed film buff might think it was peculiar to almost always use the same kind of shot to frame an actor throughout the movie. But what they're doing here is actually genius. Without getting into the gory details, at the end of the movie, Mills and Somerset find Tracy’s head in a box. This is an incredibly shocking reveal, but when you go back, you can see a hint to her fate. Whenever Tracy is on camera you see her in a lot of medium close up shots. This means that you only see her head and shoulders. Clever right?

There is a joke in this movie when the Narrator tells us about how Tyler Durden leaves his own subliminal messages in movies. But the true humor of this is that Durden himself is a subliminal message. Many times throughout the movie we see flashes of Tyler from the Narrator’s point of view. This hints to the fact that Durden is a figment of the Narrator’s imagination. When it’s revealed in the end that the two are, in fact, one and the same, the flashes of Durden suddenly make sense.

This one has been a long held fan theory. When Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant are on their way to the park, Grant struggles to get his seat belt on. He ends up tying two female ends together since he can’t find the male end to properly connect it. Fans believe that this is an early reference to the all female dinosaurs mating. However, Sam Neill disagrees. He believes this moment is just to show how terrible his character is with any kind of technology. Well, whether or not it was intentional it’s still a pretty cool clue.

In any “Scream” movie you can look back and find the subtle clues that reveal the killer, or killers. In this case, there is a huge clue that happens early on right after the first killings. In the scene in the classroom where all the students get the alert that two of their classmates were killed the night before, there is only one person who doesn’t respond. While everyone’s phones are going off, Jill doesn’t react. She doesn’t need to check her phone. Jill is arguably one of the smartest Ghostface killers in the franchise, but if any of her classmates had caught this mistake she might have been foiled early on.

This is a really amusing one. While Dean is giving Chris a tour of the Armitage house he tells Chris stories about his mom and dad. He offhandedly mentions that his mom loved the kitchen so they keep a little piece of her in there. Just as he says this they enter the kitchen and we see Georgina standing there. Of course, later we find out that Georgina is actually Dean’s mom’s consciousness inside the housekeeper’s body. Looking back on that moment it’s actually kind of funny. Such a clever way to hint at the massive reveal in the end.

The scene with Norman Bates talking to Marion about his mother with all those stuffed birds behind him was already pretty creepy even before you know the twist at the end. But what makes it even creepier is when you understand the meaning behind all those stuffed birds. As it turns out Mrs. Bates has been dead the whole time and Norman has been holding on to her body just like, you guessed it, a taxidermied animal. On a first watch of the movie you might have thought all the birds just seemed kind of weird, or maybe just an obsession of Alfred Hitchcock’s. But on a second watch, you can see that they actually serve a specific purpose.

Birds have an important role in this movie as well. Back when Borden was just an apprentice, he participated in a trick where the magician makes a bird disappear by crushing its cage and then making it reappear. But the trick is that there are actually two identical birds used to make the illusion work. When Borden tries to comfort a little boy who is upset by the trick by showing him that the bird is actually okay, the boy asks where his brother is. This may seem like a simple device to get Borden to meet Sarah. But in hindsight, this is an obvious hint that Borden is actually a twin, and that’s how he makes his own magic trick happen.

It might seem hard to believe there’s such an obvious clue to one of the biggest cinematic reveals in history. But when you watch this movie a second time, you kind of wonder how you missed it the first time around. It’s really sort of two twists in one. First, we learn that Cole sees dead people. And second, we learn that Malcolm, himself, is dead. While there are several little hints along the way, the main one is that Malcolm never interacts with anyone but Cole. If you noticed this you might have caught that Malcolm was a ghost the whole time.


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